The age-herald., 1898-08-20
FUR THE SAKE
 OF HUMANITY America Should Hold All the Conquered Territory NE OWE II To MANKIND To Prevent the Philippines From Slipping From Our Grasp. THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF ASIA Seal Broken Separating the Continent
 From Modern Civilization. EUROPE'S STATESMEN SEE IT And the Far Seeing Men of America Will Soon Compass It. America
 is Interested From Commer-
 cial Point of View.
Seal Broken Separating the Continent
 From Modern Civilization.
EURoPE's STATESMEN SEE IT

saratoga, N. r., Aug. 19.-The colonial extension problem was discussed at to- days session of the national policy con- ference. Carl Schurz, of New York; spoke at length, giving the views of the anti expansionists, whose cause he advoo ated He was opposed by Judge P. S. Grosscup, of Chicago, who is an earnest expansion ist and who spoke at great length.
 Judge Grosscup said in part:
 "I am among those, MT. President who believe that the people of the United States can without breach of faith to the promises to our past or serious danger to the expectations of our future, hold per- manently all, or portion of the territory that has been occupied by our troops dur ing the progress of the war; I am ready to go step further and assert that the obligations of our duty toward mankind and especially toward the particular peo- ple's who have been drawn into the sphere or our opera tions and towards the future usefulness of ourselves, demand that we should hold permanently so much of these the captures of war; as are needed to round out the moral purposes for which it was inaugurated and the greater destiny upon which question we were able to en- ter. I challenge the statement so liber- ally indulged by our opponents, that in taking this stand the American people are moved by emotionalism or are deceived by generalities.
 In New Atmosphere
 Wars are the thunderstorms of civiliza- tion. They never subside without clearing the atmosphere of much of its sultriness The one through which we are just pass ing seems to have enveloped the people of America in a new atmosphere. We see more clearly than ever before the things that n this world can be called our own and the things that stand apart from us the possession of others; ourselves and our relations to other nations of the other world as distinct in ourselves. The air through which we look Is clearer, our vis- ion longer and the outlines and the future have taken on a distinctiveness that leaves us no longer in doubt which way to take our course. No doubt three months ago the eyes of the world were habitualy turned inwardly upon itself. The industries and commerce of this continent monopolized us. Our policies were the policies of America alone-running too frequently, particularly in their financial and commercial phases into thing apart from the corresponding systems of the world. It was, in my judg- ment, providential hand, gloved in the smoke of battles, that led Jus out from those confining boundaries to the mountain spur we now occupy.
 Moral Elevation
 'There is moral elevation in a wide out look. As a people we, for the first time look clearly over the empires of the earth. Without the sacrifice of righteousness or of honor, but as the ministers of both, the invitation comes to take our share in the opportunities and responsibilities of this wider field. The immediate question, the one which. by its solution, will hiring us in or bear us out of this larger national sphere, relates to the permanent occupa- tion of our Spanish conquests. The true question is not whether Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines are intrinsically worth the responsibility incurred by their occu- patton; whether their commerce and re- sources will counterbalance the new dan. gers that their requirement. would intro- duce into our political system. For I see behind them in the horizon toward which we are heading, looming up from the Pa- cifc in mountainous interest and opportu- nity-against which the outlines of the Philippines are but a handspeck-some- thing more than islands, nothing else than a continent. Within Asia lies the interest and the opportunity that by its 1argeness, dwarfs every other prospect. I favor the acquisition of Porto Rico, partly because the moral purpose of this war demands that it should no longer be a political plague spot in the otherwise purified Caribbean sea, but partly because 1t is at the gateway of the Caribbean-a sea that when the commerce of Asia Is fully de- veloped and the Nicaragua canal opened, will form both a naval and commercial view, because the most important water on the face of the globe. I favored the acquisition of Hawaii and I favor the ac- quisition of the Philippines, or SO much of them as may be needed, solely because in the new career of commercial activity upon which trust we are about to enter, we need clear across the Pacific a line of naval stations and home ports; stations in every sense our own, carrying under the soil the American title and over it the American flag.
 The Physical Presence
 'T favor the retention of the Philippines, or at least part of them, that they may stand as a tangible continuing demonstra- ton ofsthe physical presence of the repub-