The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-18
GROVER REBUKES
Mr., 'KINLEY
Cleveland Criticises Headless
Imperialism of President.
DEPRECATES ALSO
THE B0ER WAR
Sees a Menace in Acquisition of
Philippines.


/ New York. Jan lin a speech tonight
/ before the Holland society. Grover Cieve-
J land severely criticised the imperialistic
policy of the Mckinley administration
and the war being waged by the English
/ in South Africa
] The occasion was the sixteenth annual
! dinner of the society at the Waldorf-As-
I toria- Rev DIT. Henry Vandyke. presi-
/ dent of the society, presided. On his right
/ sat ex-President Cleveland. Covers were
/ laid for 800, and all places were taken.
! The speakers We're Grover Cleveland,
I DIT. Andrew II. Smith and ex-POstmaster
/ Charles w. Dayton.
Mr.. Cleveland said:
! L am quite willing TO take any humble
/ place among the sermOnizers in this time
/ OF headlong national headlessness and TO
! invoke the cultivation Of the saving grace
4 OF Dutch conservatism. This is the kind
/ Of conservatism that counts the cost. b,it
/ LOT the sake OF PRINCIPAL and freedom.
/ Will disregard the cost: that laws out a
/ Wy age Dy chart and compass and follows
chait and compass to the end; that loves
/ th6 liberty and national happiness which
tSSt upon tried and sure foundations:
/ that teaches reverence for national tradi-
tIouS ana encourages the peoples salts
the KIND of conservatism in which ON.
constitution had it's birth and which has
III LIE ldI 9een Ihe source of our nations
/ saLStS ana Strength-the conservatism of
( justice of honesty, Of industry, OF fru-
/ CAVITY and Of contented homes.
I Declares Liberty Discredited.
In this assembling of those who know
| so Wen the meaning of these things the
/ question Is suggested whether in present
I CONDITIONS this conservatism character
/ ICES the conduct or guides the sentiment
/ OF our people. There can be but one an
( SWer TO TINS question Conservatism has
( In a great degree been jauntilv cast aside
I OF condemned as opposed to our country
I welfare and glory A strange voyage has
/ been entered upon without count of cost
and without chart or compass The tried
l ana sure foundations of our liberty and
national happiness have been disCrediten.
Reverence Tor our national traditions has
been relaxed, and satisfaction with our
/ cOuntry's missions rs been undermined.
I ina restraints and limitations of our con-
stitUtiOn have become CALLING and irk-
some under the temptations of national
greed and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Our love Of
/ peace, honor and pustice has been weak
War. even with the worlds advanced
I civilization. may still be sometimes neces-
sary and justihabe; but, whether ueCes-
saTy and juStifiable or not, the demOrali-
be evded. 1t teaches bloody instructions
which. in q country whose citizens do the
fighting, cannot tail to leave their i'm
press, for time ct least upon pubic
and private life in time of peace,
Refers to Olney Treaty.
Thirty years after the close IF the war
for the preservation Of the Union, treaty
of arbitration was formulated between
the United States and Great Britain
winch. II completed. would have gone lar
toward removing every preteXt of war
between the two countries Thus these
( two great Engllsh-speaking nations then
assumed leadership in the path of peace,
and in advocacy Of the abolition of war
with the hope and expectation that the
cX2 ample would be followed by other nd
tons, and that a more general adoption
OF arbitration as a means of settling in
! ternatiOnal disputes, would result in
great advance toward the abandonment OF
war throughout the world. This treaty
failed Of confirmation in the senate of the
United States. Less than five years have
, champions of peace and arbitration are
still operating in parallel Iines-One in the
Philippines and the other in south
Africa-but no longer for peace and arbi-
tration- Both are killing natives in an
! effort TO possess their lands
Relapse Is Serious.
This indicates a sad relapse. and in our
case it is a most serious one If England
succeeds in her attempt In South Africa,
she VIII but add another to her list of
similar acquisitions: a brave people viii
be subjected, and because of our enga ce-
ment in a similar venture in another
quarter. they will miss the expressions OF
American sympathy which we are ac-
cust0med TO extend TO those who struggle
for national life and independence.
''On the other hand, with success in our
subjugatiOn effort. a new. untried and
exceedingly perilous situation will be
forced upon US We can conquer the
Philippines and after conQuering them
can probably govern them It is IN the
strain upon our institutions. the demon
alizatton of our people, the evasion of our
institutional limitations and rhe oerver-
sion of our national mission. that our
danger lies. As a distinguished bishop
has said: The question is not what we
shall do with the Philippines but what
the Philippines will do to us.
Nation Has Crossed Rubicon.
our country will never be the same
again For veal or woe we have already
iTTeVOcably passed beyond the old lines
The republic will in some sort be saved
shall it be only in name and semblance
with fair external appearance. but with
the germs of decay fastened upon it's
vitals, or shall it, though changed, still
survive in such vigOr and strength as to
remain the hoe and pride of free Amer
ic2ns2
The problem is "a momentous one. It's
solution depends upon the extent TO which
the old patriotism and good sense of our
cOuntrymen can be rescued from impend-
ing danger Thus these are sober days
for thoughtful citizens-days for preach
ing-days for sermonizing. If we are to
he saved from disaster it must be through
the cultivation and enforcement of that
sort OF conservatism that should find a
cOngenial home in the Holland society In
the midst of reckless tumult and in the
confused rage of national greed and
blOOdiness this conservatism should de-
family stand forth and demand a hear
ing.
Dr. Vandyke read a message which
will be sent to Queen Wilhelmina of tioi-
land as an address from the society on
the occasion of her approaching marriage
At the conclusion OF its reading a health
to the queen was drunk standing.
Alleged Forger and Wife Arrested.
Queenstown, Jan. 11.-Sigmund Hertz of
New York City, for whose extradition the
United States authorities are asking. on
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