The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-03-21
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United States or in other countries.
says the Baltimore S"". Oar cXpe-
rience with the Philippines. Germany 5
experience in China and Eng lands OK
perience with the 3 Jcrs have produced
''tired feeling -somethipg like what
Chancellor Won Bulow calls China
fatigue" Nobody in any Of these
'.strenuous" countries wishes row to
hear "clarion calls to duty" in the
battle line" or eisew here, but legs for
a rest from "hich cmrrise.' Brave
words and glowing predictions were all
very well, but jobs that require weary
years of sustained effort and millions
of money fatigue the public. We are
undergoing a reaction. We are no
longer passionately intent on digging
the Nicaragua cana. Now "a W
may dig it if We wish to, we are not
very sure that we wish it. The Pan
ANA route will do-any route will do
and our imperalists have a erudge
against Great Britain because she did
not ''put ginger into tue canal enter
prise by opposing our undertaking it
at our exclusive cost Few people
want to hear anything more of an
1sthmian ditch It is tirCsome sub
ject.
So of Cuba. The details Of prac-
teal policy toward Cuba are very IN
interesting TO the ardent patriot fam
ing all over with impefialist fury
Tariffs, reciprocity, sanitary re4ula-
tions, Cuban elections, Cuban indie
pendence-these are becoming woari-
some. Porto Rico's demand Tor JUS
tice CRATES on the ear. The sQuabbles
of the factions in Hawaii and The pro-
tracted guerrilla warfare in the Philip
pines, with its catalogue of killings,
epidemics and inbumanilics, are re-
pugnant 10 the le'iever in "5encvC-
lent assimilation" Evidently between
the glowing scheme Of imperial ex-
pans:on and its eti,ctiye realization
there lies long and dreary interval
oil toll, patient effort, vexation and dis
appointment. Empire imposes bur-
dens. 1t requires for success CAPACITY
for administration, together with 4
disposition 20 sacrifice local and INN. :
date ends for remote AMI Interior
ends. All this is tiresome to the
stump orator, who wants only theme
for a defamation and soon tires OF
schedules and statistics.
In legislative way imperialism
makes very slow progress. The Amer,
lean democracy has not yet taken it in.
but is still from tine to time indulg-
ing in the old cries that are wholly at
variance with the imperial role. Con-
gressmen think seltishly Of their own
districts and local interests, graspine
only with difficulty an idea Of the Gu
ties and exigencies OF a government
which has undertaken 20 give modern.
Christian aGsi progressive administers
ton to millions Of subjects in foreign
countries. TIE beet-suear districts
care little for the welfare Of Cuba.
Porto Rico or Luzon. In the conflicts
OF the past within the Union 40 mercy
has been shown to the ranquished.
''Woe to the conquered y was the hon
ored maxim OF the protectionists, pen
sion attorneys and other leading ele-
ments of the Republican party when
they beat their opponents. Offices,
high protective tariff rates, oppressive
pension payments-thcse were grabbed
without conjunction. This cruelty to
classes and sections las been 50 opn-
eral as to blunt the moral sense. 1t
is, therefore, now doubiy difficult to
the partisan OF the dominant party to
be just to the Porto Rcan or Filipino.
TO abstain from applying to remote
territories the same nnstotesmanlike
and selfish principles that have been
applied with gusto to their own com
try.
1t is difficult to teach al old 90.
new tricks. The habits Of 20 years in
domestic politics tend to reproduce
themselves in dealing with our new
empire. Yet it begins to dawn upon
some Of our impelialists that ncw
principles must be applied if We arc to
attain any success in administering
our "colonics." Tie methods of Eng
land today are not those % l77f, aud
it is patent to anybody that we cannot
adopt her discarded practices. Re
Fiction upon this truth is cdacat!vc
Spain lost all her colonies because she
was slow to learn that colouics are not
oysters to be devoured by the mother
country. The lesson is one If TIL
selfish craftsmanship, and this, as
already stated, is 'tireso"e" TO onr
imperialists. But learn they must
and will, however slow'y-to the
advantage. it may be hoped. Of parts
of the Union now too much discfimi-
mated against in the distribution OF
the burdens and bene fits Of taxation.
The bills making appropriali0n3 tJr