New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-20
MUST WE MAKE THEM STATES'
We find the following surprising remarks in
"The New-Y York Evening Post:

We find the following surprising remarks in
''The New-York Evening Post:
The Editor of The Tribune is making gallant
fight to save the country from the consequences
of his folly as a diplomat. This Union, he
now declares, was framed for free and indie
pendent States the American continent,
and he sees, with most un-American alarm,
"the downfall of republican institutions dating
from the moment I'VE leave the continent and
begin seeking among the archipelagoes of any
ocean for more States" Well, who left the
continent with more alacrity than this very
editor? Who came back from Paris more COM
pacent than he over the archipelagoes he mad
helped add to domain? We understand,
Of course the necessity he IS under as hrst-
class statesman to take a line somewhat dlHer-
ent from that adopted by an Administration
content to get along with second rate advisers
Now. if Mr.. Reds view is Of sufficient i'm
portance to be discussed, it should not be dis
ingenuOusly represented a new one, to be
explained by this invention of a mean and
foolish motive for it. He has consistently
urged the same opinion from the very outset,
before he was appointed on the Paris Commits
sion, and in almost every public utterance on
the subject from the day Of his return. He
stated it thus, for example, before the Mar
quette Club, of Chicago, over year ago:
Brushing aside. then. these bugbears, gentle
men, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
First, hold what you entitled to. III you
are ever to part with it, wait at least till you
have examined it and found out that you have
no use for it.
Next resist admission of any of our pos
sessions States their organization on
plan designed to prepare them for admission.
Stand firm for the present American Union OF
sister States undiluted by anybody's archi-
pelagoes
Make this fight easiest by making it at the
beginning. Resist the first insdous effort to
change the character Of this Union by leaving
the Continent. We want no Puerto Ricans or
Cubans to be sending Senators and Representa-
tiVes to Washington to help govern the Ameri-
can Continent, any more than we want kanakas,
or Tagalos, or Vsayas. MahOmetan Malays.
We will do them good and not harm, if we may,
all the days of our life: but please God, we will
not divide this Republic, the heritage of our
fathers among them.
To represent these new opinions and
TO impute base motive for them, is just what
would have been expected of The Evening
POST before Mr.. Henry Willard and Mr.. Horace
White resumed control of their property. Have
they then, been powerless to eradicate the per-
verse tendencies in their office that have already
cost them so dearly? Or do they like that sort Of
thing themselves? Does the characterization
of their paper, deliberately written and pub
lished over his signature by the present Gov
ernor of New-YOrk twelve years ago, and re-
peated at various dates since, still hold good?
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's precise words were:
do not care a rap for what THE Evening
Post" says concerning me, for l do not believe its
Editor has the wish, perhaps the power, to
tell the truth.