idence rests in
the fact that I do not know them, to think that the passage of such
a bill is possible. If it were passed I think I would be justified
in using the language of the old Marylander, who said, "I have
lived in Maryland fifty years, but I have never counted them, and
my hope is, that God won't."

_Question_. What did you think of the late Joseph Medill?

_Answer_. I was not very well acquainted with Mr. Medill. I had
a good many conversations with him, and I was quite familiar with
his work. I regard him as the greatest editor of the Northwestern
States and I am not sure that there was a greater one in the country.
He was one of the builders of the Republican party. He was on the
right side of the great question of Liberty. He was a man of strong
likes and I may say dislikes. He never surrendered his personality.
The atom called Joseph Medill was never lost in the aggregation
known as the Republican party. He was true to that party when it
was true to him. As a rule he traveled a road of his own and he
never seemed to have any doubt about where the road led. I think
that he was an exceedingly useful man. I think the only true
religion is usefulness. He was a very strong writer, and when
touched by friendship for a man, or a cause, he occasionally wrote
very great paragraphs, and paragraphs full of force and most
admirably expressed.

--_The Tribune_, Chicago, March 19, 1899.

EXPANSION AND TRUSTS.*

[* This was Colonel Ingersoll's last interview.]

I am an expansionist. The country has the land hunger and expansion
is popular. I want all we can honestly get.

But I do not want the Philippines unless the Filipinos want us,
and I feel exactly the same about the Cubans.

We paid twenty millions of dollars to Spain for the Philippine
Islands, and we knew that Spain had no title to them.

The question with me is not one of trade or convenience; it is a
question of right or wrong. I think the best patriot is the man
who wants his country to do right.

The Philippines would be a very valuable possession to us, in view
of their proximity to China. But, however desirable they may be,
that cuts no figure. We must do right. We must act nobly toward
the Filipinos, whether we get the islands or not.

I would like to see peace between us and the Filipinos; peace
honorable to both; peace based on reason instead of force.

If control had been given to Dewey, if Miles had been sent to
Ma