Show I t HISTORIC IMPERIALISM ExSenator W A PeEler Jn an elaborate elabo-rate article In the August number of artca the North American Review argues that Noth 11 from Imperialism being tlat originated by thepresent a new policy llepre5CTt iI Administration it is the policy which America bus always followed Senator merIc I Beffer appeals to history and finds tfhat from the time when the white man arrived in this country Americans Ameri-cans in colonial times and under the Republic have been acquiring new territory ter-ritory by conquest or by purchase and have been putting down by force oC which the natives opposition arms any nalvcs 3 Iny have shown to their sovereignty Senator Sen-ator Peffer gives some flguies showing t the vast cost of our wars with the Indians y In-dians Our Indian wars have been expensive expen-sive as well as bloody I IH estimated by the Val department that excluding the time covered by our wars with Great Britain 1S1211 and with Mexico I Mexi-co ISiGlS and with the Confederate 18C1C5 threefourths of the to States St 186165 the army Is chargeable directly or Indirectly to the Indians the aggregate thus chargeable Is put at ti j1 5807073058 and this does npt include cost of fortifications posts and sta fortfcalon9 cost amounts reimbursed J tions nor dos It include i t imbursed 101 to the several States 10000 000 for their expenses In wars with tho 1 1 Indians The Indian war pension account stood at 528201032 JJ count in iSO |