The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-05

a company of philosophers, by appeals
to their moral sense. You might as well
try to break a Mexican mustang, and
teach him to wear a harness, by reading
to him the mild pamphlet of Erasmus
on Concord" 1t is easy enough fox
people with a poetical turn Of mind to
be led astray into such a glorification of
the butterfly existence of the wild man,
and such denunciation of the severe
agencies of law and order, that they be-
come unWittingly the champions of re-
progression and savagery. For my part,
without binding my eyes for an instant
to the evils of our own government, and
even without trying to defend my coun-
try against the charge of selfish de-
sire for territory, which | sincerely be-
lieve she has not, / feel convinced that
she is better than the Philippines, and
that the presence Of her flag over thosd
islands is tantamount to an obligation
to give them whatever she has that IS
better. To refuse to sanction a distinct
advance in civilization because it is not
attended by conditions that will charac-
terize the Millennium, is to give away
our garden-plot because we cannot have
handful of soil from the moon. To al
low ourselves to become so hypnotized
by the mistakes and faults of a move
ment, that we forget the principles for
which 1t stands and the goal toward
which it tends. is to make all progress
an impossibility, and to multiply the
brakes until we stop the engine. Grant
ed that civilization is better than saw
ag5ry and granted that the grip Of some
government is the foundation of all
peace and progress, then it is incumbent
upon the anti-expansionist to suggest
some better means than those we have
chosen for starting wild people upon
the pathway of progress. For this you
look in vain, in all their utterances. The
law of nonresistence, if carried into the
jungle, will end by exterminating man,
and by turning the world over to the
tiger The doctrinaire and the radical,
to whom anything short of a mlennial
condition is state of compromise and a
life of dishonesty, generally end by
driving the world as far away from the
Millennium as possible, and because of
their exceeding great love of the abso-
lutte good plunge the world into the alb
If you ask me therefore If I am an ex-
l will reply as did General
Howard the other day: mo, 1 am not
Dewey and his men are the expansion
lists, | am a citizen of an expanded
republic The responsibility Is one we
cannot shirk. The outbreak of power is
the law of life. I believe In the expan-
sion of authority. / believe in reaching
out with our blessings, instead of ex-
tending our dominion. But if destiny in
sists that one must be made the step
ping stone to the other, l would not
have my country become deSerter, but
] would have her go forward, not for
getting the larger end, which is to rear
up and set In power on that darkened
a government that seeks the
good of all and the liberty of ALL using
this unfortunate war as an opportunity
to set before the world a supreme exam
pie of unselfshness and brotherly love, |
leaving behind forever the greedy spirit
that loves territory just for territory's |
sake, and remembering that the plans
and purposes of the Kingdom of God are
the Supreme Court of the ages from !
which no appeal has ever been made"