Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-26

boundaries to the mountain spur we
now occupy. There is moral elevation
in wide outlook. As a people we for
the first time look clearly over the EN-
pires of the earth. Without the sacrifice
ministers Of both, the invitation comes
to take our share IN the opportunities
and responsibilities Of this wider field
1.-THE immediate question, the one
that by its solution will either bring us
In or bar us out of this larger national
sphere, relates to the permanent occu-
patton Of our Spanish conquests. The
true question is not whether Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines are intrin-
sically worth the responsibilities in
Cured by their occupation. The true
question is not whether their commerce
and resources will counterbalance the
new dangers that their requirement
would introduce into our political sys-
TEN. For l see behind them in the
horizon toward which we are headed,
looming up from the Pacific, in noun
famous interest and opportunity, against
which the outlines Of the Philippines
ire but hand speck, something more
than Misunderstanding else than con.
tinent. Within Asia lies the interest
and the opportunity that by its large
ness dwarfs every other prospect. ia.
vor the acquisition of Porto Rico partly
because the moral purpose of this war
demands that il should no longer be
political plague spot in the otherwise
purified Caribbean sea, but chiefly be
cause it is at the gateway to the Carib
bean--a sea that when the CONNIE of
Asia is fully developed and the Mica.
ragua canal opened will from both ma
val and commercial view become the
most important water on the face of the
globe, / favored the acquisition of Ha-
wall, and favor the acquisition of the
Philippines, or SO much Of them as may
be needed, solely because in the new
career Of commercial activity upon
which / trust we are about to enter we
need clear across the Pacific line of
naval stations and home ports, stations
in every sense our own, carrying under
the soil the American title and over it
the American flag. l favor the reten-
ton Of the Philippines, or at least
part of them, that they may stand as
tangible continuing demonstration Of
the physical presence Of the republic in
Asiatio waters. The value of these con.
quests is not in their territory, nor
their resources, separately considered,
but in the fact that as an entirety they
constitute chain precisely adapted to
tka cd sIh In. 81,
to enter. care little for the links in
dividually, but everything for the chain
that will henceforth hold us to our op.
portunities in the far east. The new
dominion that from that quarter Of the
globe beckons us, though apparently
commercial only, is infinitely greater
than complete dominion over all the is.
lands of the sea. Indeed in any adequate
view of our future these islands are but
stepping stoues upon which American
commercial and moral energy may for
all time safely cross to the harvests Of
the orient"
After taking notice Of two objections
urged by opponents Of annexation Judge
Grosscup continued:
81 come now to what is in my judg.
ment the most interesting and impor-
tant object of our future foreign policy.
refer, of course, to the immediate flu.
ture of Asia. II is in that quarter that
we will find situation open to Ameri.
can enterprise, commerce waiting for
American venture, and eventually a
people and institutions ready for graft
from the tree of Anglo-Saxon civil lib
erty. Outside of those countries that are
already European dependencies the pop.
ulation of Asia numbers already 400,-
900, 900 souls. They have up to the
present time lived almost apart from
mankind. The breaking Of the seal
upon their ports is to us of Europe and
America the discovery of a new cont.
nent. In the nature Of things great re.
suits must follow. The discovery Of un.
peopled America broke up the deepest
fountains Of European life. The open
ing of Africa, peopled only by savages,
has stirred every corner Of European
enterprise. But here in the far east
swinging inward are doors that will ad-
NIT us to one-half Of the desirable ter
ritory and one-half Of the population Of
the earth. 1t is land without rail
roads, without manufactures, without
cities built ON modern lines, without
fields cultivated by modern implements.
II bids for every character of American
enterprise. 1t lies under the temperate
zone, the only strip of our globe that
insures health to men now alive and
promises increasing vigor to men yet to
come. Looked at from every material
point of view, the invitation rendered is
one that no enterprising people can
afford to decline.
1.-The break up in the current Of
Asiatic life is at hand. The people Of
China are already beginning to compare
their own modes Of life with ours and
to reach out for some of the physical
aids that we are ready to offer. But be-