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AND AMERICA.
The Proposed Anglo-American Al
lance and What 1t Would
Signify.
A SUBJECT OF PRESENT IMPORTANCE.
Address Delivered by Charles a. Gardiner.
AN, rh.D., Counsel for the Eievat-
ed Railroads Of New York City. Before
the American social science Associs-
tion at sarstogs. -. Y.

t'tt'H'f ~ - ~htE "
lowing address on ''The Proposed An
glo-Amcrican Alliance was delivered
before the American Social Science
association, at its annual meeting in
this city.by Charles A. Gardiner, AM,
PH.D., of New York city.
The Address.
The nations OF the ancient world were
swept from existence one by one, by "A
sudden and terrible death. In the back
ground OF centuries says Hugo. I'VE see
those immense vessels, Babylon, Nineveh,
Tarsus, Thcbcs and Rome. sunk by the
terrific blasts that blow from the mouths
OF darkness" MEDIEVAL and modern
states have lived longer. yet for 1900
years death has claimed It's victims with
ever-increasing fatality, and tribal and
state entities are fewer to-day than ever
before. Intense concentration is the rule
! of modern life. Steam and electricity
have eliminated space and time. and the
world Is now one-tenth as large as in
lSW. Private rights are aggregated into
corporations and trusts. and strong ma
tons, rejecting the spirit OF the age, grow
larger and stronger until the nation and
the race become Identical. while weak
states grow weaker. and die. or are abb
sorbed by the strong world powers.
In continental Europe and Asia, Russia
Is the only virile. invincible and increas-
ing dominant power, and its domains are
practically coincident with the Slavic race.
in the western hemisphere the United
States is supreme. and in the rest OF the
world Great Britain, two nations whose
territories embrace the A~nglo-Saxon race.
These three nations. and two races. in the
ultimate analysis OF human power, rule
the world. Thousands of miles from their
seats OF government. on the other side OF
the globe. they have met, face to face.
for the first time In history. For 20O years
Russia struggled to reach the open sea,
and to-day her flag floats oyer Port Ar
thur. England has been in the orient for
a century. and America now holds the
Philippines.
Shall il be America for Americans. seq
regattOn for the rest of the world, a pol
Icy OF isolation. and internal development
without external expansion? Or shall We
keep the Philippines, and enter the lists
with England and Russia for the trade
and empire of the world? II the latter
course. shall we encourage alliances, or
shun them; contract offensive and de-
fcnsivc treaties, or avoid them? The an
swers TO these questions are one. and are
not found In recent events, but i'm social.
economic and political forces. hat have
been silently at work for centuries.
Russian aggression is consistent and
inexorable. A policy once formed is never
changed. Eight und years ago Rus
STA attacked constantinople. and failed:
I'm the Crimean war she would have an
INFLATED Turkey had not France and En-
gland INTERVIEWED. now with a part Of Ar
menia In her possession. and Germany
and France at her side. she hopes to defy
England and absorb the rest of the Otto
man empire For a hundre years she
has been acquiring portions of Persia. and
her protectorate to-day Is so autocratic
over the balance that the shah is virtu-
ally a Russian yassal. China. north and
east of pekin. she claims as her sphere OF
influence, and she Is now disputing with
England the sovereignty OF the great cen
trai region. When ii is realized hat ST.
IBERIA borders the empire for 1900 miles.
that Tartars and Moguls inhabit both
sides of an imaginary boundary. that
China is helpless, and that England. sim
~gle-handed. has confessed her impotence,
the probabilities are sttnng that northern,
eastern and a large part OF central China
may pass under the rule OF st. Peters
burg.
Such is Russia to-day. and she hopes to
b. in the future; a continuous. compact,
uncomfortable domain, with "A teeming
population OF 800 10000 people through
whose veins will flow the fnvincible viril-
ity OF Cossack. and Tartar and Slavic
blood an umpire OF warriors. Asiatic in
spirit. born to fight. and whose only glory
Is in conquest: a nation that has Russian
lied every people IL has conquered. until
the nation and race are Identical. and
that race the one on the whole globe most
inimical to every element of Anglo-Amer-
lean ci~vilizatior; differing from us in
language. literature. religion and govern
ment. and vigorously antagonistic to all
our conceptions of human rights and
human duties. This great power is OPP
posed 10 an Anglo-American alliance, and
to protect her interests has FASTENED to
Washington her ablest and most subtle
diplomat.
When the Chinese-Japanese war re-
vealed China not only as "A dying nation.
49, 49,
sought to induce Russia to abandon mil
itary occupation Of the empire. and failed.
War was. the alternative: but England
deprecated war because. as Mr.. Cham
berlain said: History shows US that I'M
less we are allied TO some great military
power. as We were I'm the Crimean war.
we can not seriously oppose Russia" And
he admitted 1T is impossible TO overrate
the gravity of the issue. II the poll
Icy OF isolation Is TO be maintained in the
future. then the fate of the Chinese en-
pire may be. hereafter. decided without
reference TO our wiShes and In defiance OF
our interests
ing. the portentous figure OF the American
Republic. armed. alert. victorious, rises
slowly up In the Philippines. Shall Amer
lea keep the islands? This question has be-
come fundamental to the consideration Of
an alliance. Without the Philippines, the
preJudtces and environment OF the past
might control discussion: but with them.
an alliance becomes the most important
problem Of u new world relations.
IL has taken us nearly a century 10
push our domain across the continent and
along 400 miles OF the Pacific coast.
BY conquest. and purchase.
within a hundred years we nave expand
ed our territory. westward over 1850. 90
pushing our coast line 1000 miles farther
out. to Hawaii. We own the Aleutfan Is
lands. almost at the gates OF Japan. In
Samoa we have naval and coalfng rights.
An island In .he Ladrones will soon be
pines?
IL f. objected that the islands are extra
territorial and non-contiguous: but Porto
Rico is 1000 miles from Florida: Hawaii Is
1000 miles from San Francisco: the near
sst point of Alaska is 500. and its farther
EST point 1.sn miles from Seattle: and the
Aleutian islands extend not only 900
miles from our borders. but into the geo.
graphical system of another continent.
IL Is objected that military government
may have to be maintained for years.
contrary TO n spirit of our institutions:
but military government existed In the
southern states from 1866 TO 1870: and in
Alaska from 1861 to 1881. II Is objected
that colonial or territorial government
may exist indefinitely. while statehood Is
contemplated In the constitution: but
Alaska has been a territory for 81 years
and Arizona and New Mexico for 81 II
was 80 years before Wisconsin. and sc
gears before Montana. became states. 1t
IS objected that the inhabitants are alien
races Infatuated to other institutions
and forms OF government. but Florida
when acquired was pcOpled by Indians
and Spaniards: Louisiana BY Spaniards.
French and negroes. alien races and in
situations existed in New Mexico and Ari-
IONA. and Alaska had Indians on the
Yukon and Russians i'm Sitka. IT Is OBJ
iectcd that we will abrogate the Monroe
doctrine. but that doctrine. freed from
it's academic cobwchs. Us tho non-inter-
vcntion az European powers I'm matters
relating to the American continent. That
has nothing TO do with American inter-
vention in Asia, nor Will legitimate cx-
mansion OF our territory i'm the orient. III