The age-herald., 1898-06-22
CLEVELAND SPEAKS
 AT PRINCETON The "DuCk Shooter" Opposes Our New
 Colonial Policy. WE HAVE ENOUGH TERRITORY Should RenOunCe All Schemes of For
 eiSn Conquest. POINTED TO UNOCCUPIED LANDS
POINTED TO UNOCCUPIED LANDS
Owned By the Government-People Should Post Themselves and Demand an Ex- panation of Administration
 Should Not Expect War.

frlHceOn, IN. J, June Zl.-GrOVer CleVe- land delivered the annual Founders Day address at the commencement exercises of the Lawrencevile school here today. His address was entitled Good Citizenship" and in the course of his remarks he said
 "The American people are tempted every day and every hour to abandon their ac- customed way and to enter upon course of new and strange adventure. Never be- fore in our history have we been beset with temptations So dangerous as those of con- whisper in our ears alluring words of con- quest and expansion and point out to us fields bright with the glory of war. I once saw a very useful book, entitled Don't It contained a statement of various things which should not be done. I am inclined to adopt the plan of this book to the extent of cautioning you against the imperfect ideas of civic duties and warn you against certain dangers which threaten the sound ness and safety of true American citizen ship and which especially at this particular time seem to lie in wait for us on every side''
 To Create a New World
 Continuing, he said: "You will probably be led by your reflections and studies to the conclusion that our government was formed for the express purpose of creating a new world, a new nation, the foundation of which should be mans self government whose safety and prosperity should be to secure to it absolute freedom from old world complications and in renunciations of all schemes of foreign conquest and whose mission should be the subjection of civili- zation and industrial occupation of the vast domain in which 1t has taken root. If you believe those things, do not permit an ac- cusation of ultra and unprogressve con- servatism to trouble you. If then the sug- gestion is made that the time has come for our nation to abandon it's land marks and to follow the lights of monarchial hazards and that we should attempt to em- ploy the simple machinery of our popular and domestic government to serve the schemes of imperialism your challenge of the proposition is entirely in order. If you are satisfied that foreign conquest and ln- ternational extension and anexation are dagerous perversions of our national mis- sions, and if 1t shall seem to you in the light of reason and history that such per- versions bring in their train a period of demoralization and decay of popular con- tentment, more surely destructive to the republic than armies with banners you will not necessary be wrong.
 We Have Enough Territory
 with our first century's tremendous growth and advancement before your eyes as proof of the strength and efficiency of consistent Americanism, you will find in the beginning of our second century, proof of the abundance of our present domain in millions of acres of government terri tory still unoccupied. In view of these things and considering our achievements in the past, recalling what we have been and what yet remains for us to do under the guidance of the rules and motions which have thus far governed our national life, you surely are entitled to demand the best of reasons for a change in our policy and conduct and to expect conclusive explantion of the changes which make our acquisitions of new and distant terri tory either justifiable, prudent or neces- sary. Perhaps you should be satisfied with the excuse that such action is necessary by way of warlike preparation. This, how ever, will suggest to you that we have found heretofore a constant source of congratulation in the fact that the con- temptation of war and its contingencies is not and should not be familiar to our or dinary national life, that it has also been our boast that a large standing military establishment and warlike precautions are not dmong the needs of the people whose victories are those of peace and whose immunity from armed conflict is found in their freedom fro the foreign relationships that give birth to war and though it has been abundantly demonstrated that the courage and splendid fighting qualities of our countrymen will never fail In time of need, it is still a grave question whether the oheapening of our estimate of the value of peace, by dwelling upon war and warlike preparations, is calculated to inn prove the quality of our national char acter.
 And Follow the Gay Trappings
 "These considerations naturally lead me to counsel you against the danger of al lowing the bright dress and gay trappings which war puts on, to divert your attention from the ugly features that belong to as seen in the light of true American citizenn- ship. The danger of such a diversion may arise from restless enthusiasm which is by no means unattractive or from our admira- tion for deeds of valor, which is national characteristic, or from the fascinating of dangerous adventure never found without bravery or from love of glory of success. ful battle, which Is almost an impulse of humanity or from a tendency to combative- ness, which if altogether lovely and amia- ble, Is regarded by genuine Americans with benevolent toleration. It is different to deal with the question of the war at this time and avoid misconception and mis-. -~~~~-~~>~-------~-~<>