The evening times., 1898-12-13
TUESDAY. DECEMBER IL. 1885,
Manifest Destiny.

The -brutalitics Of progress, Of which
Hugo spoke are conspicuous at this mo-
ment. though in fact they are rather the
brutaIi;ies OF conservatism and rock-bed-
dcd barbarism. The opposition 1" any ad-
vance OF society is savage and uncompro-
missing ard without conscience. The reac-
tiuniSts are moved by an insanity
OF fear This mornings news re
ports the maniacal efforts Of the
old regime to maintain the conditions
of "A past ihat j. doomed in China. West
,.rn civilization has long spared thai mon.
umental Instance of arrested deyc 0Qmcut
but AT last the commercial needs and ri
valries of the progressive nations and the
inspiration young China has received from
contact win the world beyond thr WAL
have begun the demolition of the Oldest
az human institutions. Every drop Of
blood spilled hy the decayine dynasty viii
he the seed of new and more potent Ie-
formers inside the kingdom while The bat
rrriuE goes On from the at -i6c. ln Franc
ther. is to be real progress even If il ends
In ihc destruction Of the insiHcere and
Impossible republic. Thv riaJinE rePo'te
TODAY j. merely The sclf-asscrticn OF fact
against the preteIded repubicanism of a
nation 1f monarchistS who have violate /
III ,awS of modern life by subordinating
every consideration 10 The fostering of an
impot"ut spirit Of revenge. France il not
and has never been republican Whether
She eyer viii he is question: but al least
rcpublicanism is about to be rid of the
libel that country has maintained for 20
many wears. Although based on a race
hatred. his imminent revolution and Ibis
practical domination Of the military had u
come out of it's ruin. with a temporary
chaos. may come the dictatorship for
which that people seem best adapted in
the present The menace Of revolution in
Spain i another essential effort Of truth
20 command recognition. That nation has
learned almost nothing from its loss of
empire and troubles viii not cease to roll
over il until it adapts itself to the condi-
iioHS of modern civilization The riuting
at Havana il "A merely local eruption. III
consequence Of the ineXplicable indo'engo
and fatal fnIbearance Of the American
Government, which has submitted Ia near
ly five months Of unauthorized and illcG 81
ruIe of IN, ryvenEcfuI ami robber Span
iardS
In our own country We have our en@-
mics OF progress. and they select their
time with the other apostles of decay.
They are not less frantic than tho othe :
though without the means OF phySical
brutality. Anybody who reads the hvs-
Jeric:a passages Of Senator Vesl's speech
against the manifest destiny or th. r.
public. or looks al the frieh, thar Is Do
pictrd on the ordinarily benevolent conn
Jcuanco of Senator IIolr. can realize thc
hin1hip Of The American fosy with th-
enemies of destiny in China. Fran q
Austria. Spain and Havana. The de-
mlnds ol ,he coming century are bsyon
their power To contemp,at" with serenity.
They fear the conditions of progress a. a
class ui early Americans feared the fac.
schools. the steamboat and the railway.
u was governor al the colony Of Va
siuia that thanked God there was nc
printing press within lis hoand.r, >
Frightened men right more desperately
than any others. and 80 We may look r
Tho un-AmeIican minority who cling TO
thc provincial doctrines of another cen
tury 10 make the Senate Chamber tcru
with words, their only weapons