The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
"UNTRIED PATHS. i"

We have been moving in unIied
paths.-Mr. McKinley's speech Of ac-
ceptance
Americans ought not to be irritated
or even surprised by the fact that of
late the representatives of the. foreign
powers at Washington have been con-
sIantly referring to this Republic as
! newcomer in the family OF nations, as
a suddenly outblazing "world-power,"
all but unknown until the Spanish and
Philippine wars. These gentlemen are
I but imilating Mr. Mckinley and his
friends, who are always telling the peo-
pie that we have just become a world
power and that Mr. Mckinley did
it,"
1t is not unnatural that Mr.. Mckinley
should like TO think and say and hear
this And doubtless through constant
repetition he and his other eulogists
have actually come to believe tina,
there is something in it." But that
/ tNiAl4AOt NIo4lSN NllN ldNtos
II was this people in their Declara-
tion of independence that preached the
gospel of freedom to all peoples,
languages and tongues and set in mo-
tion that mighty tide of democracy
which still pulses across the world.
More than century ago. wherever
men thought and aspired, the name of
this Republic the names of its found
ers, were names to conjure with.
j In whatever sense a civilized man
ought to use the term world power
we have been a world-power for more
than century. We taught civilization
4 the magic of the word, freedom" and
also how to use freedom. We taught
the world the first principles of the idea
Of arbitration as a substitute for war.
And in industry, in invention. in all
that makes for the material and there
fore directly FOR the intellectual uplift-
ing of mankind. We have been leaders.
1t was this nation in the first decade
of the century that went across the seas
and liberated Mediterranean commerce
from the fetters of the Barbary pirates.
ii was this nation that made the ac-
quaintance of Japan and introduced it
into the family of nations and guided
its first falterng steps. 1t was this
nation that struck up the first friend
ship with China and opened its ports
and induced it to establish intercourse
with the nations of the Occident. Ii
was this nation that laid down the poll
icy Of fair-dealing in the Orient and
inaugurated there an era of peace and
prosperity and development. That era
would have had no such rude and ter
rible interruption as this which now
horrifes the world had not other ma
tions, through a greed which we dis
dained as short-sighted and contempti-
BILE, tried The methods OF violence and
injustice.
With our commerce in every sea, with
our ideas and ideals stirring the people
OF every land, with our flag the signal
4 OF hope and courage to the oppressed
OF every continent, ,withour name feared
wherever fear was wholesome and al
ways and everywhere respected, We're
we not world-power? Did we not
have glory and prestige?
OF course, ii 20 go about bullying and
, Draining inferior races; if to engage
!, in desolating wars, causeless, profitless,
, and purposeless, wars that thirsaily
drink the best blood of the people ii
TO give in adherence to those doctrines
OF tyranny and terrorization which our
, forefathers denounced and discarded
= yet which still dominate European
Cabinets; if to engage in the brawls
and fights Of the monarchs of the Old
: World instead of sesting an example
'of the strong mans and the great
mans peace and repose-if these be the
marks of a world-power," then per-
haps Mr.. Mckinley is right.
II is not an "untred path"-uhe
path of freedom and honesty and
friendly and benefcent intercourse
: with all The world But this Mckinley
path is indeed an 'untred path" And
We would do well to falter and fail
back.
: The disorderly citizen makes more
Noise than he who minds his own bust
' ness and quietly works for the advance
ment of the well-being of himself an(
his fellow-men. But which is the rea
' power in the community Yorl
World
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