Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-31 | Page 4 | At Nation without Imperialism

A i NATION WITHOUT IMPERIALISM. Denmark should be happy. That is the opinion of the editor of the Bulletin, Bulle-tin, who says: "The proposed sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States suggests sug-gests that the citizens of Denmark are a rather lcky lot, compared with those of larger countries. Denmark is too small to have imperialistic ambitions. am-bitions. Islands can mean little to her, because her navy will always be too weak to protect her trade with them by force, or to make much use of them as supply stations. A natural natur-al pride, perhaps, operates to present the sale of the West Indies, but no great interest Is involved. The Danish Dan-ish government, without the necessity of breeding or executing great foreign policies, can devote its attention, as It Is doing, to the welfare of its people. peo-ple. It can make use of the resources it has on hand, and does not face tho necessity of plundering other nations na-tions and races in order to live. If its population Increases rapidly it has no recourse but to allow peaceable emigration. emi-gration. Its literature, science, art and whole national life need not and do not lack vigor, but it is without the great responsibilities, the great temptations and the great vices of great states. Perhaps it, and not Germany or Great Britain, or even the United States, is the model of the future state." nn