Growth of Imperialism by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 22, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 21.

Growth of Imperialism.

By Editor

[Editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, of March 16, 1907.]

It is astonishing how easily Washington correspondents adopt expressions once considered alarmingly monarchical or at least imperial. "Colonial" and "dependency" come as pat to most of them in speaking of the Philippines as words of true democratic origin, and now they are glibly talking about Roosevelt arranging the "Presidential succession." The talk about colonies was followed by action which leaves nothing to be desired by the advocates of a system of dependencies, and before we know what we are doing we shall be taking kindly to having a succession neatly arranged for us which will only need indorsement at the polls to make it as effective, or even more so, than some designed by potentates of the Louis XIV class.