Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-01
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Start to run at full speed down a steep
hill, and you are lucky if you do not
jump over a precipice. Metaphorically,
this applied somewhat to the case of
senator Gorhman H. lingo of New Ari-
zona; who, as the United States acquired
in rapid succession, Hawaii, Porto Rico,
Cuba n the Philippines, became so
carried away with the idea of territorial
expansion, that he was soon regarded
as the chief exponent of that political
doctrine.
Gentlemen said he, upon one oc-
casion, to a group of friends at the
Capitol, I'm not only for everything
that's now in sight. but a good deal
more still away down below the hori-
ION. Having got the Philippines. in the
commercial development of which I in
tend to a k a big hand, we must ave
our share of the estate of the rich man
Of the Orient; and by and by, maybe if
the Dutch don't handle those Stands
round us properly. we shall be obliged
to step in and look after the Celebes II
New Guinea for them. We cannot per-
nit a state of semi-barbarism to exist
upon our Philippine borders any more
than we could upon those of Florida"
These sentiments being duly reported
to the administration, of which Sem
ator lingo was a prominent supporter,
it was devotedly hoped and believed
that at the approaching election in
New Arizona hat he would be rele-
gated back to his ranch; but they We're
mistaken, for Senator lingo SO enthused
the westerners with dreams of oversee
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he was sent back to Washington with
tives pledged to support even further
territorial exansion.
So while Senator lingo strongly
urged these views in the political arena,
he was equally active and enthusiastic
in backing them in that of commerce.
Already he had formed The Zamboanga
Cannnibal Valley and Bubbling Geyser
Railroad Company "The Talawan Ex-
ploration and Colonization Syndicate"
and "The Luzon Compressed Sulphur
Trust into which he contemplated sink
ing SO large a portion of his capital, that
his family We're as much alarmed over
the state of his private affairs as the
administration was over his public
opinions.
Senator lingo was a married man,
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daughters, the former of whom at the
outbreak of the Spanish war. had re-
ceived a commission in the First New
Arizona Volunteers, which regiment
had been sent to the Philippines,
where after doing slendid service, it
was, in due course, ordered home.
Senator lingo, however, had tele-
graphed to his son to remain out in
the new colonies, and followed the
message up by a letter in which he in
timated a desire that the latter should
Identify himself as much as possible
with the new order of things, so as to
be able to take charge on the spot of
the companies in process of formation.
"As a vice president of the "~Zamboanga
and Cannibal Valley Railroad" he wrote,
you will have a chance to acquire. great
influence. AS a director of the Com
pressed Sulphur Trust you may amass
q large fortune; and when Uncle Sam
rakes in a few more of the neighboring
Islands, 1t is my intention to start an
1nter-Island Steamship Company, and
as managing director, you may gather
Into you own hands the whole sea trade
OF that part of the Pacific. Grow up
with this new country, my boy; and you
will die a bigger man that your father
yet"
Now, in spite of these alluring in
~ducements, Captain lingo eVinced no
desire whatever to remain in the Phil
lppines. In the final p~acification of the
country, he had, perhaps, seen enough
to satisfy his desire for life in that
quarter of the globe. for he promptly
wrote home to his father that he
would rather drive a cab in New York
han contemplate the possibility of a
perpetual residence out there, even if
he were offered a half of the throne of
he Sultan of Sulu. He concluded by
saying he was coming home with his
regiment. This determination, however,
was shortly after set aside upon the re-