Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-08-10

ened because Of the Inevitable developments
Of the imperial policies initiated under VIM.
Mckinley. 1t will be too late then TO try
to vote those policies down. 1t is a case
where "the moving finger writes, and hav-
ing writ, not all your piety nor all your art
shall cancel or rub out line OF It," Cen
GRAFTON after generation of young British
soldiers drawn from the English, Scottish
and Irish homes have gone out TO India, and
are still going, 10 uphold the imperial policy
of conquest for commercial gains sake in
augurated by the statesmen of George the
Thirds time. Rivers Of tears have flowed
and must yet flow TO pay for that gigantic
folly-for India has not profted England
by the larger and broader way Of reckon
ing, and in the end she must lose it, as she
won il, by the sword. But it cannot be I'm
done now. No English statesman would
dare to propose it.
1t will be With America rs it 10 with Eng
land if her people consent TO launch forth
upon the sea Of imperial glory. Tropical
colonies for US, as for the English, will fur
nish countless graves for our descendants,
burden them with enormous debts, bow their
necks under the yoke Of huge standing
armies and colossal fleets and tax them 10
the last point of endurance. Worse than
all this, it will rob them Of the proud her.
itage Of their ioTefathers, whose honorable
boast it was that their flag never f1oated
over unwilling subjects and never was
stained with the blood of any people CO
creed TO live under 1t against their own free
will.
Shall we sell not only our own but our
childrens birthright Tor the Asiatic mess OF
pottageH Surely it cannot be that the Amer.
lean people will, with their eyes open 10
what Imperialism and colonial expansion
has cost the European nations, especially
England, in blood and taxes, to say moth
ing OF the evil reputation they have Incl.
dentally gained as land-robbers and liberty
destroyers, commit themselves and bind their
posterity to such bargain The working.
men of the country at least ought to set their
faces sterny against it. All the imperial
burdens, the boys 10 be slaughtered In the
far. off shambles OF the Orient and the grind
ing taxes to be paid at home, will have 10
be borne in the main by them. The few
hundred millionaries, the trust magnates
and the spectators who will exploit the
trade that follows the flag" will not go to
the wars themselves nor pay much Of the
taxes TO carry them on. They will do the
shouting and rake In whatever profits there
are. The working masses, the bone and
sinew Of the country, will have to furnish
nearly all the blood aud pay nine. tenths of
the bills.
Let our workIngmen think it all over be-
tween now and November and think OF
their little boys-the coming men Of 1915
and 1920. What sort of country are they
going TO leave for their sons if they vote to
imperialize in Are they going to 80 use
their votes this year that fifteen years hence
the new generation of voters will say with
bitter but vain regret "Our fathers ate OF
the sour grapes of military glory and colo.
NAL empire-building and their chiIdren's
teeth are set on edge Baltimore Sun
William j. Bryan and Adlai E. Steven
son we're formally notified at indianapolis,
on Wednesday, of their nomination by the
Democratic party for President and Vice
President of the United States