The Delawarean., 1900-08-15
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dream of colonial empire in Asia ito
keep our flag permanently in the
Philippines we shall bequeath to them
country liable to be involved in a
sanguinary and costly war at any
moment whenever a foreign power or
a combination of foreign powers
choose Ito open fire on Manila. They
will not need to come Ito our shores to
deliver their attacks. They will be
able to make war upon our posterlty
at long range and compel them Ito go
out and meet their enemies with
armies and navies on backgrounds
of the latter's choosing.
In every American home where
there are boys growing up these
things are now to be seriously con-
sidered. Ten or fifteen years hence
the boys whom fathers and mothers
are now bringing up with such bender
care and fond hope will be called Ger
by the recruiting stations-or 1T may
be the drafting booths-to be- sent to
tropical lands, it may be TO China or
India, there Ito suffer and die of
wounds or disease or ait best to return
home with health shattered and lives
shortened because OF the inevitable
developments of the Imperial policies
initiated under William Mckinley. Ut
will be too late then Ito try to vote
those policies down. 1t is a case
where "the moving finger writes, and
having writ, not all your pielty Nor
all your art shall cancel or rub out
a line of it," Generation after gener-
alton of young British soldiers drawn
from the English, Scottish and Irish
homes have gone out to India, and are
still going, to uphold the imperial
policy of conquest for commercial
gains sake inaugurated by the states
men of George the Thirds time. Riv-
ers of tears have flowed and must yet
flow to pay for that gigantic folly-for
India has not profited England by the
larger and broader way of reckoning
and in the end she must lose lit, as she
won it, by the sword. But it cannot
be undone now. No English states
man would dare to propose lit.
1t will be with America as 1t is with
England if her people consent To
launch forth upon the sea of imperial
oInrv rTropioo1 onIlo,,t;oe fo,y, ,,n o, 90,
the English, will furnish countless
graves for our descenl nldants, burden
them with enormous ebts, bow theil
necks under the yoke of huge standing
armies and colossal fleets and tax them
to the last point of endurance. Worse
than all this, it will rob them. of the
proud heritage of their forefathers
whose honorable boast it was that
their flag never floated over unwilling
subjects and never was stained with
THE blood of any people coerced to live
under it against their own free will
Shall we sell NOT only our own but
our childrens birthrght for the
Asiatic mess of pottage? Surely i'll
cannot be that THE American people
will, with their eyes open to what inn
perialism and colonial expansion has
cost the European nations, especially
England, in blood and taxes, to say
nothing of the evil reputation they
have incidentally gained as land-rob-
harc and 1ihartvd aelt,.nvarc oo,,,,,,ii
themselves and bind their posterity
to such a bargain! The workingmer
of the country at least ought to set
their faces sternly against it, ALI tht
imperial burdens, the boys to bt
slaughtered in the far-off shambles o
the Orient and the grinding taxes tC
be paid at home, will have Ito be borne
in the main by them. The few hun
dred millionaires, the TRUST magnates
and the spectators who will exploit
the 'Ttrade that follows the flag" will
not go ito the wars themselves nor pa!
much of the taxes to carry them ON
They will do the shouting and rake ii
ing masses, the bone and sinew of TIL,
country, will have Ito furnish nearl!
all the blood and pay nine-tenths 10
the bills.
Let our workingmen think it al
over between now and November ant
think of their little boys-the comins
men of 1915 and 1920. What sort %
country are they going to leave foi
their sons if they vote TO imperializ
it? Are they going Ito so use thei
votes this year that fifteen years henc,
the new generation of voters will sa,
with bitter but vain regret: "Ou.
fathers ate of the sour grapes of mil
itary glory and colonial empire build
ing and their children's teeth are Sc
on edge
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