The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-20
HAMLINE'S PEACE JUBILEE.
METHODIST CoELEGE REJOICEs
IN CESSATION OF POSSIBILITIES
Rev. John Wright Advocates the
Policy of Expansion, I'm Keep
ing With Glory of the War.

Rev. John Wright yesterday after
noon, at Haml1ne, discussed territorial
expansion in the university chapel be-
fore large audience Of patrons of the
institution and citizens Of that sub
urb.
The occasion was the celebration Of
peace jubilee. upon the cessation Of
hcstilfties The university chapel was
nung With national colors, and the ros-
trum was festooned with bunting Of
red, white and blue.
Preceding DR.. Wrights address, Pres
ldent It. II. Bridgman, of the univer-
slty, addressed few words to the au-
dience in the nature Of a welcome to
the speaker.
One of the valuable lessons which had
6een taught the American people by
the war was, he said, a renewed con-
noence In themselves and an arousing
OF latent patriotism. But few had ever
dreamed that the United States would
De able to equip and put in the field
an army OF nearly q quarter Of a mil
lion men in a few months.
Shall we take a part of the Philip
pines and leave the rest to be divided
among the nations of Europe, or shall
we leave a part of them to Spain? No,
we should keep them and make Of
them American institutions and edu-
cate them to the standard of the pres
ent century,"
With this, President Bridgman intro
duced DR.. Wright, who held his listen
ers FOR nearly an hour. He said in
part:
Peace and war are vital subjects in
the minds, of the people now, and
deem 1t a great honor to speak before
an audience Of college men on an occa-
sion of this kind. The American COL
lege Is fast rivaling those Of foreign
countries. Harvard today has a great
er endowment than Cambridge or OK
ford, with. their accumula tons of many
decades. Many Of our soldiers in the
Held during the war were college men,
and the conquests Of the French were
carried on by college men. There were
more college men in the rough riders
than there were cowboys. The bravery
Of this class of men in the war was
commendable and has not gone I'M
noticed In the progress of the cam
paign. 1t is the college men who are
to fill the positions of honor and trust
IL the future, and with them rest the
future of the republic
The war has marked q renewal Of
patriotism and cemented together the
North and the South. Old animosities
were buried in the trenches in Cuba
Mercenary motives were pushed aside
and patriotism Is esteemed above all
OlhCAS. nu1C1l LIE WdT USSdn DreO1C-
tions of sectional differences were
heard in England The result worked
just to the contrary, and England's in
terests were during the conflict iden-
teal with this country's, and she was
frank enough to acknowledge the
American people as her brethren. The
world Of conquest belongs to England,
and 1t has been this spirit that has
carried English ideas into the far-off
regions.
''The church and state must not be
looked upon together. One is Of God,
and the other is Of man. One of the
results Of this war will be the disso-
tuition Of church and state and a
broadening of the principles of the gov
ernmental functions.
1--WE should keep the Philippines.
The United States should retain those
islands. We cannot afford to give them
up. The result of the contest of valor.
which has been carried on by this
country for the sake of humanity, has
placed us In such q position that we
are compelled to take them and civ
ilize them. We are to make them
one Of a system of republics, with gov
ernments as grand and free as our
own. Our conquest did not stop at
Cuba. When we espoused the cause
of humanity in liberating Cuba it be-
came contingent upon this government
to establish q stable government in the
Philippine islands"