Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-06
SECRETARY WILSON
Result of His Observations on His
Western Trip.
IMPERIALISM HAS NO MEANING
People Believe in the Policy of
The Government.
A r E EX XPA n SION IST S

| pie especially among the residents of the
great farming region beyond the Mssis-
| sippi In conversation today with Star
reporter Secretary Wilson discussed inter-
| estingly the result of his observations.
Neither free silver nor Imperialism occu-
| pies any Of the time of the western people
who produce our great staple crops" said
Secretary Wilson. -Four years ago they
| did turn their attention, particularly west
| of the Missouri river, to the proposition
| made by the free silver people. But time
| has shown them very clearly that what
was proposed would not only have done no
| good, but would have done infinite mis-
chief.
expression the new states west of the Allie
ghany mountains, thoroughly understand
the several forms of government under
which peoples live. They know what i'm
perlalism is and they know what republican
| ism Is. They understand thoroughly what
a republican government is. They made
| those states in all respects; they organized
| road districts, school districts, townships
| and counties. They organized territories
and states, and they knew exactly what
| they were doing. The new issue of i'm
| per1alism has no meaning whatever.
If any effort were being made at the
present time to overthrow any feature Of
our republican form of government those
farmers out there would resent 1t in mo-
! other part of the United States in righting
| the wrongs Of the people of Cuba. They
demanded that the SpaniardS be driven out
| oS that island, and sent their sons to bring
| 1t about. They have paid revenue taxes to
settle the bills.
No Use for Imperialism.
NEARLY every neighborhood educates
somebody to go q missionary to some
part of the world-young boys, young girls
| Many of their town and village congrega-
| tions support individual missionaries some
where, mostly in Asia, Africa or the islands
of the sea When this administration
found and met new responsibility in the
Philippine Islands those western farmers
| to whom all parties are now looking, in
dorsed the action of the President in meet
ing that responsibility.
| imperialism is new word added to the
| vocabulary of our people since the time
| when Aguinaldo had arranged to cut the
| throats of every white person in Manila
/ and the American soldiers and officers
| prevented it. punished the Fiipinos and
drove them back to the hills. man who
proclaimed himself dictator killed or SPAR
| ed as he fit, had his enemies murdered
| when he pleased-that is an imperialist.
I'VE may form an idea of what imperial
ism is by what is now going on in China
| The Empress An is fmperalist; Prince
! Tuan is an imperialist- They do what
| they please without constitutional hmita-
| ton. They only waste their breath who
|
| that they cannot understand the differ
| ence between republican government as We
| nave 1t and Imperialism as we do not have
| 1t. Those western farmers will not waste
| a moment of time a proposition of that
| kind.
! Out in Kansas.
| II recently made visit to Kansas, which
| may really be looked upon as the great ex-
| perimental state of the Union. They test
all things out there; and they test them
! fairly and squarely. They try more new
| things than probably any other state Just
| now the state is fairly groaning under the
| greatest crop of wheat raised by any
| state in the Union.
| The people of that section are very pros
porous. They are taking great interest in
| the education of young people at the agri-
| cultural college. l met many of them there
and was greatly interested in them. If any
body in crowd mentioned 16 to 1 it
brought laugh.
| whoever iesires to get their attention
| regarding Imperialism Will have a good deal
| of trouble. The people of those states know
that they manage their states for them
selves. They know that the present admin
| istration is meddling with their affairs in
no regard whatever.
They know the United States govern
ment more directly through the post office
than any other way. They elect their mem
bers of Congress. and there they touch the
national government again. When the
United States has work to do in protecting
Americans or American interests in any
| part of the world the boys from those
| farms are ready to go and help; they have
always been ready. they always will be-
But after they have done their work and
come back, nobody need tell them that thev
were engaged in an imperialistic effort to
destroy the United States of America ana
lts republican form of government
People Are ExpnnsIonist..
| Those people expansionists, If YOU
want to put the thing correctly. They know
| they have good times ubep I'll +ba f,o,o..a.
are running. But they also know that those
| factories can produce in half the year
enough to supply the home market
They know that the factories must stand
| Idle the other half the year if new markets
are not found.
| newspapers and magazines. own libraries
and use them, and they know that we have
had very heavy trade with China, way
| up in the Gulf of Pechili and to the east
west and north of it, where the trouble ex-
lists now; and they know that that trade is
| growing very fast They know that there
IS Is demand In the countries around the
China sea for everything produced in the
west, on the farms as well in the fac
tories. They know all these things, and no.
body need tell them that the pushing of
trade through these countries will have a
tendency to destroy form of govern
| ment
Then. when the future of those islands
| is to be considered. they know that the
only peace that Cuba has had for cen
turies she is having now. They know that
her trade Is growing immensely and that
| at the present moment Harvard Univer-
| sity has over 1900 Cuban teachers prepar-
Ing them for their duties in the common
schools. That you might call imperialism
but If so then Imperialism is magnificent
GodlilSe.
Prosperity I'm Porto Rico.
1.-The people know, too, that Porto Rico,
| for all the noise we have had about it, will
| have such an era of prosperity as no island
in the Caribbean sea ever enjoyed. Those
farmers out there in the west watch the
exports and imports, and know that trade
with Porto Rico is growing enormously,
and that 1t Is only a question of a short
time when the other islands of that region
will want to come under the American dag,
that they may enjoy the same prosperity
! that Porto Rico is now enjoying.
"As regards the Philippines they know
that we have all kinds Of people there from
! that capable imperialist. Aguinaldo to the
wild man of the Sulu group, whose greatest
claim to manhood is the destruction of his
fellow man. They know that the United