The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-17

into practice in the conduct of public
affairs.
What the southern paper says of ex-
pansion is in no way pertinent to the
topic of discussion. OF course, expan-
sion is an accomplished fact. That
might have been recognized from the
first.
But there can be expansion with i'm
perialism or expansion without i'm
perialism; and there can be home gov
eminent with imperialism or home gov
eminent without imperialism. These
opposing ideas contest for mastery now
as they always have contested, simply
because there are men who hold, CON
scientiously or otherwise, that it is
better that they should rule and that
oilers should obey. Some Of them are
very shrewd in cloaking their love of
their own power with the assertion
that their aim is the good of the gov
erned. That is what Senator Ransom
say about the North Carolina Negro.
Most men, however, who know their
fellow-mortals fairly WELL are inclined
to be suspicious of philanthropy like
this. 1t seems to most of us more like
the disposition to boss, in wh!oh in
elegant expression is summed UP the
essence of real Imperialism.
Now we do not think the danger of
either home of colonial imperialism CT
this sort is very great, in spite of the
temptations and the disposition to ex-
ercise it. Because first, the American
people have too much good sense and
second, they have too much respect for
sound moral principle.
But President Mckinley himself set
tied the question of imperialism when
he wrote.
THE Republican party does not fail
to assert it's devotion to the Declara-
ton of Independence That immortal
instrument of the fathers remained
unexecuted until the people under the
lead of the Republican party in the
awful clash of battle turned its ~, ON
lses into fulfllment. 1t wrote into the
constitution the amendments guarnr-
teeing political equality to American
citizenship and it has never broken
them or counselled others in breaking
them. 1t will not be guided in it's con-
duct by one set of principles at homo
and another set in the new TERRITORY
belonging to the United States"
AND again he says!
Those who profess to distrust the
liberal and honorable purpose of the
administration in it's treatment of the
Philippines are not justified. Imperial
ism has no place in it's creed or con-
duct. Freedom is a rock upon which
the Republican party was builded and
now rests. Liberty is the great Re-
publican doctrine for which the peonle
went to war and for which a million
lives We're offered and billions of dol
lars expended to make it a lawful
legacy of all without the consent ot
master or slave. There is a strain ot
liI-concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety
TO extend the constitutional guarantees
TO the people of the Philippines. While
their notification is openly advocated
at home"
Inc true imperialist is the Democrat
the man who believes in the constitu-
uon follows the flag doctrine. He would
under that constitution take away the
vote from the negro, as he would from
the Hawaiian when the time came. IT
is the Democrat who is the Imperialist.
the Republican who is the expansionist
Expansion is the natural growth of =
country upon national lines The Uni
ted States has been expanding right
through the present century, and it will
continue to expand as long as its heal
thy growth obtains. But expansion IS
/ not Imperialism. Imperialism is what
Is practiced in the South, which dis
franchises men of their vote either by
law or by the shot gun.