The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-01
NGLO-AMERICAN
ALLIANCE SPEECH
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non-intervention of America in mat
ters relating to the European contin-
ent. That has nothing to do with
American Intervention in Asia, nor
with legitimate expansion of our terri
tory in the Orient. If we are abrogat-
ing the doctrine, it must be because the
Orient is exclusively for Orientals, and
not for English and Russians and Ger
mans and French and Hollanders, who
are all there now, and fast appropriate
ing the Orient TO themselves. Finally
1t is objected that we will be involved
in entangling alliances, and depart
from the precents of the Farewell Ad-
dress; but Spain provoked continuous
trouble at our very doors for hundred
years, Mexico and Central and South
America have had revolutions without
number. Great Britain bounds our ter
rltory Tor thousands of miles: and yet
Tor a century we have avoided en-
tanSling alliances. although both pro-
plnqulty and proyocation existed
VALUE OF PACIFIC TRADE.
The nations of Europe are today con-
centrating their energies on the shores
or the Pacific. England pushed
through the Canadian railway to fos-
ter her Pacific trade. Russia is build
ing her Siberian road for the
same purpose. Germany and France
want ports and trading areas, OF all
the nations struggling for the trade of
the racine, ours is the only one natur-
ally entitled to it. London and Paris
ana Berlin and st. Petersburg are on
the other side of the globe, but we have
facl1c coast line of 1000 miles. The
Phllpplnes mean our ultimate suprem-
acy IN the Pacific. They are the east
crn-most boundary of the markets of
the East. On one side is China, on the
other they look across to our own
shoies' stretching 1000 miles from
norm TO south and 600 from east to
west, they form a natural barrier be-
tween the East and the Pacific. Scat
leleu over o9O'OOO square miles of the
would serve as an outpost from which
10 protect and develop the interests of
America.
Facing the Pacific and Indian oceans
is more than half the population of the
globe Excluding North America. the
foreign commerce of these peoples AL
ready amounts to $4,000, 900, 900 a year,
history SHOWS that whatever nation
controls this commerce, controls the
trade of the world. The stake at issue
Is stupendous. Nothing less than an
entire and undivided control of the
philippines would give us a base ade-
quate for our needs. Manila bay, OF
even LuZon, for a naval and coaline
station would be too perilous and cost
ly possession, with all the other ISL
ands partitioned and garrisoned by
European powers. With the Philip
pines, Ladrones, Samoa and Hawaii
our possessions will reach across the
Pacific, and its commerce will become
the commerce of America in a larger
degree than of any other nation. The
Pacific itself will be ours preeminently;
our territory will bound it on two
sides; our islands will dot it's surface;
and with the ocean and it's trade in
our possession. our political predom
nance will be assured among the ma
tions of the world.
NO WRITTEN ALLIANCE.
Such is the broad plans of interna-
tional relations, upon which alone il
is wise to discuss an Anglo-American
alliance. A formal, articulated allL-
ance, in the European acceptance of
the term, and as represented by its
Dreibunds and Kaiserbunds, is an arti-
fetal bond, arbitrary in character, and
essentially military in purpose. 1t inn
plies constraint, disregards national
conscience, eliminates national judg.
ment, and discourages individuality OF
| national action. If defensive only
England would defend us. and we
would defend England. against the
! world. irrespective OF past relations