The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-01

nothing 10 do With American intsrven-
ton In Asia, nor With legitimate ex-
pansiou Of our territory in the Orient.
II we are a~brogating the doctrine, Ii
must be because the Orient is exclu-
sively for Orientals and not For Eng
lish and Russians and Germans and
French and Hollanders. who are all
there now and fast approaching the
oriental states.
Finally. IL Is objected hat we will
bt involved in changing alliances and
depart from the preCepts Of the fare
well address. but Spain provoked con-
tinuOus trouble at our very doors for
10 years: Mexico and Central America
hsve revolutions without number;
Great Britain bounds our territory for
thousands Of miles. n yet for a CEN
fury we have avoided ~entangling ALI
ances. although both ~propinquity and
provocation existed.
The nations Of Europe are to-day
concentrating their energies or the
shores of the Pacific. England pushed
through the Canadian railway to fos-
ter her trade. Russia is building n
trans-SiberIan road for the same pur-
pose; Germany and France want ports
and trading areas. OF all the nations
struggling for the trade Of the Pacific
ours is the only one naturally entitled
to 81. Lndon and Paris and Berlin and
st. Petersburg are on the other side Of
the globe. but we hav a Pacific line
OF 1000 miles. The Philippines mean
an ultimate supremacy I'm the Pacific.
They are the eastermost boundary OF
the markets Of the East. on one sid
&c China, on the other they look across
to our own shores. Stretching 1000
miles from north TO south and 500 from
east 10 west, they form a natural bar
rier between the Eset and the Pacific.
Scattered over COO. 900 square miles OF
- - IAnA 49,
area would serve as an outpost from
which to protect and develop h in
terests Of America.
Facing the Pacific and Indian
oCea Is more than holt the popula-
ton OF the globe. Excluding North
America, the foreign commerce OF these
peoples already amount to 81, 500. 0O0,-
900 a year. History shows that what
ever nation controls this commerce,
controls the trade of the world. The
stake at issue IL s"tupendous.
Nothing less than an entire and un-
divided control of the Philippines would
give us a base adequate for our needs.
Manila bay, or even Luzon. for a naval
N coaling station would be too peril
Gus and costly a possession with ali the
other islands paTtitioned and sarrisoned
by European powers. Let England's *
perience with India and China be a
warning. India, conquered and govern
ed. has been a mine OF wealth. China.
exploited through the trading posts, IS
a burden n a constant peril. We want
the Philippines, not Manila. just as Eng
land to-day needs central China and not
simply Hong Kong. We own the Phil
ippines by right of conquest, no other
nation does. we are i'm possession, no
other nation is; we Can maintain a sta
bic government, Spain cannot, n the
natives are incapable OF self rule. i can
conceive no reason to give away. or sell.
or lease, or abandon a single foot OF
the territory. 1t would be 10 lessen In
that proportion the greatest opportun-
ity Providence ever placed before the
nation.
with the Philippines, Ladrones. sa-
moa and Hawaii, our possessions would
reach across the Pacific and its com
merce will be the of America
in a larger degree han of any other
nation. The Pacific itself will be ours
pre-emlnently our territory will bound
II On two sides, our islands will dot its
surface. n with the ocean and ITS
trade in our possession our political
predominance will be assured among
the nations of the world.
such is the broad plane OF Internal
relations upon which alone il is
wise TO discuss an Anglo-American ALI
ance."
lIoIeSsNT 1dIhlneT lndi went on u
explain that he did not mean an alliance
as the word Is understood in Europe
a military copartnership, bu a strong
commercial alliance protected by an ar
filtration treaty, which would, i'm his es-
timation, better assure universal peace
than any other thing hat could be
brought about.
He then went N 10 how that Ameri-
had more profted by the markets
opened through Great BrItain's efforts
than any other nation save Great Brit
herself. For these great benefits. he
held, America should give something in
and an alliance such as he sug-
gested would make the Anglo-SaXon
masters of the world, not less to
the advantage Of America than of Great
Britain.
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