The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-10-28
IMMINENT DANGER OF HPER-
IALISM.
As VividIy Portrayed by Bishop Pot
ter, and Which Called Forth DR..
Clarke's Defense of the Admin
istration.

The address of Bishop Henry
{. Potter, of New York, before
the Episcopalian Congress, which
called forth the above remarkable
defense of the administration, was
in part as follows:
The hands on the clock of his
tory do not usually go backward,
nothing Is, antecedently speaking,
more improbable than that a ma
ton which has delivered itself
from the rule of Kings, and the
rights Of the few against the dis
abilities of the many, will, being,
moreover, a people that has adopt
ed the principle of universal
suffrage, revert to a system
which takes away that privilege
and RENTS the Government to
the will of an individual which
is substantially the imperial idea,
But. whatever may be improb-
able, nothing is more entirely
possible than that a nation which
still reserves the forms of demo-
cratic goyernm ent may in time
subordinate them to methods of
its administration, which, sooner
or later, will bring the substance
Imperialism along with them.
"Now, it would seem at least
reasonable that the conquering or
purchasing republic should inau-
gurate its relations to new posses
sion by some confere nee with its
dominant peoples. But no. Its
first word is subsection, its first
demand surrender, its first, second
and third conditions are: we
will recognize nobody, we will
treat with nobody, we alone will
dictate all the terms The policy
does not work happily. These
pestiferous words of the nation
will not lay down their arms, and
these alien communities, instead
Of hailing the Star and Stripes
with a wild delight, are actually
insolent enough to intimate that
they would rather salute a flag of
their own. Let us suppose. how
ever, that the time comes when
this foreign republic has crushed
out the last ember of rebellion
and stitiled every faintest hope of
protest. The old revolutionary
idea survives, the old passion for
freedom wakes anew, and 50 the
new possessions ustbe vigorously
governed, there m ust be hosts of
troops and scores of governors,
and the organlza ton of armies
and stats and military courts tor
nobody knows just how many
How are these Governments
to be constituted ! How is the
chief ruler of the distant republic
IN which, as it happens, there
really is despotic power, to attend
to all these matters He hap
pens usually, with us, to have a
ask on hand-that Of securing
MS own reelection, winch, nat
Tallv, absorbed a large share of
as time; how can he be expected
% neglect it for t be care of some
mainly peopled,
Is he is told Though unfortunate
VI, with a lot of ignorant little
Or rather, if he must
1--WE those some sort of attention,
now can he make their conquest
md government q means of
himself with his
party, and binding new adherents
o a great and sp')ntane Gus move
nent' for his reelection . There
ire a good many : eople, he knows
y hose fidelity to the party is
purely a commercial question.
There is the sugar interest, and
he tobacco, intere st, and the kite
lying lnterest-by which ] mean
very conceivable adventurer who
.tands ready with his particular
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