The record-union., 1898-09-01
Charles A. Gardner Delivers an Ad-
dress on the Subject
Before the American Social Science As
soCiation at Saratoga.
future Greatness Depends on Pos
session of Oriental Commerce,
Which Can be Attained by an
Alliance Of the Anglo-Saxon
Race.

SARATOGA On. ". Aug. 81
Charles A Gardner, A. M, counsel tor
the elevated railroads Of New YORK
City. spoke of the proposed Anglo
Saxon alliance before the American So
cial Sciences Association to-day.
Mr.. Gardner spoke of the tendency to
national concentration in the present
age, declaring that already three ma
tions-Russia, Great Britain and Amer
ica-comprising two races of people, the
Slavic and the Anglo-SaXOn, practically
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 soVer-
eighty over areas in Europe and ASIA
too vast almost for human conception
Against this aggression, he said, Great
Britain has admitted that she can, un-
aided by some other great Power, make
no successful opposition. Attention at
the present moment, he said, is directed
to the Russo British contest for su-
premacy in China. At this critical mo-
ment, he says, the possibility of an al
lance with America through consider
alton 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 become fundamental to
the consideration of an alliance. With
out the Philippines, the prejudices and
environment of the past might control
discussion, but with them an alliance
becomes the most important problem of
our new world relations.
1T has taken us nearly a century to
push our domain across the continent,
and along 4,G00 miles of the Pacific
Coast BY conquest, annexation and
purchase. within a hundred years We
have expanded our territory westward
over :, 30, 600 square miles. We are
now engaged in pushing our coast line
1900 miles further out, to Hawaii We
own the Aleutian 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
extra territorial and contiguous;
but Porto Rico is 1850 miles from
Florida; Hawaii is 900 miles from
San Francisco; the nearest point OF
"A
/ 600 miles from Seattle: and the Aleu-
tian Islands extend not only 2,400 miles
from our borders, but into the geo.
graphical system of another continent.
II is objected that military government
may have to be maintained for years,
contrary to the spirit of our institu-
tions: but military government existed
in the Southern States from 1865 to
1870, and in Alaska from 1867 to 1884.
II is objected that colonial or terri
torial government may exist Indefinite
~, while Statehood is contemplated in
the Constitution; but Alaska has been
Territory for thirty-one years and
Arizona and New Mexico for fifty-two.
1t was fifty-nine years before Wiscon-
sin and eighty three years before Mon
tana became States. 1t is objected that
the inhabitants are alien races habitu-
ated TO other institutions and forms of
government: but Florida, when acquir-
ed was peopled by Indians and Span
iards; Louisiana by Spaniards, French
and negroes; alien races and institu-
tions existed in New Mexico and Ari-
Zona and Alaska had Indians on the
Yukon and Russians in Sitka. 1t is
objected that we will abrogate the Mon
roe doctrine; but that doctrine freed
from it's academic cobwebs, is the non
intervention of European Powers IN
matters relating to the American Con-
tinent It's converse is non-interven-
ton of America in matters relating 70
the European continent. That has
nothing TO do with American interven-
ton in Asia nor with legitimate ex-
pansion of our territory in the Orient.
If we are abrogatng the doctrine il
must be because the Orient is exclu-
sively for Orientals, and not for Eng
Hsh and Russians and Germans and
French and Hollanders. who are all
there now and fast appropriating the
Orient to themselves. Finally it is OBJ
iected that we will be involved in en-
tangling alliances and depart from the
precepts of the Farewell address; but
Spain provoked 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
thousands of miles, and yet for a cen
tury we have avoided entagling alli-
ances, although both propinquity and
provocation existed.
concentrating their energies on the
shores of the Pacific. England pushed
through the Canadian railway to fos-
ter her Pacific trade. Russia is build
ing the trans-S Siberian road for the
same purpose. Germany and France
want ports and trading areas. OF ali
the nations struggling for the trade of
the Pacific ours is the only one nat
urally entitled TO it. London and Paris
and Berlin and St. Petersburg
are on the other side OF the globe, but
we have a Pacific Coast line of 4,00d
miles The Philippines mean our ul-
innate supremacy in the Pacific They
are the eaSternmost boundary Of the
markets of the East. On one side is
China. on the other they look across
TO our own shores. Stretching 1.G1
miles from north TO south and 6t0 from
st to west, they form natural bar
rier between the East and the Pacific
Scattered over G000G3 square miles OF
the oceans surface, the whole vast
area would serve as an outpost from
which to protect and develop the IN
forests of America.
Pacing the Pacific and indian
oceans is more than half the popula-