Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-29

but believe and prophesy that the
time is coming to the children of to-
day, when, on reaching manhood's es-
tate, they will have ample cause to
curse the present Mckinley admins
tration. If not sufficient cause to
curse the existing administration, they
will have far more than ample cause
to anathematize, not only the admin
istration, but those who will be guilty
of again placing and sustaining it in
power. If the policies OF government,
as determined by this administration,
are to be followed to a consummation
this decade, perhaps the next, may
not be much affected, but the future,
less than two generations removed,
will be the sufferer, and with many
and great chances that this country
| will have forever lost its power and
greatness as a nation. 1his is not
pessimistically written, but from con-
clusiOns drawn after such readings as
Washington's farewell address, Jetfer-
sons precepts and principles, jackson
and Monroe's doctrines, DeTocque-
ville's unpreiudiced warning, and Lin
coins fear and trembling for the flu
ture.
would not for moment question
the patriotism or integrity OF our Ger
man-Ame rican citizens. But they are
of human mould, and have the fail
ings and attachments of human kind.
Knowing their attachment to the
Fatheriand, and realizing that the
Fatherland is Overcrowding, | am of
the opinion that they would not ar
IDENTIFY support our contention for the
Monroe doctrine should Germany
seek relief in far-away South Ameri.
can colonization, more especially since
this administration has SO ruthlessly
cast it to the four winds. II we have
the right to create and maintain colo
MES in the eastern hemisphere, has
not the old world the same right and
privilege to do likewise in the western?
If we have the right to maintain pos.
sessions in Asia gained by conquest or
purchase, under what law, human or
divine, can we support our self-ap-
pointed authority against Europe or
Asia to prevent them from creating
and maintaining possessions in this
hemisphere? The only code of which
l can conceive would be the law of
might sustained by blood and treasure.
The amount of blood and treasure
that would be required to reinstate
and sustain such doctrines, after we,
by our own acts, had destroyed them,
would be appalling to human kind.
We have 1000 miles of Atlantic, 500
miles of Gulf of Mexico, and 1900
miles of Pacific seacost unprotected.
Add to this the islands OF Cuba and
Puerto Rico on the Atlantic, and the
Hawaiian and Philippine archipelagos
on the Pacific side-all unprotected
and at the mercy OF hostile nation,
and further yet, the administration,
seemingly eager for the privilege, at
the command of Great Britain, stands
ready to build an isthmian canal and
leave it open, without guard or pro-
lection, to the uses of any nation at
war with us. In war with q nation
like Germany or France, while we are
exerting every endeavor to protect our
seacoast, we would be compelled. in
great humiliation, to see our island
possessions melt away like snow under
a summers sun, and our canal used as
channel for our further humiliation,
if not destruction. At such time
should o few hundred of the ten mil.
lions of inhabitants OF the Philippine
islands rise in insurrection, it would
require our entire standing army to
suppress them and our entire navy to
protect the islands and the army.
And what, I pray you, would become
of the balance of us?