Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-02-23
CHAMP aARES LETTER
Hawaiian Fight Settled
Expansion Policy.
FIRST HOLE n THE Dixie
Jingoism Then Acquired a Taste
For Land Grabbing.
MISTAKE OF AErIEzPASsIOHIsrs

The Ttne 70 cheek Emperiaiizn was
When It First Raised Its Heaa.
would Have blocked q Dangerous
Game and Proneted the cause Of
Human Liberty : F1eshpots Tee
Mush Fer rearniag stomaehs.
Especial washington Lsttsrl
When the antiexpankonists lost the
Hawaiian hght they LOST all That was
the first hole in the diks which let in
the see. the thin edge Of the wedge
which split the log, the tiny spark
which exploded the entire magazine
Many of the men who voted for that
grab. protesting that they were not az
pansionists On general principles are
now shouting Tor the Philippines
There never was q cass in which more
fully appeared the wisdom Of the Scrip
ture which says: "And whosoeyer shall
compel thee 10 60 a mile go with him
twain" The jingoes went 2. 600 miles
10 grab the Sandwich Islands Now
they go 1000 TO grab the Philippines
As It is only e5 900 miles around the
world we may expect at this rate to
circumnAvigate the globe in our new
employment Of land grabbing ty the
time the bells ring in the new year and
the new century. II many men who are
now holding up their hands in holy
horror against ~annexing the Philippines
had not pocksted their convictions and
ehl0roformsd their consciences last June
In order to enable them 20 swallow the
Hawaiian Islands, Kanakas, Chinese.
japanese, lepers and all the rest, there
would now be no Philippine question to
vex their pious and patriotic souls But
thess sleek time servers desired to stand
well at court, 10 be welcome az the
White House TO bask In the presiden-
tial sunshine and to receive their guam
tum suficit Of the Ioaves and fishes The
grateful SAVIOR Of the ieshpot was TOO
much for their weak beads and yearn-
ing stomachs They wanted 10 be in the
swim and to float with the tide-al-
ways a pleasant II not q heroic course
Now they are anxious to repeat the
condemned performance Of locking the
barn securely after the horse Is stolen
and play the lachrymose role Of Jere-
miah amid the jesrs Of men. When they
might have served their country and the
cause Of human liberty with some effect
they would not, for we needed only .
little help in season to have blocked the
dangerous game entirely. That was the
accepted time to kill jingoism. that was
the day Of salvation from all the perils
and expenses 10 be entailed by q daz-
cling colonial policy and & vast colonial
establishment Waterloo was lost at
Quartre Bras The Philippines and all
other outlying islands were annexed
when Hawaii wal let In. Il would be
easier today to persuade a majority Of
both houses Of congress TO take q hand
in the partition Of China than 1t would
have been last January to induce them
10 tack the Sandwich Islands on to our
country. The lingo bacillus Is doing its
work efectuAlly
The Critical Moment.
The mill VIII never grind again with
the water that has passed
Charles Stewart Parnen. the great
Irish orator and statesman, truly said
Opportunity Is a horse, bridiod and sad
died. which stops ct every mans threshold
once IN a lifetime. Be ready. Mount, and he
bears you on 10 success and honor. Pause
bat . moment-ho IL gone, and the chatter Of
his iron boots. echoing down the corridors Of
time, will forever remind you Of what you
have lost.
There comes a critical moment in
every battle and in every enterprise de-
cisive Of the rezult
Pompadour Jim Corbett had Bob
Fitzsimmons going in the seventh round
at Carson City. but he failed TO seize
the golden opportunity, and half an
hour later came the blow on his solar
plexus. and he was ex-champion Of the
world.
kid" Mccoy had Thomas Sharkey
on the direct road to the land Of nod in
the third round Of their engagement
One more punch would have done the
work for the ex-sailor, but It was not
delivered. and the young Hoosier pir-
ouetter received a beating which he
viii not forget should be live to the
great age of Msthusaleh.
William Makepeace Thackeray, the
very prince Of writers Of English prose.
tells Of one critical moment In the his
tory Of Great Britain In his -Four
Georges" after giving a highly enter
tanning II somewhat ludicrous account
Of the landing Of George l at Green
witch pier, as that illustrious and lucky
monarch vas proceeding "to ascend the
throne Of his ancestors" the genial
novelist thus philosophers on the cru
cial point in the life Of a mighty ma
ton:
As one thinks Of what might have been,
how amusing the speculation Isl We know
how the doomed Scottish gentlemen came out
at Lord Mars summons, mounted the white
oockade that has been a flower Of sad poetry
ever since, and rallied round the I'll omened
Stuart standard 81 BraemAr. Mar, with 500
men Hnd but 100 opposed 10 him, might have
driven the enemy uver the Tweed and taken
possession Of the whole Of Scotland, bat that
the pFetendsr's duko did not venture to move
when the day was his oNn. Edinburgh castle
might have been In King james hands, but
that the men who were TO escalAds it staid to
drink his health al the tavern and arrived two
hours TOO late At the rendezvous under the
castle wall Thsrs was sympathy enough in
the t0wn-ths protested attack seems to have
hasa known thsrsL Lord Mahan qnotsz STA
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