The herald., 1898-09-01
'ANGlO -AMFRICAN UNION
DISCUSSED BY SOCIAL SCIENCE
ASSOCIATIONS
The Famous Attorney Would Keep
Every Foot Of Territory Lately
Taken From Spain
Pres. Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
SARATOGA. Aug. SIN the annual
meeting Of the Social Science Association
which began this morning, Charles A.
Gardner, counsel for the elevated railroads
Of New York City, delivered notable ao-
dress ON the Proposed Anglo-American
Alliance
Mr.. Gardner spoke Of the tendency 20
national concentration in the present age
declaring that Russia, Great Britain and
America, comprising two races OF people
the Slavic and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ally dominate the world.
He spoke of the continual aggression that
has for more than eight centuries marked
the policy OF Russia and spread her sover-
eighty over areas In Europe and ASIA 100
vast almost for human conception.
Against this aggression, he said. Great
Britain has admitted that she can, unaided
by some other great power, make no oppo-
sition.
Attention at the present moment, he said.
Is directed to the Russo-British contest for
supremacy in China. At this critical mo-
ment, he says, the possibility OF an alliance
with America through consideration OF her
interests in the Philippines. is seemingly
Great Britain's only hope Of triumph.
Said he: "Shall America keep the Islands
This question has become fundamental to
the consideration of an alliance. Without
the Philippines, the prejudices and envir-
onment OF the past might control discus
sion, but with them an alliance becomes
the most important problem Of our new
worlds relations.
"It has taken us nearly century to push
our domain across the continent and along
1000 miles Of the Pacific Coast. By con-
quest and purchase, within hundred
years, we have expanded our territory
westward over $780, 900 square miles. We
are now engaged in pushing our coast line
1000 miles farther out, to Hawaii We own
the Aleutian Islands, almost at the gates
Of Japan. In Samoa we have naval and
coaling right. An island in the Ladrones
will soon be ours Why turn back from the
Philippines?
ut is objected that the Islands are extra
territorial and non-contiguous; but Porto
Rico Is 1000 miles from Florida: Hawaii Is
1000 miles from San Francisco; the nearest
point Of Alaska is 500, and Its farthest point
1900 miles from Seattle; and the Aleutian
Islands extend not only 2400 miles from our
borders. but into the geographical system
Of another continent. It Is objected that
military government may have to be main
tained for years. contrary to the spirit OF
our institutions; but military government
existed in the Southern States from 1865
to 1870, and in Alaska from 1867 to 1884.
1T is objected that colonial or territorial
government may exist indefinitely, while
statehood Is contemplated In the constitu.
ton, but Alaska has been a Territory for
thirty-one years, and Arizona and New
Mexico for fifty-two years. It was fifty
nine years before Wisconsin became a
State.
at is objected that the Inhabitants are
alien races, habituated to other instltu-
tons and forms Of government; but Flor
ida, when acquired, was peopled by In
dams and Spaniards; Louisiana by Span
iards, French and negroes; alien races and
institutions existed in New Mexico and
Arizona; and Alaska had Indians on tho
Yukon and Russians in Sitka.
ut is objected that we will abrogate the
Monroe Doctrine; but that doctrine, freed
from its academic cobwebs, is the non-in-
PREVENTION of European powers in matters
relating to the American continent. It's
converse Is non-intervention of America
in matters relating to the European con-
tinent. That has nothing to do with Amer
lean Intervention in ASIA nor with legit-
innate expansion Of our territory in the
Orient.
'If we are abrogating the doctrine, 1t
must be because the Orient Is exclusively
for Orientals, and not for English and Rus
slams and Germans and French and Hoi-
landers, who are all there now and fast
appropriating the Orient to themselves.
FINALLY, it Is objected that we will be
involved In entangling alliances and de-
part from the precepts Of the Farewell
Address; but Spain provoked continuous
trouble at our very doors for a 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 entangling al
lances. although both propinquity and
provocation existed.
1.-THE nations Of Europe are today con-
centrating their energies on the shores
OF the Pacific. England pushed through
her Canadian Railway to foster her Pa
cifc trade. Russia is building the Trans
e.
Germany and France want ports and trad
ing areas. OF all the nations struggling
for the trade Of the Pacific, ours is the
only one naturally entitled to 1t. The others
are on the other side Of the globe, but we
have a Pacific Coast line of 1000 miles. The
Philippines mean our ultimate supremacy
in the Pacific.
"They are the easternmost boundary of
the markets of the East. On one side is
China, on the other they look across to our
own shores. Stretching 1000 miles from
north to south and 600 from east to west,
they form a natural barrier between the
East and the Pacific. Scattered over 600-
900 square miles of the oceans surface,
the whole area would serve as an outpost
from which to protect and develop the
interests of America.
Facing the Pacific and Indian Oceans
is more than half the population Of the
globe. Excluding North America, the for
eign commerce of these peoples amounts
to 81, 800, 900, GOO year. History shows that
whatever nation controls this commerce.
controls the trade of the world. The issue
is stupendous. Nothing less than an en-
tire and undivided control Of the Philip
pines would give us base adequate for
our needs. Manila Bay, or even Luzon, for
naval and coaling station, would be too
perilous and costly a possession, with all
the other islands partitioned and garri-
soned by European powers. Let England
experience with India and China be a
warning. India, conquered and governed,
has been q mine Of wealth China exploited