Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-27
Mark Twain Talks
; OF Books and Politics
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We" lbIh, Otl. lo.-N.llh VAIN IL
turned home last night after an alb
sence Of five years and landed with
smile Of good-natured tun.
Il have had lots OF fun" he said as
he came down the gangplank. II have
enjoyed myself, except fO~ an attack Of
dyspepsia now and then, IN every coun-
try and under every sky. expect to
spend his winter in New York reading
and writing"
Have you any books about ready for
publication"
mo; but have several on the way.
| wrote myself out in the line OF anec-
dotes and humorous sketches in my
last book. / ran short even in that
and could barely find enough material
to fill it,
Il am now falling hack upon the
| fiction of others. No matter what |
write in that line people will think |
am hiding some true story behind the
stalking horse of a story"
will you have an American story
You see | write the story and then
fill in the places like blanks in a rail.
way form. The place doesn't count
SC much--the story is the thing"
But you will give your people some
of their own type with characteristic
dialect, will you not? And won't that
require you to select your scenes first?'
mo, not entirely. Even that can be
filled in. | rewrote Ole of my books
three times and each time It was @
different book. | had filled in and filled
in until the original b, ok was moi
there. 1t had evaporated through the
blanks and had an entirely new book
shall write my story and then lay the
scene where want it, end, II neces
sary, change other things to suit til,
places.
Il shall very probably write a story
with the scene laid in this country o,
| shall place the scene OF one of my
present uncompleted stories here. Thii
can be done rather haudIly after tn,
whole story Is written. But | am mo-
going to publish another book for al
least year. | have just published &
small one and book every two OIL
three years is enough"
MIR. Clemens have yoi had time L
give any thought to the question of i'm
perialism?"
1T is almost too grave a question FOL
one of my temperament, but have TAX
en- try at 1t. | have thought of II ant
1t has got the better of me. | lef
these shores at Vancouver redhot i'm
perialist. | wanted the American eagle
to go screaming into the Pacific. i
seemed tiresome for 1t 70 content itsel
with the Rockies. Why not spread III
wings over the Philippines | asket
myself, and | thought it would be
real good thing to do. said to mysel
here are our people who have suffere'
for three centuries. We can make then
as free as ourselves, give them a gov
eminent and a country of their own
put a miniature Of the American Con
stitution afloat in the Pacific, start
brand new republic to take its plac,
among the free nations OF The world
1t seemed to me a great task to which
We had addressed ourselves.
But | have thought some NOR,
since then and have read. carefully tn,
treaty of Paris and have seen that W,
do not intend to free, but to subject tn,
people of the Philippines. We hav,
gone there to conquer, rot to REDEEM
We have also pledged the power o
this country to maintain and protec
the abominable system established II
the Philippines by the frlars. 1
should, 1t seems to me, be our pleasur,
and duty to make those people FIRE,
and let them deal with their own do
nestle questions in their own way AM
so | am an anti-imperiaiist. am op
posed to having the eagle put its talon
on any other land.
But want to say that cannot con
scientiously support Mr.. Bryan. ! an
not so much Of an anti-'mperialist a
that. / have been tol dthat canno
vote in this election, but II | could
should not vote for Mr. bryan. AS t
what ! may do cannot say, as am I
Mugwump and MugwunIp won't vot,
until he has had plenty CT time to lool
things over. and then don't want t
commit myself too far, as II | find tina
| cannot vote shall run for President
A patriotic American must do some
thing election time"