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10 press to the utmost your military advan-
tages."
In March Lee saw staring him in the
face the abandonment OF Richmond and
Petersburg, the giving up Of all that ne had
been fighting for; but fun Of a tenacity of
purpose. a faithfulness 10 his cause that
would permit Of no tame submission TO
the inevitable. he determined TO make one
last effort II was directed at Fort Sted-
man. on the eastern side of Petersburg,
short distance north OF the point where the
Inflated mine had been sprung. only 80
wards from the Confederate lines this poirt
had been a favorite route for the Confed-
crate deserters into the Union lines. Grant,
q month before, had foreseen an attack at
this PORT and prepared FOR IT. H. the early
hours Of March ~ before daylight. the
Confederate skirmsh line was seen APP
proaching Thinking they were deserters
the Union pickets sounded no alarm The
storming party which followed, therefore
had "A comparatively clear path and soon
swept into the fort. When daylight came
the tables were turned. The fort was re-
taken and nearly two Thousand Confed-
crates inside II captured. General Gordon,
who led this sortic. lost more than three
thousand men. Taking advantage Of the
assault Wright and Humphreys, around on
the southwestern side OF Petersburg. at
tackled Lees lines there and captured the
enemy's intrcnchcd picket lines. paving the
way for the following weeks struggle.
Grant had been fearful that Lee would
abandon his works. lie was now ready for
the fresh movement 20 the loft toward the
South Side Railroad which was to end the
war. Grant. 10 Lees discontinue. was al
ways going toward the left His army
numbered. including Shcridan's 1900 cav
alrymen, about $500 The government
was spending 100000 day TO keep the
war going. He must bag Lees $1,000 men
as soon as possible. and he saw an oppor-
tunity TO do so. Sheridan was now back
with him. This fiery general was TO reach
out TO the left toward the South Side and
Danville Railroads and strike for the
enemy's right rear. His mounted fighters
would DO followed by heavy bodies of In
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remained a nation which was not WhohS
selfish. was the next commitment In an
imperial policy. The United States cou'u
not afford to have. as 1t were, on her Dor
der. the unrest which not only prevented
Cuban development. but was menace 10
commerce and to all the attributes Oh
civilization.
mo one has ever suspected the Cnlted
States of being either greedy of territory
or of pretending TO altruism and poliu-
cal philanthropy, but the world does under-
stand her imperial policy, as an inevitap'e
consequence of the power and influence
which she has upon international anarS'
II cannot say with truth, however, that
| think that the American press and indl-
yidual Americans have always been quite
lust to England when she has performed
services of civilization, largely because. Ike
the United States, she was powerful In her
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS her situation as an I'M
periaI naval power forced responsibility
unon her IL my observation is correct. ana
II certainly is sympathetic and more friend
IN than my words can say, portions OF the
nress of the United States are somewhat
inclined. and a considerable number or the
nopulation are more than disposed, 10 treat
foreign or world politics with the same
animated partsanship which they apply TO
their own domestic politics. All foreign
policy must to large extent be conducted
with something of ceremonial and the ma
chinery is of necessity hidden, because II
involves the application of diplomacy ana
diplomacy Is always carried on behind inc
curtain. That Is so OF commerce anu
Of finance and I'm all great achievements III
any department of nations life. Though
the United States has made wonderrui
transition from purely domestic pohcy
to an imperial policy. there is DAN
pcrous tendency to jump at conclusions
and 10 have stalwart impressionism
with more than a stalwart sensauonaliSrh
in approaching both imperial and foreign
politics.
"For instance. there is hardly news
paper that | have seen since | arrived
in America which has not persistently SAID
that England and Russia were In league 10
destroy Persia--to take away its auton'
omy. TO partition It territorially. Moth
ing could be further from the truth. III
there Is one thing that England does not
want il is that Russia should acquire
territorial authority in Persia why!
England has India. Between INDIA ana
Persia there is Afghanistan. which Eng
land does not own. Russia controlling
Persia, with the power To throw troops
on the Afghanistan border. is threat TO
England's position in India which has
caused her as much anxiety as anything
in her history during the last fifty years
There is not corporal's guard OF the peo-
pie of England to-doy who would advocate
the acquisition OF Persia by England.
