The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-05
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
Three Years of Mckinley
In the White House.
PUT HUMPS ON TAXPAYERS,
Republicanism Is a Most Elk
pensive Luxury.
COSTS TWO BILLIONS PER ANNUM

The Expansion of Jefferson Compar-
ed With Mckinley Imperialism
Colonel Roosevelt and "NapOIcOn
the Little"-Empire Is Not Peace
but Dlood-Money and the Balance
OF Trade.
Especial Washington letter.
OF all the men who figured in the
Kansas City convention the one who
made the most capital was Hon. James
d. Richardson of Tennessee, the house
leader of Democrats.
Sydney Smith once said: "In the
beginning God made round holes and
three cornered holes, and then he made
round people and three cornered peo-
the round people have got into the
three cornered holes and the three cor.
nered people into the round holes, and
nobody fits
Richardson was an exception to Sgd
ney's rule at Kansas City. He fitted the
great place assigned him by the Ia
tional committee, was equal to it's ex.
actions, delivered a splendid campaign
speech and presided with perfect tact
and the absolute impartiality of Chief
Justice Marshall. He made many
friends. AS member of the house,
am proud of his performance, because
the only function permitted to a repre-
sentative in congress at Philadelphia
was when the senatorial cabal which
ran the Republican convention let Hon.
Serene E. Payne move to adjourn sine
die.
Richardson added to his fame at
Kansas City both as an orator and a
presiding officer. He has more tact
than any man l ever knew, and he
had an ample field on which to display
it at Kansas City, and he so displayed
it as to please everybody. congratu-
late my Brother Richardson most
heartily.
The Man With the Hump.
There isn't a man in America who
says more good things than Alfred
Henry Lewis, editor of The Verdict.
doubt if a man with finer or larger
vocabulary ever wrote for any newspa-
per published in our vernacular. Not
long since he dished up the Mckinley
administration in the following jam up
fashion:
President Mckinley has occupied the White
House a little more than three years For the
same period of time the government has been run
by the White House syndicate. The humpbacked
taxpayer-brother to the man with the hoe-can
ak eff md
Three years of NcKinleyism have given this pa
tient man with hump a government that costs
about 900 hour nearly $6,O00,000 a day,
more than $40, 000 600 a week, almost 10000, 600
a month, in the neighborhood of So, ,0000 900 a
year, and yet the patient with eyes like an
OK is not wholly satisfied!
Reckless Expansion.
Jingoes say that we are opposed to
expansion and call us little Americans.
The name is an insult and the charge
that we are opposed to expansion is
lie. There is no use mincing words or
being mealy mouthed about the charge.
1t is a lie made of whole cloth and
made willfully, deliberately, premedi-
tatedly and with malice aforethought.
/ take it that all Americans are expan-
sionists provided the expansion is on
right lines, in the right direction and
not weaken them.
But man does not have to be fool
necessarily in order to be an expan-
sionist Because he desires to see his
country grow in healthy manner he
does not have to be in favor of reach
ing out indiscriminately in all direc-
lions and taking in all countries and
all peoples; because a man eats wheat
bread is no reason why he should eat
arsenic; because beef does him good is
no reason why he should gorge himself
on rough on rats; because clear spring
water Stakes his thirst is no reason
why he should fill up on aqua FORTS.
Rational people want to expand on
rational lines. Thomas Jefferson's
greatest act was in making the Louisi-
ana purchase. That was the most
profitable and stupendous transaction
in real estate proposed on this earth
since the devil took the Saviour to the
top of high mountain and offered
him the dominion of the world to fall
down and worship him. That one act
alone would have placed Jefferson in
the ranks of the immortals even If he
had never written the Declaration of
Independence or Virginia's statute for
religious freedom or founded the Uni
yersity of Virginia.
/ am this day in favor of annexing
every foot Of the North American
British possession clear to the frozen
ocean. 1t is contiguous territory, in
habited by much the same sort of peo-
pie that we are and who would become
good citizens, but l am eternally OPP
posed to owning Asiatic territory
10000 miles away, more thickly in
habited than any state in the Union,
inhabited by people alien to us in color,
race, thought and habit. l would keep
only such places in Asia as we need
for coaling and naval stations. l am
opposed to expanding our territory in
Asia because it is dangerous to our
institutions.
Louis Napoleon and Roosevelt.
The old proverb, ''Great minds run in
the same (.hanOe1o finds q new and