The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-22
EAsLEY'S CONVENTION.
Passes Anti-Expansion Resolutions
With a String to Them.

Saratoga, Aug. 22.-The foreign policy
conference has declared against iInme-
diate expansion.
Chancellor N1cCrac cken, of the Univer-
sity of New York. as chairman of the
committee of twenty-one on resolutions
presented a report which he said had
been unanimously agreed upon by the
committee. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted by the conference
as follows:
1--WE, the participants in the national
conference on the foreign policy of the
United States, are substantially agreed
as follows:
I'VE commend the wise and patriotic
purpose of the national administration
in first seeking to avoid war with Spain
and in subsequently prosecuting the
war with high aims and success in
bringing it to speedy conclusion. 1t
is glorious to our arms and gratifying
to the high aspirations of our people.
ION behalf of freedom and human
welfare, we thank the officers and men
of our army and navy for their skillful
and heroic achievements on land and
on sea, and for their chivalrous conduct
toward the defeated enemy. We be-
Heve that the rescued and liberated
people Of the surrendered islands are
in sense temporarily the wards of the
cOnquering nation, and that we should
treat them as such.
with our view of natural right and
of the inestimable privileges of civil
liberty, we should not be justified in
returning the conquered islands to the
misrule and oppression from which we
have relieved them. AS soon as the
islands under our present protection
can be trusted to govern themselves
they should be allowed to do so, the
United States retaining under it's au-
thOrity only necessary naval stations
Until such time as they may be able
to govern themselves they should con-
tinue under the protection of the United
States, and the question as to whether
at some future period, and at the mutu-
al desire of BOTH they should be perma-
nently annexed, should be left to the
time when it arises. The United States
on behalf of each of the territories in
question, ana so long as it shall cOntin-
ue under our protection, should adopt
proper measures for securing out of the
revenues of these countries. the estab-
lishment of free, elementary, unsec-
| tartan schools, sufficient for the instruc-
ton of all persons of school age.
I'VE count the present an auspicious
time for the establishment by the
United States of a graded diplomatic
and consular service.
I'VE heartily approve of the principle
of arbitration in the settlement of in
ternatiOnal difficulties and urge that
it's largest practical BILE application be
secured by treaties of arbitration.
I'VE cordially favor the precedent set
| by President Mckinley in refusing at
| the beginning of the war to grant let
! terS of marque and reprisal and we
| recommend that. in the peace to be
| concluded between the United States
ana spain, the practice OF prfVateering
! be forever prohibited; also that provis-
| ion be made, as foreshadoWed by the
| government of the United States, in
! requiring to sign the declaration of
! Paris in 1856 for the exemption from
! capture of private property at sea in
| accordance with the enlightened senti-
| ments of mankind
| Chairman Henry Wade Rogers and
| Secretary Ralph w EasIey Of Chfca-
| go, and the committee of twenty-one
| were instructed to present the resolu-
| tions to President Mckinley and his
! cabinet for their consideration The
| convention adjourned subject to call
| of Chairman Rogers