II am known in England as an Imperial
list Of tho deepest dye, and so I am in one
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Five Oaks Presaged Downfall of Confecleracy

Of his three divisions marched past the
Confederate end TO the third, under
Ayrcs which was on his left. fell tho lot
to have the first contact with the Confed-
crate line. Ayres was hardly strong
enough To perform tho work alone. and for
a moment there was serious danger Of
failure.
Then Sheridan exhibited tho qualities
which made him so successful as a gen
eral. lie sprang to the front, the colors
in his hands. his face dark with powder
smoke and anger His orders and cXhorta-
tons rang forth with the sharpness of pis-
tol shots. The wavering hattaions took
fresh courage and swept over the Con-
fedcratc ntrenchments with irresistible Inn
petuosity.
Further over on the right Warren was
doing similar work. Hearing the firing on
his left. where Ayrcs's division was en-
dcayoring to hold it's own. he corrected ms
error and brought I'm his other two di-
visions behind the enemys lines. Follow
ing Sheridan's example. when one OF his
divisions faltcred, with the corps flag in
his hand he rode across the field at the
head of his troops His horse fell IN the
last charge. When darkness obscured the
field that evening fresh victory of great
importance was inscribed on tho pnisp
banner. According to Tribune war cor
respondent, charges. such as have never
before been exceeded for valor and impe;u-
osity during the war had been made 10y
both infantry and cavalry The
Rebel hosts were rolled up in confusion
and made capuves not by regiments but
by brigades" More than 900 prisoners
fell into Sheridan's hands All or the
Confederates who could escape He'd from
the field.
Just before the close of the battle Sherl-
dan executed Grants orders regarding
Warren, relieving him OF his command
and directing him 10 report to General
Grant for orders, Although another com
mand was offered TO Warren the iollowinS
day, it was not until twelve years after
ward that he secured a court OF inquiry 10
examine his action at Five Forks. II was
then decided that he had done his Whole
duty.
Five Forks paved the way for Appomat'
tox. ~
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fantry. on the evening Of March % Shcri-
dan was at Dinwddie Court House. fun Of
the spirit Of victory. while Wdrrcn's infan-
try support was almost upon the cncmys
right flank on the White Oak Ridge. The
rext day found the hero Of the Shenan-
doah at n spot on the White Oak Road
where so many roads intersected that IT
was called Five Forks. \ heavy force Of
the enemy awaited him at that strategic
point, for Lee. alarmed at the tremendous
activity which now manifested itself in
Grants camps, had sent FitzhuSh Lee with
all the troops he could spare from the
trenches TO hold this group Of radating
roads General Lee took command himself
on the White Oak Ridge. between Peters
burg and Five Forks. Warren on March
81 threatened Lees line on White Oak
Ridge and the later came out and forced
him back TO Gravelly Run. At the same
time Fitzhugh Lee, reinforced by 700 men
Under Pickett drove Sheridan back 20 Din
widde Court House. the doughty Little
Phil" contesting every inch Of the way
with his mounted men fighting on foot
Warren was now directed 10 come i'm on
Sherldan's right at dawn. but General
Pickett. forosceing what was i'm store for
him. did not wait to be caught between the
two fires but returned during the midnight
hours 10 Five Forks. When daylight of
April ! came, therefore, Warren failed 10
make the attack which Grant expected Of
him. for the very good reason that the
enemy had departed. This incensed the
Union general against Warren. who did
not know the reason for the supposed fail
ure. and he sent an aide-de-camp to Sheri-
dan suggesting that Warren be relieved
from command
In the meantime, Sheridan was pressing
toward Five Forks with his cavalry. War
rem was following with the infantry. Tho
former sent Merritt i'm on Picketrs right.
