Show I IMPERIALISM D By L L. A. A Hollenbeck It is a common thing for newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers and magazines to denture en e imperialism and exploitation The rhe two words with some are a sort soft of hob goblin used to scare themselves Gild and nC other lher people The writer believes that imperialism and exploitation are both right rIght- and the they n mean ean nearly nearly the same thing illg A man drives a a fa fair r and reasonable bargain with ItIl ith another tr trader der tile is y 1 e Ration alion If he le b beats s. s the other othe r trader out of his he ho has 1 s 's swindled him That is hs nc r- r but false ralso pretense and sWindling If H a nation branches ou out in tra trade e and ana bargains b and expands that is impe- impe t and it means growth Bat if iC a nation proposes to In Ube the theother other nation in ill violation of the tho nations fundamental rights rights- rights to swallow it like e a boa bon l N swallows swallows- a pig then hell that is not legitimate exploitation Ion but s I aggression and a to all alJ man man- kind Imperialism however l' l i is net act neta acta a menace but a help to mankind George Rogers Clark during ho he American revolution saved the U.S. U U. S. S the Ohio country to 0 the Mississippi sippi river and north norm by tireless Ireless en er ergy orgy That was exploitation Later Texas rebelled from xico and afterward afterward af ai- af- af was admitted to the United States Stales on petition of Texas and anti I Texas Texas cl claimed ti territory to the Rio Grande and Mexico said that the river was the boundary The United States Stales stayed with Mexico's claim laim and war resulted and Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln was as in iu inco was congress gless and opposed op posed the war President Polk Jav- Jav favored favored ored the claim of Texas and je nc e was a right That was imperialism an 1 then we bought California and ana hater later later lat hat er we extended our territory Y north to the and took in the Oreg Oregon nl territory terrItory all all imperialism Then we l bought Alaska and didn't didn t even as ask ak the natives and then Hawaii wanted wanted want- want I. I r ed ell to be admitted and President I Cleveland land vetoed it and the next t president Ben Bell Harrison to took kil it In President Grant tried to annex Sari San Domingo the s saute same ne wa way and congress I I refused Grant Grout was right fh That t country has be been I giving us trouble ever since Even von Victor Berger throws up his v hands and refuses to o discuss discuss' th the whether r aboriginal aboriginal savages have the exclusive right to people S it t country countr and hold it back and l not hat ot populate It to the detriment of oC the human race Victor Berger Derger is wrong A few savages in ii the great Amai Amazon Amazon Amazon Ama- Ama zon valley have lib ifo IrO i right to prohibit the world from devel developing that valley forever That great valle valley belongs to the people of or the earth and not to a few roving s savages that refuse to develop In tt that at case right is might and might is right But that is Imperialism and aud exploitation Uncontrolled avarice avarico avarice and greed are the excess of impert- impert erl and e exploitation They should ld be bo bo discountenanced but the desire f lio expand Is the desire to grow and you cant can't grow If the in Incentive e and motive to grow is taken awa away The I I desire to grow is a 1 part art of or the human human hu hu- man mind and if iC a surgeon eoll knew where to cut col out that desire bY by byl tak tak- takIng taking ing lug out ont a part of or the human h brain he lie would mal make e a sorry mess of ot it and the human family would stop pro progress b ress and die And 1 nd the fellows that are re all ll the time denouncing I Imperialism a and exploitation I l if it they Could have e their way the human J family would die as well and nd be beI followed b by some some other race I Regulation Regu I tattoo lation is all right but prohibition r never The ambitions of man should sl bo ho fostered and alid a aided ded and and anci slot not pro pro- prohibited 10 for tor nature will not ot gt stand nd for allY any prohibitions so long a as ax a man stays within tho province of the b general gen gen- geni en- en i eral oral course of nature It is the man neon who tries to destroy that is prohibit prohibited 1 ed eel that is who tries to obstruct the general and ordinary course of ot na na- ture tort and natures nature's growth |