Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-31
HE URGES AN ALLIANCE
iAvoss RETENTION OF THE PHILIPPINES
And Of Every root 81 Territory Conquered
OF Acquired by tho united states
Commerce Demands n.


Proposed Anglo American Alliance.
Mr.. Gardiner spoke " the tendency
10 national concentration IN N, pi-s'ni
arc. declaring that already thna ma
llons. Russia, Great Britain and Am,r-
lea, comprising two racer Of people, th'
slavic and the Angio-saxgn, pracu.
ally dominate the world. lie spoke OF
lhc continual aggression thAt mas ~
more than eight centuries mifkei we
policy Of Russia ana mas .n.,il ~,
sovorelrnty over areas ~ Europe ahn
Asia too vast almost for human con-
oetitlnn. Actinat this aggression. ne
taidl Great britain has admitted thai
shc can, unaidcd by some other great
bower make NO aucreaaful. oppomtilh.
Attention at the present moment. ne
said II directed 20 the Russo hfiu.n
contcHt for supremacy In china. ~
mis- critical moment he says the poesl-
biity 81 an alliance with America
through consideration ~ her Interests
IN the Philippines IL seemingly otrat
Hrltnln'a urly hope Of triumph. SAID
NJ. shall America keep the Islands I
rhla question haf become fundamental
70 the confederation Of an allitnce.
without the Philippines. the rrcjudiccs
and environment " the past might
-ontrni discussion, but with them an
alliance becomes the most important
problem u our new world relations
1T has taken Nv nearly a century 70
push our domain ncrofs the conun,nt
and along 1900 miles u the PACING
,onst by conquest. annexation ana pur-
,hnao, within a hundred years We have
expanded our territory westward over
a.iO0OO square miles We nrv now en-.
gagged IN pushing our coast line 1000
mliea farther out 10 Hawaii. We own
the Aicutian Islands, almost AZ IN.
gates u japan. IN samoa We nave
naval and coallnR rights An island N
the f.adronna Will SION be ours. Why
turn back from the phlllupinpri
ut IL objected that the islands are
fxtfn.tcrritorinl and non -contiRuous.
but Porto Rico II 1000 miles nom
Florida: Hawaii n 5000 miles from san
fanclHcOi the nearest point Of Alaska
10 toO and II fofthest point 600 miles
from Seattle and the Aicutlnn lHiard-
rxtend not only 400 miles Tom rur
borders. but Into the geographical Hyr-
TEN ~ another continent. II II oh
lcctcd that military government may
have 20 be- maintained for years. con
lrnr.. 70 the nnltit If our Institution
but military government existed IN the
southern states from lAGS 60 1870. AMI
IN Alaska frum isGs 10 i,st II IA OBJ
lcctcd that colonial or territorial Eny-
srnmcnt may exist indefinitely while
statehood II contemplated IN the Cun-
Tory for thlrty-one years and Arizona
and New Mexico for fifty-two. II was
afty-nine years before Wisconsin. and
tlghty-throc before Montana became a
state. n n objected that the inhnhl-
nro alien rncca. hnbltunted 10
,thcr Institutions and forms 81 govern
nent, but Florida when acquired. was
pcopied by Indians ana Apaniardni
louisiana by spaninrdr. French and
existed In New Mexico and Arizona
and Alaska had Indians In the Yukon
and Russians In Hitka. II IN objccod
that We viii abrofnte tho Monroe doc
.fine, but that doctrine. freed from ~
academic cobwcbn. N the non.intcrvcn-
hon Of European powers In matters re-
lating 60 the American continent. IL
converse IA non-lntcrvcntion, of Amcfi-
"a In matters relating 10 the European
continent. That has nothing to do
with American Intervention In Asia
nor with legitimate expansion Of our
territory In the orient II We are nbfo-
rntinE the doctrine. n must be hccaune
The orient II exclusively Tor orlcntAln
and not for English and Russians and
ucrmnna and French ana iInllandera
who arc all there now and fast appro
pirate the orient 20 themselves, flnhil,
4 II objected that We viii be- Involved
n entnngilnE alliances and depart from
the prcccpts Of the farewell address
but Spain provoked continuous trouble
Al our very doors for n hundred years
Mexico and Central and South Amcric.
have had revolutions without number
Great Britain bounds our territory III
thounnnda Of miles. and Yet for "a cen
fury We have avoided entnngling al
inncca, although both iniquity and pro
yurntlon existed.
The nations 81 Europe are toda. con
fcntfatlng their energies on Ahorcs q
The Pacific. England pushed through
Tho Canadian railway 10 foster her Pa
rlilc trade, Russia ~ building IN
frann-Hihcrinn road for the same pur
rose. Germany and France want port
and trading areas. OF all tho nation
Struggling Tor tho trade Of the Pacln,
ours IN the only onc naturally cntltlc
to II. London and Paris and neril
and st. Petersburg nrc on the othc
side OF the globe. but we have IA
,inc coast line Of 1000 miles. Tn
philippines mran our ultimate Huprcm
ffnoat boundary of the markets OF IA
East on one side n China. ON IN
other they look ncroaa 20 our ow
shores. Stretching 1000 miles frof
uorth 10 south ana coo from east I
west. they form u natural barrier he
swecn the east ana the Pacific. Scat
tered over 100000 square miles Of IA
oceans surface. the whole vast are
would serve A. an outpost from whlc
10 protect and develop tho interests q
America.
Facing the Pacific and Indian ocean
L. more than half the population of III
globe. Excluding North America, IN
foirlgn commerce OF these peoples Al
ready amounts % $4,000 600 ycal
History shows that whatever nntlo
controln this commerce. controls Ia
trade ~ thn world. The stake al lasu
IL stupendous. Nothing less than an rtl
Ire ana undivided control of the phillp
pines would give us ID base adoqunt
for our needs. Manila bay, or eve
Luzon, for a naval and coallnF station
would h. too perilouH and costly pos
session With an the other Islands partl
iioned and q irr soned by European pow
IN. Let EnRland's experience with In
iih and China be a warning India con
uuered and governed. has been a mln
o. wealth. China, exploited through m
trading posts, IN burden and a con
slant peril. We want the Philippine
not Manila, Just aa England tnda
needs Central China, and not afmpl
Hong Kong. We own tho Philippines d
riRht OF conquest, no other nation does
we arr In posaegNion no other nation II
we can malLtain stable governments
Spain cannot ana tho natives are In
capable OF self-rule0 4 can conceive n
reason 20 give AWAY, or sell, or leas
or abandon a single foot " the Tor
rltory. II would be 20 lessen In tina
proportion the greatest opporunult
Providence aver placed before the ma
ton. With The Philippines, Ladronci
Samoa AMI Hawaii our pnsHesalous wi
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