The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-08-03
Especial Correspondence

try on Washington, to see what course
the administration will take. Natural
" the indignation over the outrage
causes various expressions of strong
feeling, but it is generally recognized
that the administration is in a peculiar
position. Almost any step that it takes
will expose it to criticism from the vast
number of people who have been view
ing with alarm the policy of imperial
ism.
1t is unofficially given out in admins
tration circles that troops will be
rushed to China and that severe punish
ment will be melted out to the nation
which has been guilty of allowing the
murder of our minister and MANY
American citizens.
Still, it is explicitly pointed out that
no war win be declared against China,
no matter how many troops it takes
| to carry out the intentions of the adj
ministration, and that Cinnamon will
not be deported from this country while
hostilities are going on.
This sounds very much like the ad-
ministration's way of doing things.
1t is now carrying on one unauthorized
war in the Philippines under another
term. 1t is doing in the Philippines
what it denounced in 1898 as criminal
aggression"
1t is said just now that the admins
tration has no intention whatever of
helping in the partition of China, but
will only act with the other powers to
punish that nation for the attack upon
our citizens. But this assurance will
not go very far with those who have
watched McKinley's course in the last
two years. The administration has a
very optimistic and facile way of mini
mixing its imperialistic performances
beforehand.
On the Administration.
Ex-Congressman James Hamilton
Lewis puts the whole Chinese trouble
squarely up to the administration. He
says:
II charge the Chinese outbreak di-
rectly upon the republican administra-
ton. 1t is the direct result of the an
nouncement made by this government
that the United States intended to en-
ter into the division of China. Since
these assertions China has viewed US
as invaders. It's assaults upon us are
because OF that feeling of our hostility
to them.
During the last Is years wherever
missionaries have been killed it has de-
veloped that they had violated some
sacred ritual of the Chinese faith. 9th
er nations besides the Chinese visit the
offender with death for such desecra-
tons.
1T is apparent for the first time in
the present generation that the Chi
nese government has given sanction to
an assault upon Americans and for
eigners generally.
ambassadors were regarded as the ad-
vance guard of force determined to
appropriate the Chinese empire"
Mr.. Lewis goes on to point out that
so long as we kept aloof from alliances
with the continental powers the Chi
nese government treated our people
with consideration and gave US trade
privileges.
1t was only when this administration
was beguiled by England into an un-
Outstanding that she would be helped
In her policy of despoiling China that
the trouble began.
Among others Mr.. Lewis quotes ex-
Minister DENLY, while member of the
Philippine commission, speaking for
The admit nj <ro
time had come when we should join
other powers in appropriating a re-
spectacle sphere of China to ourselves"
Senator Lodge recently said that our
government should "bear its response
bilities in China and participate with
the nations of the world in the division
OF that empire from the base of the
Philippines"
Fruits of Imperialism.
Mr.. Lewis remarks that we are now
reaping the fruits of the harvest sown
oy this administration while under the
influence of it's dream of imperialism.
He saws:
We must take one of two courses:
Humiliatingly step out of China with
dead Americans unavenged, or proceed
to revenge the infamy by marching our
armies into a country which can band
together a standing army equal to
every man, woman and child we have
In the United States and still not begin
10 exhaust their surplus"
1t is clear that if war is to be made
IN China we are both unprepared and
unable to reach victory, while losing
The trade because we have made enc
mics of the people.
The question is, are our people still
willing to take the woeful result which
the policy of the administration. as
proposed in the Philadelphia conyen-
ton and admitted by the president in
his speech at Canton, inevitably pre-
cipitates upon us? Is it to be empire of
war and bankruptcy or republic of
peace and prosperity? 1t seems to be
up to the administration.
AS IL to emphasize imperialism as the
most important issue, the news comes