The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-22
RocseUeRs Imperialism argument
Is ConfroOerfed By BimseH

tNeW York Evening Post, July 25-1
The radical difference between the
expansion policy under which the Nc
Kinley administration seeks to annex
the Philippines as subject territory
and the method in which the republic
grew during it's early history could not
be more clearly set forth than in the
Following extract from The Winning
of the West" by Theodore Roosevelt
1t is the passage in which the author
discusses the significance of the ordi-
nance of 17SI, rightly ranked as among
the foremost of American state papers.
ana particularly the revolution which
it marked in the way of looking at new
communities formed by colonization
from a parent country. Its diStin-
gushing feature was the fact that the
new American states. themselves colo
MES IN the old Greek sense, were sub
Ject only 10 government which they
helped administer on equal terms with
the old states and that mo state was
subject to another. now or old" Now
we revert to the old policy, which the
young republic rejected of holding and
governing them as ~dependencieS-a
policy under which, as Roosevelt
pointed out, the home country might
treat her colonies well or i'll: she might
cherish and guard them, or Cypress
them with harshnesS and severity, but
she never treated them as equals" In
short, the Republican candidate for
vice president makes it plain that the
policy which he advocates as a candi-
date is the very one which he has de-
nounced as an author. We quote:
$50 Lofty a Morality"
In truth, the ordinance OF 1887 was
so wide reaching in it's effects, was
drawn in accordance with so lofty a
morality, and such far reaching states
manship, and was fraught with such
veal for the nation, that it will ever
rank among the foremost of American
state papers, coming in that little group
which includes the DECLARATION of In
dependence, the constitution, Washing
tons farewell address. and LinceIn's
emancipation proclamation, and second
inaugural 1t marked out e line of
orderly freedom along which the new
states were to advance. 1t laid the
foundation for that system of wide
spread public education, so character
iStie of the republic and so essential to
its healthy growth. 1t provided that
complete religious freedom and equal
ity which we now accept as part of the
order of nature, but which were then
unknown in any important European
nation. 1t guaranteed the civil liberty
of all citizens. 1t provided for an in
dissOluble union; union which should
grow until it could relentlessly cinch
notification and secession; for the
states founded under il were the
creatures of the nation, and were by
the compact declared forever INSOFAR
able from it.
European Idea of Colonies.
I'm one respect the ordinance mark
ed new departure of the most rad
ical kind. The adoption of the policy
therein outlined has worked a com
plete revolution in the way of looking
at new communities formed by COL
onization from parent country. Yet
. the very completeness of this revolu-
ton, to a certain extent, wells from us
its Importance We cannot realize the
greatness Of the change. because of the
fact that the change was so great: for
we cannot now put ourselves in the
mental attitude which regarded the old
course IS natural. The ordinance of
1887 decreed that the new states should
stand in every respect on an equal
footing with the old, and yet should
be individually bound together with
them This was something entirely new
in the history of colonization. Hither-
TO every new colony had either been