The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
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FROM the Mertcan Herald.
Prof. Edward Hermann Won Hoist Is just now
tho chief prophet OF the American anti-anncNa-
t~ionists. From tho storohouso of his learning
he furnishes them with arguments against the
Incorporation of Hawaii into that Union which
was founded by the mon who faced the viru-
lent intolerance OF the Mugwumps OF their timo.
The Tories who burned Washington in efigy
had no words strong enough TO manifest their
detcstation of Jefferson and Adams and Frank.
lin. Those fathers Of the republic had tho
courage OF their patriotic convictions, and
dared to establish political housekeeping
for themselves, to begin the emancipation Of
the New World from transatlantic control.
They were guilty, In the eyes of the Mugwumps
OF their day. OF minding the Kings business. Of
daring to SGT themselves up against tho divine
right to rule British America. invested In that
stupcndously foolish monarch, George III.
whom oven Thackeray, loyal Englishman that
he was, sntirized along with the rest Of the
-Four Georges" men alien to the inspirations
OF the Norman.English race.
Prof. Won Hoist speaks Of tho great and glo-
rious mission " Of the American people who are
now in peril OF listening ito the voice of the
temptor." And he has the audacity to declare,
in the face Of history, of which he Is an expo
mont, that the American people have thus far
worked at their divinely intrustod mission by
"minding their own business"
In one sense We admit 1t: the mission"
though, of the American people has been mind
cd by q continental expansion westward! JEFF
Persons purchase Of tho huge Louisiana Terri
tory, out of which were carved great States. and
which gavo into the hands of the Amer
lean people tho command of the mouth
Of tho Mississippi River, q vast continen-
tai drain which had been discovered and
explored throughout its whole basin by
gallant Frenchmen, was not precisely mind
ing their own business as Won Hoist conceives
1t. Had he lived in tho days of Jefferson. we
can well imagine his voice swelling tho chorus
OF calumny which greeted the announcement by
the author of the Declaration of Independence
Of tho new acquisition of territory. The push
westward still further. when tho Pacific region
was annexed, was hardly minding their own
business on tho part Of tho American people,
irresistibly impelled toward the setting sun by
the current Of their destiny! And now hav.
ing reached the shores of tho worlds greatest
ocean, the American people are told by grave
professors Of history that they arc listening to
the voice Of the tempter In desiring to place the
flag over the group Of islands which were re-
deemed from gross paganism by the Americans
and which have. commercially, morally. and
politically. an unbreakable tic with the great
republic.
Every argument of Prot. Won Hoist has been
hoard before; all that tho eternal Mugwump,
the doubter, subtle of speech, has said from the
Eden incident down to our ow n time is repeated.
What was 1t that stirred the American people
to action In the negotiation with Napoleon and
planted the flag on the shores Of the Pacifci
Was 1t not the same impulse that sent the
original Angles and Saxons in their frail
boats westward from the shores OF North
Germany to the land of the Colts. and
wrested from the primitive and barbarous
British an island that has since become tho
scat Of worldwide empire2 The carly and
hardy Germans who landed in Britain. upon
whose civilization, rude but effective. was super.
imposed that Of the dashing Normans. found
themselves, after William the Conqueror had
transformed the Land of the Angles, q new race.
Their original holiness had been Increased
by tho addition of the splendid audacity
Of the moro polished NorInans, and they
were soon ripe for longer ventures over
sea than could be had on tho German
ocean. Empire came with boldness, and q do.
minion on which the sun never sets. The Amer
lean people. a race of the same strain. is about
to continue the westward movement so far ad-
vanccd since the Angles left Germany. and now
a man Of German name arises In q city Of the
American Union to demonstrate. His history
has taught him little; he is out of sympathy
with the genius of America. and he will be left
in the course of time stranded with the other
MuRwumps. native and imported.
We sympathize with the expansion Of tho
American Union because we cherish for Mexico
q similar policy of growth, but in this case south
ward. Let the Norman-Gcrmsn peoples Of tho
United States go north and west. and let
Mexico. as the leader Of Latin-Amcrican devel.
opment, advance southwark, not by conquest,
but by the stimulation. through the propa-
ganda of q great idea Of a sentiment, favorable
to political unity among the Spanish merican
peoples inhabiting the Central American region
and of the republics of Colombia and Of venez-
unity exists; n great sea stretching from the
mouth of the Rio Grande to that OF the Orinoco.
and westward from Cuba, Santo Domingo and
the chain of islands down to Trinidad. will DO
the scene of the commercial activity OF kindred
peoples joined in the bonds OF n common nation
same. Such a nation would show to the world
that the Latin-Americans were a practical peo-
pie and were not passively awaiting tho coming
OF the Despoiler. Tho ardent hopes OF Bolivar
would be realized, and dignity and scope given
to the deliberations of tho Parliament of the
imperial nation seated by the shores of the
Southern sea.
The Man Who Wrote the Preambl..
To THE EDITOR OF THE Suy-Sir: Your recent
editorial article upon Senator Thurston and the La