Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-25
WE ARE A WORLD POWER.
Our Flag Is Planted In the Philippines t.
Stay.

Stay.
Senator Frye, chairman of the COM
mittee on commerce, a leading member
of the committee on foreign relations,
and president pro tenn. of the senate,
was in Bangor, Me-, the past week,
says a dispatch Of Wednesday, and
received very notable reception
from the representative citizens there
and in Eastern Maine. In the course
of lecture, which he delivered in an
informal way, he touched on current
political topics and made plain his
continued enthusiasm for expansion in
trade and commerce with the newly
ACQUIRED islands. The senator's utter
ances were very pronounced and have
made great impression in that sec
ton. He spoke in decidedly eulogls-
tic terms of the Filipinos.
"They are," said the senator, mot
as black as they are painted. They
are good husbands, good wives, good
carpenters, good sailors-extra good
saiIors-these Tagals, with whom we
are at war now. Their children are
taught to respect their parents. They
are truthful. They are easily taught.
They take readily to education,
though it must be admitted that their
opportunities in that direction have
been limited. One of the army OH.
GERS says that he has employed 200 OF
them in the Manila custom house and
that they make good clerks. The
men allow their wives to carry the
money and do the business for the
household. Isn't that good sign?
81 regard the Philippine archipel-
ago as worth a dozen Cubas," con-
tinued the senator. "ln every way
it is superior, and we want to reap the
benefits of this superiority. Look at
Manila, only two days from Hong
Kong, with our flag planted there in
the heart of the Orient. Shall we
haul it down and get out?
"Only two years ago France ana
Germany and Russia were going to
partition China-divide her among
themselves. And each one was going
to shut its share up to trade from the
outside. They aren't so vigorous
about it now. Why not? Because
we are there. This very day, at this
very time, our state department is
engaged in diplomatic correspondence
with those powers, demanding the
maintenance of an open door 10 our
trade there. We will not allow the
doors to be shut to our commerce IN
the East, and We are not afraid to
say so.
The senator then made some vigor-
Gus comment on the condition OF al
fairs two years ago, explaining that
"we wouldn't have yipped" at simi-
lar condition then. "Why do we act
now ?" he continued. because this
is new nation, taking her place at
last amoug the great powers OF the
old world. We all remember how IN
Turkey the Kurds were massacreing
poor Armenians, killing our mission
aries, destroying our churches, and
demolishing our schools. What did
we do? We made an awful growl at
Great Britain. We asked her to 90
in and stop the trouble. What do
YOU suppose we would do today :?
Would we growl at Great Britain :!
Not much. Today we would send a
ship of war to Smyrna, and we would
say: This must cease. The posi-
ton we have acquired in the last TWO
wears is worth all that it has cost or
will cost.
II am an expansionist," declared
the senator, "and / am not ashamed
to say it.. Contentment on the part of
man or nation is the beginning Of
decay. Isolation of nation marks
the beginning of the decadence of
that nation. We have always been
expansionists. We have started with
800, 900 square miles of territory, and
now, with acquisitions from time to
time, we have over 100000 square
miles, having taken 1,l2l, 900 square
miles at one swoop. We didn't think
it necessary to get the consent OF the
governed. If we could stand expan-
sion at that rate we ought to have no
great trouble in taking in the Philip
pines"
Senator Frye declared that the fig bit
with Aguinaldo must be kept up till
peace is restored, and added that in
the fullness of time the Filipinos
should be given the blessings of our
own liberty. Railroads, school houses,
churches and highways must be built,
taxes, reduced, and revenues honestly
collected and distributed, and the Fill
ipinos be led on to the day when they
can be intrusted with the direction Of
their own affairs.