The river press., 1904-10-19
A NOTABLE EXCEPTION.
Richard Olney Has Not Joined the
Democratic Pessim IN lists.

| Democratic Pess inn lists.
Since Judge Parker and the Demo
cratic party have chosen to make al
issue of the aggressive and progressiv,
activities OF the Republican party which
IN the span of one generation have plac
ed the United States in the van of tn,
worlds civilization, it may be we'll tt
recall that there is at least one Demo
crat who has not joined in his party.
| pessimistic walls.
! Richard Olney, the choice Of thu
Massachusetts Democracy for presiden
at St. Louis, Attorney General and See
retary Of State during Cleveland's sec
ond term, and author Of the ringing
phrase In support of the Monroe doctrine
To-day the United States>is practical.
~ sovereign Oh this continent, and its
hat is law upon the subjects to which
it confines it's interposition," is a Demo.
craft who has something stronger than
! diluted ass's milk in his veins.
In an article printed in the Atlantic
Monthly for March. 1900 on the
Growth of Our Foreign Policy Rich
ard Olney anticipated and confuted al
most every pitifnl plea for national stag
nation and dishonor uttered by Judge
f'arker in the two instances when lie has
ventnred to open his mouth. Where
the Democratic candidate counscls that
the United States shall live for and
within itself alone. Mr.. Olney boldly
proclaimed that such a policy had tend
Ell to belittle the national cllura ctcr'
ana mas lied to species of provincial
ISM and to narrow views of our duties
anu functions as Il nation.''
Where Judge Parker in his unfamil-
larlty with the meaning of the phrase.
due to his seclusion from the world at
Esopus, proclaims that the United
Estates became a world power over a
century ago. Mr.. Olney, with broader
knowledge of the world, says that His
torans will probably assign the aban-
don1iient or fire isolation policy to the
time Wllen this country and Spain went
to war over Cuba.'
Nor can there be any serious question
but Mr.. Olney is right.
And in this connection it was that
Cleveland's ,virile Secretary of State
said, 1.-The United States has come ont
of it's shell and ceased to- be A hermit
among nations. naturally and PROPERLY"
tie also emphasized the necessity for
preparation to cope with larger respon-
slbilities in these terms:
g.. 1T goes without saylng that the United
states cannot play the part In the worlds
analrs It mas just assumed without equip
strnmentalitirs necessary to make it's viii
Ielt whether through pacific Intercourse
ana negolintion or through force We can
t NOT assert ourselves as II power whose
interests N interest: and ,ssympathos are as vile ms
civilization without assuming obligntjons
corresponding to the cnim
me equipment required for our new
lntrrnatlGna IN n,. @ role % must not be discussed
need will be forced upon us by facts The
logic of which will be irresistiblc,amd
however slow to move or indisposcd to face
sooner or later provide for it,
There was much more to the Same
effect. every word ringing with sterling
and enlightened appreciation of the
American determination to meet the OBJ
legations of our expanding national op-
Without failing to recop
nize that the triumphs of peace are the |
true objective Of republic, Mr.. Olnev
the eternal truth that peace and /
liberty and progress can only be insured |
by full provision to maintain them NV l.
force.
The nation which goes about with
nothing but an olive branch in it's mouth
in other words. without increa sing ire
expenditures for coast defenses, for ships
ana guns. for men and arms-cannot ex
pect It's voice will be needed. in the
councils OF nations. Every dollar the
| nltcd States is spending on its army
md navy to-day is an insurance ar,inst
var and national lslishonor.