1 6 Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope 



in hard cash to the United States ; but it does 

 seem absolutely certain — if the testimony of the 

 past is to be accepted — that with nations as with 

 individuals a policy of self-sufficiency, of restric- 

 tion, and of isolation, is demoralising, and in the 

 end disintegrating. The Spanish -American war, 

 where millionaire and cowboy fought side by side 

 in the ranks, did more to adjust the relations be- 

 tween rich and poor than all the synthetic philoso- 

 phies of the world. Expansion will create new and 

 enlarge old professions ; it must have a permanent 

 civil service, a diplomatic corps, an army, an ade- 

 quate navy, a merchant marine; but these are 

 merely the phylacteries of evolution ; beneath and 

 unseen lie the quickening pulses of a life richer in 

 its opportunities, wider in its scope, more varied 

 and variegated, a life in sympathy and in touch 

 with others, a life that is ampler, nobler, freer, 

 and happier than the life which lives in and for 

 itself alone. As the egg of an eagle is to the 

 monarch of the air, so is the incubation to the 

 "hatch and the disclose" of a great nation. 



However, dismissing the subject of Imperialism 

 as one not germane to these pages, we must remem- 

 ber that rightly or wrongly the Philippines and 

 Hawaii now belong to the United States, and that 

 their possession affects the future of the Pacific 

 Slope more than any other part of Uncle Sam's 

 domain. Californians, at any rate, have no cause 

 to complain of or criticise a policy which must 

 benefit directly and indirectly every farmer and 

 merchant west of the Rocky Mountains. It has 

 been computed that the Philippines' imports from 



