The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
THE TERMS OF PEACE.

colonial expansion go together. The western world has reached with greedy hand for the prize of Oriental commerce. It made the commercial center of Europe n the city o Wisby nearly thousand years ago. It built Venice on the marshes and gded her palaces. It made the Meth erands rich enough to be prize to Span. 1t has poured Pactous stream into England since Give and Hastings turned commercial settlement
 into political empire and the scepter of the Moguls broken.
 Between that Oriental and tropical commerce there is but little difference. They originate i'll great natural resources wrought upon by teeming popu- lation
 The Spanish war has brought within our reach the richest of the tropical islands They peopled by i'll fitted govern themselves and not amiable to any form of government and most orderly under military restraint.
 It IS proposed to hold these possessions perma nenty as colonies The should be stated fairly We spent blood and treasure in against the misgovernment of these colonies by Spain They have fallen from her weak hand
 Shall we keep them? If we do, their affairs must be administered they must have government. The extension of commerce to them will require that person and property must be sternly protected. The administration will of necessity be largely military Our army consisting of 28o,ooo men, will be maintained at that figure. The navy will be n- creased to about 700 fighting ships of the model and armament proved by recent trials to be the best suited to ofense and defense The military and naval career open to young will be greatly banded West Point and Annapolis will be occupied with their full quota of cadets and each graduate will
 immediately take his station. The profession of will offer prizes that have heretofore been sought in law and medicine. In the palnly days of Rome's policy of conquest law and the army offered the prizes of ambition. It will be here, if enter upon expansion, because the army and politics will absorb the interest and monopoize the attention of our people
 The government of our colonies will increase the power of the executive The issues in the Philip pines alone will for years call for constant adjustment and readjustment They will be entirely novel and be settled by Congress Their treatment must be executive The rebellion there has not been against the exactons of the civil power of Spain, but against the prnacy and the cost of the ecclesiastical establishment, which is the largest realty in the islands and has administered only internal affairs but has controlled external commerce as we'll The treatment of this ecclesiastical establishment will produce important changes in domestic politics and raise questions home which will divide our own people fresh partisan alignment and give an impetus to politics profession.
 The building of ships and equipment and mainte- nance Ci large army will impart a profitable tiyity to many lines of construction and manufac- ture. The fortifyng of these islands will call for large expenditure profitable to American contractors. As their possession puts in direct rivalry to all other nations, the causes of quarrel with them are marvelousy multiplied, that the country may not lock for long periods of peace. The much talked of British alliance is brought into focus by this policy. Great Britain wants neighborly neighbor in the Asatic tropics. Manila is within Goo miles of Hong kong. the seat of her power in China. As colo nal policy will be exact copy of hers, the two na- tions will pull together, and English aspirations in Egypt and Africa will be put nearer to realization The whole bent and tendency of the American mind will be changed. The very education of people will be affected. Its purpose will be shifted. Our people will find their highest aspiration to be the contemplation of physical power. Our policy will be military and the civilian will be subordinate in re- spect and influence to the military man. Our Ma tional Government will acquire that viriity which of the concentration of power that is nsepar- able from mitarsm. The people will see that greater promptness in Federal action that is possible only when freed from the peculiar restraints provided in the constitution. Domestic disorders will be more promptly quelled, and the rights of property will feel greater security.
 These may be fairly put among what is to come if the of peace include our permanent acquisition oi the colonies of Spain