Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-18
Mr.. CLEVELAND
ON IMPERIALISM
Country Has Entered on a Voyage
Without Chart or Compass,
WILL NEVER BE SANE AGAIN
"For Veal or Woe, We Have Already
Irrevocably Passed HeyOnd the
Old Lines"

New York, Jan. 1.-THE Holland so.
clety held lts sixteenth annual dinner
at the Waldorf-Astorla tonight. Rev
Dr. Henry Vandyke. president OF the
society, presided on his right sat ex-
President Cleveland. Covers We're laid
ion 800, and al places were taken. The
speakers were Grover Cleveland, Dr.
Andrew II Smith and ex-Postmaster
Charles W. Dayton Mr. Cleveland
said.
u am quite willing to take any hum
bic place among the sermonizers, In
this time Of headloug heedlesness, and
TO invoke the cultivation Of the saving
grace of Dutch conservatism. This Is
the Kind of conservatism that
counts the cost. but Tor the sake of
principle and freedom. viii disregard
the cost; that lays out a voyage by
chart and compass and follows chart
and compass 90 the end, that loves the
liberty and national happiness which
rest upon tried and sure foundations,
that teaches reverence for national tra-
ditiOns and encourages the peoples sat-
isiaCti0n with their Country.s mission.
Next the Kind Of conservatism In
which our Constitution had It's birth
and which has thus far been the
source of our Nations safety and
strength--the conservatism Of justice,
of honor. Of honesty OF industry, Of fru-
gality and Of coutended homes
In this assembling of those who
know SO well the meaning of these
things the question Is suggested
whether in present conditions this con-
seryatism charaCterizes the conduct or
guides the sentiment OF our people,
There can be but one answer 10 this
question Conservatism has in a great
degree been jauntily cast aside or con-
demned as opposed 90 our Country's
welfare and glory strange voyage
has been entered upon without count
of cost and without chart or compass.
The tried and sure foundations Of our
liberty and national happiness have
been discredue1 Reverence for our
national traditions has bten relaxed.
and satisfaction with our Country's
mission has been undermined The re-
straints and limitations Of our Consti-
tuition have become CALLING and irk-
some under the temptations Of national
greed and ACCOMPLISHMENT our love
Of peace honor and Justice has been
weak ned
"War. even with the worlds ad-
yanced civilization, may stIll be some
times necessary and justiable. but.
whether necessary and iustIdable or
not. the Generalization that follows IN
IT'S train can never Doe cyaled u
teaches bloody instructions which. I'm a
country whose citizens do the fighting.
cannot fail 90 leave their impress, FOR a
! time. AZ least upon public and private
life in time Of peace
Thirty years after the close Of the
war for the preservation OF the Union
| a treaty Of arbitration was formulated
between the United states and Great
Britain. which II completed, would
| have gone far toward removing every
ureteXt Of war between the two coun-
tries. Thus these two great English
/ speaking nations then assumed leader
ship n the path Of peace and In adyo-
| Cacy OF the abolition Of WARMTH the
hope and expectation that the example
would be followed by other nations
and that a more general adoption Of ar
bitration as means " settling inter-
national disputes, would result in a
| great advance toward the abandon
ment Of war throughout the world.
This treaty failed Of confirmation In
the Senate Of the United states.
Less than five years have passed.
| and these English-speaking champions
OF peace and arbitration are still ope-
| rating on parallel lines-one In the Phil
ippines and the other IN South Africa
but no longer for peace and arbitration.
Both are killing natives In an effort 90
possess their lands This indicates a
sad relapse, and In our case u Is a
most serious one II England succeeds
IN her attempt In South Africa, she viii
but add another 20 her list Of similar
acquisitions, a brave people will be
subjugated and because OF our engage
ment In a similar venture In another
quarter they will miss the express
sions Of American sympathy which we
are accustomed to extend 10 those who
struggle Tor national life and indie
pendence
"On the other hand, with success In
our subiugation effort, a new, untripd
and exceedingly perlous situation Will
be forced upon us We can conquer
the Philippines, and after conquering
them can probably govern them. II Is
I'm the strain upon our institutions, the
decentralization Of our people, the eva
sion of our constitutional limitations
and the perversion of our national mis-
sion. that our danger Hes. As a distin-
euished bishop has said The question
Is not what we shall do with the Phil
ippines but what the Philippines Will
do 10 us
"Our country win never be the same