The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-12
DRANK In SILENCE
LOYAL LEGION's MARK OF RE
SPECT TO MAI. MELVILLE WILL
KINSONS MEMORY
THE MINNESOTA COMMANDERY
Holds It's First Meeting Since the
Summer VacatiOn-Rev. DIR. John
Merritt Driver, of Mankato,
Makes "a Strong Plea for Terri
tOr1al ExpansiOn-Uses the Bible
to Point His Argument.

Congressman f. c. Stevens was to
have addressed the Minnesota com
mandery of the Loyal Legion last even
Ing, but he was not given an oppor-
tun1ty to speak. 1t was the first meet
Ing OF the cOmmandery since the sum-
mer vacation and was largely attend
ed. Congressman Stevens was on the
programme to speak, but unfortunate
ly for him the Rev. DR.. John Merritt
Driver, of Mankato, was introduced
first and occupied so much time with
an address on territorial expansion and
an English alliance that the congress-
man had no chance to be heard. He
said in part:
We must look to the future said Dr..
Driver ON April q we found ourselves at
war with Spain Since then two Spanish
fleets have been sent to Join the fleet of Com
modore McGinty. The flower of Spanish chiv-
airy has persisted; some of our brave men are
dead. What is the meaning Of the tremen-
9ous movements of the past six months?
Inere is to be a new alignment Of the powers.
Inc concert of Europe is to be broken up and
the center Of power is to be transferred to
the western coast of the Atlantic. Great
Britain is Isolated. She has not friend in
Europe, Asia or Africa. Russia menaces
Great Britain in Thibet, Afghanistan and IN
d1a; France in Egypt; Italy in Abyssinia;
Belgium in the Congo valley with the secret
assistance of Germany; Germany in the Trans
vaal and other points; the sick man. who
seems now to be the ruggedest, on account
or Russia and Germany; Spain is a constant
annoyance, on account OF her Notifications
at Cuete, which are only second in strength
to Gibraltar. So there is not a single power
to whom Great Britain may appeal. On the
one hand half-dozen combinations may be
formed that would shake the British throne
to its base. On the other hand Great Britain,
with the assistance of the United States, could
defy all the powers combined.
enOcha1 in fha NJ
United States since the Declaration Of hide
pendence was the day Mckinley declared war
against Spain. The Declaration of hide
pendence took US out Of the family of ma
lions; the declaration of war against Spain
took US back into the family, and so the
United States by blood, by civilization and
common interests, is the rational and natural
ally of Great Britain, and into our hands has
passed the balance of power in all the future
operations of the world.
We find our faces turned to Asia
Beaconsfield was fond of declaring in the
house Of commons that Great Britain was not
an Occidental power, and it always caused the
Widest merriment, but time has justified his
assertion, and Great Britain is an Oriental
power. The Philippines, the Ladrones and
Hawaii laugh beneath the Stars and Stripes
and the United States is an OrientaN power.
The day that Dewey sailed into Mania bay
the Philippines practically became ouUs. We
gained the Hawaiian, the Ladrone and the
Philippine Islands without the loss of an ex-
ira man or the expense of an extra dollar
They fell into our lap, and the Carolines are
waiting for US. The great GOd of nature Is
leading US to exert a greater influence over the
nations OF the earth.
RINGS IN THE BIBLE.
What about the Monroe doctrine and the
advice of Washington to enter into no en-
tangling alliances? Those were all right for
this nation when it was in its infancy but
shall We pursue them through our maturity?
The Bible says it is not good for man to be
alone. neither ia 70 bo
alone. l am an expansionist. 1 am everlast-
ingly opposed to pulling down the Stars and
Stripes wherever raised | am in favor OF
inducing capital to go to Porto Rico and to
CUBA, when it is ours, and to Hawaii and to
the Philippines because capital will see that
laws are inforced in protect it. 1 believe in
extending the American school system to
those Islands. The people should learn the
English language. 1 am opposed to spending
a dollar to Introduce the study of any
language in our schools except English. Let
the natives of the newly acquired islands
learn our language. Send missionaries to
them and as soon possible retire the mill
tary form Of government and substitute the
territorial. 1t was Gladstones dream that
in some way Australia, New leland and Can
ada and India might be represented in the
Imperial parliament at Westminster. 1 hope
the new lands may be represented in our
congress.
We need the Philippines for their markets
and goods, and in time OF war their men,
money, harbOrs and good will. In our treaty
with China in 1850, it was stipulated that no
concession granted to any other foreign power
should be denied to the United States but
when Russia gets a portion of that country
and Germany slice, and France another,
they say to China that similar privileges
shall not be given to the United States.
Therefore. if re want treaty rights we
must fight for them. We need the Philip
pines and they need us. It is folly to fight
against the future; 1t is folly to fight against
manifest destiny and 1t is folly to fight
against the ruling passion of a race and the
passion of the Anglo-Saxon race is conquest.
AS soon the Puritan got on this continent
he grabbed it all The prayer of the mis-
sions to go out and get what God has given
us is chestnut. do not say that irreverent-
ly but it is true. We have prayed to God to
open the doors and give us opportunity
and now he has just brought to millions
and millions Of people and acres and we
should hold them.
DR.. Drivers remarks were loudly ap-
plauded.
THE COLORBD SOLDIER.
The other speaker Of the evening was
Maj NJ. A. Norton, who lauded the col
ored soldier and told of his experience
with colored troops during the Civil
war. Maj. Horton was with the Twelfth
infantry, colored
In the War of the Revolution, said Mai.
Norton, negro soldiers marched and fought
side by side with white troops, and there
was no pr6JuQ1Ce against tnGn. IN the CIVl
war the chief of the Confederacy ISSUED al
order that any white officer commanding
negro troops the Union side who should
be captured should be shot
In the spring of 1863 the Fifty-fOurth Mas
sachusetts colored the first colored legi-
ment raised In that state, marched past Gov.
Andrews, commanded by Robert Gould Shaw
and many thousands watched with interest
that dusky line of soldiers. They were free
men facing certain death to relieve their
brothers Of the South. Shaw was killed at
Fort Wagner. and the rebels said: He is
dead with his niggers. Beneath the ram
parts with them he lies" They served but
the regiment immortal in history 1 would
rather be with Shaw and his negroes than
have it said of me that l traitor to our
dear old flag. l never say a white cOwa d
who was not willing to have the blacklist
man serve as a substitute.
MAJ. WILKINsON'S DEATH.
The death of Maj. Melville c. Wilkinson
feelingly referred to by Gen. Baker,
who presided He said:
1 regret to announce his death. He was
shot to death by Indians. We all know
how dear he was to us; how brave he was:
was, and 1 propose that we rise and drink
in silence to the memory Of Melville Cary
Wilkinson, the fearless soldier, the lifelong
patriot the genial gentleman and the de-
lightful companion. We may say of him. as
the poet Halleck said of a friend:
Green be the turf above thee;
Friend Of my better days;
None knew thee but to love thee;
None named thee but to praise"
The entire aSsemblage stood and
drank to Maj. Willlinson's memory.
A committee was appointed to draft