The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-08
Mr.. OIney's Journey to Esopus.

Mr.. Olney's Journey to Esopus.
Fortunately there is no need to draw
upon the imagination for an idea of the
| memorable interview which occurred
at Esopus on Tuesday between Judge
PARKER and the Hon. RICHARD OLNEY.
1t concerned, of course, the great ques-
ton of this nations world policy, and
we have material for an exact measure
ment of the harmony between the two
| Democratic statesmen with regard to
the subject.
Judge PARKER-"The Government Of
the United States was organized solely
for the people of the United States. The
Government was not created for career
of political or civilizing evangelization
in foreign countries or among alien
races"
Mr.. OLNEY-"The isolation policy and
practice have tended to belittle the ma
tonal character have led to species
of provincialism and to narrow views of
our duties and functions as a nation
Judge PARKER Ours is a, world
| power and as such it must be maintained
but I deny that it is at all recently the
United States has attained that emf
hence. Our country became world
power over century ago"
Mr.. Historians will probably
assign the abandonment Of the isola-
ton policy of the United States to the
time when this country and Spain went
to war over Cuba.
Judge PARKER-4We are not military
people, bent on conquest, or engaged
in extending our domain in foreign
lands
MIR. OLNEY-"The United States has
come out of its shell and ceased to be a
hermit among nations, naturally and
properly
Judge PARKER-@I protest against the
erection Of any such military establish
ment as would be required to maintain
the country in that attitude
MIR. OLNEY-4It goes without saying
that the United States cannot play the
part in the worlds affairs it has just as
sumed without equipping itself for the
part with all the instrumentalities neces-
sary to make its will felt either through
pacific intercourse and negotiation or
through force"
Judge PARKER-"The display Of great
military ornaments may please the eye
and for the moment excite the pride Of
the citizen, but it cannot bring to the
country the brains, Drawn and muscle of
a single immigrant, nor induce the invest
ment here of dollar of capital"
Mr.. OLNEY-"We cannot assert our
selves as a Power whose interests and
sympathies are as wide as civilization
without assuming obligations corre-
spending to the claim
Judge PARKER-4The general occupa-
ton of our citizens in the arts of peace.
or the absence of large military arma-
ments, tends to impair neither patriot
ism nor physical courage"
Mr. OLNEY-"The equipment required
for our new international role need not
be discussed at any length. We must
have 1.-THE need will be forced upon
us by facts the logic of which will be
irresistible however slow to move
or indisposed to face the facts, the ma
tlOudl bONcIiiuitilI ihuSl sOOIltl VI ldteT
provide for it,
Judge PARKER-"For fifty years, with
the exception Of the war with Mexico,
this country has been at peace, with n
standing army, most of the time, of less
than ten thousand men,"
Mr.. OLNEY--" TO be weak is mser-
able and to seem weak, however strong
in reality, often comes to tho same
thing
Judge PARKER-"The most efficient
work we can do in uplifting the people of
other countries is by the presentation Of
a happy, prosperous, self-governing
nation as an ideal TO be cmulated,
model to be followed"
Mr.. OLNEY-"The first duty of every
nation is to itself-is the promotion and
conservation of its own interests"
Judge PARKER-"I am in hearty ac-
cord with the plank of the platform
which advocates treating the Filipinos
precisely as we did the Cubans.
Mr. OLNEY-"W Whether we want the
Philippines or not, and whether we ought
to have them or not, that we have got |
them is something not Ia be denied. 1t |
may be thought at first blush that TO
speak of the acquisition of Cuba as a
fact accomplished is Inaccurate But |
the objection is technical and the OK
preston conveys the substantial truth .
Notwithstanding resolution of Con-
gress which, ill-advised and fu.ile at the
time of its passage, il now influential
at all, is simply preiudicing the inter-
ests Of Cuba and the United States alike.
No such resolution can refute the logic
of undisputed facts or should be allowed
to impede the natural march of events.