Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-08
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
The Proposed Anglo-American AL
lance and What 1t Would
Signify.
A SUBJECT OF PRESENT IMPORTANCE.
A.Ms Ph.D., Counsel for the Elevat-
ed Railroads OF New York City, Before
the American Social Science Associa-
ton at Saratoga. N. Y.

| Saratoga, n. Y, Aug. 31.-The fol-
lowing address on 1.-THE Proposed An
glo-American Alliance was delivered
| 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, ThebeS and Rome, sunk by the
terrific blasts that blow from the mouths
states have lived longer, yet for 1000
| years death has claimed it's victims with
state entities are fewer to-day than ever
before. Intense concentration is the rule
have eliminated space and time. and the
world is now one-tenth large as in
1900. Private rights are aggregated into
corporations and trusts; and strong ma
tions, rejecting the spirit of the age, grow
larger and stronger until the nation and
states grow weaker, and die, or are ab-
sorbed by the strong world powers.
In nc eon1i I1e iai, europe ana asia russia
ing dominant power, and its domains are
practically coincident with the Slavic race;
States is supreme, and in the rest of the
world Great Britain, two nations whose
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 200 years
and today her nag floats over Port Ar.
thur. England has been in the orient for
a century; and America now holds the
Shall it be America for Americans, seq
regation for. the rest of the, world, pol
without external expansion? Or shall we
keep the Philippines. and enter the lists
and empire of the WoTfd the lattae
course, shall we encourage alliances, or
shun them; contract offensive and de-
swers to these questions are one and are
not found in recent events, but in social,
economic and political forces. that have
been silently at work for centuries.
Russian aggression is consistent and
Changed. Eight hundred years ago Rus
STA attacked ConStantinople, and failed;
in the Crimean war she would have an
gland intervened; now with part of Ar
menia in her possession, and Germany
England and absorb the rest Of the Otto
man empire. For hundred years she
has been acquiring portions of Persia, and
over the balance that the shah is virtu--
ally Russian vassal. 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
trail region. When it is realized that ST.
IBERIA borders the empire for 1000 miles,
that Tartars and Moguls inhabit both
sides Of h an imagnaary a boundary that
gle-handed, has confessed her impotence,
the probabilities are strong that northern,
burg.
Such is Russia to-day, and she hopes to
pop1iation Of 500 oooooo People THOUGH tST
ity Of Cossack, and Tartar and Slavic
blood; an empire of warriors, Asiatic in
spirit, born to fight, and whose only glory
lied every people it has conquered, until
the nation and race are. identical, and
inimical to every element of Anglo-Amer-
lean civilization; differing from us in
ment. and vigorously -antagonistic to all
our conceptions Of human rights and
posed to an Anglo-American alliance. and
to protect her interests has haStened to
Washington her ablest and most subtle
When the Chinese-Japanese war re-
vealed China not only as a dying nation,
but even then as almost dead, England
sought to induce Russia to abandon mill
itary occupation of the empire. and failed.
War was the alternative; but England
berlain said: History shows us that I'M
less we allied to some great military
power, as We were IN the CrlTnGan war.
we can not seriously oppose Russia" And
he admitted: at is impossible to overrate
the gravity of the issue. If the pol
icy of isolation is to be maintained in the
future, then the fate of the Chinese en-
pire may be, hereafter, decided without
our interests
Just as this peril seems to be culminat-
ing, the portentous figure of the American
slowly up in the Philippines. Shall Amer
lea keep the islands? This question has be-
an alliance Without 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
along 1900 miles of the Pacific coast.
BY conquest, annexation and purchase,
within g. hundred years we have expand
cquare miles. We are now engaged in
pushing our coast line 1000 miles farther
lands, almost at the gates of Japan. In
Samoa we have naval and coaling rights.
ours. Why turn back from the Philip
pines?
1t is objected that the islands are extra
territorial and non-contiguous; but Porto
Rico is 1000 miles from Florida; Hawaii is
1900 miles from San Francisco; the near
est point of Alaska is 500 and its farther
est point 1900 miles from Seattle; and the
A!eutian islands extend not only 2,400
miles from our borders, but into the geo.
1t is objected that military government
may have to be maintained for years,
contrary to the spirit of our institutions;
but military government existed in the
southern states from 1866 to 1870; and in
Alaska from 1867 to 1884. It 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 It |
was 50 years before Wisconsin, and s.
is objected that the Inhabitants are alien
races habituated to other institutions |
when acquired was peopIed by Indians |
and Spaniards; Louisiana by Spaniards
t,Tttsn ana negroes i alIen races and In
zona; and Alaska had Indians on the !
Yukon and Russians in Sitka. 1t is OBJ |
Jected that we will abrogate the Monroe |
its academic cobwebs, is the non-inter- /
ventiOn Of European powers in matters |
relating to the American continent That |
has nothing to do with American inter- |
vention in Asia, nor with legitimate ex- /
pansion of our territory In the orient II |
we are abrogating the doctrine. 1t must be |
orientals. and not for English and Rus |
slams and Germans and French and Hol- |
lan;iers, who are all there now, and fast
appropri:ating the orient . to themselves hen gel
vo1ved in entargiing alliances: and depart /
from the precepts of the farewell adj |
trouble at our very doors for hundred |
years, Mexico and Central and South /
America have had revolutions without |
number, Great Britain bounds our terri |
tory for thousands of miles; and yet for |
a century we have avoided entanglfng
alliances, although both propinquity and |
existed.
The nations of Europe are to-day concen-
trating their energies the shores of |
the Pacific. England pushed through the
Canadian railway to foster her Pacific