The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-17
HENRY wATTERSoN AND TIE
HERALD.

il will be much what it was during the
middle ages-a craftsmanship where
might made right and there was an
absence of all ethics. the editor OF the
Courier-Journal makes reply:
All that the editor of the Courier
Journal has said about the statesman
ship of the twentieth century is that it
must needs be constructive in caarac-
ter, addressing Itself with practical
wisdom to the movements Of man
kind. Does cur esteemed contemporary
think that we can escape these move
ments? Is the most inventive ana re-
sourcefui among the nations OF the
earth 20 be Indifferent to and obvious
of them?
OF the policy of the eighteenth CEN
fury, so far as this country was con-
cerned, Mr.. watterson said that the
traditional stay-at-home and nina
your-own-business policy, laid down
by Washington was wise for weak
and struggling nation, and, if it could
be adhered to, would be wise Tor iYery
people" So much for Washington and
mis- wisdom. Then Mr.. Watterson ad-
dressed himself to the craftsmanship
of the twentieth century, saying;
We must adapt ourselves to the
changed order. We must make = new
map. The vista, as il opens 10 our
sight. is not so great as would nave
been the vista of Texas and California.
Florida and Alaska to the eye OF
Washington For all his WISDOM, TIE
Father of His Country could not Tore
see electricity, nor estimate the geo
graphic contractionS it would Df'ns-
! Already the old world is recedlES- An
I i infn view. me
/ craftsmanship of the twentieth cen
! t11rv must address itself to this and
| will be largely constructive in its char-
acter. The cloth has been already
partly cut out. 1t remains for states
I men to put it together so that the
world MAJ wear 1t. :.
The United States from now on Is
destined to be a world power. Hence
| forth its foreign policy will need 10 De
! completely reconstructed, the man
who would cling to the traditions OF
! washington IS as ore who would re-
| iect the railwav and travel by the
/ stag e coach or Gisdaining the hisn""y'
would strike through the Woods-
There is your twentieth centur:-
statesmanship. There must be new
map-making. and Uncle Sam is to be
the man maker. One doesn't need to
be very wise or very learned to I'M
derstand what all that means
MIR. Watterson says the United States
/ are destined to become a world power
They are that already, but he seems
to hold the theory that to become
world power they must become pos
sessed of a much greater portion Oh
the world than they now hold Splen-
did reasoning that, the same kind OF
I reasoning which says that he who
drives fat oxen should himself be rat
The Courier-Journal quotes from The
herald this:
BY adopting this new policy whlch
has co cantiyated him, MI Watterson
says we risk CaesarisTn, but Cassai Isii
is preferable to anarchism. we GER
| tainly run the risk of Caesarlsm' puI
the inevitable sequence OF CaesaiiSili
| is anarchism. Have things come 70 thde
! pass where the American people must
| choose between these two evils! Has
popular government become tallure
60 soon and is the progress of the
world only an idle boastins instead Oh
! a reality? Are law and order, peace
| and progress TO give way 10 chaos ana
/ black night? Because man can die put
once and not until his time comes Is
that a license and justification Tor MN
! TO make his life one long series oL
! crime and debauchery? 1t would pe
! irnnossible for a man to advance more
| imnooraI and heathenish ideas, ideas
| the very contrary of the principles ana
| professions OF the American people
I than Henry NNatterson advances in TINS
| interview advocating imperialism ne
I NAV set himself up as talker out ne
should not set himself up as teacher
! From a leader he would become de-
stroyer.
Mr.. Watterson disavows all ambition
to lead, saying that he who would lead
must follow more than he (Mr. Waiter
SOM would like to; that he who would
I lead must yield too much to expectancy
of the mean and sordid kind; that he
must commit too many suppressions OF
truth, where he is not required to lie
outright. This kind of a leader Mr.
Watterson does not wish to be. To all
of which the answer is that, as there
are faggots and faggots so there are
leaders and leaders.
M. Watterson says that such terms
as imperialism" and "Caesarism' are
/ ready made to the tongue of the agita-
tor: that like reading and writing they
come to the professional demagogue
by nature It would seem so. For
/ example, in the interview on which the
Herald commented. Mr.. Watterson
said: I'VE risk Caesarism, certainly
hut even Caesarism is preferable to
anarchism" In his reply to our COM
ment he says that the meaning of the
terms imperialism" and "Caesarism"
| is of doubtful quality and tenure. Then
why did he use the term "Caesarism?
/ Why did he say, in answer to the ques-
ton whether we should increase our
army and navy and enter into a COM
petition with the European powers in
and across the Pacific, that we GER
tainly run the risk of "Caesarism' if
he had no clear conception of what the
term connotes?
Mr.. Watterson has some fine phrases.
Thus he says:
THE law Of the jungle is the survival
of the 6&est." What a splendid blend
ing of memories of Kipling's ballads
and Spencer's philesophic phrase. Then
he says that Socialism is but the iri-
! descence of a midsummer nights
dream" How that brings back to
memory the vitriolic ingalls, fine
phrase.
Mr.. Watterson asks:
What is wanted-everywher
particularly in America? Wider mar
! kets. More customers. Steady work
/ and better wages for willing hands
How to get them? That is the question.
,-,. =. +bo Question, In otIe- and