Evening star., 1900-10-17

there are two elements in the democratic
party One is represented by the contribut-
ors to the Harvard Democrat. They are
well-meaning, honest men, whom every
body respects. We on our side believe just
as honestly that they are threatened bE
ghosts of their own creation. 1t is true
that the country VIII change in some re-
spects by reason Of our recent acquisitions,
but the change will not be so great as that
caused by our civil war The careful OBJ
server has not failed to see that TINS coun-
try for the last third of 4 century has been
no more like what it was before 1860 that
Liverpool is like Acadia. We might as Wen
open our eyes to the fact that there Is
something more than the individual in the
world; that there are elements OF human
progress greater than any one man. CROWN
is the essential principle of life and or
notwithstanding of great nations.
With this growth there comes indeed the
interested material element which Is 50
much talked about by the present critics
of the administration, of the expansion OF
trade and of commercial and manufacturing
development. But along with this come also
all the institutions of education, humanity
and general civilization. Opportunity and
responsibility go hand in hand; our country
grows in wealth. indeed, and, what is pet
ter in wealth for ALI but also grows In
benefcence 1t cannot come in contact with
the islander of the sea, Cuban, Porto Rican,
Filipino or whom not, without mutual bene-
fit to itself and to him, or without graouaI-
ly lifting him to Its own STANDARDS OF lie
and character BY force of the inherent
principles of our political system it cannot
rob him of his rights or repress his growth.
No party could do this and stand a day.
National Growth.
This is the real imperialIsm-lf anypooy
cares to use misnomer-upon when we
have entered. This is the higher outlook
which the statesman and the true patriot
should take. Anything else is provincial
ism Compared with this, how paltry Is
the jack-o'- lantern and scarecroW I'M
perialism concerning which these honest
but timid souls fret themselves! HOW fiulc-
ulous is their suggestion that the bulwarks
of our Constitution are topping over ana
that the Declaration of independence IS
violated, and that there are 10 De NassaiS
and serfs and the deprivation of personal
rights, l refrain from defending president
Mckinley from the farcical imputation that
he has any such purposes In mind OF ls
weakly shading his eyes to thelr cohsunl-
nation, although all such suggestions are
as foreign to his nature as they are TO the
gentlest mother in New England Ihe fact
is that If he were Nero and had the IN
stincts of demon ana .yIant, ne 't QUIZ
no more change the overwhelming current
toward human enfranchisement than a boy
to use George Eliot's phrase-couid Wnip
the fog from the New England coast with
q willow stick.
The Unthinking Partisans.
1.-The second class OF SO-caiieu dHti-ui-
perialists, which is the great number and
the only number that really count in max
ing up the electoral vote, are so only In
name, and compose the greater part OF the
following of Mr.. Bryan, their leaders using
the cry of Imperialism simply as tenn
porary party shout. Here 1t Is matter OF
the sleight-of- hand game, pure and simple.
Indeed 1t may be said that at heart the
great bulk of the democratic party. who.
from their leader down. admit that they
are expansionists. are not anti-imperiaiists
in the sense in which they use the term. ex-
cept of course, for campaign purposes
only The democratic party Is strongest in
the solid south. and yet most of the south-
ern people are generally recognized as be-
ing in sympathy with President Mckin-
ley's administration. so far as this issue
goes as they are at heart on almost every
other issue. Hardly a day goes by that
some leading democrat there does not write
or express the urgent hope that the north
ern states will make Mr.. McKfniey's re-
election sure, and his regret that on ac-
count Of It's special local question the south
cannot express itself for him.
Questions for the Future.
'sThese are the issues most talked about.
But they are the issues Of the prestidigi-