Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — IDEAL IMPERIALISM. [ARTICLE]

IDEAL IMPERIALISM.

In hla open letter to President Roosevelt, Joseph Pulitzer, owner and editor of the New York World, thus depicts the imperialistic policy which the president would saddle upon the country: "To see Imperialism full blown ons must go to England. At home English Institutions are free. The cabinet is a committee of parliament. The king has not a thousandth part of your power and patronage. He could not jump a doctor, even a very skillful and agreeable one, not even Treves, who saved his life —into a major generalship, or even a lieutenancy. He cannot appoint a fourth-class postmaster. He has none of the enormous powers over corporations which enables you, first, to make an inquisition into the secrets of every combination of capital; second, to smash one such combination as an example, and, third, to send that grand inquisitor Cortelyou, who was your own private secretary and later cabinet member for commerce and corporations, armed with all his deadly secrets, to pass the contribution box among the others. "But the United Kingdom, with 43,000,000 inhabitants, rules over 330,000,000 people in non-self-governing crown colonies and dependencies. The welfare of one-quarter of the population of the globe Is absolutely at the mercy of the governing classes of Great Britain. Three hundred million people in India, under the compulsion of 250,000 soldiers, live and work to furnish official berths to English younger sons and profit for English capitalists.’’