Evening star., 1898-09-19
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does not chill the hsartiness of the good
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Rough Riders Having q Good Time.
The Texan cowboys are having q good
time, though they are not abusing their
privileges guests. In their smart, new
khaki uniforms they are seen in the up
town hotels, at the theaters, on Broadway
and on 9th avenue. Some of them affect a
mixture of the regular army blue with but
ternut brown, which heightens their pic
tureSQue appearance. Some have also lat
their hair grow long. Everybody makes
room for them. They can collect a crowd
Wherever they please without the police
man on thu corner ordering them to move
on The papers are filled with their doings
and make them talk dialect of the plains
which may be understood in Park Row,
though 1t would be Greek among the cow
boys on ranch in the west. 1 have not
seen any of the Rough Riders on the Bow
cry, yet the New York idea appears to be
that they are type of Bowery plainsmen,
who have rudimentary notions of eastern
civilization. There is about 1t all a simple
minded admiration that is Irresistible.
What the feeling will be when the Rough
Riders get back to the Texas ranches and
tell their experiences in guying the ingen-
uous New Workers do not venture to pre-
dict.
This RESPONSIVENESS must be pardoned by
the readers of The Star. l started out to
tell the pleasure New York shows at the
SeHSdtiOI VI HilulllB lHe rest VI lIit COuIltis
in harmony with it regarding the colonial
policy that the war with Spain has unfold
ed. The 1ocaliZing of the war was one of
the incidents which really nationaiized the
vision of New Workers. In telling of some
features of this localized sentiment not
much space is left for the main question
In brief, it may be said that the New York
community walked up one morning and
found its leading newspapers, with possibly
one exception, advocating expansion.
Father knickerbocker, or it might have
beeen Rip Van Wrinkle, rubbed his eyes to
make sure he was not dreaming. Then he
acQuiesced. This is the attitude of New
York today. Here and there discordant
note is heard. There are some cross-cur-
rents, yet the flow of public sentiment ap-
pears to be in a broad channel which leads
to the ocean and the lands beyond.
All Expansfonists.
/ had meant to give some individual opin-
ions which might be taken as fair indica-
tions of the drift, but the brief compass of
a single paragraph will suffice. 1t
merchant whose ships sail many seas that
was talking in his office at Bowling Green
LESS than year ago. he said, they all
called me jingo. You never hear that
word now. We are all expansionlsts. But
because ! thought Hawaii would help in
crease our Pacific trade and because knew
we would have to settle that Cuban trou-
Bile they reproached me with jingoism. Now
my business associates come and talk TO
me about the need of keeping the Philip
pines. We will Americanize the West In
dies and We'll keep the Philippines. Here
is the reason. In this community there are
100000 young men seeking wider opportuni-
ties than We can give them here. The war
has shown them where their future lies
You might say they get their education in
a night. They have made their fathers ex-
pansionists. What the young men of this
country want, they'll have. knowing that,
l am not worrying over the prospec- of Civ
ing up the Philippines
CHARLES NJ. PEPPER.