New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-25
DIR. PARKHl-RST on EXPANSION.
SAYS HE WORLD RATHER RE \ MALAY srB'Ecr
TO SPAIN THAN An AMERICAN INDIAN

SAYS HE WORLD RATHER RE MALAY stB'Ecr
TO SPAIN THAN Az AMERICAN 1NpTAN
UNDER THE INDIAN BUREAU.
The Rev Or charles H. Parkhurst. in the course
Of his Thanksgiving sermon In the Madison Square
PRESBYTERIAN church. yesterday morning said.
Tho Americ an Spanish War Is row substantially
q thing of history 40 practical interest would
therefore hc served ~ this day by discussing
whether not the war was riShteouSly uhdcr-
taken. ~ 1t right in its inception II was maze
more righteous by the success Of i.s CONCLUSION
II it was unrghteous IN It's inception # VAS no less
unriehteous by tho success OF its conclusion. The
fact remains and perhaps always viii remain, that
II cannot be stated whether the President hnaly
and reluctantly declared war because the Maine
was exploded because the Cuhans were being NAL
treated or because A lot OF congressman told the
President that II he recalctrant they would
play Judas TO the Republican Administration The
verdict Of history will probably he-passion. pety
ana politics.
Il venture to say that victory. now that # Is
achieved is not thing to hrag Of We have con
ouerod a people that ten times our inferior In
brute force. military genius and personal nore
How we should have come out of it II. as tho boys
say We had taken one of our size. cannot 50
easily he asserted BE that as II may. tho victory
having been secured tho next question to deter
mine is What are going to do with Il? 1t Is
easier to win victory than to use II.
National domain? Are you aware that If you put
alongside Of each other the territory Of England.
Scotland. ireland. France. Germany. Austria,
Switzerland Italy. Greece Denmark and Portugal
and undertake to blanket the United States with
them two-thlrds OF our territory VIII he left I'M
covered? A distinguished English officer speaking
recently at dinner given IN honor OF General
Miles. urged upon us policy Of expansion For.
said he n virile cannot exist within limited
area That is rot: and when you remember that
It has been calculated thar in course OF time this
territory of ours will be able to maintain popula-
ton OF over a billion souls. when you remember
that every day which goes by Is contributing to
determine what the character of that billion will he
politically Enthusiastically and relgionsly. when
you remember that there arc questions hearing
with painful directness upon our National future
that not only have not been solved. but. as yet
hardly taken hold OF. I say, In view OF all TINS
that s. far from being narrow and selfish IN us
not TO 20 tramping round the globe To find some
thing 10 do # Is cruel to the globe and TO the popa-
lions upon # and to the centuries to come for us
not n STAY \. home and give pious heed TO the un
finished business that has been distinctly 'om-
mitted to God into our own hands.
There is not to-day respect enough Tor me au-
thortv OF the General Government TO secure 10 me
negro the rights that belong n him as citizen'
although such rights were noIninally conferred
upon him third of a century ago Aside from
the question of the negro. Heterogeneous popu'd-
tons are pouring in upon rs from al parts of inc
globe. and We cannot keep UP with these great I'M
deestcd masses cf foreign stuff here. that are no
more American In their APPROPRIATIONS and sym
nathies than the day they were born in Ireland
Italy Poland Russia out In the great t.hst
What labor people thinking dpou', VA,
they are rising up in protest tiCfl on ''u ~
the and 10 the other against swinging Wlhe open
the flood gates Of cheap immigration >ou smut
out Inc Chinese because you don't want cheap
labor and bad morals and send cards ~ INVITA-
ton 10 tic Malays. Are you going 10 ueai mem
as captives-ShOot them down II ihey uhdei axe I"
leave the islands on visit 10 the home 'ioN"rn-
Incnt? Then what becomes OF the NauntNd spirit
of American institutions. ami Of such principles 50
dear FOR one hundred years TO the American heart
as that all men created free ana equal or ulat
little apothegm Of that governments shall de-
rive their Just powers from the consent or me gov
erned? Or dd Deweys guns that shockcd the
Spanish nag 10 pieces blow MP all OF the Declare
iion II Independence You 500. there Is a great
deal Of ground to 80 over .
at + simply question whether the Government
&c going 10 keen It's word 10 its own people and 10
question whether have become so intoxicated
hv our military success as to have unearned the
simple principles Of transparent honestF that we
started on. with We wish could have some
ringing words from the President on this matter
VIC are some Of us tired OF seeing him put his ear
10 tho ground In order 10 catch the reverberations
that roll in from the wild West.
II do not wonder that those islanders 20 not want
to be governed from America. They Will probably
want il less after they have had II awhile. our
with savages Is not just what you would call reas
surfing | would rather be- a MALAY. subject to
spain than he American Indian. subject 10 the
Indian Bureau. So long as II is an understood
delivered from the responsibility Of governing de-