Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-13
MY IDEA OF POLITICS
A Genuine Junker And Impcrialist
Gets Real Amcricanism Into Print
And Insists OIL It
(By McHENRY GREEN)

America for Americans. say /.
| And push America out to all points
of the compass and all over the world.
Do it while tho pushing is good. Do
it now.
! My viewpoint OF politics is not from
the precinct voting booth. but from
the North Pole. from which point
every country is directly south.
The only way I can express one edge
| of it is in this proposition: II Ameri-
| canism is good thing, as some say,
be content with a relatively little
| homeland which is already getting
alarmingly small?
II the American flag is any good.
| make it fly farther and farther. If
| it blesses some people, make 1t bless
| others.
America n Stacker.
is little band of devoted women. one
tenth the membership, which keeps
: up the congregations quota on mis-
/ sionary work. To the general collec-
ton of these scattered small groups
| of women is due tho great missionary
evangelization which has carried the
| Cross to every island of the sea.
But in America all are slackers.
| There is not even a tenth trying to
| extend the territory and the jurisdic-
the individual, but the nation itself
is on the defensive, The Americans
are the best fighters and the slow
est outpushers-they do not outpush
at ALL Oh, for another Mckinley, who
could add a thousand islands to Amer
| lean real estate. There are schools
of Americanism" and they are most
commendable, but there Is no school
| that teaches extension of American
possessions and exalts the American
breed.
Germans. Japanese. British. Danes.
Spanish. even Mexicans. stick up for
their national influence, national
rights: such clannish selfishness even
propaganda: but in the United States
even the discussion of possible aban-
donment OF the Philippines Is heard
with idiouc apathy.
My doctrine is that 'the white mans
burden" is not theory but con-
diton: that 1t is not OILY the oppor-
tunity but the duty OF the Anglo
Saxon race to manage this world, and
that until 1t recognizes and takes up
this burden Of the white mans is a
Stacker.
want the United States to annex
and occupy Siberia, Liberia. Armenia.
Yucatan and Campeche, Ireland. and
as much OF the West Indies as We
can bulldoze John Bull out Of
Also I want all thought OF abandon
ment of the Philippines utterly put
aside: I want to freeze hard to every
inch of American real estate and only
add to 1t.
Train for LesAer.hip.
How absurd. how unnatural. to sec
scores of bright young men idling for
| hours on our street corners, They
| ought to be out in foreign countries
agors of mines. executives of world
development.
How senselcss to sec dozens of cap
able Americans out OF work, when
their labors are needed in q hundred
half-boiled raw nations!
The very country that most needs
| them is right up against our south
| border line.
This is n neglected problem that af-
fccts our whole national life. This
winter there is complaint Of many e1-
soldiers out Of work They ought to
be in southern Mexico opening up
roads. plowing plantations. operating
mines. Then next summer developing
new Alaskan booms on the other side
of Bering Straits.
1t is the warlike nation that least
needs be drawn into war. But II war
must come. II is the one thing that
Jars dull. tame hard timcs'' into uni
Versal activity. So long as "he kept
us out OF war" there was nothing
doing. When war broke out every
thing moved. but moved too far. I
concede.
one of the worst features OF the de-
plorablc American apathy is the fail
ure. even after all these terrible les
sons. to recognize real American
blood and distinguish 1t from the Latin
cast. We go the length with hogs and
horses but condemn the prince-born
american TO wear the same stamp as
the sow's car.
This letter is only n starter on an
intcrminable and all-pcrvadIng arxu-
mcnt. on the truth of which I defy
! the world. and on the logic OF which
| would daro undertake to form new
political party-the party OF the SUPER
Americans. Who will Join me ADV.