Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-26
cAsrElLANE's VIEW OF AMERICA
Count Boni Talks OF Imperialism
md an a nrlo- American .AlIinncc.

N ~ n 4
Nw York March % Count Isoni De
lcaxfeiiane saol aft,}, he sot back 10
Paris from Aus vica. wrote for the eau
lois an aitIce wing his rieas Of poiiti
e;il Conditions !i the Uniied states. The
Worli has iFa lated the article. the
most interestilg partsoi which are as
follows:
Behind Mckinley we lind the mono
metal!ists o aaippions Of the gold
standard. The powerful finaneiera. the.
largest mana seiurers the railroad
men, tho nlafoplies and the trusts. AL
.tnese sse in III policy u conquest a
tiinulus - BUSINESS. They point With
JOY 10 tho result already obtained,
IN fact business Ma never more
furnishing. fits even too good. for il
may be foressen that II can never be
3pAtter and that necessarily Therefore
financial progress must one OF these
days suffer a check.
Everything IN the United States
bears witness 10 an economic plethora.
n was struck for example, to find after
Il lapse of five years. a new New York,
Ia city presenting u much finer appear
lance; the high buildings of five years
ago ou,stiipped By new ones three times
las high, which make the first appear
4 like cottages. the characters of the
i various sections of the city undergoing
/ constant change because Of this contin-
isai Xtenson. 50 that building former
4 IN in the center Of the city as our opera
\ house, would now be quite removed
from the eprrsut of affairs, as our Bois
dc Roulogne.
i With sreater or less reason the BUSH
ness men insist that there is a connec-
ton between this business prosperity
land The poliey Of conquest. This draws
/ them toward Imperialism. And there is
! another thing II IS that those who al
ready haze money long for more than
meney-for glory, and glory is gained in
war.
'.Itis easy to see. therefore, the points
Of sympathy between American imperi-
aiism and English Imperialism. How
could American milionaires help adj
hiring such typical business men as Mr.
Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes2
Nloreoveg. the imperialistic party !,
an aristo@atic one. The twents five
families who stand at its head form ths
monde chic the smart set They ar,
drawn by their aristocratic sympathie:
toward the land Of their ancestors. The,
have the habit Of looking up To England
They profess a sort of loyalty to Eng
land which leads them to consider it
supreme honor, a crown and consecra
tion of their prosperity to be presented
at court 20 the queen.
But these twenty five families are no
all of America nor do they necessaril.
repreaent America.
over against the theory of imperial
ism they set another theory, which the.
define thus: III is not territory that W
lack we have enough to do to max
!, the most of the ground covered by Tn
United States. We have plenty of mine
to exploit. railroads to build, acres o
land to clear; let us remain al home.
And they draw another argumen
Iagainst imperialism from the continue
injuries suffered by America because q
this Philippine war There is being car
ried on there an obscure and perilou
struggle. Men and money are sacrifice
q ito it, The responsibilities OF the unto
are thereby tremendously increased
and all this with uncertainty of the re
suits in view, for it is possible that the
will never know what to do with TIL
immense distant Asiatic territory.
Such is the reasoning of the demo
Gratis. And as they are opposed to Amer
lican imperialism, they are opposed, Il