Hong Kong's Superpatriots Get Going

In 1896, when flag-waving newspaper publishers in New York were trying to foment a US colonial war to take the island of Cuba away from Spain, William Randolph Hearst, the publisher of the New York Journal, sent the famed painter and sculptor Frederic Remington to Cuba to draw sketches of the action.

When Remington cabled back a few weeks later that ever…