The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-04
But Most of Them are Against
the Annexation Policy.
is IT MANIFEST DESTINY
FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
TO GO INTO IMPERIALISM?
IS WAsHINGroN's ADDRESS OUT OF DATE
Mr.. Daniel R. GoodIoe Says That The Recent
Democratic Policy is Due to the
Wing Infusion.

Washington, June 2T-(Special)-l am
| sorry to see that the Democrats are di-
vided and split up on the question Of ter
| ritoria acquisition, the majority of them
| seeming to be in opposition to that poll
| CIV, and to have fallen back upon the old
| Federal Wing idea. 1t is true that the
modern Democracy is not Of unmiXrd
| blood in its descent from Jefferson.
Among the consequences Of the civil
strife which brought on the Civil War,
was an intermlrriagc, politically, of
Democrats and Wings, and the Wings
played the part of groom. This was
where the men of Wing antecedents
have furnished the Governors or United
States Senators. This result has been
owing doubtless to the fact that Wings
were less pronounced and hearty in their
suppOrt of secession than the Democrats
and therefore less obnoxious to the
North, and less likely to obstruct meas
ures of Cancellation. But the fact still
remains that the old parties were merged
and that the Wing spirit shows itself in
opposition to the old Democratic policy
of adding the little territory Of Hawaii
| to the Union.
When General Washington (who was
a Fedcrllist, and not in favor of Jeffer-
sons ideas of government, prepared his
farewell address, in which he warned his
countrymen against the dangers of zen
| tanglng alliances with foreign nations,
| he was eminently wise. This was then
| IF tho faal,lasf II q tionc Of tha world
| a mere infant, just delivered by Il Gaze
Zarian operation from the womb of Eng
| land, with four millions of people spread
| over a vast territory. Our population
was thinly scattered over the eastern
slopes of the Allegheny mountains. 1t
IS true that our western boundary
reached the Mississippi river, and no one
dreamed that it would ever go beyond 1t.
Our foreign intercourse was with Eu-
rope. We were weak and the European
nations were strong; and it was emf
nently desirable that we should keep out
| of their qualTels, and be at peace with
them. The men of that day knew
enough of geography to be aware that
wide ocean stretched out to the west.
beyond our continent. They had read
o. India and China; but the idea that
they and their affairs would ever concern
us, never crossed their minds. Even
Jefferson was opposed to the acquisition
of territory beyond the Mississippi. We
wanted New Orleans and Florida. His
instructions in 1902 and 1903 to our Min
lister to France, Robert II. Livingston.
were to purchase the territory belonging
to that power, lying east of the Mssis-
sippi and not Il foot beyond it. And
when Napoleon decided to sell the whole
territory to the Pacific to prevent Great
Britain from taking it he told Livingston
and Monroe. who were sent over, that
they must take all or none. They agreed
| to the purchase and then wrote Il long
apologize letter home for purchasing Il
territory as large as all Europe, south
of Russia, for ii sum which could now be
paid for by American citizens inhabiting
that purchase.
And to-day the American republic. the
wealthest nation in the world and os-
sentially the most powerful in resources.
has large cities looking out upon the Pa
cifc and its islands and the vast CONT
nent of Asia, having with them vastly
more commerce than we had with Eu-
rope 4 century ago when Washington
wrote his farewell address, 1t is too
late to say we will continue to be guided
by the letter of Washington's advice
We have OutgrOwn the conditions he had
in view. Our nation has great interests
to look after which Washington and
even Jefferson fifteen years later had
not dreamed of in their philosophy; and
those great new interests must be taken
care of.
There may be people still living who,
from the force of inyeterate habit still
mutter over old partizan maXimS,
against the dangers of anneXing terrific
ny; and who yet believe that American
liberty would be safer if all the terri
tory west of the Mississippi were foreign
to us. These territories were annexed
by the Democratic party. If there are
such people, they ought not to claim pa
ternity from the Democratic party.
Their alarm at the idea of anneXing the
little Sandwich Islands, for Il coaling
station, so necessary to the commerce Of
this great nation, can easily be account
ed for
1t is understood that Cuba Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands, will be wards
of the Republic, managing their own at
fairs in their own ways, and enjoying
the protection of this government on
the condition of something like freedom
of trade with them.
~ highly intelligent gentleman now a
citizen of North Carolina spent thirty
odd years of his life as a merchant at
Manila. He has a high opinion of the
natives. He says that they are honest.
brave and true men, with no little
knowledge of the arts of life; and that
they excel in some branches of manufac-
lures.
DANIEL r. GOODLOE.
THE RELIEF FOR SANTIAGO.