Show PROBLEMS OF THE WAB WAR henry watterson on disposition of islands we may capture ALL OF or THEM to t 3 areader ck caba rrt rl its 4 the th m allow acquiring tha 14 II 11 ito Us U aberta ru a caraly adly rd ly of oms come try 1117 13 ti od to t be U a world rr r r tic allis with Liss laL I 1 bwl a long talk with henry wat tunoa relative to not time no of the th problem problems growing oat out ft of I 1 0 bo O present wr war trail air N tenion atter at pou give his hi view views folly fully suit frankly in tile emit event that the Philipp luo Is bland laud cubit cuba ali I 1 porto ROO I 1 tire by tho the amert american can griola at the of the present wr wart do to ou think should be made of them I 1 asked 1 I think we should retain possession of them air wat replied would 01 oa regard rd the of choso it i linds noce smary to indemnify ni us for the olt and 1 of the war or beamen hal to the tile protection of oar our commerce or our olti zeus having Inter interests in them direct fort for the he low losses of n barsuch as this in not of the drag zo 0 o duoney ind mully could satisfy ui us or le be collected of pain spain A nation of shopkeepers they call tie us and a nation of stirs vre we limy inny LK but in ibi this business me e tire not after money if it were lem 1 bir barou an and I 1 corrupt tv re could ufford to bo be geli PrOUL wo we ft met out toti re cuba of spanish misrule and Incident tIly to marta 1 a long period of outrage outrages cutuil slating iu in the of the malue maim bat but war rarely rud ends where it ix pan tho the war for tho the union began with the if cc barat 0 is that it was not waxed to free this clae and coded with tho the abolition of tho the conquest of awak A ir 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 i 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 M ol 01 HENRY arms mines 1 up unexpected conditions and id the troth truth is i that spain is reaping tile evil fault of three throe centuries cent oriee of national debauchery and it in e imply simply a ill gitono tane that the final settlement of tho account amount in rele 9 gated ted to the united wo are aa it were a trustee of cly ill in that ebar charat aLtere cro presently find bourst ires clusters of a great deal of outlying territory roch such ai as cuba porto rico and the philippine island naring having by that time already poe pos kesend ourselves of 11 awall with these them acquisitions there will spring ence not a crop of commercial interests lute reste hitherto unknown but of na dional aspirations hitherto undreamed of we cau can no more escape theno these than wo a could any other imposition of good or ill fortune to surrender territory acquired by the outlay of so much blood and treas are would bo be a wanton and cowardly abandonment of obligations and tuni ties literally heaven ent sent 10 for fr they were wem not originally contemplated by anybody we cannot remand tho the phil to spain or commit them to a population incapable of self govern ment mock to become a prey of european diplomacy plo cincy neither can CAU we WO bell them to some tsing power we are bound to kotis porto rico if for nothing eife elee than a coaling aution in case we got it look at tho the map of the west iddles sm wept cuba lies lips right across our southern water front will any toy mine man ay nay that we should ever over permit ik it once acquired to pass out of oar our con arol should the united state states in view of cheso abi th digs change ita its traditional foreign pc acly afy the traditional tay stay at home and wa mind your own business policy laid dow down by washington was wine wise for a weak and struggling nation and if it could be adhered to would be wise for every peals peca but each of the mi ce iuri luries bai has its own tale of pro gred to tell each raises up if its own problem problems to be solved the difference between a scattered population ula ala tion tiou fringing the eat east atlantia antio sea board and BO of people occupying 1 and traversing trav cring the continent from the atlantic to the Paci raci fio fic ia Is too great to admit of coutil cout il As no preceding cycle the intervening century baa has revolutionized the world wid Atao another lher century may the transfer trang fer of human ambitions and activities from europe and america to atit and attica the Paci flo and not the th Atlant atlantic fA may inay become the wah wash basin of the universe unive rao can the united states stand apart sport and aside wile while theme movement of mankind like a running stream pas them by an isolated and helpless mom of accumulated and andoor nuptial riche ached we could not if it we woula and we should not if it we could we autt mat adapt ourselves nelree oa to the th changed order we make a new map the tilla as a it open opens to tooer our eight tight is not so groat as would have been beeach the vista of texas and california florida and alaska to the eye of washington for all ests the father of iiii HIS I 1 country could a totem electricity bor wi dimate estimate ti mate the ho would bring already tho old world another amther world is I 1 coming ioto into view the tb cf of the tweet century must actress itself elf to this and ml will bo tin largely constructive la in iti tin the cloth Is ha been leu cat cut out it remain for state statesmen omen to put it to together gother so 0 o that the world luay wear it the united stai from front now on la to to bo be a world avi or henceforth if its foreign policy will need to be complete completely abe man who would cling to alio tradition of ih I 1 logical li Is od As oleu onu lio lie would reject the railway ul travel bythe by abo or dinda luing the highway would strike through the ho wood do you think we me shou lioi iJ 1 permanent ly ty increase our nuy and nary slavy auden aud rn ter luton with the kuro euro pian pou power or lu lit and across tho tile I 1 prom front a nation of wo become a it nation of war wo we escape the ni lit him and dd peril of socialism and agrall a AS ang a land har ilan 1 thaul ly by a policy of all p t F from roin a pro huddle of atty so ve re bet I 1 togi tbt r ly by a ropo relic cf sa and n d w we crifo I 1 to the dignity aud and pro 0 CM 0 of f an I 1 r alil rl d rt bublic clr tribly greata blau ramio it ii Is true rut that w we exchange exclia uge bomea tie for onlin dangers bat but la in every direction vo me multiply y tho tile les of 0 t L 0 people NN 0 risk 1 cis sir tta lut lot even Is I 1 prefer ablit to vo we risk war wars but a binau has but one timi to die and andt iu in peace ho lie is I 1 not likely to die until his thise CI UZIeL auto unto the day ii is the evil thereof in ili hort hork anything blag is i bc better ater thau than the pace wo etro ging before these arru into life already tho the young manhood of tho the country is i 8 i ft a goodly beadil Rial hail from the burning and riven given a replete with noble wl slid ideal on vilas lut around would you favor the talked of anglo al at 1 I have never been an you know all I 1 have regarded bugland 11 an our rival indeed a a lifelong friend rf ireland I 1 luite luve held beld the english at arms length hat but the inter later position of romo disastrous mischance ireland has ha had a a how of better times has ha made me rue doial rot will freedom in that direction and by the ol 01 I 1 process of agitation armed or othin vis indeed mr air gladstone Gladi Glads itono tono bearg doud dead the irish amens BI CIU now to have more to expect from the conservatives than from front the liberale liberals and hence in thil this particular regard d ibi the it question ion is i eliminated altogether in ili a iz t ral ty let rue menda add I 1 have nr t much faith in international alii adli ice acm they often arvo a purpose on like an nit umbrella they are mo good for foe A rained rain fd bat but scare ly for n roof I 1 ct et ii it cannot bo be deni deill I 1 that we are an of the some blood and faith and as no american would willingly toe ill conic como to eukland ihland Gi so we amigh t ya r 01 join the hul bullish lish in the wor work k of putting ng the anto anglo saxon imprint upon the reorganization of china and the repartition tion of territories in africa and in aria asia abat what ii is your opinion of american ae an to thebe ques quillon donal I 1 that lit 1 a matter tu to bo determined by the future e inevitably they will involve prolonged and it maybe may be aati mo donious all other issues aiji willbo be subordinated ab to ahm thim in ray my opinion however the end ia is inevitable we linao thrown off the swaddling clothes of national babyhood and mud stand forth an international giant armed capi cap i apie pie cor new york herald |