The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-20
MANS ENEMIES.

By David Star Jordan, President of the
Stanford University, California
There are four enemies that have
stood in the path of man. These are
aristocracy, militarism, slavery and
Imperialism. There are various other
enemies, but those are the four arch
enemies in the political sense. They
all spring out of the idea that man be-
longs not to himself, but that he be-
longs, body and soul, to somebody or
something else which owns him. These
four enemies in a dangerous garb con-
front the United States to-day.
Schiller says that the tyrants reach
hands to each other-that they reach
to each other the hands. They stand
together now. These four stand to-
sether. Wherever there is one the
other is. Aristocracy, slavery, militar-
ism and Imperialism. They reach each
others hand.
They all have their fair, attractive
side. They are defended sometimes at
the fireside- Slavery was discussed and
defended from many a pulpit in New
England. Aristocracy has its fair
side.
! The foundation of quality is aristoc-
racy, the foundation of our own liberty
is rebellion against 1.-THE very thing
| we came here for.
There is a fair side of slavery and
fair side of militarism. How clean
the streets can be kept under military
discipline and how free from noisel
How easily people can be sent to bed
at dark if it be desiredi
There is a fair side of Imperialism.
You will find that in many places nine
tenths of the people believe it a good
thing for the world Maybe it is, but
when we come to read history from the
one side to the other we will find that
the British people have been debauched
their in Ind
Hindoos have been cursed You will
md that the English people have been
turned from being a strong, freedom
loving people. You will find also that
the hearts blood has gone out of Great
Britain as it has gone out of all coun-
tries which have INDUCED in constant
wars.
We know how Napoleon depopulated
France by his wars. We know of the
murders of the nobility, the murders
OF the peasantry and the result in the
france OF to-day. In 1880, when the
Fhlnppine question was a burning one
in Spain, La Puente, an Augustinfan
friar, expressed his opinion of the
whole thing when he said: Against
the gain of redeemed souls place the
cost in the loss of armadas and of SOL
diers and of friars sent to the Philip-
pines, and these I count the chief loss
that while mines give silver and for
gives
Spaniards, and she shall give so manv
of them that some day she shall be
left childless and forced to bring I'M
strangers children instead of her
own
The heresy of Imperialism is the most
dangerous that has arisen since the he
resy OF secession, and ii must be
fought as vigorously as the heresy Of
secession If we admit as citizens any
number of millions of people that are
not ready for liberty if we admit them
with all the degradation which they
must bring into our politics, we must
take the consequences.
1t is better that we should be Just
and faithful to our own principle and
to the principles of God and that we
should in our laws be no respecters of
persons, because if in our laws we are
respecters of persons We must go the
way of empire, as all empire has gone.