The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-03
BRITISH TEN MPERIALIsM.

Said Admiral Dewey in y letter to
MIR. Hamilton Brown, of London, edi-
itor of the British Realm:
After many years of wandering have come
to the conclusion that the mightiest factor in
the civilization of the world is the imperial
policy of Engl,nd
1t should be kept in mind that the
writer of this is an American born,
and rs thorough an American in all
his sentiments, feelings, impulses and
convictions as ever lived on earth.
There is no mietaking the American
ism of George Dewey. That has been
tried and tested. He has hOnored
his country and has been honored by
1t, and 1t s he, American as he is,
who says in effect: IL have been the
world around and seen for myself and
| say that it is the imperial policy of
England that is the mightiest factor
i'm the civilization of the Norld."
Admiral Dewey speaks the truth in
this matter, and what he says will be
corr oborated by candid observers ev-
ery-where aud of every nation.
The power and policy of Great Brit
ain Is felt all over the world, and ev.
erywhere it is IA power for civilization
However hard and heavy the tradi-
tional British hand may he, 1t is the
hand of justiceamoDg men. When
ever in any Oriental community the
Englishman appears as a civil or mil
itary ruler, the natives say: He is
just person and we will take his
word" and this they say ofno other
man, certainly of no man OF their
own race and blood and country.
The British power began with a
company of traders in India and built
up the great Indian empire; it began
with convict settlement at Botany
Bay and has shaped the great Austria
lian empire; it found scattered com
munities of French trappers and trad
ers in Canada, and has erected the
| Dominion and British North \ merics
To-day that power is at work at both
ends of the continent Of Africa, in
| Egypt aud at the Cape of Good Hope
and. moving to the southwaid and
the northward, the forces will meet
i'm the center.
This which has been done and is
now being done is conquest, " lin.
perialism." perhaps, but it is civiliza-
tion. When Great Britain c0nquers
she conquers, not for herself atone,
but for all the civilized world. Into "a
British possession any law-abiding
citizen of any other country may go
and remain. Americans enter coun-
tries under British rule as they would
go from one state of the American
there is no difference.
This also should be noticed, that,
wherever Great Britain plants her
standard to remain, 1t is supported by
those who at first were called Sub
ject races The second line of de.
fense in India is the great native ar
my. The troops who fought under
Lord Kitchener, who are carrying
the name and fame of England to the
Soudsn and to the heart of Africa
where Egyptian troops, made by
British skill and energy out of Egyp.
tian fellahs, deemed the most coward
ly, as they were before, the most saw
agely oppressed, OF human creatures.
Tho British officers have made of the
fellah man and soldier.
These have been the fruits within
800 years of British imperialism. "
Any imperialism" adopted ss an
American policy will be Of the same
pattern. The imperialism of civil IA.
tion, of law, of justice, OF liberty
which lights men to higher destiny
which makes road from the low jun
giles of barbsrism to the heights OF
civilization.