Show CURSE OF EMPIRE A monarchy A in which all aU things are j subservient to the crown in which whichever ever every principle if necessary is sacrificed to exalt the throne where central centralized centraliZed centralIzed power p and life tenure are the con conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous features of government is I better fitted for obvious reasons to hold I dependencies and rule subject people 1 than th n is a free republic Uc founded upon i political equality and deriving its just justi powers from the consent of ot the gov governed governed erne When England gained her boundless areas as a colonizer and conqueror when she hung the scalps Cf vanquish vanquished ed nations upon the girdle of the earth I and uttered first the boast sun j never set upon her possessions Lord Macaulay her keenest observer and I greatest chronicler of events deplored I Ithe the of principle for power that th t I colonial empire made necessary He Be Bedrew I drew from fro m the experience of civilization in general as well as from universally acknowledged conditions in his own j country c I We venture to say sa that em empire empire empire pire has nas been one of ot the greatest curses of ot modern Europe he w wrote rote and salted these unanswered questions What nation has it ever eyer strengthened What nation has it ever enriched What have been its fruits Wars of frequent occurrence and immense cost fettered trade lavish expenditures clashing jurisdiction corruption in governments and indigence among the people What W at athas has Mexico and Peru done for Spain the Brazils for Portugal Batavia for Holland Or If it the experience of ot others is lost lo t upon us shall we not profit by our own What have we not sacrificed to our Infatuated passion for transAtlantic dominion He added When a colonial acquisition has been In prospect we have thought no expenditure extravagant l no usi interference 6 t n perilous f Gold GObI has been n to roo us as du dnA and d blood as water Shall Shun we never neer learn wisdom Shall Stall we never cease to prosecute a pur pursuit pursuit pursuit suit wilder than the wildest dreams dream of al alchemy alchemy chemy with all the credulity and all 1111 the profusion of Sir Epicure Mammon Those who 1110 maintain that settlements so remote conduce to the military or maritime pow power power er em of or nations fly In the race face of or history Gladstone said substantially the same thing thins a quarter of a century later But Washington and Lincoln as pa patriots patriot triot must take back seats for Platt and Hanna so 60 must Gladstone and Ma Macaulay Macaulay caulay as statesmen and historians give way to the superior genius of Quay and McKinley I |