Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-07
0LARKS LETTER
Considers the Anglo Sax
on Lust For Land.
E THAT HAS NO LIMIT
Danger of Reversing an Estab-
lished Policy.
HAWAII MUST NOT BE ADMITTED.

Our Strength Her6soIore aas rseen
Mederation-we Must Make No Entan-
sliug Alliances Evils OF Annexation.
The First Step In This Direction Marks
tho Beginning of the End.
The grave and reverend senators are
now wrestling with the transcendent
problem of imperial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
territorial expansion, of which Hawaii
Is tie alpha and of which no one pre-
tencs to say what is the omega.
Nor would any prophet be rash enough
to ieopardize his reputation by predict
ing when the conscript fathers will vote
upon this momentous proposition. In
the language Of the old song, sit may
be for years and it may be forever"
Since the indignation meeting against
annexation held in Faneuil hall and
since the able speech against it in the
senate by the venerable Justin S. Nor
rill If Vermont the sentiment in favor
of annexing the earth does not appear
to he as unanimous as certain lingo
orators and newspapers would have us
believe.
The Disease Contagious.
In fighting this dangerous proposition
In the house I said inter ALA:
Annexationists with one accord will
poohpooh the idea of danger to the re-
public and will solemnly ~asseyerate that
the acquisition of Hawaii does not pre-
sage further territorial expansion.
Believe them not, Mr.. Speaker. Put
not your faith in jingoes. Study that
strange and intricate machine, the hu.
man heart. Consider the unconquerable
Anglo-Saxon lust for land. Revolve in
your mind whether greed has ever yet
set limits to it's possessions. Reflect
upon the question whether the rolling
SNOWFALL grows larger or smaller in its
Journey down the hill. Gaze on the pic.
ture of the Macedonian mailman, drunk
in the palace of the Babylonish kings,
| mingling his tears with his wine be-
| cause there were no more worlds to
conquer.
Remember Napoleon's dazzling dream
of universal empire, and how he ended
| dismally, the modern Prometheus bound
| to the rock Of st. Helena with the vul-
ture of ambition preying on his vitals.
Think of the sad plant of Queen
Mary, who so mourned her lost French
city as to declare that after death they
| would find the word Calais engraved
| upon her heart.
Recall the almost incredible story Of
| how Frederick the Great bravely and
| doggedly waged what to all others
| seemed a hopeless fight with his multi
tudiuous enemies, during which his for
tunes were so desperate and his literary
ambition 80 great that he carried a bot
| tie Of corrosive sublimate in n pocket
| and a ream Of his own lame verses in
| the other, and how at the end of the
Seven Years war all Europe in arms
| could not wrest Silesia from his iron
grasp.
Review the whole history of the hu-
| man race and tell us how many rulers
have ever willingly alienated N foot
| of land over which they exercised do
minion.
There is only one, and he shines forth
q bright particular star among the SOW
| ereigns of the earth-the Emperor
| Adrian, who voluntarily relinquished
vast territories, thereby setting bounds
to the empire and preserving Its life for
| centuries.
The way to remain sober is to reso-
lutely refuse the first drink. The way
to cultivate ''peace, commerce and hon.
est friendship with all nations" which
Jefferson enjoined upon us, and to have
"entangling alliances with none, 81
which was part of his creed, and also OF
Waahington's, is to decline this glitter.
ing Hawaiian bauble.
All history proves that the passion fol
acquiring territory grows with what il
feeds on.
The man who asserted that his mod
est desires would be satisfied when he
owned all the land which Joined his
was the typical American.
We Are Strong Enough.
The moment we 60 beyond low watel
mark our feet take hold of national
deash. There is no limit to our foreign
acquisitions except our w wisdom an6
our own moderation, for we are now
strong enough to work our will among
the nations of the earth.
The proud boast
No pent up Utica contracts your powers,
The whole, the boundless continent, is yours
pales into pitiable insignifcance beside
what he al say and can make good i
we conclude to go into the business O
imperial aggrandizement. The entire
western hemisphere and all the island
Of the adjacent seas are ours if We de
sire to possess them. No human powe
can stay our arms. Had we been ami
mated by the spirit of universal con
quest the scream of u eagles woult
long since have resounded amid tn
Andes and the cordilleras.
When Robert Lord Give wa i'm
peached for plundering the East Indian
Of . princely fortune, while admitting
that he had appropriated vast sums t.
his own uses, he exclaimed in a fin
burst of indignation, "By God, at thi
moment I am astonished at my Owl
moderation!''
AL land grabbers, big and little, hav
heretofore been astonished at our moder
Mrs. SnidoW for County Clerk.