The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-21
CARNEGIE
is DUBIOUS.
He Doesn't Believe President
Mckinley
Has Any Policy Regarding Ter
ritOriaI Expansion.
CAGES INTERVIEW.
Comes In For Severe Criticism
From the Fault Finder.
He Sees Endless Trouble Ahead
in Amy Event.
INTERVIEW.

st. Louis, Nov. 21-The Post-Dispatch
prints the following from Andrew Car
negie on territorial expansion:
1t gives me great pleasure to comply
with the request of the Post-Dispatch
for my views of the present condition of
imperialism.
We draw closer and closer to the
problem, and fortunately two members
of the cabinet have at last told US
where they stand. 1t is most desirable
that the other members speak out, even
if they take the side Of Imperialism.
If the people today knew that Presi-
dent Mckinley had convictions on the
subject to which he would stand half
the danger would be over.
In Secretary Cages recent interview
proclaiming his conversion to imperial
ism he accepts the dangers and cost of
imperialism against his own wishes for
the sake of commercial expansion.
Now, Secretary Gage has never man
ufactured anything or exported any
thing; he is neither in manufacturing
nor in commerce. I am in both. Our
concern is today the largest exporter
of manufactures in the United States.
The reason that Secretary Gage gives
for acquiring the Philippines is the rea-
son why I would not. He believes it
would be favorable to commercial eX-
pansiOn; know that it would be detri-
mental
Foreign trade rests upon peace and
security; the waters must be calm, dis
turbing influences ABSENT to foster trade
in foreign parts
Should we undertake to hold the Phil
ippines, we Immediately place the whole
Republic within the zone OF wars ana
rumOrs of wars, and the rumor of war,
it must be remem bered, is in itself de-
structiVe to commerce 1t was only ru-
mOrs of war that threw US from London
back to New York two weeks ago when
the money center of the world was
placed in New York by a rumOr that
France and England would fight.
afea1-x q a pa q
the commercial expansion which TINS
country is enjoying, what viii satisfy
this man? have seen nothing ike II
in my lifetime, nor have read OF any
thing comparable to it. Our exports
now exceed the exports Of Great Britain
What does Secretary Gage mean by
talking of commercial expansion to
come, when the question today is how
shall we meet the commercial expansion
crOwding upon uSI
I should like to ask the adnlinistra-
ton one question which the president
and cabinet must soon think OF.
Are the Philippines to be considered
part of the American republic, as Porto
Rico is and are we to keep them for
ourselves as we have Porto Rico, ex-
GLIDING the world from equal trade
rights with them?
Suppose President Mckinley says;
Eyes, I have always stood for American
labor; am its great champion; am
a prOtectiOnist to the core"
I begin to grow doubtful about the
subject; but if he has convictions, it is
this that 1t is the duty of an American
president to take care Of American
labor Well, he will have done so when
he announces that he is going to obey
the constitution of the United States,
although in these days the constitution
seems to be, as Tim Campbell once said
to President Cleveland: "A small thing
to stand between friends"
Let the president take either horn Of
the dilemma and his policy of what he
himself has called criminal aggression
fails. Let him open the door of the
world and he antagOniZeS American
labor. Let him consider the Philippines
part of the United States, and therefore
entitled under the Constitution to free
trade, as part of the United States, and
its door closed except through the high
tariff to all other nations, and he an
tagonizes the whole Of Europe and has
war upon his hands to a certainty-this
time no weak Spain to deal with, but
the overwhelming naval power of
Europe.
There is another reason, equally
potent, which will defeat the presidents
policy and save the republic. Be of
good cheer. The American people have
always decided rightly in great crises.
The imperialistic policy has not been
properly discussed, because the position
of the president and the government is
not yet known, but the president has
to come forward and decide the question
I have indicated. This will be the death
blow of imperialism either way he de-