Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-07-11
TWELVE PAGES.
WEDNESDAY. JULY II. 1900.
BEING IN WE SHALL STAY.

Let there be no mistake about Ell.
Chinese business-once Mr. n1c1<irIo,
gets the country Thoroughly ontanrIcd
III the eastern question it will not get
OUT except at a sacrifice; ii will not
De able to stay in save by Il show of
force, and in the end by the active uso
OF the sword. This is n vastly rravcr
matter than we have on our hnnds In
the Philippines. where. at most. we
have but the inhabitants TO deal with.
In China we are Dlunging headlong
INTO the maelstrom of war, the end
OIL which the wisest statesman can not
foresee and dare not predict. In tho
philippines we are playing tho tyrant
with no other tyrant to protest. No,
so in China. Raw to the situation. Mr..
mckinley is thrusting the sword OF the
Republic into quarrel for which other
nations have been preparing for half
q century and with which this coun
try has nothing whatever TO do. We
have not merely 400. 100000 Cinnamon
for our enemies. but we have every
nation across whose path the amateur
statesmen at Washington may blundcr
In the mad turmoil OF international
politics.
There Is at least no excuse for 20
Ing into this thing blindly. If the re-
suits of the war with Spain had been
foreseen a good many things would
have been done in different fashion to
that history records. The Admins
tration launched into that war under
compulsion. and having tasted blood
and the popular acclaim of victory and
the power of having contracts and
commissions. and place and pelf- 10
bestow. 1t has been hunting for war
ever since. and has found it with ncxt
10 no difficulty. Mr.. Mckinley and his
cabinet are not being pushed into this
war upon China and this entanglc
ment with Europe They are going in
win open eyes and on their own re-
sponsibility. The American people
nave no part or parcel in this wars
beginning; this invasion of n country
with which we are at peace, to pun
down an emperor and set up an en-
peror. according TO the puissan,
hleiklejohn. has not even the miserable
excuse of popular clamor. and barely
the idle cutlery of the shallow lingo
to sustain it,
Being in China, we shall not get out
That is why we are going in with II .00o
men and without the advice or con
sent of the only power that can legal
ly make war. This invasion is mere
hunt for an excuse to foist miitarism
on the country; dodge to make il an
pear of vast advantage that we should
have the Philippines IN any emergency
though IT ought to be plain. from what
has occurred. that the Philippines are
really source of weakness. no: of
strength. The soldiers after all have
10 be sent to China from the United
states. Mr.. Mckinley has led the
country into Imperialism and he is
playing the same stale tricl that has
always been part of the game: lie is
hurrying from conquest to conquest to
keep up the hurrah and maintain o
Willingness to furnish the lives and
foot the bills
AS in everything this Administration
has done, or has attempted, there is
politics in this doubling of the mailel
fist. There is more than one sort Of
politics One variety has already been
indicated. The Other variety is found
In Mr.. Mekinley's assumption of the
role of Defender of the Faith; e. is no
mere selfish grabbing at what belongs
10 somebody else, is this Presidential
invasion of China; it Is Crusade, ac-
cording to Hon. Chauncey Depcw!
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Dr. Ii Hung Chang Is distinctly the