Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-02-16
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Hawaiian Fight Settled
Expansion Policy.
FIRST HOLE IN THE Dixie.
Jingoism Then Acquired a Taste
For Land Grabbing.
MISTAKE OF ANTIEXPANsI0NIsTs

The I'll ne to Check Imperialism Was
when 1t First Raised It's Head.
! would Have Blocked Dangerous
Game and Promoted the Cause of
Human Liberty Fleshpots Too
Much For Yenrning stomachs.
Especial Washington letter.
When the antiexpansionists lost the
Hawaiian fight, they lost all That was
the first hole in the dixie which let in
the sea, the thin edge of the wedge
/ which split the log. the tiny spark
which exploded the entire magazine
Many of the men who voted for that
| grab, protesting that they were not ex
pansionists on general principles, are
now shouting for the Philippines
! There never was case in which more
| fully appeared the wisdom of the Scrip
/ ture which says; "And whatsoever shall
compel thee to go a mile, go with him
twain The jingoes went 2, 500 miles
to grab the Sandwich Islands. Now
| they go 7. 900 to grab the Philippines
AS it is only %, 900 miles around-the
world, we may expect at this rate to
! circumnavigate the globe in our new
employment of land grabbing by the
time the bells ring in the new year and
the new century. If many men who are
now holding up their hands in holy
horror against annexing the Philippines
had not pocketed their convictions and
chloroformed their consciences last June
in order to enable them to swallow the
Hawaiian Islands, Kanakas Chinese
Japanese, lepers and all the rest, there
would now be no Philippine question to
vex their pious and patriotic souls. But
| these sleek time servers desired to stand
well at court, to be welcome at the
White House. TO bask in the presiden-
tial sunshine and to receive their guam,
tum sufficit of the loaves and fishes. The
grateful SAVIOR of the feshpots was too
much for their weak heads and yearn
| ing stomachs. They wanted to be in the
swim and to float with the tide-al
ways a pleasant if not heroic course.
Now they are anxious to repeat the
condemned performance of locking the
barn securely after the horse is stolen
and play the lachrymose role of Jere-
miah amid the jeers of men. When they
| might have served their country and the
cause of human liberty with some effect
| they would not, for we needed only
little help in season TO have blocked the
dangerous game entirely. That was the
! accepted time to kill jingoism, that was
the day of salvation from all the perils
and expenses to be entailed by daz-
| cling colonial policy and vast colonial
establishment Waterloo was lost at
Quartre Bras The Philippines and all
other outlying islands were annexed
when Hawaii was let in. It would be
easier today to persuade majority OF
both houses Of congress to take hand
in the partition of China than it would
have been last January to induce them
to tack the Sandwich Islands on to ou1
country. The lingo bacillus is doing its
work effectually.
| The Critical Moment.
The mill will never grind again with
the water that has passed.
Charles. Stewart Parnell the great
Irish orator and statesman. truly said
| Opportunity is q horse. bridled and sad
! died, which stops at every mans threshold
| once in lifetime. Be ready. Mount, and he
bears you on to success and honor Pause
| but moment-he is gone, and the clatter OF
his iron hoofs, echoing down the corridors Of
time, win forever remind you of what you
| have lost
There comes a critical moment in
every battle and in every enterprise de-
cisive of the result.
| u. T11-
Fitzsimmons going in the seventh round
at Carson City. but he failed to seize
the golden opportunity, and half an
hour later came the blow ON his solar
plexus. and he was ex-champion of the
world.
kid Mccoy had Thomas Sharkey
| on the direct road to the land of nod in
the third round of their engagement
One more punch would have done the
work for the ex-sailor, but it was not
delivered, and the young Hoosier pir-
ouetter received beating which he
will not forget should he live to the
great age of Methusaleh.
William Makepeace Th;sckeray, the
very prince of writers of English prose,
tells of one critical moment in the his
tory of Great Britain In his -Four
Georges, after giving a highly enter
tanning if somewhat ludicrous account
of the landing of George at Green
WITCH pier, as that illustrious and lucky
monarch was proceeding to ascend the
throne of his ancestors, the genial
novelist thus philosophers on the cru
cial point in the life of mighty ma
ton:
As one thinks of what might have been,
how amusing the speculation isl We know
how the doomed Scottish gentlemen came out
at Lord Mars summons, mounted the white
eockade that has been flower of sad poetry
ever since, and rallied round the i'll omened
Stuart standard at Braemar. Mar, with 5000
men and but 800 opposed TO him, might have
driven the enemy over the Tweed and taken
| possession of the whole of Scotland but that
| the pretender's duke did not venture to move
| when the day was his own. Edinburgh castle
might have been in King James hands, but
| that the men who were to escalade it staid to
drink his health at the tavern and arrived two
hours too late at the rendezvous under the
castle wall. There was sympathy enough in
| the town-the projected attack seems to have
heen known there. Lord Mahan quotes Sin
clair's account of gentleman not concerned,
| who told Sinclair that he was in a house that
evening where IS Of them were drinking, as
the facetious landlady said, ''powdering their
hair for the attack on the castle. Suppose
they had not stopped to powder their hairi
Edinburgh castle and town and all Scotland
were King James. The north of England
rises and marches over Barnet Heath upon
| London. Wyndham is. up in Somersetshire,
| Packington in Worcestershire and Vivian in
Cornwall The elector of Hanover and his
hideous mistresses pack up the plate and per
haps the crown jewels in London, and are off
via Harwich and Helyoetsluys for dear old
Deutschland. The king-God save hin-lands
at Dover with tumultuous applause-shouting
multitudes roaring cannon, the Duke Of
Marlborough weeping tears of Joy and all the
bishops kneeling in the mud. In few years
mass Is said in st. Paul's, mathis and vespers
are sung in York Minister, and Dr. Swift is
turned out of his stall and deanery house at
st. Patrick's to give place to Father Dominic,
| from Salamanca. All these changes were pos
| sible then, and once 80 years sfterward-all
this we might have had but for the pnlveris
sxigui jactu, that little toss Of powder for the
| hair which the Scotch conspirators stopped to
| take at the tavern.
Entering New Career.
There is an idea, common among
men, which is peculiarly applicable to
| the proposed scheme for annexing, &C.
quiring or absorbing the Philippines
and FiIipinos. and which has been for
INFLATED in various modes and with