The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-03

coast, with population of $4,000, and
Puerto Principe, an inland city with a
population of about $4,000 In 1916 our
country offered Spain 500, 900 900 for
Cuba. In 1854 the American ministers
to Great Britain. France and Spain
met at Ostend, in Belgium, to discuss
| the Cuban question.
| They sent to the secretary of state at
! Washington famous dispatch called
| the "Ostend manifesto" declaring that
so long as Cuba should belong to Spain
| it would~ be dangerous to the peace of
the United States, and that if Spain
| should continue to refuse to sell the
island we should be justified in taking
| it by force
| Several rebellions broke out in Cuba.
the result of the last one being the in
| tervention of the United States, April
| 10, 1898, congress declared, using the
words Of the declaration of independ-
ence, that the people Of Cuba are and
| of right ought to be free and indie
pendent.
| After Dewey's great naval victory at
Manila, May l. 1898, the annexation OF
| Hawaii was urged as a military base
Of defense, and of naval opertions on
| the Pacic ocean.
| The resolution to annex passed by a
vote of AZ to 81, and on July Z, 1898,
| Hawaii became a part of the United
| States.
The Hawaiian group consists of Il
| islands, having a total area OF about
1000 square miles. The population is
about $4,000, composed of Americans
| English, japanese and Chinese.
By the terms of the treaty which
| closed the recent war, Spain gives UP
all right and title to Cuba; cedes Porto
Rico and Guam, the largest island In
| the Ladrones to the United States
cedes the entire group of the Philip
pines on the payment of $40 900, 900 for
the public works which the Spanish
government had constructed in those
islands.
Porto Rico with its three small de-
pendent islands, has an area Of over
$500 square miles nearly three times as
large as Rhode Island. According to the
last census, it had a population Of
whites, negroes and mulattos estima.
ted over 900.
i Guam is about 100 miles in circumfer.
ence. 1t was seized during the war with
/ Spain as a naval port.
i The Philippines comprise over 400 is
lands many of which are very small
Their total area is over 114,OOO square
miles. Luzon, the largest Of the islan9s
of which Manila is the capital has al
area of 40, coo square miles, and is near.
ly as large as the state of Ohio.
l
The population Of the Philippines is
estimated at from 5000, 600 to 1900, 600
The greater part of the inhabitants are
| Malays, savage tribes of an understood
nesro-like race, and Chinese.
With an area Of $4,000 square miles
of territory at the time Of Washing
toms inauguration, we have now $780,
600, exclusive of the accessions made In
i 1898. The population of 100000 at thai
time has increased to 75,000000 at pres
ent, and the national wealth. of $1,000
| 100000 at that time has expanded to $780,
! 000,0000 600 today. With the exception Of
| Russia. no other civilized nation has sc
many inhabitants as the United States
Our country's wealth equals that Of
i the united kingdom of Great Britain
| and Ireland and France combined. The
United States leads the world today II
4 business expansion. Within the las
Is years the exports of Russia have in.
/ creased 1875 per cent, Germany 1890
/ France 2o.40; Of England 1917, of the
United States 1866
Great Britain has gained nothing by
the expansion Of the world, while with
| in this period the United States has
doubled its trade and Germany has
gained AZ per cent, both gaining at the
expense of Great Britain.
The Americans, composed of all the
great fighting peoples of the world, are
world conquering nation in war and
! in commerce.
| In time required for transit. the Phil
| ippines are as near New York as Mis-
souri, was in 1903, when Jefferson
| bought it from Napoleon.
| In the providence of God, the future
| of our country lies hidden. He has
thus far guided us in a continuous and
triumphant expansion westward.
! 1t is for us to accept our response
! bilities as a nation, extending the bless
| ings of free and beneticent govern
| ment, and universal education; and as
| citizens for each Of us to do his duty.