The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-28
.PEARY PROPHECIES A
LARGER UNITED STATES
Declares Entire North American Con.
unent Will Become Incorporated
In This Country.
SING SING WARDEN ON IDEALS
Tells of Wonderful Change Wrought
I'm Great Prison by Change In
Methods of Handling Men-Story
of Canda Blackio.

New York. March 27.-Bishop David
FL, Greer. Rear Admiral Robert f.
reary, odwald G Willard. owner of
the Etening Post. Thomas Mott Os-
borne and Hamilton Wright Mabie, set
forth their conceptions of American
Ideals" at today's luncheon at the Re-
publican Club. The divergence OF views
was extraordinary and In Admiral
Peary's case the audience seemed as
founded at the view Itself
Peary hroadened the topic to include
American Ideals and Destiny" and
predicted within 100 years the dominion
of all North America by the United
States
His own notion of American ideals.
explained the discoverer. Is that they
are "bigness" and realisation" and he
called on our history to bear him out.
These two ideals he finds best exem-
pIified in our wars with England and
our Monroe Doctrine.
I'm one We made war against the
greatest sea power ever known--and
won" explained the admiral. I'm the
other we calmly stated to the world:
Excuse us. but our sphere of influence
Is an entire hemisphere. IL you please
Make Good Thus Far.
Thus far we have made good. Can
we continue to do SO? II we keep
our ideals before us, yes--if we go to
sleep, no."
There was not one word of bigger
army or more warships In all that
Peary sAid There was no hint that
he expecN us to conquer by any other
than peaceful means. He turned to
modern examples OF our "higness" and
our realization" There. he suggested.
are the wrights flying. the Panama
Canal and the attainment Of the North
Pole. He added that some In the room
would live to see Panama sea level
waterway and the isthmus pierced
again. at Nicaragua or elsewhere.
With map he traced the fortieth
parallel of north latitude near which
lay the Phoenician, Chaldean and Baby
lonian empires: the Persian empire,
mighty Egypt" Greece and Rome.
That life line OF the worlds successive
dominating nations" as Peary called II,
bisects these United states.
The American watch Words.
with bigness and realization our
ideals--with imperial position and
prospects our posaession---what may we
not realize In the future I. oply we
always carry with us the watchwords
preparedness and self-containedness
years from now we shall either be
obliterated az nation, or we shall
occupy the entire North American
world segment. The former is incon-
ceiyable; the latter may be nearer than
we think"
He was well applauded but not
without bewiiderment by a crowd OF
several hundred who had Just applaud
ed heavily the denunctatton and ridi-
q II
Bishop Greer and Mr.. Willard 1t was
Mr.. Osborne. however, with whom all
present agreed and whose short tale of
work done stirred the audience most.
When he rushed away after speaking
all hands stood up for him and cheered,
The warden OF Sing Sing started with
the life story of "Cands Biaekie." who
died n year ago. His real name was
John Marphy. A Californian, an out
law and at twenty years OF age lac was
a criminal Of singular boIdness and
ability. To his death he bore the
marks of being strung UP with his
hands behind his back In Joliet pent-
tertiary. He made determined eff
fort TO escape, constructing pistol
out of a piece of gas pipe and getting
the explosive from the scrarings OF
many match boxes. With three others
he got as far as the wardeu's ONCE
no ttiey IpnsAfuCtSa tHETC
was taken by frontal assault Piackie
was sentenced TO ten years additional
in jail.
For Life end Ten Years.
a. So. when Osborne first saw him at
Auburn and asked him What did you
bring7' tprison slang for what SEN
tence did you geD, Blackie said: I'm
here for life and ten years"
II suppose he saw a trace of as
constituent ON my face explained Mr..
Osborne. for ne Immediately added,
1T does seem little superfiuous.
doesn't ttn"
Put in dark cell for year and
eight months Blackie contracted the
disease which later killed him. He
told Osborne. pointing to his neck, that
he had lived In that time. from here
up" Then Warden Rattigan came 20
Auburn and Rattigan and Osborne be-
gan to try to handle tho men different
ly.
After the first day or two OF the
new treatment Blackie sent for os-
borne. In his cell he dug deep into
a hiding place and pulled out a key
that fitted his cell door. He also gave
Osborne u strip of steel and other items
to aid an escape. telling him to give
them to Warden Rattigan as proof OF
what he thought OF humane methods.
Weil-Founded Policy.
Our policy at Sing Sing is consis-
tently and deeply founded" said Mr..
Osborne. II ask YOU to believe that
moving pictures are only an incident
in the attempt to make these men saner
and more wholesome---though even
moving pictures are better than keep
ing them locked up in damp cells con-
tracing tuberculosis.
Perhaps you will believe that I'm
not exaggerating the lessening OF the
drug evil at the prison IL / tell you
that two of the prisoners recently held
up guard who was bringing tho stuff
into the Jail and made him destroy it,"
the warden concluded
Hamilton Wright Mabie said that he
recently told an inquirer who wanted
to get in touch with American ideals
to read Frankiip's writings some OF
Lincoln's addresses, Emerson's essays,
Booker washington's up From Slav-
cry" and Jacob Riis' THE Making of
An American"
Bishop Greer said that war Is con-
trary to every teaching Of Christianity.
A telegram from ex-President
Charles w. Eliot. of Harvard, said that
national ideals account for the present
and most other wars. and that we need