Warren was to strike the Confederate left.
which was strung out along the White
Oak Road toward Petersburg. II success
ful. this plan would separate Pickett from
the remainder OF Lees army and drive him
westward. Warren. owing to the care
taken 10 keep Picketts left end In igno-
rance OF the proposed attack. could not be
Informed OF the precise point at which TO
mako his attack. The result was that two
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which the interests Of other nations must
play, you no longer are in position OF
pleasing isloaton in your relations win inc
other great powers Of the earth.
you have renewed. through circum-
stances over which you have no control.
the imperial spirit which governed the
policv Of Alexander Hamilton and his
friends i'm one of tho most critical periods
Of your own history. There was some
thing unique and astonishingly happy in
the thought that since the time the United
States punished the Barbary States and
fought England in Canada in the war OF
1912 she had no struggle with any nation
except with Mexico. and with the dissi-
dent South and both these wars were
in a sense internal wars. During all this
period tho diplomacy OF the United States
was a simple, dignifed and graciously
tranquil business. No European or outer
world nation was jealous of the United
states, and she had the singuarly for
tunate position Of being in Il sense the
mediatory influence I'm the councils OF the
world.
"All that is changed. In ono sense the
United States is still in mediatory infu-
cnce. but she is also a world power I'm
world politics, with interests that do not
but might come into collision with the
interests Of the other nations, her rivals.
"In what way her rivals? Oh, the most
significant OF all. If war is a business.
business is also a war. When the United
States emerged from the dreadful con-
nict OF her Ciyil War it was to enter
upon new policy OF development TO ere
ate and develop her industries. and
through them to secure a wealth even
greater than that immense agricultural
wealth which had enabled her 10 buy from
the rest Of the world the manufactures
which she needed. 1 can myself remcm-
Der the time when only a handful OF
American people wore American tweeds,
hats. caps-when it was a proud thing
TO wear an imported article OF dress Now
probably nine-tenths Of the American peO-
pie wear the product Of their own fac
tories
That wonderful plunge into the indus
trial field on the part OF the United states
was fanked by a similar plunge on the
part Of Germany Germany emerged from
the Franco Prussian war only five years
after the United States put away her
sword and returned TO the ploughshare'
the hammer and the machine. In that
movement lay the beginning of the world
! policy OF the United States. lay the begin
ming Of the imperial policy of Germany
The United States solidifed her land, con-
| gealed her constitutional interests forever
! by red blood. Germany united the father
land and laid the foundation OF colonial
empire with the help and prestige got by
her conquest Of France and the huge in
demnity which she wrung from the French
| nation.
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Joy RIDE" PUZZLES HIM.

81 sec a phrase i'm the newspapers
hero that | do not know ! fully UNDER
stand. but it is extremely suggestive. 1t
is what is called a 'joy-ride.' l do not
know quite what a joy-ride' Is but no
other nation could have invented the
nhrasc and no other nation could havo
invented the ride. whatever II is. ! should
think that no other nation has the capacity
for natural gayety such as the tn'tei
States has. and It is wonderful to thihN
that that gayety is absolutely balanced oT
an infinite capacity for work
Taste and beauty have boon developed
enormously in the United states during inc
last quarter of a century. In spite OF New
York being a vast business city some or
the architecture has exquisite taste ana
beauty. This. in spite OF tho facts mat
tho streets are narrow and the perspective
Is limited When | first visited New YORK
I'm 1855 | was taken out into the country, az
il was then, 20 see new apartment mousse
called by some old name that | have for
gotten Yet II was only few thousands
of Yards beyond Seth street. IL was az
much a curiosity AZ the first exhibition or
the Rocntgen RAYS. New York now lives
north of 59th street. and | do not think
there is n more beautiful avenue in tho
world than Fifth avenue. from 59th street
10 DIST street. TO say nothing OF Riverside
Drive Beauty. grace and "A sweet reserve
mark the architecture which is becoming
instinctively popular i'm the United States.
Il notice that one of my colleagues In
the literary world has been making some
severe criticisms on the American woman.
