Show I 1 I I 4 Uncle Sam as World Power HE standing of or the tho United States among the THE nations of the earth depends in the tho last las analysis upon the tho ability to defend itself itsel it if needs be Our great national resources our intelligence intelli gence as a n people our progress s in the arts am and antl sciences and industrial ventures command for us usa usa a n certain deference but when the elemental pa of mankind arc loosed and the force of the untamed brute confronts u us wo we will hold our own only to the extent that we arc are able Nothing will be conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded to us that the national arm cannot grasp ant and defend Our influence a as a world orld power was immeasurably immeasurably im im- im measurably greater after the Spanish war than ever before because we conclusively demonstrated that while we prefer to speak k softly we carry a big stick that we are arc able to wield ld to some purpose So long louK as we were an i isolated nation asking nothing of the tho world but to be let alone capabilities for fr defens defensive c warfare were unnecessary since since we were not likely to provoke attack and offensive warfare was scarcely within tho the range of po possibility But tho the activities es of our great industrial captains have changed all that No Xo commercial l possibility rears its head hend anywhere on the tho face of the globe that a l keen American lees does not seek its exploitation American money is invested ll e ted in every country American bankers hold bonds of most of the nations The flag has hns followed follo commerce everywhere and our government is bound to have hae a finger in every pie pio whether it wishes or not The consequences arc are that we have bae interests to protect every everywhere hele a n war in the Balkans a struggle gb gle lo between een government troops and revolutionaries in the thc streets of any foreign capital affects our market We are fire compelled to make our voice heard in the chancelleries of the nations to take care of our own citizens and tho the property they own That voice will ill bo be heard with respect or ignored with sneers according to our ability to back our demands with fighting machines and fighting men The day of peace may bo be dawning but until the other nations disarm wf wo we must keen koen with th them in A n to our needs In refusing its assent to the well established naval program of two battleships a year the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic House HouBe not only betrays s 's a lack of patriotism but an astonishing failure to understand the needs of the nation naHon The Democratic party part p is still that of futility and negation despite the new ne lease lense of life it recently received from a minority of the American people e. e s fI |