Show MUCH LEARNING KES HIM SILLY Prof Arthur M Wheeler ot Yale Is one of those apprehensive sculs that sees In the acquisition of new territory terri-tory the overwhelming of our country This Is the way he talks Rome acquired foreign territory and foil Greece tried to become mlMtr > ps of her world and was destroy > The United Stoics wll follow In their footsteps ff thu present course of acquiring foreign territory acqulrlng tory IB followed out Pro Wheel docs not iead hlntory with much success Neither Rome nor Greece foil through their foreign territory Tn the ctco i Jlome the foreign territory held the counlVy 16 gether after all its virtues had been sapped at home Nations do not fall I when they are going Qut and subduing either by force or by educating barbarous bar-barous tribes The very exercise keeps a nation strong and hardy Greece fell because she ran up againstILpibrc lj tttiI powerful nation Rome 8 cauac her whole system wasvpermeated with I dry rot Great Britain has been ao QUlririg foreign territory for n long i time but she has not fallen yet Her colonies of Australia and Canada are her best hopes today They may eventually event-ually separate from the mother country coun-try but the tic Is very close and their soil will furnish places for the youth ot England to grow and expand upon When It comes to our country we are not acquiring I i i foreign territory Through a series of unforeseen exigencies exigen-cies we have within the past two years become possessed of an island empireIn the Pacific and an Island in the Atlantic That Is not going to destroy de-stroy our country There is more danKer dan-Ker of decay beginning right In New York city whore It is said the president presi-dent of one trust IB to receive a salary of 500000 n year and where right under the shadows of his house If he lives In New York can b found chil dren by the score and hundreds growing I grow-ing up In squalor and in ignorance There is the menace to our country I Is not that Home young men are J I battling for the flag off across the Pacific Pa-cific or that when that trouble Is I ended some other young men will go I there to subdue the foreots and turn I the land Into fruitful fields The trouble trou-ble Is at home and Pi of Wheelers talk is not worth half a much as i I I would be If he would get a tambourine Join the Salvation army go through I the slums of Isew York at night and call on men to be better that they I might be happier |