The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05

EveEts crowd each other fast these
days. The telegraph and the wireless
and the telephone brings up into instan-
taneous communication with all the ends
of the earth.
Dewey is in honorable retirement in
Washington. His battle captains are eth
err dead or retired. His ships are OBJ
solete, His gunners are scattered over the
seas, or dead under the seas, but as long
as the Stars and Stripes are kissed by the
breezes of the eternal heavens the story
of the doings on May /, 1898, in the har-
Dor of Manila will be the glory of this
people and the wonder all the civilized
world.
Since 1898 Mckinley, one of the kind
Hest men that ever graced the office of
president, was struck down by the hand
of crazy and cowardly assassin.
On that morning in May, Theodore
Roosevelt, then lieutenant colonel, was
assisting Col. Leonard Wood in whip
ping the rough riders into shape within
the shadows of the missions around San
Antonio, where once Travic and Bowie
and David Crockett fought and bled and
died.
Now Roosevelt is the first citizen of the
world. He has served on the firing line,
as governor of New York, and followed
Mckinley in the presidential chair
He will soon return home to us, the
most interesting and marvellous figure in
the history of the world since Napoleon.
Mr.. Taft, who went to the Philippines
as the first governor-general, and who
later served as secretary of war, is presi-
dent, facing a future fraught with signs
that are not such as to make him supremely
happy.
Leonard Wood, once the doctor, then
the colonel, then the governor of Cuba,
then the major-general, is in command,
or soon will be, of all the forces of the
United States.
Many men got their chances in the
Spanish-American war. 1t was to this ma
ton as bugle blast for larger life and
a bigger part in the affairs of the world.
The first gun flash from the side of
Dewey's men-of-war marked the beginning
of America as a world-power. The re-
public then and there, by force of vents,
dropped the policy of seclusion, which
would have killed the nation, as it has
destroyed China.
The United States has since extended
the Monroe doctrine into and over the
Pacific up to the shores of China.
The building of the Panama canal be-
came a necessity.
Our own president commanded Russia
and Japan to make peace, and this same
president soon thereafter sent sixteen bat
tleships, capable of throwing more steel
into the hulls Of an adversary than any
other war craft then floating, into the sea-
ports Of all the nations of the earth.
One campaign was made and lost against
tie doctrine of imperialism. In spite of
itself, the republic is imperialistic, because
it now governs 100000 people and does
not give them the privileges of free Ameri-
can citizens.
And since that time an era of industrial
expansion has come, out of which has
grown the trusts and corporation-one of
them whose capital stock and bonds are
greater than the cost of the entire Spanish
American war and the Civil war.
Since the Spanish-American War things
in this country have become colossal We
are in an era of big railroad systems,
big trusts, big farms, big balloons big
wireless plants and big aeroplanes that
occasionally fall into one of big chain
cf automobiles.
In no other twelve years of the history
of this nation have there been such changes
in the instrument Of war in the weapons
of commerce, and in the things that men
use for their convenience as in the time
between May I, 1898, and now.
The world is now worse than the Span
ish-American war was fought. The foun-
dations of this republic are as firm today
as they were when men preached that the
bounds of the United States should be the
Atlantic and the Pacific, Canada and
Mexico.
What the next twelve years may bring
forth, we do not know; but we believe
that the future holds for US more of good
than sorrow, more prosperity than pow
erty, more of the things that go to make
life pleasant and less of the things that
bear heavily On US, and twelve years
hence we will rehearse to you exactly
what did take place-that is, if we are
living and you are living-Commercial
Appeal.