The record-union., 1898-08-20

look clearly over the Empires of the
earth Without the sacrifice of right
eousness or honor, but as the ministers
of both, the invitation comes to take
our share in the opportunities and re-
Sponsibilties of this wider field. The
Immediate Question: the one that, by it's
solution, will either. bring lls in or bar
us out of this larger. national sphere
relates to the permanent occupation of
our Spanish conquests.
THE true question is not wheth-
er Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines are intrinsically worth
the responsibilities incurred by their
occupation; whether their commerce
and resources will counterbalance the
new dangers that their acquirment
would introduce into our political sys-
tenn For I see behind them, in the
horizon toward which we are heading,
looming up from the Pacific, in mount
ainous interest and opportunity,
against which the outlines of the Phil
ippines are but hand speck, something
more than islands, nothing else than
continent.
within Asia lies the interest and
opportunity that by its largeness
dwarfs every other prospect. l favor
the acquisition of Porto Rico, partly
because the moral purpose of this war
demands that it should no longer be
political plague spot in the otherwise
purified Caribbean Sea, but chiefly be-
cause it is at the gateway to the Carp
bean-a sea that when the commerce
of Asia is fully developed and the MIC
araguan Canal opened, Will, from Dotn
a naval and commercial view. become
the most important water on the race
of the globe 1 favor the acquisition
of Hawaii, and / favor the acquisition
Of the Philippines, or so much OF them
as may be needed, solely because in
the new career of commercial activity
upon which, I trust we are about to
enter, we need clear across the Pacihc
a line Of naval stations and home ports;
stations in every sense our own, car
rying under the soil the American title
and over it the American flag.
II favor the retention OF the Phlllp-
pines, or at least part of them, that
they may stand as a tangible contlnu-
ing demonstration of the physical pres
ence of the Republic in Asiatlc waters.
The value of these cOnqueSts is not In
their territory, nor their resources, sep
arately considered, but in the fact that
as an entirety they constitute a chaln
precisely adapted to the expanded
sphere in which we are to enter. l
care little for the links, individually,
but everything for the chain that Will,
henceforth hold us to our opportun1-
ties in the far East.
Judge Grosscup declared that, in his
| judgment, the most interesting and i'm
portant object of our future foreign
policy was involved in the immediate
future of Asia. The breakup in the
current Of Asiatic life is at hand, he
declared, and the gates are opening
upon a market, the full magnitude OF
which has not yet dawned upon the
world. The far-seeing statesmen of
Europe appreciate the situation, he
said and far-seeing America must soon
compass it,
In conclusion, Judge Grosscup de-
clared that the course Of the nation
was clear If the American people are
earnest in their purpose to participate
in the development of the East, he said,
they need these islands as strategic
points, and as an integral part Of the
naval force. Withoutifa naval display,
he asserted, the country can never se-
cure it's proper share in the commerce
of the East, or protect 1t after 1t is
obtained. -
William Dudley Bull of Indiana to-
night made a lengthy@and strong ad-
dress in favor of territorial expansion.
Congressman Frederick II. Gillett of
Massachusetts made an address on the
immortality Of prize money.