The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-21
REID MADE Ii. D.
Princeton COnfers a Degree on
the N. Z. Tribune Editor.

Princeton, n. J., Oct. 21.-Commem-
Grafton day exercises of the $3.50 ami
versary of the founding of Princeton
university were held in Alexander hall
today. The faculty and trustees march
ed from the chancellor green library to
Alexander hall. headed by President
Patton and WhiteIaw Reid. President
Patton on behalf of the faculty and
trustees conferred the degree of Ii D.
upon Mr.. Reid and made an introduce
tory address in which he announced
that the Stanord-Littel lectureShip
would be filled by Grover Cleveland,
ex-president Of the United States
Mr.. Red spoke on Expansion as
follows:
Everybody now realizes that once
war was begun, absolutely the most
efficient means OF making 1t speedily
and Overwhelmingly victorious, as well
as defending the most exposed half of
our own coast was to go to Manila
'' Find the Spanish fleet and destroy
it, was as wise an order as the presi-
dent ever issued and he was equally
wise in choosing the man to carry 1t
out. There is no need to debate Wheth-
er Dewey was right in staying there
The administration that should have
ordered him to RbandOn the eastern
foothCld he had conquered for his
cOuntry-to sail av ay like a stated pi-
rate from the port where his victory
broke down all civ liZed authority, but
his own and his presence alone pre-
vented domestic anarchy and foreign
pOliatfOu-WOuld have deserved to be
hooted out of the capital There is no
need to debate WI ether the peace COM
missioners should nave thrown away in
Paris what DeWey had won in Manila
The public SerV' -ntS who without IN
structions SHOULD in a gush of irrespon-
sibIe sentimen -ality, abandon great
possessions to which his country is
justly entitled, whether by conquest or
as indemnity for an unjust war, would
he NOT only an unDrOfita bic. but a faith
less servant
Il venture to say that neither our
duty nor our interest will permit US to
stop short of a pacifcation of the Phil
ippines, which can only end in the es-
adjustment of such local self-govern-
ment as the people are found capable
of conducting and its extension just
as far and as fast as the people prove
nit for it.
The natural development thus to be
expected would probably proceed safely
along the lines Of the least resistance
about in this order:
First, and until clear that it is no
longer needed, the military govern
ment- Next, the rule of either military
or civil governors (for a considerable
time probably the former) relying
gradually more and more on native
agencies. Thirdly, the development of
DEPENDENCIES. with an American civil
governor with their foreign relations
and their highest courts controlled by
US and their financial system largely
managed by members of rigidly or
gained and jealousy protected Amer
lean civil service; but in most other re-
spectS steadily becoming more self
governing. And finally. autonomous
colonies, looking to US for little save
the control of their foreign relations
prOfting by the stability and order, the
backing of powerful nation guarantees;
cuItivating more and more intimate
trade and personal relations with that
nation and coming to feel themselves
participants of its fortune and renown-
IF congress should take as long a.