The Indianapolis journal., 1898-07-04
A PATRIOTIC MINISTER
VOICE FROM RISING SUN PULPIT FA-
vORS TAKING THE ISLANDS.
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vestfgated in Court mt koko-
mo This Week.

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he said:
What are some of those steps we are
now called upon to take? First of all. 1
think we are called upon to throw the
aegis Of the Nation over the minor terrific
ries in our immediate vicinity. If these COM
munities are incapable of living by them
selves; if in attempting to do so they be-
come the victims of great and rapacious
powers far distant from them, then it be-
comes the duty of the nation under whose
shadow they are living, to extend to them
adequate protection, and if need be incorpo-
rate them as a part of her own greater
self. This would only be in keeping with
the policy that has been observed in our
past acquisitions. No harm, but rather
increased good has come from it. No harm
came when we got the Floridas, when we
made the Louisiana purchase, when we in
corporated California and Texas, and Ari-
zona, and great Alaska.
THE thought that there is mass of peo-
pie in these islands that cannot be assim-
Hated will not stand the test for a mo-
ment We have been Heterogeneous peo-
pie from the beginning, and yet the whole
tendency has been toward the Anglo-Amer-
ican idea of liberty and free government.
of the survival of the fittest, and our
masses will continue to climb up to the
highest and best ideals. Then let Cuba
come in: it will be best for the island and
for US. Let Porto Rico come init is man
ifest destiny. Let Hawaii come in, it will
be seemly in the eyes Of the world that
such an event should occur. Let the Philip
pines be Americans. The vast work which
is henceforth to engage the Nation as the
leading power of the world, and her neces-
sary contact with all parts of the earth,
make 1T proper step in the new ADJUST
ments now to be made. The sailors or our
merchant ships must henceforth see the
stars and stripes floating over the way sta
tions of the commerce of the globe. Such
is the view that, to our surprise, ana for
the first time, opens to us on our present
national anniversary. Surely God hath not
dealt sc. with any nation in these modern
times of progress. Let us not be diSobe-
dient to the heavenly vision!
There is yet one other step just now be-
fore the Nation which think is of vaster
is the building of the canal across the 18TH
mus. When America was discovered the
event altered the commerce of the globe,
and the business life of mankind was quick
ened to a degree never before known. No
one can forecast the results of this enter
prise. 1t will bring all things into near
short path from the extremeties of the
world. 1t will quicken the sense of the
brotherhood of mankind as no event has
ever done. 1t will broaden the field for the
preaching of the gospel more than any
event since the days of Constantine. The
prejudiceS of one part of the world against
another will then more than under any
one single event, begin to melt away. The
whole moral condition of mankind will be
advanced as with the solemntty and gran
deur of a world movement. 1t Will be the
making of new world of the whole world
of mankind.
"One can but think of the results that
fA1I n1n nf
will be in an unexpected quarter-in Africa.
All ships will. face the Soudan and the
countries of the Great Sahara desert as they
emerge into the Atlantic. 1t is the pest
port of Africa, and a territory larger than
one-half of South America, larger by far
than our original thirteen States, and one
is there and Senegambia. Great mountains,
like our AlleghenieS, are just inland, with
their breezy peaks and lovely wales. Their
great rivers roll to the sea, and all tropical
Vegetation is in abundance. Engineering
skill, less expensive than is required in
building the canal. may soon make this
spot a paradise of earth and fulfill the
dreams of prophets
Another result that will come, and one
with which we will be more Immediately
the frontier, alike, of our domains south
ward. If we except Mexico all the intervening
territory, by manifest destiny, must become
part of our own domain. And in time
Mexico will come also. Nature does many
things which it is impossible for politics to
accomplish. We are one country. AdVanc-
ing intelligence of the common mind will
soon apprehend this fact and will ordain
one government, one flag, one mission and
destiny. When that day comeS-not ninety
five years away, as far back as 1t is to 1903
the whole Nation will be correspondingly
great. Our navy will be the most powerful
in the world. Our wealth will, surpass that
of all nations combined. Our intelligence,
issuing like springs from the school, and
the newspaper and the free pulpit will be a
unique force in the world And, more than
ali else, at that time we shall be a moral
power, teaching righteousness and justice
on the earth, as we are this day toward
the bleeding Lamb in Cuba.
''Steps of progress! What patriot in 1776,
when the liberty bell first rang out its notes
upon the air of the newborn Union, could
have portrayed either the rapidity or the
extent of that progress? And in 1892 when
Columbus landed his ships in Cuban waters,
who but the Maker of the world could have
told what the developments of four hun
dred years would reveal? Who could have
told as late as 1903 that there was larger
world west than east of the Mississippi?
Who could have said when William Henry
Harrison was President, in 1910, and the
whole country was in poverty, that in less
than fifty years we should be the wealthest
nation on the globe, and that our empire
would be equally balanced and strong from
ocean to ocean? Let us cling to our tradi-
tional faith in God. and let our patriotism
increase with the increase of the govern
ment."