Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-10
ON TERRITORIAL EXPANSION.
Discussion al The Contemporary Club, Philadel'
phls, Las, Night
Ex-senator aeorgs y. Edmunds ArrsiEps
the unitsd state. Under a severe
Indictment.

Philadelphia. Nov. i0.-'The Eject o.
Territorial Expansion Upon our Dom
er,io Relations" WIS the subject Of dis
cuaslon az the last meeting OF the Con
temporary club. she speakers bfinr Jno
Hssh MoAiaslcr. historian! Thomas o
ehearman. of New York. aud formei
Senator EtnuBds The speaker favored
ana the others opposed the ACQUISITION
Of territory not contiguous 10 the Unit
eli states.
DR.. McMaster gave a history VI th'
policy pursued BY the United States In
lts acquisition % foreign territory and
its method Of governing u, 20 show tha'
tho proposed taNnE Of the Phihppine'
would be ln line with previous actA Hs
alsd he believed thcre was no reason
why We should not govern these lHlanda
a. acceptably az the great west. which
was acquired by several purchases.
RsfcrfinE 20 the Declaration Of inde-
pendcnce and itn enumeration OF sew
erl rights OF the governed. quoted by
opp0ncD;H Of cpiJnal syatesn. pr
McNiastcr aaid she pftnciplcs there stat
81 had never been literally iuoorpor-
ats4i into the governmental nyHiom VI
The uuiiod States. or any state. Jefrer.
sln. who drafted the declaration. and
neFu.iated the purchase OF LOUISIANA,
and fc,ieransu Of that day urged tbs
same object Ions In f0rre toiay-thti We
would b. compelled 30 admit 10 citizen
ship ON equal terms. the Crcolca the
Spanish. the French. the negroes and all
other persons inhabting this large ter
ritory.
n was their claim that che Mississippi
was the natural boundary - the Unit.
cd States and iarcr that Providence had
erected the Rocky Mountains as prop
or boundary ~ our Union. lie quoted
from Daniel Webster, that the consu-
tHion cowd not be- stretched to cover
a Territory,
u related only to sialcs. The terri.
tory was simply owned by the United
states a. a man would own horse. lie
showed alsn that from the beginning OF
our ACQUISITION Of territory that the
President had been the supreme author-
~ appointing a governor ana council,
and shat territories we're admitted az
States. not as a matter az right, bun Of
Former senator Geo. y. Edmund'
said On pnrt3
"our sons and daughters cannot live
In the tropics. Look AZ che case OF
Great BfS'utn and her hundreds Of
years of Indian mastery. Everyday
Knows thae there has never been an En-
Eilsh settlement within the tropics, but
civilians who SO there, and mine out Of
ten die before they are sixty years old
and the loss OF the hntthllonr thaT ~
there " greater thin that Of our sons
and brothers who went Ia Santiago and
Camp AlEer."
lettering to the Philippines, Mr. Ed
munds sad
eve now have frem these islands all
the commodities shey produce ON the
Aame terms that other nations DO, Sup
pose We take them and adopt the Brit
len vnlonial policy and make them a
close colony and allow no one 60 trade
With then except Ourselves. How soon
would the other nations meet ~ by say
ing, we Will treat yuu the same way In
our colonies and then the balance OF
the commercial gain would bankrupt
the United states IN ten years.
I'VE told Snpin and told the world by
solemn declaration Of our Congress
when we began this war againsi Spain
that we reiectcd the idea Of Janitorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Was that lie, a
sham, a false pretencef And We stand
up 10 the face 81 the world and say,
yes. We have been lying"