The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-22

| rer or soldier who helped push our coun'
try's bounds westward to the Pacific.
| 1.-THE men of 10 yeag ago who founded
| Marietta and laid the foundations of thi:
| great state of Ohio, in what was Their
| an Indian-haunted wilderness, were but
! pioneers in the great work of expansion
which has gone on until the present day
| Remember that expansion is not only
| the handmade of greatness, but, above all
| it is the handmade of peace. Great civil
| lied powers are, 1 firmly believe, grow
| ing more and more able to live in per-
manent peace with one another; but nc
civilized power is or ever has been able
| permanently to keep peace with savage
barbarous or semi-barbarous peoples, De-
cause these latter are not able to sc
conduct themselves as TO render peace
! possible. The day when universal peace
spossible can only come when the ma
tons of the world have grown civilized
| In some places this state of things can
come about merely by growth of civil
zation in the state itself; elsewhere, ii
has to come about by the expansion OF
the great, orderly, peace-loving powers
We of the United States are not in the
slightest danger of any trouble with the
Canadians on the north, nor with the
Mexicans on the south; it is not conceiv-
able that difficulty should arise with
either that could not be settled by peace
able methods. So in the Pacific 1 most
firmly believe that we shall be able to
work hand in hand with England, with
Germany, with Japan, with every civil
lied power that has interests in that
greatest of all oceans. With every or
derby, peace-loving civilized country,
great or small, we can work with perfect
harmony. But with savagery there can
be no peace until we have first made evil
dent our strength.
THE whole history of our century
shows diminishing tendency to war be-
tween civilized powers, and shows also
that the existence of a savage or barbar-
Gus state inevitably means war sooner or
later. Every expansion of civilized
power is a conquest for peace. Remem-
Der that even this great country of ours,
as well as all European countries, paid
tribute to the Moorish pirates as late as
1890; and piracy in its most abhorrent
form was not abolished in the Mediter-
ranean until the French expanded into
Greece. Then peace came to the Medit-
erranean. What the French have done
in Algiers the English have done in Egypt
and the Soudan. While Egypt was under
Arab Pasha and the Soudan under the
Mahdi, the two countries were sinking
steadily back into mere savagery; until
they were held by a strong and civilized
race no advance was possible. Now peace
and prosperity have come to both coun-
tries Turkistan was a mere chaos of
murder and lawlessness until the wave of
Russian expansion swept over the coun-
try, to the great good of mankind, and
brought peace in it's train. Now Ger
many has the Carolines, and under her
administration they will doubtless -four
ish in peace. What she has undertaken to
do in the Carolines, are we TO shrink from
doing in the Philippines? Are we alone
among the great nations of the world to
announce ourselves too weak TO di our
share of the task, too timid to bear our
part of the burden in extending the reign
of law, Of order, of peace, over the whole
world? That is what expansion means.
1t means not only the extension of Ameri-
can influence and power, it means the ex-
tension of liberty and order and the
bringing nearer by gigantic strides of the
day when peace shall come to the whole
earth
Every argument that can be made for
the Philippines could be made for the
Apaohes; every word that can be said for
ASuinaldo could be said for Sitting Bull
AS peace and order and prosperity fol-
lowed our expansion over the lands of the
Indians, so they will follow us in the
Philippines. IF we had refused to expand
over the west, do you think the west
would be peaceful now? If, instead of
your forefathers settling here in Ohio, you
had left Ohio to the Indians, do you
think the country would have had peace?
Indeed it would not Just so long as there
was an Independent Indian power on
your borders you were exposed to the
certainty of constantly recurring war.
If now the United States were to walk
out of Alaska, or out Of any of our In
dian reservations, as our opponents wish
US to walk out of the Philippines, war |
would promptly ensue; war among the |
natives themselves or between the natives |
and white intruders; and if we did not |
again step in and settle the matter, why, |
some other great nation would have to |
undertake the work which we proved our |
selves too feeble or too foolish to per-
form.
Last summer the United States had |
the honor to take what was. on the
whole, the leading part in the peace con-
ference at The Hague. We were able TO |
play that part solely because during the
preceding year we had fought to a vic
torious conclusion the most righteous
foreign war in which any nation has
been engaged for half a century. Our
power to further the cause of peace
among the civilized nations of the world
has been immeasurably increased because
We have shown ourselves able and willing
TO do our part in policing the world. in
keeping order in the worlds waste spaces.
If We shrink from going on with the
work which we have begun. we shall
merely lose our influence for good. When
a coward or weakling breaches peace. but
little good results; but, as was shown at
Inc hague last year When bighty peC-
pie. not afraid to do its duty in the world.
stands up for peace. the good result is i'm
mediately manifest When throughout
the world barbarism has given place to
civilization, then. and not till then. the
reign Of peace will be at hand: and ex-
pansion is, al the moment the way in
which this nation can best do its duty.
can best help to bring about that hoped
for day
Remember that the war in the Phil
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