The Lamar register., 1900-08-01


the Rocky Mountain News, statesman,
orator, lawyer, capitalist, poor mans
champion. and guide, philosopher and
friend to all the parties and factions
opposed 10 the reelection of President
Mckinley, delivered a long speech at
the Bryan and Stevenson ratification
meeting in the Broadway theater last
evening in opposition TO Imperialism
and expansion. \ comprehensive re.
port of his utterances viii be found In
another part of this paper. and we
hope that ii Will be carefully read by
the people Of Colorado.
Without quoting part of 1t in this
article We viii say that 1t fully in
dorses the most extreme language OF
the Kansas City platform in opposition
10 the policy pursued by the Republi-
can party. under the able leadership
of President Mckinley In the islands
which have come under the jurisdic-
ton Of the United States in conse-
quence of the war with Spain. and
| foretells an empire on the ruins OF our
Republic II the Republicans win at the
/ polls in November.
( And this carries us back TO the posi-
/ ton maintained by Mr.. Patterson in the
| News, with remarkable steadfastness
/ for him from the beginning Of the
I Spanish war until after the ratification
/ OF the treaty of Paris last year, ON this
( very subject. Hardly week passed
in that long period without u ferrid edi-
( toriaI from Mr.. Patterson's own facile
pen in favor OF expansion or in scorn of
1 those timid souls who professsd 10 see
| the phantom of imperiaifsnI in the log
( ic of tranSpiring events.
We could ill every page OF this Issue
( of the Republican with these eNpan-
/ sion editorials of Mr.. Patterson's and
/ then have enough left to overload To-
I morrpw's paper in the same way, but
we win spare our readers that indie
/ ton and simply las before them one OF
( Mr.. Pattersou's best efforts, with the
absolute assurance that il is fair and
/ full embodiment of all the resi- The
+ editorial which we quote was publish
I ed in the Rocky Mountain News on
Z June ~ lSas. seven weeks after Ad,
/ miral Dewey smashed the Spanish fleet
at Manila. and one week before RcSse-
welt and his Rough Riders SturTned and
captured san Juan hill. and we give II
Z in full without the slightest change or
omission in order that no pretense Of
unfairness may DE urged against us in
the matter. II reads as follows:
sTHE NATIONAL POLICY.
For veal or woe this nation IS about
TO enter upon the possession Of terri
tories beyond fhe borders Of the cont.
nent In two months there has been
a tremendous change in the currents of
American thought Befor. the boom OF
Dewey's guns came across the Pacific
we were Immersed in our internal af-
fairs. We were engaged In search for
the solution of certain grave internal
problems and Were comparatively in
different to concerns beyond our bor-
ders. Those grave problems are stiil
I with us and for them We must find
right solution whether the national
policy be one of expansion or Of strict
secIusion within the boundaries which
/ have marked our limits since Texas
was admitted into the Union ON the
south and Alaska was added on the
north. But along another line new
tasks and new problems confront us
The old problems must not h. neglect
ed but We can no more push the new
problems aside than we eau turn back
the sun or bid the tide TO cease \ re-
cent writer well says: After all IL Is
temperament that tells. and not
schemes Of national policy, whether
laid down In farewell addresses or in
T-topian books. No national character
was ever shaped 10y formula or phil
osophy, for greater forces than these
lie beyond 1.-THE forces OF Inheritance
and Of events
sluggish lethargy Is not in the blood
of this nation. To whatever source an
American owes his race origin. al
Americans owe their temperament or
lGiu To energetic and progressive fore
fathers- The blood may be Anglo-Sax-
on. or Celtic. or Slayonic, or Semitic: It
NAV have been carried hi1ler by the