Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-23
HOW CLEVELAND RUINED HIS COUNTRY.

When President Grover Cleveland
went out OF office at the end of his
second term he left the country no
bigger than he found It, He had even
refused to accept free gift of Hawaii,
on the ridiculous ground that the
donors possessed no legal title to the
property.
He left the country paramount on tho
whole continent, having made it 80 by
the simple means Of his Venezuelan
message.
He left the regular army as small as
1t had been even during his tirst term.
He Is not remembered by single
war tax.
Not one revenue stamp exists as i.
souvenir of his administration.
In the eight years of his baleful rule
he did not secure a single "sphere of
influence" in Asia, Africa or the
Antarctic .'s7
Consequently there is not 60 much az
one-cent war tax on telegraph mes
sage or express receipt, to attest his
glory.
He had no Destiny" to guide him.
And no Mark Hanna to guide the
He did not know enough to buy into
bloody war, 1000 miles away, for
$40, Otl0, 600 entry fee and the privilege
Of spending half q million day in de-
veloping it.
He did not confer Benevolent Assimi-
lation on any black or Brown race in
the East or the West 44,
He would not even know Benevolent
Assimilation If it appeared to him in
its funeral garments
He did not know that We had im-
perial interests on the continent OF
Asia which should be protected by our
army and navy 80,
lie had no conception of our respon,
sibility as world power in Guam. lie
never heard of Guam.
He was a no.account old fogy, who
wanted the country to keep within its
means and its boundaries. te2
That is why and how he ruined his
country.
THE RIDICULOUS CHINESE ARMY.
There was much anxiety over the
probable fate Of the Rev. DIR. Francis
3. Clark, president of the Christian
Epdeavorers, who was IN China when
the Boxer troubles began, hut he is
safe. His experience lends additional
interest to his article In the Saturday
Evening Post on t'John Chinaman at
Home; His Queer Beliefs; His Ridicu-
lous Army" DIR. Clark writes: '.Tha
army of China ia the laughing stock of
The world. and no wonder. 1t is q
| syhonym, for cowardfce, and not for
courage. 1t is aliabble picked up in
the slums, ill-equipped, ill-fed, ILL
clothed, ill-paid or paid not at all!
Even the Chinese laugh at their own
| soldiers. u1ssa
sat a recent public meeting the
| speaker, an American, urged 0bristian
courage and fortitude, saying that his
hearers must endure hardship and be
brave like good soldiers. When his
Chinese interpreter came to translate
this passage he interpolated the remark:
OF course he does not mean Chinese
| soldiers.
Moreover, these soldiers know that
4 they are constantly starved in Iations
and cheated in arms and munitions of
war by their superior officers. Tons
and tons of gunpowder are filched every
| year from Chinese forts and magazines
and sold to the tireoracker makers. At
| tho time OF the Japanese war hundreds
of government rifles and even some
cannon were in the pawn shops.
.'During the early Boxer troubles
squad of Chinese soldiers was detailed
from fort to guard the premises Of
some friends Of mine ut Paoting-fu,
near Pelsin. ETt. 5
Night after night the soldiers marched
| into my friends compound and canired
in ore of his outhouses. AT last it,.
occurred to him to request the soldiers
| to fire salute, SO that all ill-disposed
1'Hersons might know Of their presence.
| To this they gravey replied that they
would gladly do so had any. powder
been given them, but that before the
next night they would get some powder
and fire the salute at o'clock. There's
after, for week or more, promptly at
the appointed hour. the welkiE rang
with a tremendous discharge Of small
arms. But one night 1T was omitted,
and my friend, inquiring the reason,
was told that the soldiers were out Of
wadding 1t was afterward discovered
that when the soldiers had powder aud
wadding they had no bullets. -