Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], July 26, 1902, Page 2, Image 2

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ii J 2 OOODWIN'S WEEKLY.
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HH ''Ml directness talk of foreign countries, but more than
HH jRl ! once ho close(1 nIs remarks with words like these:
BHTnili ' "American ought to visit Europe often, in order to
HB 'qw appreciate how incomparably greater than any
HT UM E country abroad is their own native land."
Bm WJjK I Ho had shrewd ideas of his countrymen who are
mBt 'Jr ' in hB1 statIons' and shrewd judgment on all pub-
H i $$' lie questions. He often deplored the narrowness
Bt Till some of our so-called statesmen. He would
H? J 'Iff never accept an office, though the highest was
H'i -j L tendered him. "I know a little about mining, I
H, j" M get along in business," he would say, "but is that
W . jfcj : If a reason why I should make a spectacle of myself
H !hJr$J in places for which I have had no training?"
H ,f -1 $5 was essentially a worker; he believed it was
Bt Yi'm e only tung to rely uPon Speaking of a strike
HI fl$ that was in progress, he once asid: "These men
H !(! ;' ' humiliate me. I have rolled rocks in the Yuba
Brr j'M-l river for months at a time for a reward of less
B ,v "'! , than $1.00 a day, but I never thought of striking,
Rv j , f for a strike pays less than a worn out placer mine.
tjf,( Why don't these men work and save their wages
x 'A and then in a little while, if dissatisfied, try some-
H. '-ri, thing else or some other field? Strikes lead to
H v jfl idleness. The taint of idleness soon saps the ener-
H '!''. T gies of strong men and that is the beginning of
H?' ' J(f their decay."
f ' ,H But a few weeks since he seemed in perfect
HtM' " health. The frost that will not melt at dawn was
H on his hair, but the old ruddy complexion re-
flj z) d mained, the old light was in his eyes, the old firm
Hl,r, M( grasp was in his hand and he was dreaming of
J k4nj "putting a girdle 'round about" the world's great-
ill ' Hi est ocean Indeed, a ship loaded with the first sec-
F IJ " iff tion of tlie Paclflc cate Inst week pulled out of
1 vl I If an EnSllsa Prt- He ought to have lived another
Hl $ 1 HI en years The world needed his work, the poor
if-I?rf needed his sympathy, the rich his high example.
$ 1 He began life penniless, he died worth millions,
F, 'JJfl but his wealth made no man poorer, his was
f . 1 ; newly created money. He stormed the strongholds
where nature had locked her treasures and took
them in fair fight. In obtaining them no taint or
stain was left upon his integrity or manhood, and
his character shining back along the path which
marked his high soul's flight is revealed white as
a planet's light.
Most wealthy men are estimated by the magni
tude of their fortune. Had Mr. Mackay remained
poor he would still have been a chief among men,
for there was a splendor of manhood about him
compared with which gold is lusjterless. He was
a great captain of industry, as winsome as he
was commanding. Had he been made a prisoner
by savages he would in a month have been made
chief by natural selection. It is pitable to think of
him as dead, but now that his transition has come,
the memories of what he was are covered already
with halos and they will finally cause his image to
stand out magnified in its niche, in the great Hall
of Fame where are placed the statues of the world's
industrial Captains.
A BOGUS COMPARISON.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner draws a contrast be
tween the course pursued toward Japan and to
ward the Philippines. It describes Japan as peo
pled by Pagans, the Philippines as peopled by
Christians, says "They have worshipped the true
God, erected homes and struggled for freedom." It
points to Japanese progress and adds: "Peace
marked the dealings with the heathen Japanese;
slaughter and sword mark the dealings with the
Christian Filipinos."
And it would be difficult to crowd more utter
rot into so small a space. Japan was a great na
tion when Marco Polo visited there seven hundred
years ago. It had about the most perfect govern
ment on earth, for it had even then caught the
secret of feeding a vast population on a small area,
and so adjusting matters that few of all the mil
lions were desperately poor and none very rich.
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There was no cause to try to improve the condition
of the Japanese, for any change woulcl have made
that condition worse There was no occasion to
interfere, for not only was the Government more
nearly perfect than almost any other, but every
resource of the Islands was already utilized.
In the Philippines are some thirty-three tribes.
The one most advanced when under Spanish rule
sometimes fought for some concessions from Spain,
never for freedom. The Commoner has often
praised the heroism of Aguinaldo. We can esti
mate both his enlightment and Christianity from
the fact that he had his foremost lieutenant as
sassinated through jealousy.
The struggle which the Commoner pictures so
touchingly was but a struggle for loot and power,
the struggle of some adventurers of one tribe to
rob their fellow tribesmen and to enslave the
neighboring tribes.
The Japanese are of an ancient, trained, level
headed race. The Filipino is a mongrel mixture of
Spanish, Malay and Chinese.
The native Japanese is a born worker, the native
Filipino is a treacherous snealc. The Japanese has
a grateful nature, the Filipino will contract for a
consideration to assassinate his greatest bene
factor. The testimony of American officers who have
served in the islands is all one way and exactlj the
contrary of the testimony of the Commoner.
The testimony of the best educated Filipinos is
that their countrymen are not fit to be trusted with
self-government.
The decent class among the Filipinos, those
whom Mr. Bryan weeps over, are rejoiced at the
change that has come, for it insures them full re
ward for their earnings, safety and a promise o(
education for their children and as much liberty
as Mr. Bryan himself enjoys. The tears of the
Commoner are crocodile and vain.
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for the
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out a rival in point of good service.
The Chicago Special leaving Denver at 4 p. m., the St. Louis
Special leaving at 3 p m., and the Vestibuled Flyer leaving at 10 p.
m., are offered as good examples of the Burlington idea.
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