Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-09-08

Germany and France want porta ana
trading areas. Ot all the nations stFuQeI.
| Ing for the trade of the Pacific, ours Ia
the only one naturally entitled 10 II.
London and Paris and Berlin and st.
Petersburg are on the other side OF tho
| globe, but We have q Pacific coast line
Of 1000 miles. Tho Philippines means
our ultimate supremacy in tho Pacific.
They are the easternmost boundary Of
the markets Of the East. On one side
| Is China, on the other they look across
to our own shores. Stretching 1000
miles from north to south and 600 from
east to west, they form natural bar
rier between the East and the Pacific.
Scattered over 600,o square miles Of
| the oceans surface. the whole vast
area would serve as an outpost from
which to protect and develop the inter-
ests OF America.
Facing the Pacific and Indian
oceans is more than half the popula-
tion OF the globe. Excluding North
America, the foreign commerce OF these
peoples already amounts to $780,
100000 year. History shows that
whatever nation controls this COM
merce controls the trade OF the world.
Tho stake at Issue Is stupendous Moth.
ing less than an entire and undivided
control OF the Philippines would give
rs a base adequate for our needs. Ma
Mia bay, or even Luzon, for naval
md coaling station, would he too peril
Gus and costly possession, will all the
other islands partitioned and garri.
soned by European powers. Let Eng
lands experience with India and China
be warning. India. conquered and
governed, has been mine OF wealth.
China, exploited through the trading
posts, is burden and constant peril.
We want the Philippines, not Ma
Mia, just as England today needs Gem
trail China. and not simply Hong Kong.
We own the Philippines by right OF
conquest; no other nation does. We
are in possession; no other nation is.
We can maintain stable government;
Spain cannot, and the natives are in.
capable OF seli-rule. can conceive no
reason to give away. or sell or lease or
abandon q single foot Of the territory.
1t would be to lessen in that proportion
the greatest opportunity Providence
ever placed before the nation.
With the Philippines, Ladrones,
Samoa and Hawaii. our possessions will
reach across the Pacific, and its COM
mefce will become the commerce OF
America In larger degree than OF any
other nation. The Pacific itself will
be ours pre-eminently; our territory
will bound Ii on two sides; our islands
will dot its surface; and with the ocean
and its trade In our possession, our po-
litical predominanoe will be assured
among the nations Of the world.
Such Is the broad plane OF interna-
tional relations upon which alone II ID
wise to discuss an Anglo-American al
lance"
Professor Gardiner then explained
that he did not mean ar alliance as the
word Is understood in Europe--a mill
tary Co partnership-but a strong com
mercial alliance, protected an arbitra-
tion treaty which would, In his estima-
tion. better assure universal peace than
any other thing that could be brought
about. He then went on to show that
America had profited moro by the mar
kets opened through Great Britain's
efforts than any other nation, save
Great Britain herself. For these great
benefits, he held, America should give
something in return. and an alliance
such as he suggested would make the
ADglo-Saxon race masters Of the world,
not less to the advantage of America
than of Great Britain.