The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-24
DEPEH ON 1898.
Policy of Expansion Wiu Bring Pros-
 pertty to Country.

pertty to Country.
 Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 23.-The Indepen- dent club had as it's guests this even- ing Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. the oc- casion being it's Christmas dinner, The banquet room of the Ellicot+ club was handsomely decorated, the feature be- ing the intertwining of the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. Clinton B. Gibbs, president of the club, read let ter of regret from ex-Senator David B. Hill, in which he referred to MT. Depew as soon to be United States Senator. MT. Hills letter was received with hearty applause, as was MT. Depew, who was introduced a moment later by MT. Gibbs. MT. Depew's subject was ''1S9S." In part he said: We face at this Christmastide questions as vital to the future of our country as any which in the past have been met and success fully aired. The federation of Wash ington in 179S has developed into the United States of 1898, with that inherent power which is always attached to na- tional sovereignty, of acquiring terrl- tory by conquest or cession. l do not think any body of constitutional law yers will doubt that among the reserved powers of sovereignty, which belongs to us as a nation, is the right to adminis ter the affairs of territories acquired by conquest or by cession, under such form of government as congress and tho ayacJtiVp may DrGScriDe.
 We made war against foreign power, and for the first time in the his tory of the world solely for humanity. To maintain order in Cuba until her people shall be able to maintain stable government of liberty and law, is hu- manity To incorporate Porto Rico in our domain relieves it's citizens from oppression and give them good govern ment is humanity. To permit the bloody hand of Spain to again grasp the throat of 10000,000 Filipinos or to pass them over to the tender mercies of European governments would be in- human and cowardly; it would be re- fusing the mission which providence has distinctly forced upon us.
 General Wood, governing the prov ince of Santiago, gives an object les son in American liberty, law and op- portunity. The most unsettled prov ince of Cuba resumes all the arts of peace and invites enterprise, immigra- ton and capital as soon as it's people understood that they are to be protected in their persons and rfoperty and that as fast as they demonstrate capacity for government they will be ad- vanced to positions in the civil and mili- tary service. We have the opinion of Dewey and of General Merritt, that when the inhabitants of the Philippine islands appreciate what American pro- lection and law mean they will become one of the most obedient law abiding and productive populations in the world. The vast trade of Cuba, which heretofore went to Spain and to Europe will now come to us and be enormously increased by Americans, who will flock there with capital and energy.
 ''The $34,000,000 of exports from Porto Rico, of which all but s4,000,000 have gone to Spain, will now come to us, en- hanced many fold by American enter prise and immigration. The Philippines to the United States, like Java to Hol- land, under the inspiring influences of <AllICIlteiH OppOI u AHleTlCdH schools and American hope will be an immense market and a large source of revenue over and above the cost of ad- minstration for the United States Our government firmly planted, will not only enter the "open door, of the Ori- ent for the products of our fields and our factories, but when the great boot of Uncle Sam is put in the crack of the door which continental nations would close there will be no musket damned upon that boot to compel it's withdraw al
 "The year 1898 has given to the Amer ican people the exaltation of patriotic fury and forever to relieve the suffer- ings of an oppressed and neighboring people. The marvellous victories of our navy and army, condensing into hun dred days the struggle of hundred years for the overthrow of the colonial tyranny of Spain, have spiritualized us with that fire of brain and blood which came to the Greeks after Marathon, to the English after Agincourt, to Ameri- cans after the battle of Saratoga. In 1898 we have become citizens of the world. We have become the foremost power The boy at school has been wont for half century to recite with baited breath Daniel Webster's magni- fcent tribute to the worldwide power of Britain, whose morning drum beat, following the sun, and keeping compa- ny with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial airs of Eng1and,' but the American schoolboy of to-day is himself the citizen of a country upon which the sun never sets" MT. De- pew's remarks were frequently ap- plauded.