Coincdent with that. another one OF my
colleagues I'm the literary world has been
gently putting Dickens and Thackcray In
their proper places-in the lumber room
with the furniture of the Victorian era. Is
II not wonderful? Is it not wonderful how
Dickens and Thackeray still move the
millions from the lumber room. and Is IL
not wonderful how the American woman
with all those faults attributed to her. -
the most popular, the most fascinating ana
the most sensitvely intelligent of all tho
women OF the world and VIII stll triumph
while her critics shuttle.
IF am quite content. so far as am con-
cerned-and | do not believe that my judg-
ment is a biased one. because all my life
I have traveled-to adapt myself TO a
social organization and To the habits and
ufe of a nation which speaks that lan'
suagc and inherits that literature which
will draw closer and closer together az
| time goes on the dwellers In the British
Isles and those people who in the pride OF
their own conquest still turn a tender eye
! and a friendly heart 10 tho traditiVns Of
| the Anglo-Saxon race"
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hrt Parker Saws Americas Destiny To Be Imperial Power
Famous English Writer Knew
Nine of Shakespeare Plays
by Heart Before He
Was Eighteen.

sense. We have an empire. Whether We
ought over TO have had II may be de-
batablo question, but what is not debataois
is whether we should keep IL. Ny fmper-
ialism is tho imperialism OF holding what
we have got. England's problem IN the
last century was 20 keep peace with the
world and yet not 10 fight the world for
peace. She had not a friend in Europe
twenty years ago She is at peace with
the nations OF Europe now, and she II the
more at peace because nations like Ger
many and tho United States have not only
developed their trade but their naVies. inc
problem OF England in this century is 70
make good regarding her empire. 10 hold
Il commercially, to hold Il constitutlonahy'
and Il IL great and anxious problem
"Men who think as I do want no more
territory for England: in one sense we
have too much. We do not want Persia,
hut what we do want is safety in India.
England came 10 an understanding with
Russia over Persia four years ago. NOT
with the idea Of partitloning Persia terri
torially. but, by agreement. 10 prevent
Russia from getting Persia. The autonomy
OF Persia. its independence Is just as hcceS-
sary TO England's security as that Egypt
shall not be handed over 10 native govern
ment. That the United states should mis-
take Englands policy is 10 mo an extra
ordinary thing. when one realizes tho won
derrul acuteness. shrewdness and vision
of the American mind.
THAT am right in my point OF view 10
borne out by the evidence OF American
newspapers in regard 10 another thing. This
editorials on Sir Edward Greys speech a
week ago last Monday represented that
speech as having the full support or all
parties in the British House OF Parliament.
and suggested 1t as a remarkable tribute
10 Sir Edward Grey that tho new leader
Of the Unionist party should have support
cd the speech OF the Foreign Secretary.
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TRADITION OF PARLIAMENT.

Now. what are the facts? The facts are
those: That it is not the custom in the
Parliament of England and IL is not tho
custom I'm the press OF England. TO make
tho task of cur Foreign Secretary difficult
II has been the accepted tradition OF our
Parliament that foreign affairs should be
kept out of the arena OF party politics: that
,pon foreign policy we shall, on the whole
show an unbroken front to the world, ana
that attitude has been taken by members
NJ both parties alike when their inward
foeIinrs have been toleraby bitter. II II
only since some extremists have got into
the House Of Parliament within the last
fow wears that the task OF our Foreign
Secrotary has been made more dificult'
and it is members Of Sir Edward Grey
own party who have made his difhculues
for him, not the party 10 which oeiohs
and which is in opposition.
II think there IS no fear OF American dip
lomacy so long as ambassadors are
sent TO foreign countries or the type 10
which the world mas become accustomed
and the world has learned 10 honor the
United States as much through the per-
sonalities Of its ambassadors as through
its own great power, population ana wealth.
