The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-09

volved in e%ntangling alliances. and Depart
from the precepts OF the farewell adj
trouble at our very doors for a hundred
years, Mexico and Central and south
America have had revolutions without
number, Great Britain bounds our terri
tory for thousands OF miles; and yet for
a century we have avoided entanglinE
alliances, although both ~propinquity and
The nations OF Europe are to-day concen-
trating their energies on the shores or
the Pacific. England pushed through the
trade. Hussia II building her trans-Si-
berian road for the same purpose. Ger
many and France want ports and trading
areas. OF all the nations struggling Tor
the trade OF the Pacific. ours is the only
one naturally entitled 70 II; Londo and
Paris and Berlin and 81. Petersburg are
n she other ,ac siae 81 ,r me e, fls o mu Du' The
Philippines mean our ultimate supremacy
In the Pacific. They are the easternmost
boundary. OF the markets Of the east on
one side l. China. on the other they look
across 70 our shores. etIeichin@ i,v'l
miles from north to south. and GO from
east 20 west, they form a natural barrier
between the east and the Pacific. sea-,
tered over 1000 square miles on the
oceans surface, the whole vast area
would serve az an outpost from which TO
protect and develop the interests OF Amer
Facing the Pacific and Indian oceans Is
more than half the population of the
globe. Excluding North America. the
foreign OF these people already
amount TO s2.5o0.OvO.Ooo a year. History
shows that whatever nation controls this
commerce. controls the trade OF the world.
me stake at Issue Is stupcndous. Moth
Ing less than an entire and undivided con-
troll OF the Philippines would give US a
base adequate TO our needs Manila
bay, or wen Luzon, for "a naval and coal
ing station would be too perilous and cost
ly a possession. with all the other Is
lands partitioned and garrisoned by, Eu-
ropean powers. Let E~ngland's experience
with India and China be "A warning. In
dia conquered and governed. has a mine
OF wealth. China. exploited through trad
ing posts. Is a burden and a constant per-
IL. We want the Philippines, not Manila,
just as England to-day needs central Chi
ma, and not simply Hong Kong. We own
the Philippines by right OF conquest. no
other nation does: We are in possession.
no other nation is: we can maintain sta
Bile government. Spain can not, and the
natives are incapable OF self-rule. / can
conceive no reason to give away. oil sell.
or lease, or abandon a single foot of terri
tory. 1t would be to lessen In that pro-
dence ever placed before the nation. With
the Philippines. Ladrones. Samoa, and
Hawaii our possessions Will reach
across the Pacific and it's commerce Will
be ours prominently; our territory Will
bound IL on two sides. our islands will dot
Its surface. and with the ocean and it's
trade in our possession, our political pre-
dominance VIII be assured among the
nations OF the world.
Such is the broad plane OF International
relations, upon which alone IL is wise TO
discuss an Angio-American alliance.
4 formal. articulated alliance. in the
European acceptance OF the term, and as
represented by it's dreibunds and kaiser
bunds. Is an artificial bond. arbitrary in
character. and essentially military i'm pur-
pose. IL implies constraint. disregards ma
tional conscience. eliminatesnatiOnal judg-
mont and AfGHAnrn q p1fNrtIa4alff = ~ no
tiOnal action. If defensive only, England
would defend US, and we would defend
England, against the world. irrespective
OF past relations, present friendships or
future interests. III nenSi and de-
fensiye, each would be a party TO the
quarrels Of the other. without the exercise
OF discretion or Judgment Such an alli-
ance would increase entanglements. inter-
national impartiallty would be impossible
each nation would be fettered and ham
pered, discussions OF compensations and
advantages and equivalents would follow Z.
and friction and irritation would finally
degenerate into open hostility. II was
against such alliances that Washington
warne US, and his advice Is sound to-
day. We want none OF them. We need
no alliances offensive and defensive. nor
permanent and comprehensive treaties.
More powerful than formally articulat-
ed alliances and more enduring than writ
ten treaties, is the bond of interest and
sentiment that unites the two branches
Of the Anglo-Saxon race. Next L giving
US the Philippines. the greatest blessing
OF our late war was to rediscover En-
gland and America 10 each other. The
two peoples, now for the first time in "A
century. earnestly desire each others
friendship. Nor Is this a sudden aspira-
ton born of emergencies in the Spanish
American war. but the result, as we have
seen, of economic, political and radical
forces which have been silently at work
for centuries. The great unwrftten and
natural laws, the laws higher than human
institutions. are asserting their suprem-
acy and are drawing the peoples together
with an impulse that no human power
can safely resist. That alliance is even
now more than a theory, IL is fast be-
coming an actuality; anr woe betfde any
man or party that disregards that fact
and gets in front OF an memorable racial
movement backed by l25.OO0. 0o0eniightened
sovereigns.
most ingenious. intelligent and active pro-
ducers in the world Is tar ex-
ceeding consumption. The result is that
we must find additional market or cur
tail our products. Hence our intense and
increasing interest in the worlds COM
merce, TO which we gave scarcely n
thought when the country was young.
And wherever we go, In whatever direc-
ton We expand our trade. there we find
Great Britain already established. main
tanning open markets. forcing wide the
doors of commerce. and developing trade
interests identical with our own.
The area OF England and her colonies
Is 16,ee2, o13. square miles, more than our
and a half times the size of the United
States: and the population Is 3sl. s25. 900.
These possessions. too. are constantly in
creasing. In the past twelve years En-
gland has acquired 100000 square miles.
more han twenty times the combined
area OF the Philippines. Porto Rico and Ha-
wall: and all this territory IL open to
America on practically the same terms
as to Great Britain. Even into remote
British possessions and markets. we are
pushing our commerce and discovering
untold possibilities. The African Cape
colony imports from British dominions.
aggregated last year Ss. $40. 1862. and near
" three times larger than the imports
from n other country where those from
the United States. of 81. 151.0 1. Our total
exports to Africa in lsss were only $1,000
GOO. but for the fiscal year 1885. they We're
over $1 .On.Vc And I'm China. whore En-
gland single-handed is opposing Russia,
We pass through the doors she forces
open. and In her own sphere Of influence,
compete with her own merchants for
their local trade. Our amounts
trade. Last year II was three times as
great as in 1885. four times as great as i'm
1880. 50 per cent. greater than that of Ger
many. and second only TO that OF IN
gland.
In fact in England's own territory. as
well as In the ports held open by her
diplomacy and arms. we are her chief
rival. Our trade ranks second to her own.
ana ofte1 aggregates more than the conn
continental imports. And that trade
Is rapidly increasing. even more rapidly
than the phenomenal Increase In our gen
eral export trade, which last year was
twice hat of 1SS, four times as much
as In 1868. n seven times tina OF 1866.