The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-11

tlon right. l have in my neighborhood a
hundred neighbors-French. Italian and
opanish-Who do not handle their lands
very well. Because 1 can handle your
business better than you is no reason why
l should handle ii. Neither does 1t settle
the question as to who is right. When we
nnd out who Is going to win L believe the
right will finally triumph, but 1t usually
takes a few centuries for Ii TO do so. Lit
tie nations are wiped out of existence very
OFTEN just as little men are. There is a
right and a wrong in history. as in the
lives of men, and IL is not determined who
may whip the other. / want to get rid of
all this cant OF nations fighting for mani
fest destiny. / believe there is right and
wrong with the nations, as with men. One
definition OF right is that which maketh
for right and bringeth forth life most
abundantly-that which enables the world
TO do more living than Ii would otherwise
do That is wrong which pinches and mar
rows Iife.'
In continuing he said: 81 am talking
about British Imperialism. There never will
be any such thing as American imperial
ism. The idea Of British imperialism is
that the British. being the most intelligent
and most forceful and capable of develop
ing institutions, II is upon them
to take hold of the weaker nations of the
tropics and mold them in their own way;
that the strong should handle the affairs
of the weak. Lord Kimberley says IL means
to get better returns for money loaned in
India. Lord Beresford told me the motto
Of British imperialism is volume of trade.
Chamberlain has been called the first
American politician that England ever
knew. Other British politicians have had
a conscience that could be counted upon.
All American politicians are not bad. You
know the breed to which / allude. 80
1t was a motto among Britons once, as
written by Tom Hughes, never to bully a
little boy nor TO turn back on a big one. 1t
is just the reverse under Chamberlain
little one-in this process Of increasing the
volume of trade. . Wherever the
British have thrown a line to get territory,
it has always been thrown a little farther.
The Venezuelan commission showed that
the boundary in Great Britain's claim had
been moved from place TO place as time
went on. Arbitration results In her favor
when she gets half what she asks for. She
has thrown her line around three seaports
in Alaska, to which she has no right. If
she gets one of them she will be satisfied.
ut is a part of her plan to have some-
where a small war, the better to keep her
people quiet against the operations Of the
wealthy classes. . . . In the far East
dispute we had a treaty with Japan and
with Russia. Everything was ready for
settlement until Chamberlain gave out that
a sore spot must be kept In Canada. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier told me that this fur seal
business was a sore place to keep Canada
from being as friendly with the United
States as she wants TO be- The fellows
who have been praising the United States
for the past two years are the same fellows
who used to fiout Lincoln, while our loyal
viz e-AHo NHO NAfA "aA 80
England who keep the conscience of Eng
land and are opposing Chamberlain.
I'm the city of Brussels is a picture repre-
senting a man Of the future-a naturalist
looking through a magnifying glass at
things of the past In one hand he holds
Napoleon and his marshals and their ban
ners and triumphs. They are very small,
and those campaigns count for nothing in
history. All Napoleon did was to murder
France and TO kill of her young men. a
loss from which she has never recovered.
. There never was a great nation, In
an imperial sense, that did not become a
decadent nation. Rome fell because there
were no more Romans. They had all been
killed of. A nation can exist only
on the basis of peace. on the basis of JUS
tice, on the basis OF the old virtues of
sobriety, honesty and fair play. TIL Anglo
Saxon has a great mission-not Of domin-
ion. but of permeation. This duty of per-
meation is to reach and exalt. We have
no mission that should be carried out with
the sword or with the lyddite shell or with
| the cannon ball"
Before going TO Plymouth Church yes
| terday morning President Jordan addressed
the students of the Medical College of In
diana briefly. President Jordan is vigor-
| ously opposed to the Porto Rican tariff
bill and expresses himself freely on the
subject.