The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-28
Needs an Example
in Colonization
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
| nT rs THE unexpected that happens.
| III The world has needed for uncounted
centuries just such an experiment N
Ii governing n foreign and conquered
people as our national government
has now the unsought-for opportunity of
making.
The Roman method, which anteda-ed
Rome back into the dawn of history, OF
| conquest fer the sole purpose of aC-
! srandizemcnt and tribute at the expense
of tho conquered, has been followed from
| the days of the Caesars to the closing
years Of the nineteenth century by every
| monarchical government strong enough to
| appropriate foreign countries to itself.
Conquest and seizure have gone on more
| rapaclously in recent years than IN
| Romc's palmest days. The entire cont-
! ncnt Of Africa has been practically APP
propriatcd during this generation as lcgit-
| innate spoil for division between Great
| Britain, France and Germany, and what
| British and Russia conquest has left Of
| Asia is in process of division between the
four great European powers. The Amer-
| can continent Is protected from a similar
| fate only by the mailed hand of our giant
republic. And this modern conquest has
been characteristicaly Roman in spirit
| and method, for tribute and aggrandile-
| ment at the expense of the conquered
| countries. incidentally and ultimately a
| partial may be replaced by a higher civil
| liSation, but the undcniable injustice wien
which conQucIing governments have IN is
far treated subjected peoples is a le-
proach to civilization itself.
Millions of people kept down by mill
tary force in virtual serfdom from gen
Grafton to generation and century 10
century have suddenly come under the
control and tutelacc Of the United States
Of America. The responsibility Is not of
our seeking. 1t has come to us as il by
divine dispensation, conferred through
victory as marvellous as the miraculous
| trumphs recorded Of Israclitish hosts
which followed the ark of the covenant
in oldcn times To replace the tyranni-
cal, intolerant, rlundering, non-progrcs-
sive policy of Spain by just. cnlisht
cned. progressive government of the Phil
ippine islands Is an object lesson that the
world needs. Shall their semi. civilized
people remain scyfs and aliens, or be
fitted as rapidly as practicable TO enjoy
the rights asserted by our Declaration of
Independence to belong to all mankind?
The responsibility of demonstrating that
| this can he dcne has come to this coun-
try I'm a way that II carnot ignore with
out loss of national manhood, prestige
and safety.
Divine purpose i'm human affairs has
never been more plainly shown than in
our so far bloodloss conquest, to our own
| side, of the Philippines. Not for Roman
| cXaCtion, European spoliation. and Span
| ish oppression but for the rights of ma
| and progress of the race have the Philip
pines been assigned by the fortunes of
| righteous war the control
United States, and to exercise such con-
| troll as will lead a great Asiatic
population onward and upward in the
| path of onlighter ed government will
he the third sublime achievement of our
| magnificent republic