Show GHOSTS AS scarecrows SCARE CROWS one of the historians of the r abstein press holds up this nth lath painted like iron tito advocat olvo cats of imperialism no innizer cump litin of tte te term that la in popularly applied to their polk objection moud ou d bo be tito tho popular opu ar novar gevov fabb to 1111 11 1 1 the apt to Mc mapra pra its ita damning cht comes ilie empire anil ami then c noo the hope tho th konini awn nini ing wont ant through the th motions of el eting their eon consuls tribunes and ami praet praetors pra etora ors boim after they had bud fallen under tile ifju of 0 rn n imperial master there more no fit fie schools in old rowe kono no railroads rio no tole telegraph graph no telephone no dally papers otome was from the first the nation of iron the only discipline that her people ever re nas as and when tile the short sword and spear were miLli dramn her populace loco were a 0 mob khe be was fl a bruiser front from the first the slav slab in chains stood at the patri patricians clans door the plebeians plebe ians lans wore were looked down upon from the kimt from tho the rule of a high brod aristocracy with wilh increasing wealth in abe handa of the few ew silo she drifted naturally into an empire tier her troubles never came from without but front within she never lost loat her ht r liber LIPS alfa until she was no longer nt fit to be free the mines that long supplied her treasury and people gave out tho the money begun began to drift to the favored ones who m were ere tho the creditor class el ass then the a it began to glow harder and harder to live then mahhood and womanhood beran began ran to be aled ainlee the lh brou prou proui 1 boast bochat that for years not one unfaithful un matron was known in nome 1 was I no longer repeated and the terror of the roman name llama disappeared it was as no foreign possession posa easlon that betrayed rome rather she ho blied for years on the revenues auti received front from her foreign posses sea alons the comparison Is not net apt rome was never frei free in the modern sense and then she was always alays chuel it vaa mas bred into her very bones ifer fair girls watched with enthusiasm tho the fights of gladiators glad latora and tile the killing of slavca modern spain is closely modeled on ancient rome and tho the reasons r are arc apparent enough why spain has haa so deteriorated it Is not fair to compare civilization with our own tho the only lair comp comparison arlson Is that process N which aich la Is causing the money of this country to drift into a few hands and thi the compelling 0 of fair young girls girl 5 to work for wages which will not decon decently t I 1 5 clothe and teed feed them those ore are dangers more to be feared than any that lurk luck in the barbar lisin of the philippines then tharo aro people who doubt not through tho the ages one increasing purpose runy runs and tho the thoughts ot of mon dpn ore are widen ad lah the process of ilia suns it Is not altogether what wo we I 1 nay may want wall t to do there Is likewise the question of what we ought to do if thero there was no thought except to protect our commerce on oil the Paci pacific why ily waa aa not flat admiral dewey ree recalled filled so ao soon ns na he had destroyed tho the spanish fleet what was the object in lic keeping him there and sending to ills his support gen mer rift and an army roalna fum aim la 14 bro lon lion after nearly buur bundled years of trial she eho haa bus utterly ballod if I 1 sho ilia wants thil islands it la IS only that sho she roay may bell them wo we suspect that the ho bargain la Is aurva dy made provided she bh can i alio 1 goode ds it may be deemed beat lapat not to try to hold bold the eslanda when wo we hebr tile tho opinion of dewey geri mer ilat mid and the tha men under them WO we may not net wiant jil them but surely an american now nom ought not in con eldering tho the question to call up the ghosts of 0 dead empires that perl perished shed through the vices an dmd d tho the cruelty of 0 their people to car cast t a a bodow if 1 not a reproach upon that th caprow capac lCy of 0 tho the people ot of tho the united states to govern themselves even UC if a few outside islands are aj brought under tho old flag |