The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-09
CONDITIONAL IMPERIALISM.

army and the flag, would abandon its loyalty to
the American Government, cease to be Republican
and convert itself into vigorous advocate OF for
chile expansion wherever our national power could
reach
These conditions are definite and Ineligible
Some lmperialistic lawyer must discover const-
tutional objections to the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence and favorable decision by an American
court OF the highest jurisdiction He must also OBJ
tain judicial determination that sedition consists of
rigid adherence to American institutions Some
authoritative teacher OF the moral code must coate
the scrpural texts, especially in the New Testament
that enforce upon civilized nations the duty of pound
ing the principles OF fraternity into unwilling and re-
Sstlng barbarans. Some astute statesman must
demonstrate the necessity OF establishing the suprem
acy OF military power both at home and abroad and
OF coercing rebellous subjects OF alien races who
assert their individuality and decline to acknow
edge the fact that the Almighty denied them the per-
anent occupancy OF their native soil and the right OF
elt-government but granted them temporary pos
session for few thousand years until republic had
been specially erected to purchase and enforce their
allegiance. Some accredited historian must recon-
sruct the history OF Rome and prove that the Roman
republic perpetuated by imperial colonization
Some nvincible philosopher must demonstrate the
absurdy OF governmental systems that accept man as
a political entity treat him as an ndivduazed in
teger in civilization. Some learned apoogist must
successfully explain to Great Britain deep regret
that predecessors denied her authority claimed
that taxation and representation were correlatve or
that the thirteen colonies had any rights provisional
or inaienable, that the House OF Brunswick was
bound to respect Some modern bographer must
rewrte the lives OF Washington, Jefferson Adams
Madison and ,oher deluded founders and expositors
OF institutions and clarity the mystery OF their
&;
prehensive jurist must show that Civil War had
no connection with the constitution and the Federal
Union, but was anticipatory development OF
policy OF subjugation. Some original Republican
must correct political records by conclusive proof
that before during and after the Civil War; Repub-
lican platforms were shams, that the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery series OF typo
graphical and that the later amendments were
spurious interpretations Some preserved hlbuster
must justify the attempted invasions OF Nicaragua
and OF Cuba by official authorization from the Gov
eminent archives. Every strictly American express
sion in favor of liberty and independence under con-
sttutona safeguards, must be expurgated from the
works OF Webster, Clay Calhoun, Benton, Douglas
and the host of Federal Senators who led down to
Dan Burns Every decision OF American tribunals
every declaration OF the law, fundamental or derived
by institutional constitutional writers, not based
upon imperalistc precedent direction must be
eliminated The messages and other state papers OF
our Presidents from Washington to Mckinley, the
opinions OF Attorney Generals, the diplomatic
utterances of the Department of State and of our
representatives in foreign parts must be destroyed as
any attempt to harmonic any part OF them with the
doctrines OF the expansionists would be futile The
| American common school system and all American
textbooks OF historical impression together with the
entire OF colonial and national annals must be
obliterated Our national anniversary, with all its
memories and all its associations finally be dis
the tiara OF Empress and Uncle Sam must be ar
rayed in the uniform OF Gar.
! When all these transformations have been effected
our associated commemorative and our national
Union recast in the mold of British imperialism. and
the metamorphosis accepted by seventy millions OF
Americans with their own sovereignty yielded and
with their training their character and their
own ideals revolutionized when the American eagle
has made eyrie on the peaks of other and dis
tant lands; when the Atlantic and the Pacific beat
a perpetual dirge the shores of dead continental
republic and the genius OF humanity vainly searches
for its lost inheritance--then but not before then
The Call will join the ranks of the intoerant ex-
Ipansionsts and confess that the American experiment
is ended
When that concentration of events is perfected Mr.
Huntington will be apotheosized as a statesman a
patriot and philanthropist and Governor Gage and
Dan Burns will have herded the American people into
the paradise over which these heavenly twins afec-
tionately preside.