The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10
QUESTION OF IMPERIALISM.

How One AmeriGan Regards the Coun-
 try's Needs for the Future.
 It is not matter of choice with us whether the other Powers shall recog- nize us as such and hold us to the re- responsibilities of a world power or net. They do they cannot help 1t. What Americans generally fail to under stand Is the fact that to be world Power ilivoies serious dangers and solemn responsibilities from which we cannot escape. If 1t is imperialism to recognize these dangers and obligations then the President and Mir. Hay are imperlalists. Up to the time of our Civil War We were not generally re- garded as d world Power, but since that time the wonderful increase of our population. wealth and commercial activity, as we'll as our assumption of the right to intervene i'll behalf of Mexico against France, of Venezuela against England, of Cuba against Spain and in the Far East has gradu- ally forced upon Europe the fact that there is world Power on this side of liIG SGeis I4ulOpCeh III stGO etid iSll6lOI but untrammelled by the traditions and the conflicting interest of the rival States of Europea young and vigor- ous rival, not of one, but of all these States. Fhe danger to us in this dis. coyery grows out of the fact that the great Powers of Europe hold it as an axiom that all the rest of the world ex- ists solely for their benefit, to increase the wealth and power of Europe No one can live long in Europe, familiar- ize himself with it's literature follow it's diplomacy and read its newspapers without seeing that this Is the key to it's history and has been for four centuries. Hhe conflicts between the great Powers have been for the control of the commerce of the world. Other influences, religious and dynastic, have had their influence, but, at the bottom, since 1892 and especially since the pow CT of the Turk was broken in the 18th century, it has been the aim of the. great Powers to dominate the rest of the world and make it tributary to Europe
 This has generally been justified on the ground that it was the duty of Europe to carry it's so-called Christian civilization to the ends of the earth; but of late we hear less of this pre- tence, and 1t is now proclaimed openly that the world exists to support the commerce of Europe. This principle was proclaimed officially by Count Golouchofsky, the Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, four years ago, when he said to the delegations of the Dual Empire that it might be the chief task of Europe in the 20th cen tury to put down the competition of the countries beyond the sea, and this utteranee was generally ap- proved by the Continental press, though not in England. where 1t was suspected that beyond the sea" might include Great Britain. The fact that she also is feared and hated by the Continental States, that she is bound to America by special ties of relationship and is more In sympathy with our institutions than the other States makes her much more friendly to America than any of the Continental Powers; but so far as the rest of the world is concerned she shares the feeling that it is her mis- sion to rule as much as possible of the habitable world outside of Europe ill the interest of her commerce. Her free-trade principles also modify the 1,
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