Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-02
IMPERIALISM DEFINED.
Views OF nm old Democrat VINO Ne.
lievcs I'm Extending Amer
lean Lines.

The Courier-Journal did say that the
idiosyncrasy of the last century was
liberty and that the idiosyncrasy of
the coming century will be markets.
But, surely, In this il did not imply
that freedom is TO be sacrificed to COM
merce. 1t meant simply that the bat
tie for constitutional government
among people called civilized has been
fought and won: that feuda ism dead
and mankind mcasurably self-govern-
ing, liberty, in the sense that Mira
beau conceived il and Washington
fought for it, is rot uppermost in the
worlds mind. but that ovcrcrow,led
populations and labor-saving machin-
cry have revolutionized human condi-
tons producing necessities that seek
their satisfaction in the undcvcloped
regions of Asia and Africa and the
islands of the Pacific ocean. In this
connection we undcrt ook To show how
with short cut TO the Pacific, the cot
ton states of the south occupy n geo.
graphic position of great advantage.
and, seeking to have them Profit by
this, and that as speedily and as fully
as possible, we venturcd to deprecate
the unconsidered cutlery against the
policy of national expansion. Which. as
far as IL relates To the Pacific, is but
another name for the development of
the south.
The Times Democrat calls this the
imperial idea" and says that we are
in love with it, If il be the idea that
led George Rogers Clark across the
forest and the prairie to find n new
home for liberty in the empire of las.
kasllia: if it be the idea that led Hous-
ton to raise the standard of freedom
and to erect dwelling for free men in
Texas; if il be the idea that led Pike
and Lewis and Clark and Fremont over
the Rocky mountains to enlarge the
boundaries of civilization in what was
| then but is no longer the far west; nav,
| II II be the idea that led Jefferson, with
out any authority of law, to put his
| hand I'm the treasury, to abstract there
from Sl5,O0O,000 of the peoples hard
earned money, and to give this to the
! tyrant Bonaparte for the Louisiana
territory, French, Spaniards. Creoles,
niggers, and what no., without saving
by your leave" or blast your eyes
or any other politcncss-nory vet forget
| ting Jnckson's performances in Florida
then we are afraid that we must adj
nit our esteemed contemporaries dire
impeachment Eccc signum! Except
| FOR this later circumstance we had
wanted our esteemed contemporaries
company around the ample board OF
American journalism; and for that, at
| least, let us be thankful and honor the
memory of jefferson,
But the Times-Democrat says that
all this is republicansm. 1t thinks that
because we follow in the footsteps OF
| Jefferson we are headed hell bent. or
words to that effect, for the republican
party. Alasi these five and twenty
years the Courier-Journnl has so often
had to meet this accusation in its Of.
forts to tell the people of the south
the plain, sober, oft-unpalatable truth
that we are used to it and do not much
mind il. In the meantime. we would
have the democratic party-which, not.
withstanding our esteemed contem
porary's ungracious sally, is still tho
party of our hope-capture the policy
of expansion, and, having recovered
possession of the government, it could
then regulate the future of the coun-
try ut home and abroad upon JefTer-
sonian lines In casting itself across
the highway Of that country's and the
worlds progress it will, we fear, throw
away the substance of all power for
good merely to grasp at the shadow of
a barren idcality.-Louisvillc Courier
journal (Dcm.).