Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-09
We MUST HAVE PHILIPPINES
Professor Gardeners Speech at
Social Science Convention.
THE KEY TO THE PACIFIC
Nation That Controls the Commerce q,
the Pacific VIII Control Trade of til @
World-stupendous Stake at Issue.

At session Of the American Social
science Association, in Saratoga, n.
T., the principal address was delivered
by Charles "A. Gardiner, A. NJ, Phi.
u, counsel for the elevated railroads OF
New York city. The subject OF the ad.
dress was 1.-THE Proposed Anglo-Aner.
lean Alliance"
Mr. Gardiner spoke of the tendency
to national concentration in the pres.
ent age, declaring that already three
nations, Russia, Great Britain and
America, comprising two races of peo.
pie, the Slavic and Anglo. Saxon, prac-
tlcally dominate the world. He spoke
OF the continual aggression that has for
more than eight centuries marked the
policy of Russia and has spread her
sovereignty over areas in Europe and
ASIA TOO vast almost for human con-
ception. Against this aggression, he
said, Great Britain has admitted that
she can, unaided by some other great
power, make no successful opposition.
Attention at the present moment, he
said, is directed to the Russo British
contest for supremacy in China. At
this critical moment, he says, the pos
sibility of an alliance with America,
through consideration of her interests
in the Philippines, is seemingly Great
Britain's only hope of triumph. Said
he:
"Shall America keep the islands,
This question has tecome fundamental
to the consideration of an alliance.
Without the Philippines, the prejudices
and environment of the past might con-
troll discussion, but without them an
alliance becomes the most important
problem of our New World relations.
1T has taken US nearly century to
push our domain across the continent
and along 1000 miles of the Pacific
coast by conquest, annexation and pur-
chase. Within 100 years we have ex-
panded our territory westward over 81
$50, 900 square miles. We are now en-.
gagged in pushing our coast line 2, 1000
miles further out to Hawaii. We own
the Aleutisn islands, almost at the
gates OF Japan. In Samoa we have
naval and coaling rights. An island
in the Ladrones will soon be ours.
Why turn back from the Philippines?
1T is objected that the islands are
extraterritorial and noncontiguous; but
Porto Rico ia 1000 miles from Florida;
Hawaii is 1900 miles from San Fran
cisco; the nearest point OF Alaska is
500 and its farthest point 1900 miles
from Seattle: and the Aleutian islands
extend not only 2,400 miles from our
borders, but into the geographical sys.
tenn OF another continent.
'It is objected that military govern
ment may have to be maintained for
years, contrary to the spirit of our in
stitutions; but military government
existed in the Southern states from
1868 to 1870, and in Alaska from 1868
to 1884.
1T is objected that colonial or terri
torial government may exist indefinite.
ly, while statehood is contemplated in
the constitution; but Alaska has been
a territory for 81 years, and Arizona
and New Mexico for SO. 1t was 90
years before Wisconsin and 83 years be-
fore Montana became states.
at is objected that the inhabitants
are alien races habituated to other in
stitutions and forms of government, but
Florida, when acquired, was peopled
by Indians ard Spaniards; Louisiana
by Spaniards, French and negroes;
alien races and institutions existed in
New Mexico and Arizona; and Alaska
had Indians in the Yukon and Russians
in Sitka.
at is objected that we will abrogate
the Monroe doctrine; but that doctrine,
freed from its academic cobwebs, is the
noninterveDtion of European powers in
matters relating TO the American con.
tinent. It's converse is nonintervention
OF America in matters relating to the
European continent. That has nothing
to do with American intervention in
Asia nor with legitimate expansion of
our territory in the Orient II we are
abrogating the doctrine, it must be be-
cause the Orient is exclusively for Ori-
entails, and not for English and Rus
slams, and Germans and French and
Hollanders, who are all there now and
are fast appropriating the Orient to
themselves.
Finally, it is objected that we will
be involved in entangling alliances, and
will depart from precepts of Washing
toms farewell address, but Spain pro-
voked continuous trouble at our very
doors for a hundred years. Mexico and
Central and South America have had
revolutions without number; Great
Britain bounds our territory for thou
sands of miles; and yet, for a century,
we have avoided entangling alliances,
although both propinquity and provoca-