Show APT A APHORISMS rIs OF Benjamin Harrison on in North American Review 5 Is 18 the morality of or the motto My bly y coon try right or wrong susceptible of de do Is l It not to say it Jt to III right to do for tor the sentiment MaUme t implies Pile action A county at WAT Is very intolerant 5 the home nome guards more than the veterans veteran and the politicians most of nil ail l To speak against the war to impugn its I justice is 18 to te encourage the enemy t Your 1 our magnanimity and sense of justice ce cewill will be praised by the alien alln people In lit whose behalf your voice oice was raised The Themay They TIley may even build monuments in Itt your honor as we did ct to Pitt but the home news newspapers n newspapers Yi papers will white while you live make niche you wish Wi h you had never been born and you yen are dead they will now and then exhume your yur skeleton to frighten those who live after you Was there a duty upon Senator Hoar to keep silence His motives mothes were unimpeachably pure All AH agree that he was Wai not seeking the tho applause of ot his country countrymen men inca of this generation AH Alt agree that he hehs has hs the old New sew England l 1 the old American fervor for liberty an l human rights Possibly he lacks the thes 1 mercantile spirit He e may not give out suf sufficient consideration s to t the fen metals mais and d coal coat and of the Philippines There is a semblance of unreason in charging the man who is trying to stop atop stopa a tight with the bruises es and wounds that thai ensue eane upon the failure of or his ht efforts A patriot may if his conscience con nCE cannot e not otherwise be quieted oppose a war upon which his country has entered but bot it he does so be puts nth nbc nl tame lame in the keeping ot or a generation ot Of his h country countrymen countrymen countrymen men or possibly of an alien n people We must not forget that toe tao soldier r who lights fights b the war does doe not declare declere Ie it iL ItHe itHe He must not denounce it 14 nor must any patriot denounce him himAs himAs As to the doctrine of spheres opheres of In ln Influence fluence th modern euphemistic render rendering r lug lag of territorial we have laave denied its application to this Hemisphere and denied to ourselves the use of it ii anywhere S A world power seems meems ms to be a power 5 having the purpose to take lake over so muc much Bauch i of or the world as it can by any means possess and having h with this Is appetite app U c ry eno compel other nations having the same ap appetite appetite petite to allow or divide the spoils There has baa been an attempt to associate th the United rutted States Stats with this of or civilisation upon the theory nat L t the T has a divine Mon that covers the earth This appeal to a decree is 18 itself a concession to the x S rule that tha tb in ejectment must show how title The argument runs thus The earth is the Loris Lors and the lumens thereof So much is of record The next step st p is more mor difficult for then i is no prophet no sealed transfer no mention by name ne 01 ot orthe the The meek shall In Inherit inherit herit the earth ea but the boldest bOlde 0 cate ot of expansion dare not suggest as the minor premise that John HUH mud and id Uncle Sam are art of or that lass We must get el away from all te I J fear tear Perhaps this is the be bc best t that can be done certainly it is 1 the best that has been done Major premise God Gods s pur purpose pit pose poSt is that men snail shall make a full fun and the best beat use of all His gilts gifts Minor pre pro premise premise promise mise Dominion Is one of ot His Ills gifts and the makes mak a better use ot o dominion than the Latin or the Doers Boers or orthe orthe the Chinese conclusion The Anglo Saxon therefore executes a divine pose when be he subdues these peoples s and takes over their lands Ii H 14 to DC Ut a is to do as n the e world powers do then we must mum disclaim this tl new degree d ree which the European coi legs leg of applied force has ha conferred upon The TiM taking over the Philippines IMS has us been DeeD declared by those abe 80 should know td have been casual of necessity ne the Ac K Acceptance of a imposed duty The QUeStion of the disposition of them when heu t their people shall have submitted to legal authority Is said to be still pen open All Ail A 11 of that the acquisition of or which is to say these distant nt islands Js does dOt not commit the l he nation to a scheme of colonisation F Let ui us not be a world power ROwer in any J II save the good old sense that of a 8 nation capable of protecting prot in all seas the just right of Its citizens and Incapable everywhere of a wanton infringement of or the autonomy autonom of other ot nations r |