p. 30 | Tendencies to Imperialism by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CAL., KANSAS CITY, NEW YORK · Nov 28, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 48.

Tendencies to Imperialism

By Editor

In another column will be found an article on "Tendencies to Imperialism." The United States has been the great lodestone to draw the nations of earth from oppression and tyranny to equality of man and freedom. Now, yielding to imperialism herself, she is drawing the nations of the world back with her to the old order of things, the régime of the Dark Ages. A dozen years ago the trend in England and Europe was away from imperialism to popular government. Now Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner of Canada in London, tells us that "there is a wave of imperialism sweeping irresistibly over Europe." The elections in England all point the same way, and the New York Independent declares that Joseph Chamberlain "appears to-day as the most prominent and the strongest personal factor in English politics." Almost every Liberal who has been prominent in his attacks upon the government has been defeated. And in what will all this end but class hatred and universal strife?