Show HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND i Ii ThoHartford Conn Times Is one of tho Springlield Republican school of newspapers and like all the rest there Is no occasion so solemn or sacred th tit t-it cannot turn It in channel to minl star to its own meanness For Instance here is a sample Tho death of Benjamin Harrison at thin limo will ho a great boon to tire imperial lots It was a great drawback to McKln I icy and Hanna to have the only Repub lican cxPiesldcnt criticising analyzing and expoaIngthcir new policy of conquest I and colonialism With Hurrl pn out of tIne way It will bo easier sailing for the I Administration To this extent destiny OP fate which the politiciansat Wash l ington are sofond of talking about IB clearly on McIGnlcys aide I Gen Harrison was the original cx V panslonlst He wanted to take the t Hawaiian Islands and it Is difficult to Imagine In what way his administration administra-tion could hiLve been different from I tlit of Mr McKInleys had he been nominated and electcd In 1SOG Gen I j Harrison was a man without Imagination Imagina-tion Whatever he knew he either saw I or heard or felt or reasoned out through 1 the five senses One months stay In 1 I Central America In his youth would t have taught him that the mongrel Spanish race that lien grown up in the New World la Incapable of selfgovern mont In any tropical country The only I I success that has been made on our continent has been in Chile The great triumphs In Mexico during the past two decades have not been due to the people but due to the Iron will of the executive of that nation And the secret has been that though himself a Catholic and a priest he has carried out the work of tho Indian who preceded pre-ceded him Juarez In Insisting that the state and the church should not be mixed In Mexico that each should have Its own prerogative and should steer clear of the other With the experience I ex-perience In his youth of a visit to Spanish America Gen Harrison would have been ready to say that no matter I how bright the mixed Spanish Chinese Chi-nese Malays and other tribes might be they still could not possibly have I the levclheadedness to set up a republic re-public that it would either be a despotism des-potism or it would be simply a continuation I con-tinuation of revolutions The want of I that knowledge blinded President Harrisons sight He simply thought of I those people as he thought of his own I j forefathers on this contlncnt struggling 1 for freedom and could not note the dif I fcrcnce In races And hence having II i j r formed that opinion with the stubbornness stubborn-ness of his nature he pushed aside the testimony of Dewey of Merritt of Otis of Taft of every other American I no matter how bright or how liberty loving that disagreed with him and I instead of his death being a boon to Imperialists the sneaking journals like the one quoted from above will try to throw an added sanctity about his views because he Is gone I |