The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-11-03
As to Foreign Policies.

turning his attention 10 foreign pol
| icy. President Eliot says:
whenever IA powerful nation goes 70
war; no man can tell what the real Issues
are TO be. The war for Cuba was no ex-
ception I'm this respect 1t had inev-
table consequences. which no mortal
could have forcscen, and the gravest OF
these consequences are that the coun-
try is already committed beyond imme-
date recall to the maintenance OF q
large navy and considerable army, and
that 1t Is involved In the struggles of
the nations of Europe for new territory,
influence and trade In the far east. Tn
der these circumstances the patriotic cit
izen has to consider this fall whether the
public interests are to be better adj
vanced by maintaining in power the pres
ent administration. with all Its short
comings, or by providing wholly untried
one
I'm regard to foreign policy" DR.. FL
lot continues. 1T is not easy to state
any material difference between the de-
clared policies of the two great parties.
President Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan use
different phrases In describing their for
eign policies; but when II came to action,
In all probability their policies would be
much alike"
ministration in Cuba, Porto Rico and
the philippines, saying:
president Mckinley. in his unwonted
function OF sovereign and arbitrary ruler,
committed lamentable error in the tone
of his proclamation to the Filpinos of
December, 1898, and thereby involved his
country in cruel war-or rather a long
series of military executions-with a semi
civilized but libcrty-loving people who
fought by our side against the Spaniards,
and who ought TO have been invaria bly,
addressed with the utmost consideration,
not as purchased subjects or conquered
foes, but as comrades and friends.
His administration is responsible for
gross delinquencies of public officers in
Cuba, and for less than generous treat
>ment OF the people of Porto Rico. 1t
has also succumbed deplorably to a temp
TALON which always besets rulers In time
of Wharf.-The temptation to keep from the
people the knowledge, not only of future
plans, but of past events and of docu-
mentary evidence relating thereto. This
is one of the worst incompatibilities be-
tween war and public liberty 1t may
be wholesome, under temporary excite
ments, to bear in mind that our free in
situations have been two centuries and a
half in attaining the present imperfect
development, and that II will doubtless
take as long to perfect them. 1t is all
most the universal American belief that
they are not destined TO be destroyed"
Sees Danger In a Change.
On the other hand, he says:
THE patriotic citizen may well hest
tate to contribute by vote or influence to
a complete change of administration.
President Mckinley is now surrounded by
cabinet officers OF capacity and expe-
rience. and he has put good men at the
head OF affairs in Cuba. Porto Rico and
the Philippines, while in case of change
in the presidency nobody can tell to what
sort of persons the great offices of the
government would be intrusted.
1T must be confessed that a peace
loving citizen. who would like to see his
country keep her breath to cool her own
hot porridge, cannot but be much at a
loss how to select his immediate political
associations. The republican admins
tration. supported by a republican ma
jority in congress, has, as a matter of
fact, been fighting in foreign parts for
two years and half; the last demo-
cratic administration took very i'm
perious tone with Great Britain in an in
significant dispute about an unidentified
portion of the boundary of Venezuela,
and the actual democratic ticket, in
spite of MIR. Bryans definition of the
paramount issue, is supported by eminent
advocates OF American participation in all
the great contentious OF the wide world.
THE war-hatlng citizen, who clings
to domestic definition of his country s
business. Is further embarrassed by the
reflection that some wiespreading and
pregnant benefits have already resulted
from United States expansion In the
West and East ndies-incontestably in
Cuba. and probably In Porto Rico, the
Philippines and China"