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pushed there and established us there is an
impetus which tells for civilization for a
better Christianity, and that the United
States, as the great evangelist of the ma
ions, is bound to play leading part in
those waters and in those islands.
Some say why did not you take a rein-
quishment of sovereignty in the case of Cuba
or establish protectorate?" The conditions
were not the same. We can establish a pro-
tectorate or exercise a vigilance over Cuba
comparatively easily, but who wishes to estab-
llsh at once and now a republic under our
protectorate in the Philippines, which can in
VolYe us in all sorts of complications with
iorelgn powers, making responsible for
Its diplomatic negotiations, for its failures
and de1nquencies, and perhaps, for its ag-
gfeSslons, and involve us in wars which we
did not create, but which we must inevitably
enter into when once they begun by an,
other.
l would treat the Philippines in, this wav
considering their present condition and their
lnconslderate actions, stimulated l believe
by inconsiderate advice from the United
States would treat them with the hand OF
paternal affection wherever possible, and by
the hand of Daternal chastisement wherever
necessary. And when the time should come
by the handling and development of the peo-
pie, as it has come by the handling and
development of Great Britain in the straits
settlement, immediately opposite that little
by little, by degrees, they could be admitted
to local autonomy which l would grant to the
fullest extent wherever possible and in the
Que process of time, Whenever they should
tTra9f
britain mas adopted towards their civilized
colonies, and whenever they wanted to go
they should go, and [ would rejoice that in
tne process OF Tune an island republic could
De established there in the Philippines against
the island empire of Japan. But until that
Tune shall come the interest, the honor, the
security OF the American people demand that
We shall hold the Philippine Islands not only
under our protection, but under our rule
GROWTH OF AMERICA.
The whole history of the American republic
has been one Of expansion We have grown
until We have achieved and acquired an area
winch is four times that which our ancestors
Wrung from Great Britain by conquest And
the same arguments as to Louisiana as to
eXas, as to Alaska, were applied and have
been and are yet applied today as to Hawaii
and the Philippines, and yet this republic
mas endured for more than 100 years expand
ing becoming more imperial-I am not afraid
Oh words which are mere epithets-expanding
and becoming more imperial until TODAY our
country has laid hold of remote islands of the
sea and said:
They are ours TO occuDy until va !, tho
exercise OF our discretion can give them q
better and freer form of government than
they have ever yet had
10 me the acquisition of the PhliDpina
archipelago is not a mere qualification of lust
or pride of conquest. Let us all endeavor to
look a little beyond day after tomorrow as to
tendencies proceeding with all the force and
! regularity and sometimes with the slowness
or great geological process and see what
IS meant by that which is transpiring on the
surface OF human affairs within the last
hfty years, and, fellow citizens, the tendency
DShaii l call 1t OF humanity, or shall 1 call
| II by the forces which move the human race
towards the Chinese Orient-the Pacific east
| everything has been subdivisioned France
| has acquired Madagascar The great centers
OF activity are upon the east coast of Asia.
RUSSIA Is constructing across Siberia that
| great transcontinental railroad which was
| foretold 200 years ago
| By the treaty of 1896 Russia has obtained
practical control of Chinese Manchuria an
area as large as Texas and Containing 20 ono :
| 0OO people She has obtained Port Arthur.
| always open for terminus of a railroad in
the year France has seized SIAM Anam.
| Camboge ard Cochin China. Germany has
made a compensatory seizure.
| 90 l am am not in favor of the dismembership
OF that great empire. empire which was
Ola when Alexander watered his steed in
the river indus, an empire which has with
IN user the greatest experiences of the hui
| man race | am in favor of retaining the
integrity of that empire. and let IL be ac-
cesSiole to the civilized world in commerce
a nn1,,d acc af say and think that it
| in those waters for fifty years If Great Rrit
am and Japan and the United States as TO
an AL those n. waters ana lands bordering upon
mem north OF the equator, should declare
| with their united power that there should he
| no ACKNOWLEDGMENT of that immemorial en-
| pire.
| D1SflOf IlON OF, CHINA
There are other reasons. Let us endeavor
10 look at the few years ahead of u.s. We
may be all mistaken, but we are bound TO
| look and see as well as we can The Ameri
can Eeace commissioners were taught all too
painfully while we were in Paris that we
| mad not friend on the continent of Eurone
| not friend. That treaty was made under
the most adverse conditions of public senti-
ment so far as continental Europe was ron.
| cerned ' on
Our diplomatic relations with Germany and
france and all OF the other nations while
now entirely satisfactory and I take If ex.
aggerated in the public press, especially in
fega iSo 10 our relations with Germany, YET
eohSlderlng their aggressions upon the Goa 81
Of China; their intention regarding the dis.
me mem Of the vast empire, the enor-
fatalists-of men who fight without regard t Hl
oeatn.under the dominion of foreign power
Watnln thirty years could be made i'm
henSeiy dangerous to the United States
Il cont want to see my country become the
! China OF the West In these days when space