The Dickinson press., 1898-10-01

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and It is certainly necessary that we
should keep Cuba for awhile and have
an army there to maintain good order.
There are more than aquarter Of q mil
lion people on the island, and it will
take some time to get a stable govern.
ment, and until they do / think, as 4
matter Of humanity, that we should.
keep a force Of troops there to preserve
order. When we have demanded posses
sion Of those islands as security for the
payment Of indemnity and have kept
Cuba for the sake Of order, I think we
should then let them 60.
II do not believe in colonial expau.
sion at all. I think Hawaii stands In
different circumstances. My objection
to colonial expansion is twofold. You
take the Philippines with from g, 000,.
900 to 10, 600, 900 Of people, Cuba
with more than 900, 900 and Porto Rico,
I do not remember the number, but
there is but one way to manage those
people and that is by force, just as Eng
land manages Egypt. South Africa and
India to a great extent. Their govern.
ment over these colonies is arbitrary,
despotic, you may call it, but they ap.
preciate the necessity of good govern
ment and govern wisely, but for all
that it is not a government Of the peo-
pie. I do not see how we could initiate
that kind Of colonial government with,
out changing q theories Of; govern
ment. OF course we could govern them
that would not be a physical simpossi-
bility-but in order to do so we must
change our theories of government 4
"In the territory we have hitherto
taken into our government we have in
troduced a territorial system Of govern
ment, a territorial legislature, or a gov
eminent Of the people. I do not think
that that can be done with those peo-
pie, and I think it will be introducing
a new system Of government into the
United States. Again, I think it would
compel an unnecessary increase in our
army. I do not know but that some in
crease is needed. We would be bound
to have a large increase in our navy,
and I do not like the idea Of the United
States considering itself a military pow
Ell. I think IL we had a large army and
q large navy we would be getting into
trouble with other nations. It is human
nature for an army officer and q navy
officer to want promotion and if it does
not come rapidly enough they want a
war to bring it about.
I'm 60 far as the Philippines are CON
cerned especially it seems; to me that it
would be a black eye to the Monroe
doctrine. When we said that the Euro
pean nations must not take possession; Of
any territory in this continent, it was q
sort Of implied declaration that we
would not take any possessions in their
continent. II we would reach out into
Asiatic countries and take the islands
there, it would look as though wecould
not say anything if European nations
reach over here and take possession Of
territory.
"There is another thing in this con-
nection I want to talk about. have
seen in a good many religious papers
and heard in q few sermons that because
we have the best civilization in the
world it was our destiny and our Chris
tian duty to reach out and make other
nations accept our civilization. It seems
to me that the best way we could make
u civilization Of value to others is by
example and not by force. Wefcoud.
make it valuable to the world q great
deal better by example than by appro-
priating territory. ~ (
"If it had been proposed in congress
the LIST Of January to appropriate the
Philippine islande, Porto Rico and Gu
ba, I believe it would have been voted
down four to one. Yet the war has de-
veloped such conditions that q great
many men in congress as we'll as out
OF it are beginning to think that colo
NAL expansion is before us. There is.d
very different sentiment in congress
than there was at that time"
"What is your idea about the pro-
posed Anglo-Saxon alliance as mention
ed by Chamberlain in his s~peechSsome
time ago and talked of in the United
States?" was asked. 4
81 do not believe in a formal alliance
I think George W~ashington's advice is
az sound today az it was when it was
given, to avoid all alliances. At the
same time I believe in an arbitrating
tribunal to settle all disputes between
the two nations and also believesin the
closest kind of intercourse between
them. I think a formal alliance would
expose us to the possibilities Of contro.
versies with other nations" New
York Sun.
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