The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-04-18

greatest need of the hour IS the Or
ganization that will begin at the
bottom and work up. There is no
trouble about public sentiment and
no doubt that the Republican party
is stronger to-day than it has been
in decade. Al organization as
perfect as that which conducted the
campaigns of 1892, "a, and go, will
carry the State this fall for the, Re
publican candidates for president and
State Offices by the Republican ma
jority that was customary formerly.
There is every reason why each
county in the State should take the
first opportunity to get its organiza-
ton in working order for the cam
paign that will be inaugurated the
first of July.
The American, and particularly
the American farmer, is an expan-
sionist by intuition. He is without
exception alive to his own business
interests and always ready to get
more of good thing. More than
100, 900 of him stood on the dead
line when Oklahoma was admitted
and joined in the race for farm.
When the Red Lake reservation
was thrown open for settlement,
every available acre of it was taken
as fast as the clerks in the land de-
partment could record the entries.
From the time the original thirteen
colonies expanded into fourteen up
to the time that they had expanded
into fortyfve, with all the adjacent
territory purchased or annexed, the
United States has been an expan-
sion nation. The nation, like the
individual, wants all it can get of a
good thing provided it can get it by
honorable means. Porto Rico and
the Philippines are ours by right OF
conquest, purchased by blood and
treasure of the nation, and the peo-
pie will never consent to any prop
osition which contemplates their
surrender. To ask their surrender
would BE- a piece of folly equaled
only by that of asking an Oklahoma
or Red Lake settler to cancel his
entry and deed his homestead back
to the government. The ranting
talk of imperialism is nothing
more or less than a bugaboo raised
| by issueless Democratic leaders to
confuse and alarm the voter and
prejudice the people against the
administration. The Republican
party stands Internationally and
proudly pledged to the policy of ex-
pansion with all that policy in
wolves and will gladly join issue
with the Democrats and fight it out
on that line.
Six months ago the Democrats
were making almost superhuman
efforts to drag the South African
question into prominence as ma
tional issue, and to array the peo-
pie against the administrator be-
cause of it's refusal to pick quarrel
with England. The administra-
tion stood firmly for the policy
of noninterference and refused
to be embroiled in any interna-
tional controversy oyer. ques-
ton which does not concern us.
The Democratic papers and orators
howled at the heels of Mckinley
and hurled malediction at his. head
because of his pacific attitude. They
said that the Republican party was
foredoomed to defeat unless the adj
ministration took a hand and de-
clared it's sympathy and support
for the Boer cause. To-day the
Boer question is right where it
should have been all the time, and
it never can be resurrected as an
issue in American politics. The at
titude of the President is distinctly
and practically approved by every
intelligent American, and those
Democrats and misguided Republi.
cans who would have forced the ad.
ministration to a different course
are sheepishly confessing that they
misjudged public sentiment. The
Democrats are as excited to day and
as hopeless Of results from the diff