The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-21
Strong Arguments Against Annexa-
ton Of the Philippines.
FOREIGN POLICY IDEAS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE
SARATOGA CONFERENCE.
Conquered Islands Should Be Re-
garded As Wards of America IN
til They Are Able to Govern
Themselves-Should Not Be Re
turned to Spain.

Z A9eAA eANOeey ~ l.: <AQS- gu ilC Id
tional conference on the foreign polio!
of the United States resumed its dis
cussions this morning. 1t was presided
over by Robert Treat Payne of Boston
In a brief address he defined himself
as an anti-expansionist I'VE mus
treat those islands captured from Spair
as prizes to be dealt with as we think
best. We must do the gest thing we
can under the circumstances. While
we may not hold them by the right OF
conquest, we should see that proper
form OF government IS established over
each. We must never forget the prin-
ciples that underlie this great repub-
lie"
Morefield Storey Of Boston next ad-
dressed the conference. At the conclu-
sion of Mr.. Storeys remarks, Mr..
Payne, the chairman, said that he con-
Cured with the anti-eXpansion features
of Mr.. Storeyts address,
The next speaker was Samuel Com
pers, president of the federation of Ia
Dor. Mr.. GOmpers opposed the expan-
sion idea. He asserted that half the
population Of Hawaii are contract ia
borers-virtually slaves-composed
mostly of Chinese, Japanese and Por-
tuguese Of the Azores Islands. He dep
reeated the annexation of Hawaii, but
ippines by the United States would be
many times more hurtful. The Indian
question. he said, had been a source of
great annoyance to the government,
but it never compared with the Ques-
1 tions that would be presented by ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines. with their
seven or eight millions Of half civilized
inhabitants.
FOR EXPANSION.
William Dudley Foulke of Indiana,
an eXpansionist, replied to the anu-eX-
pansion statements of Messrs. Com
perS. Storey and Schurz.
James T. Hooker. president of the
Cinoinnati board If trade, followed with
brief address favoring expansion.
Mayor p ". Medium Of Savannah
presided at this afternoons closing ses-
sion. He expressed himself as ar eX-
pansioniSt and in favor of the United
States spreading its power and control
over the islands recently acquired by
conquest. E. V. Smaliey Of st. Paul,
in short address, also expressed him
self in favor of expansion.
DIR. William 2. Wilson, director of the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum,
drew an interesting sketch of the topo-
graphic. geodeCic and climatic features
of the Philippines and made an argu-
ment for the retention of the islands,
Try as a foothold for the extension of
American commerce to the countries of
the orient.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Chancellor NIcCracken of the Univer-
sity of New York, as chairman of the
committee of p on resolutions, pre-
sented a report, which, he said, had
been unanimously agreed upon by the
committee. The resolutions were~unani-
mously adopted by the conference, as
follows:
We, the participants in the national
conference on the foreign policy of the
United States, held at Saratoga on
Aug. 10 ana 20, 1898, are unanimously
agreed as follows:
, We commend the wise and patriotic
purpose of the national administration
IN first seeking to avoid war with
Spain, and subsequently prosecuting
the war with higher aims and success
IN bringing it to a speedy conclusion.
1t is glorious to our arms and crafty /
ing to the high aspirations OF our
people.
"On behalf of freedom and human
welfare, we thank the officers and men /
of our army and navy for their skillful |
and heroic achievements on land and |
on sea, and for their chivalrous conduct |
toward the defeated enemy. We be- /
lieve that the rescued and liberated |
people Of the surrendered islands are in |
& sense temporarily the wards of the
conquering nation, and that we should /
treat them as such.
ISLANDS SHOULD BE HELD.
with our success, with our view of
natural right and of the inestimable
privileges of civil liberty, we should
not be justified IL returning the con-
quered islands to the misrule and op-
preston from which we have relieved
them. As soon as the islands under
our present protection can be trusted ;
to govern themselves, they should be
allowed to do so, the United States re-
tanning under its authority only neces-
S3Iy naval stations. Until such time
rs they may be able to govern them
selves, they should continue under the
protection Of the United States, and
the question as to whether, at some
future period, and at the mutual desire
IF both, they should be permanently
annexed, should be left to the time
when il arises.
The United States, in behalf of each
in question, and so long as it
Snail continue under its protection,
Should adopt proper measures for Sc
;uring out of the revenues of these
Countries the establishment of free.
unsectarian schools, suffi-
lent FOR the instruction of all persons
u school age.
We count the present an suspicious
ime for the establishment by the Unit :
ID States of a graded diplomatic and | :
consular service. {
We heartily approve of the principle I
II arbitration in the settlement of in
ernauonal difficulties, and urge that
is largest practicable application be l
occurred by treaties of arbitration. q .
We cordially favor the precedent SET 4
y President Mckinley in refusing AT o
he beginning Of the war to grant let +
ers of marque and reprisal, and we
commend that in the peace to be [
encluded between the United States r
nd Spain, the practice of privateering !
ision be made as foreshadoweded by q
he government of the United States. I
l refusing 10 sign the declaration of
'aris in 1856. for the exemption from I
apture of private property at sea, in Il
c2ordance with the enlightened senti- =
lentS Of mankind =
Chairman Henry Wade Rogers and e
Ralph ". Eastley of Chi e
ago and the committee of q We're in II
-rueted to present the resolutions to
resident Mckinley and his cabinet for e
.eir consideration. The convention to- /
ight adjourned, subject to the call of s.
hartman Rogers. y
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