The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-06

to Mr. Barrett to be at all desirable.
When the whaling ships of the Yankee
mariners plowed the Southern seas, and
the Boston and New York merchant
sailed his ships to the sacred limits of
the Flowery Kingdom and brought back
his cargoes Of forbidden tea, the United
States was easily In the lead among the
nations In their control of the trade of
the Orient. But it is not trade conduct
ed on such lines that Barrett and his po-
nticaI friends are in search of. 1t Is the
trade that follows the flag that Mr..
Barrett wants to see fostered; the trade
that will bring us into the political tur-
moil of the Occident and Orient alike.
We are world power and as world
power we must dominate. We must set
ourselves up as the arbiter Of Eastern
and Western political destinies, and the
world will, because we represent the
great Anglo-saxon race, which Is some
thing of nightmare to Mr.. Barrett, con-
sent to do what we desire.
Just how far we are to go when we
have assumed such relationship toward
the nations of the East and West alike,
as Mr.. Barrett suggests, he does not
more than hint at in his writing thus far.
At least until his last article in the Au-
gust North American Review we never
could tell exactly how far he would have
us go as the decisive influence in the set
But in that article he leaves no question
whatever on that score. He there out
lines what he calls the main planks in
our Chinese platform" Here is one of
them:
50. The United States. acting with
charity and equity, ard in no spirit Of
vengeance, should employ all its moral
and material influence in prescribing
Just punishment and indemnity for loss
Of life and property sustained at the
hands Of fanatical and insurrectionary
mobs; In adjusting the true moral re-
sponstbility Of the overwhelmed govern
ment; In establishing permanent order
and honest, progressive administration of
government throughout the empire; in
safeguarding, both for the present and
the future, the lives, rights and hold
er foreign residents; and finally in so
preparing the way for peace order and
prosperity, to be followed by liberty,
justice and freedom under the guiding
direction of Christian civilization, that
we shall win the lasting gratitude of the
countless blameless Chinese and make
them forever our disciples in moral and
material progress"
There is programme which ought to
meet the demands Of the most exacting
disciple Of Christian civilization! Indeed,
the intense piety which Is revealed
throughout the whole affair is suggestive
of the solemn declarations of the im-
mortal Cromwell himself when he car
ried the blessings of Christian civiIiza-
ton home to the forefathers of Mr.. Bar
rett, and gave them what was left after
his civilizing operations had come to a
close, in the form of an alternative Of
going either to hell or to Connaught.
Mark! 1t is the blameless Chinese whom
we are to make "our disciples in moral
and material progress" The other fell
lows, the Boxers, for instance who do
not believe that they should be either
checkmated, thugged or civilized out of
the ownership and control of their own
land. are to be subjected by the Unit
ed States to what Mr.. Barrett terms
GUST punishment"
This is the new policy. This is the new
political philosophy. Call it Imperialism
or expansion; it is unmistakable. Yes
terday it was the Porto Ricans and the
F1hpincs who were the object of it. To-
morrow 1t will be the Chinese. Next day
1t will be-who or what?