The times., 1898-12-17
4 PAqRIOYlC BANQUET
The Baptist Social Unions
Initial Session.
POST pRANDIAL SPEECHES
The Purposes of the OraanixatiOn-
The Hon. w. $. ShnIlenberger's
Address-The Hon. ID. j. Hill Dis
cusscs ExpansiOn-The Views of
an Optimist-OMcerS Chosen.

The Baptist Social Union held it's first
annual banquet at Rauscher's last night.
About $50 of the members of the union
attended and enjoyed the elaborate menu.
The Baptist Social Union OF the Distric.
was organized to foster and develop Bap-
tist interests and to promote the spirit of
fraternity among the Baptist churches of
Washington. To aid in the accomplish
ment Of this good purpose the union pro-
vides during the year five meetings, two
Of which are banquets. The first of these
was given last night and was attended
by representative Baptisrs from the Dis
trict and abroad.
After the banquet a program of musical
selections was rendered, which included
solos by Mrs Thomas C. Noyes and Frank
p. Reeside.
The fir / speaker of the evening was the
Hon. W. s. Shailerberger, whose subject
was Some Questions to Be Answered"
Mr. Shalienberger said: '"Tne questions
OF TIE past six months arise from the fact
that never has history been made SO rap
idly as in that period. In the early Sum-
naer the question came to us at the POST
office Department, What viii you do
about IT.? Our flag has been raised at
Manila. our soldiers are embarking at
San Francisco What will you do about
IT.? We said. Send them.
But they said, can you furnish postal
facilities at Manila?' We replied that We
could and az soon as the first ship load
of soldiers had landed we had opened up
new postoffice in the old Spanish post
office building
''Our postoffice system is young. George
Washington had a postmaster general.
He had seventy-five postoffices TO man
age. Now we have 1850 postoffices. He
expended $500 each year. Last year this
department expended $50, ,0e000o. AT the
close of the war 1t was a wonderful feat
to send letter from San Francisco to
New York; now we think nothing of
sending a letter around the world in a
short time.
with the Postoffice Department the
country has grown We'can now not only
govern ourselves, but also colonies. If
we can't govern the Philippines, who
can? England knows how to govern
colonies. but We gave her tie first lesson
in this. The Philippines will be safer uu-
other flag.
Even though Congressihas not yet acted
upon the Philippines. Hawaii and Porto
Rico. the Postoffieei Department has. and
has paved the way in the right direction.
We have now postofices in these Islands,
50 let US keep them there"
The Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper. D. D..
LII D., was the next speaker. Dr. Tup-
per spoke on a Christian OptImist's View
of Things and sad that the world was
growing better and better with each sue
cessive generation. and that the world
would go On according to the guidance OF
God. There never was time in the his
tory of the country when the people were
so ready to assist the right and repel the
wrong. There never was another case in
the history. of the word where a nation
went to war ~ we did, for sweet hu-
manitys sake.
"If for no other reason. the war was a
blessing in bringing about firmer union
between the North and the South. Let
us thank God tonight for the unity of the
American peop,e as the result of this
war"
The last speaker of the evening was the
Hon. David j. Hin, IL D., Assistant Sec
retary of State. Mr.. Hiil said:
THE year now drawing TO a close is
destined to be memorable one in the
history of the world. A system Of CO.
lonIai exploitation has been swept away
forever Some say thai this seems to be
the beginning of a great era of imperiIi-
ism. but we will not believe that the aims
and ambitions of this nation can b. told
in that unhappy word Imperialism The
word expansion is not new one, nor Is
the idea novel. 1t has marked every
period in American history. We have
continually been growing and spreading
out. There is something expansive in the
idea of civilization.
Now, If civilization must extend until
it covers the earth. what form will it
take, self-government or something esc.
Europe, congested, is seeking new out
lets for trade and immigration. Asia has
lastly been chosen and the islands CT the
East are being occupied. How, then, W Ii
American civilization ever expand il not
now? We must expand row or nevsr,
because within Il few years everything
will have been occupied by the European
powers.
''In this country we have the most cos
mopolitan population on the face of the
| earth and it has become American and
adopted our ideas. There is q divine law
| of development and the day will dawn
when our institutions will be adopted in
| every land.
1--WE have always feared expansion,
| though expansion has always been the
right way Little Rhode Island refused
| to accept the Constitution because of the
| fear of expansion. Yet today there is not
! a cripple weak enough to wish that the
Rhode Island policy had been followed
| out.
..Shall it then be the ocean which shall
| fence in our country? VIII we withdraw
| our navy from the waters and keep them
| fancy perils across the sea? Why not ex-
| tend our fortiiications beyond our shores:
| send our Schleys across the sea to uphold
| our flag. tsrfF
| 1.-The problem now before us is what to
| do with the 120O0,Ooo aliens who will come
with expansion. BUT we do not allow
| the elective franchise TO children and our
| fathers never intended it for those who
are ignorant. Let those who say that
We cannot allow Malays and Kanakas
| into our government. first allow our wo-
men the right to vote before bowling
about the dangers of the Malays
Let us then press forward to the COM
pletion OF our task and extend the bless
ings of our civilization to every one who
is capable of receiving it,
The following officers were reelected: :
President, Charles w. Needham, First
Calvary Church. and DR.. d. s. Foster
Calvary Church; treasurer, DR.. George C.
Samson, First Church.
The reception committee for the occa-
sion included the following members: Dr.