The Weekly orb., 1899-01-01
PATRIOTISM VS. IMPERIALISM.

Small calibre Republican newspaper
 writers who imagine that imperialism,
 conquest and expansion are party dog
 mas, and who are accustomed to accept
 ing and defending, unquestioned, every
 measure their pert managers prop ose,
 indulge in fippant and conte mptuous
 reference to every prominent Democrat
 who expresses doubt as to the wisdom
 of holding the Philippine islands and
 everything else that our navy may be
 able to capture. We are glad to note,
 though, that among the real statesmen
 the question is not party one, and for the good of the country we hope it may
 not be. While some quite prominent Democrots have espoused the cause of
 imperialism in it's broadest sense, great majority of the party leaders adhere to the principles and policies
 which have given this government it's grand position among the nations of the
 earth. On the eother hand, while appar- ently a majority of Republicans, follow
 ing their instincts of concentration of power and wealth, advocate holding all we can capture, some of the ablest minds and greatest thinkers of the party have begun to apply the breakers and attempt to stop what they believe to be the dangerous downward progress of the government. ,...
 It is gratifying to find John Sherman in thorough accord with George G.
 West on this subject, and also to see it positively asserted that President Mo. kinley IS not in sympathy with his jinge advisers, but hopes for sober. in telligent reasoning to so influence pub lie sentiment during the next year as to make it possible and practical for the government to return to its former safe anchorage.
 One of the best things we have noticed on this subject was the address of Rabbi Sale of St. Louis, delivered two or three weeks ago; but of the many good things we can only give space to short extract from a carefully prepared address by President Daniel 0. Gillmaa of John Hopkins University, which we find published in Self Culture magazine. His address was to brain workers, students, college professors, historians, and such as have the facilities and op portunities for studying the great prob lems. urging them to their duty as citi zens of great country. In 1t he says: ''l am not an imperialist, an expansion ist, nor lingo. l belong to a class of citizens represented by many in this as sembly, who dread revolution, trust 1 experience, ard are established by in heritance, training and reflection in the | belief that the freedom of this country | from foreign entangements had secured | it's peace and plenty, and is the basis of | it's hope and faith. It is safer to work in ! the footsteps of the fathers than to sn- ter upon the unblazed paths of the forests, which lead we know not whsre."
 One idea that should be made promi- | nent is, that no citizen is necessarily | disloysl nor unpatriotic because he dis approves of or opposes measures adopted | by the administration. The president and his admirers are only men, and | often not the best nor the wisest of men. This is especially true of many of the advisers. There are thousands of abler and better men than those who sur round President Mckinley and sefshly seek to direct and control the affairs of the nation. We believe he wants to do what is right, and do not question eithe