But If | NAV not be thought impairment
T reneat the statement. that there is a dam
ger of treating foreign politics IN TINS
| country as domestic politics are treated
"The position which the United states
will hold in another quarter OF a century
| in the worlds affairs is almost neon
| ceivable. She will have population or
at least 100000, and as will be the
majesty of her wer so will be the eX-
| tent of her responsibility
= yes, as you say | have loft little space
to deal with the social changes which /
have observed as the product Of the last
quarter of a century, but they are enor-
nous OF necessity. a quarter or a CEN
| fury or more ago. there was an element
of provincialism in the life Of the United
States which was inevitable under tho cir
cunstances She was isolated from tho
rest of the world. She was. In effect a
continent by herself She was developine
her own social organism, and although
ber population was cosmopolitan in its
opposition. and fed from hundred cos
nonoIitan sources she was individual in .
ber own way and was not cosmopolitan
in her life: but coincident with her IN
evitable imperial policy. and with that IN
creased travel and communion Of her peo-
rlc with other nations consequent upon her
DEVELOPMENT, she has absorbed what she
has wished to absorb from the SOCIAL or
eanisms of other nations and has become
more cosmopolitan i'm her life. She is less
| sensitive to criticism more broadminded IN
her views. and there is growing mp nom
chalance Of power which Is quite in keep
ing with that rare and wonderful sense
Of humor which is inherent in American
| character and life.
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Thinks There Is More in One
Page of Dickens than in
the Whole of BENEFITS
"Clayhanger."

~IR GILBERT PARKER'S hours IN
Now York City bulged with so many
~ engagements last week that when no
VAS asked by a Tribune reporter for an
Interview on the numerous European poll
Tics Of the day the English author explorer
and statesman studied "A moment, and said
"You must cat YOU know, and SO must l.
II is a perfectly plain situation Breakfast
With me. let us say tomorrow at S:5V
o'clock
Sir Gilbert and Lady Parker who was
Miss Amy L. Vantino Of New YORK CitN
we're staying az the Hotel Nctherland' over
looking Central Park. The novelist saw
that the reporter was seated In a retired
corner of the breakfast ROOM ana thcn' ioi-
lowing an English custom, himsclf retrcd
IN another corner and made known his early
morning wants to the head waiter, both men
standing tho while.
II WAS not Ions before n waiter brought
an abundant supply Of hominy and cream
Sir Gilbert looked surprised and tired TO
,t.ein an EXPRESSION Of opinion from the
waiter as 10 why that individual should
hiring him hominy when Sir Gilbert had
tslcn the precauton to outline prefer
once for sliced oranges.
Tho waiter didn't know. The head walt
o. after bordering a moment gave it up.
II seemed to be one of those things that no
fellow can understand.
The important thing is that the Sliced
oranges arrived. and then the Englishman
,laced at the side of his plate three or four
rrcdiccstcd biscuits which he had drawn
from the pocket of his coat. Everything
was on tho road. apparently, to an uninter-
runfed flow Of political and literary opln-
tons when Sir Gilbert discovered. with
slight start that his glass Of water con
tsiped a small lump Of ice. The author al
c.,ye takes his water plain-that is with
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"A nation must not only have a will,
hut tho power to enforce that will. and
since the earth is not all land. she must
have tho policemen Of the sea as well as
the soldier on tho soil. Hawaii was one
of the first fruits of tho imperial policy Of
tho United States. There commercial con-
troll led almost inevitably to political and
financial annexation and constitutional con-
troll
THE Spauish-American War, which the
United States could not have avoided and
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Germany had to get markets for her
manufactures. and there came a time when
the United States. supplying her own peo-
pie with what they needed from her work
shop, had TO look ont for markets, not
markets alone in South America, or In
England, France or Germany but I'm the
far places of the earth. It was inevitable
that if she had markets. great markets
out I'm the distant parts of the world. she
must also have navy. If she had a navy
coaling stations, were inevitable. ! notice
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that in tho United States there are people
who might he called Little Americans as
in England We call certain types of in
dividuals Little Englanders'- those who
think that England would be better with
out an army or navy for her colonies but
as i'm these democratic days the majority
rules. the majority in England and the
majority I'm tho United States desire that
naval power which will secure the nation
against any differentiation I'm treatment
10 which she might be open.
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~IR GILBERT PARKER'S hours IN
New York City bulged with so many
~ engagements last week that when no
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