The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-21

nan may serve In prison because Of his
! DISCRETION from labor is added to the
| term Of life Of the contract 10 labor!
las to the Philippine islands, they
| have between 100000 and 100000 in
! habttants of a semi barbarc Dopula-
| ticn, as unlike the people Of the United
| States in thought, sentiment, education,
| morals, hopes, aspirations or govern
| mental forms as night is to day. What
| advantage can possession of these ISL
! ards with such a people bring to this
| country? The nation which dominates
| the markets Of the world will surely
| control its deytnies. To make the
| United States the Workshop OF our des
| tiny and our duty, and thus side by side
| with other nations, in industrial and
| commercial rivalry, we base the con-
! sideration Of the workers upon the
! highest intelligence and most exalted
standard of life. No obstacle can be
placed in our way to the attainment
OF the highest pinnacle of national
| glory and human progress. But, to
attain this end is the requirement of
the Philippine islands, with their semi
| savage population, necessary? Surely
J not. Neither its gates nor those of any
| of the globe can long be closed against
our constantly growing industrial SUI
| premacy.
''The most reckless advocate of the
annexation of the Philippine islands,
| or OF any popuous island Of the group,
must admit that this programme in
| wolves the government and domination
of many by the few to a degree never
before known under the American flag.
| we have removed SaVages against
| their will in the process of our uproot-
! ing of tribes, but never except where
| 1t was reasonably certain that their
| places would be taken by a settled
/ ironS
as any wilderness occupied only by no.
| madic hunters and warriors. In the
| Philippines, with it's 1000, 900 CT 5000, 900
in an erea less than half that of the
state OF Texas, no such change can ever
| take place. ;The-whole moral effect OF
| the acquisition of the Philippine islands
| WITH the semi-savage population must
be to undo that which has been ac-
complished by organization and educa-
| tlCn and reform, particularly in rails
| ing the standard of living for the wage
earners Of the United States. 1t will
tend to breed contempt for the manual
teller and encourage the perniciours
exploit the weak and be used to fur
nish the luxuries for an oligarchy."
CLOSING SESSION..
Mayor P ]. Weldrum, Of Savannah
presided at this afternoons closing
| ocof'ipll. i1e ehpTeSSGd himself as an
exransicnist and in favor OF the Unitel
States spreading it's power and control
over the islands recently acquired by
| conquest.
E. V. Sngalley. of st. Paul. in short
address, also expressed himself in
favor of expansion.
DR.. William P. Wilson, director Of
1.-The Philadelphia Commercial museum,
| drew an interesting sketch of the topo-
graphy, geoditic and climatic features
or the Philippines, and urged the re-
tention of the islands, owing to the
necessity to this country Of them as
a foothold for extension Of. American
| interests in the Orient.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Chancellor McCracken, of the Univer-
sity Of Yale, as chairman of the COM
n1!ttee Of twenty-one On resolutions,
presented report which, he said had
been unanimously agreed upon by the
| committee. The resolutions were
unanimously agreed to by the confer
erce as follows:
I'VE, the participants Of the national
conference ON the foreign policy Of ,he
United States held at Saratoga, Avg IS
and 20, 1898, are substantially agreed as TO-
| lows:
I'VE commend the wise and patriotic course
Oh the national demonstration IN first SEEK
ing to avoid war with Spain, and in subse-
quently prosecuting the war with higher
aims and unity in bringing it to a speedy
conclusion 1t is satisfactory to our arms
and gratifying to the highest conscience of
the people. In the cause Of freedom and
welfare, we thank the men of our army and
navy for their skill and heroic achievements
on land and on sea, and for their chivaric
| conduct towards the defeated enemy. We be-
| live the free and liberated people of the
several islands are temporarily the wards
| n md chnr11
| treat them such.
| With our views of national right and in
| estimable privileges of liberty, we should
not be justified in returning the conquered
| islands to the misrule and. oppression ON
| which we have relieved them.
! LAS the islands under our rrotec-
ton can, be trusted to govern themselves
! they should be allowed to do so. the United
States retaining under it's authority only nee
essary. naval stations. Until such time as
! they shall be able to govern themselves they
shall continue under the protection of the
| United States, and the question as to wheth-
er at some future period and at the
| mutual desire Of them, they shall be per-
manently annexed should be left to the time
| when it arises. The United States in behalf
| of the territories in question and so long as
they shall continue under Its protection
should adopt proper measures for securing
| revenues from these countries for the estah-
lishment Of free, elementary. unsectarian
schools, sufficient for the instruction of all
persons Of school age. We count the present
an suspicious time for the establishment by
the United States of a grade diplomatic and
consular service
We heartily approve Of the principle of
arbitration in the settlement of hibernate nal
differences and urge that its largest prac-
ttcable application be secured by treaties Of
arbitration.
I'VE cordially favor the precedent set by
| President Mckinley in refusing at the be-
| ginning Of the war to grant letters of marque
| and reprisal, and recommend that in the
| peace to be concluded between the United
States and Spain the practice OF privateering
q fhaf ,rsrfo u
made as foreshadowed by the government Of
| the United States in requiring to sign the
| declaration of Paris in 1856 for the exemp ion
from capture of private property at sea in
accordance with the enlightened sentiment of
| mankind.'-
Chairman Henry Wade Rogers and
Secretary Ralph w. Eastley, of Chi
cago, and the committee of twenty-one
were instructed to present the resolu-
tons to President Mckinley and his
cabinet for their consideration.