The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-05
WILL VIE HAVE INiPEItIALlSM L?
tho Wiscst Men OF tho Past Warn
Us Against the Folly.

Tho Gonius of American Liberty and
tho Wiscst Men OF tho Past Warn
Us Against tho Folly.
Richmond Times, Dec. 20.
A few days ago Tho Times repub-
.is3Cd, from the GreCnville Is. C.)
Mountainecr tho substance Of IL most
vigorous editorial against Expan-
sion" Colouel Hoyt, tho editor, rv-
dently know what he was about when
he entitled his article, " Havo We u
Monarchy or IL Rapublc?" Every ca
liSEtcned statesman is obliged W set
that, whilc " colonial" policy may,
perhaps, under exceptionally fav0rab! Q
conditions, be safely adopted and wisely
administered under II monarchy, still,
under republican form Of govern
mCnt, tho OBSTACLES against such /,
policy are wcll-ni&eh insupcru6le.
The British statesmen have bad long
generations Of experience in admins
trriug a colonial policy, and yet 70
man OF sense and Cnndor can read tho
speeches or tho writings Of Edmund
Burke without having his faith IN
such policy, even under u monarchy.
very seriously shaken, and IT. is /. fact
pcriGc!!y- we'll known to oil competent
students Of English political history,
that not few OF The .blcat British
statesmen since Burkc'8- I"y hnvc
seriously questioned the wisdom Of
that p"licy, whilo some Of the most
cnlie htencd OF them have expended al
thc powers OF tbClr clUQuCnCc OF tongue
and pen In dcnOunCinH it is rs unwisU
and inj jurious 10 tho best interests OF
their country.
But st the present period In thc his
tory OF America, there arc somo very
pCcuiiur rcasons why common modc5ty,
and "a decent respect for tho opinions
Of mankind ''shoulu make us slow TO &C.
cupt "imperialism.' During tho whole
OF our history we have boon "homo
bodies," and, 20 far as VIC know, it was
tho unanimous opinion OF the fathers
Of tho republic that wo should always
| remain home bodies" Tho warning
| against cntangling alliances" sound
Cd moro than Is century ago, in the
very infancy Of the republic, came
from one OF tho Wiscst, purcet, most
unscllish ana most far-sccing statesmen
| that ever administered any govern
ment since Moses led Gods people out
OF Egyptian bondage. That warning
| mas D1Cui.4G I. AUuSuauiti "viI ii on.
politics, and tho vcry horn. book O.
American statesmen OF all parties.
We have, for more than century
been almost worried out OF our lives in
our ovtus icD with tho mighty prob.
| lem, now 10 govern alien races. No
| luan who has really studied the pOlitl-
cal history Of this country In the Do
bates OF the Federal Convention, Ben
tons Thirty Years View, Biainu's
Twenty Years In Congress-, John
| Quincey Adams Diary, or any other
authority" can help seeing that
nearly rything, which VIC call
= American puiiiic"," has, during the
whole course OF our history, grown out
OF, or has been closely connected with
the questions, "WhNt shall wc do
| wo manage the Indiun8 7" And on
neither OF thCso questions docs any
thoughtful man believe that any ap-
proach to q settlement is anywhere In
sight.
Now. with such ~ history behind us,
and such problems before US, right
here at home, It should scom proper
answer TO the " impcriAli3t" to say,
"This Is the very coinage OF your
brain"
An old VirBiEin statesman OF the
Piedmont region used to tell glccfully
tho following nncCdoto which IL hero
| in point: a sturdy o,G farmer, who
WAS noted for staying at homo and
! minding his own concerns, lived upon
the public road which led to the court
house. Ga every fourth Monday
County Court-day Of Orangc-ho would
SEQ, hundreds OF men riding by his
gate, on thcir way 10 the court. house.
Not Is few OF them were his neigh bors,
and he would ask them, "Whoro are
you going 2" Going to court" "W it
for 7" " Business" Now tho quiet old
soul had nevo" been TO court In his
life, and, naturally enough, Was puz
| ziud with the question, What sort Of
| business can take 50 many people &c
cou"t?' SO, one fourth Monday, hc
said to the good wife, "Nancy, % the
crap is laid by, | b'licvc I'il saddle the
Old gray mar, ana ride down to TIC
cote. house, jest to SO what sort 0
business ail them folks is got thar
So away he rodc to the court house
| There he mot old friends, whom hc
had not seen for years, and divers
"drjuks" wcro takcn. He became {
| little fuldlcd; some man said TO him
somelhinG he did not like. A isticui
cnaucd he gloriousIy whipped h!:
man, WAS Sucd for assault and battery
and bad business" ~ court tho res
Of his life. IT IL not necessary tt
"apply" this story it appiics Itself
| From tho same source Gomez GnothC r.
which Is equally pointed: An old far.