IN 1892 America was decidedly facing Romeward, going in the way of that earlier republic. Of course the seed-sowing had been in progress for years before; but in that year, in the matter of religious legislation in connection with the World’s Fair, and other official acts, America, like the change of face upon her half and quarter-dollar silver coins, turned toward the East and became Roman instead of American. Since that time imperialistic sentiment in religion and in civil government has grown apace. The principles which made this government great have been trampled underfoot, and peoples, fighting for freedom, thousands of leagues away, have been subjugated and denied the very rights which, asserted and maintained, separated America from the Old World, made her a free land, and lifted the world from medieval tyranny. The fruits of American imperialism may be seen in her speculation in the Philippines, undertaken and maintained for greed, not principle’s sake. The Philippine Islands have cost the United States 5,000 lives of soldiers, besides the wounded and helpless wrecks of the war; $300,000,000 in treasure, to say nothing about the pensions. Greed has hoped for large returns, but the last fiscal year’s exports to the islands from this country amounted to only $5,257,000, and this mostly for the soldiers, and imports from the islands $6,612,000. One good day in New York equals a year of the Philippines. Plague has followed war and famine, and $3,000,000 has been appropriated by Congress for that. War still goes on, and it is reported that General Chaffee says that “the military force should not be reduced below the 30,000 line for at least five years;” and that, in his opinion, “at least that number of men will be required for a much longer time, perhaps for a quarter of a century.” Five hundred men are reported in asylums as a result of the experiment. Have the weak no rights the powerful are bound to respect? Is not the logic of events demonstrating on one side at least that, as President Schurman said, “any decent kind of government of Filipinos by Filipinos is better than the best possible government of Filipinos by Americans?” And the above, summarized from a New York paper, is a part of the fruit of American imperialism in the Philippines. The principles operative there will soon be operative at home; and then, according to inevitable logic and the prophetic Word, ruin.