The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-01

the ariit lists, and when they tind that
the country is informed they can't af-
ford to say nay.
IMPERIALISM.
l stand with the Democratic party
against the Republican policy of I'm
perlaliSm. | believe that there is Sutfi-
cient territory and resources upon the
American continent to engage the ener-
gleS OF the people composing this gov
crnment tor all time 10 come. This is
the Monroe Doctrine, and / believe 1t
Is our only course of safety. do not
believe that 1t is right or best to force
Christianity upon the heathen or com
mercial relations upon the foreigner at
the point OF gun On the contrary |
believe that 1t is right and | believe il
Is best to accomplish the same ends
through peaceful and gentle methods.
American genius, enterprise, industry
and resources are sufficient to accomp
liSh the commercial supremacy of the
world II given a reasonable time III
which TO accomplish it, without resort
to warlike methods. If done through
the agency of diplomacy and business
enterprise we are relieved of the re-
sponsibihties incident to the frequent
changes OF the political status of the
foreign countries with which we deal.
Just SO long as these United States
stand by the Monroe Doctrine, just so
long will we enjoy peaceful and hap
py and lasting prosperity.
But when we as nation commit our
selves permanently to the Republican
doctrine OF Imperialism at the point OF
our naval guns, advocated by Mr..
Mayteld in the recent campaign, we
may as well at the same time make up
our minds that we must acquire for
eign lands as well as subjugate and take
under our fostering care barborous and
unclvilized peoples who can never feel
interest III our government or in our
institutions, and whose Sympathies and
cooperation we can never acquire In
addition we must stand responsible for
their conduct towards all other nations
with which we are rpon friendly terms.
This means III the end a disturbance OF
the peace of the world for which we are
responsible, and it means farther the
shedding OF the blood of the flower of
our young manhood who would be
peacefully engaged in productive en-
terprises were we to remain within the
principles OF the Monroe Doctrine upon
which the Democratic party has stood
for so many years
All history teaches that the beginning
OF the end of all nations that have fall
len was when its people became war
like i'll spirit and corrupt in politics.
Six years ago the expenditures on
account OF our navy was $Iooooooo
and the past year the expenditures
reached the enormous sum of So, ,ooo,
900, and the army has cost the govern
ment the past year $II8,ooo,ooo, or a
grand total for the army and c==-:y OF
S2oo,ooo,ooo. Our army and navy in
its present size has reached the danger
point, because when this vast number of
men are confined in idleness and taught
nothing but the methods OF war, il is
only human to expect that they will get
into devilment that will bring about
war, which they would personally well
come
believe that we have in the South
the very best people on earth, as well
as the best country, and if peacefully
allowed TO work out our destiny in our
way, that this section will prosper in
.he field and in the shop and in the
factory as no other country has ever
prospcred But if the Mayfeld policy
of religious and commercial conquest
is accomplished at the point OF our
naval guns, then our peace, content
ment and progress is gone Depend
upon it; that the only stable founda-
tion upon which any government can
anchor the material interests of its peo-
pie, is its civil as against its military
powers. God forbid that the time will
ever come to us when we are ever
taught by our government or our pub
lie men to lose faith in the sufficiency
and the stability of our civil rights, or
that it may ever happen that the mill
tary function will ever supercede the
civil. But this is not the worst feature
of this Republican doctrine of military
ascendency. This policy is so expensiv,