Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-26
RETAIN THE PHILIPPINES
Judge Grosscup's Address on
Our Future Foreign Policy.
THE PROSPECT IN THE FAR EAST.

the Moral Purposes For which It Wa
Begun and the Greater Destiny Upon
which, as = Nation, We Are About to
Enter-The Philippines, He Declares,
Are but stepping Stones to Vast Trade
That IL Soon to Open Up In the Orient.
Many men Of wide reputation gather.
ID in the Theater Saratoga the other
morning to participate in the opening
Of the national conference called to dis.
euss the future foreign policy of the
United States and kindred topics grow
ing out of the war with Spain. The
conference was called to order by Hen
~ Wade Rogers president of the
Northwestern university of Chicago, as
chairman Of the committee of arrange.
Bents In his opening address he said:
THE questions which you are to con.
sder are of grave public import. Never
but once since the republic entered upon
its career under the constitution have
,he American people been confronted
with questions of greater moment. 1t
seemed to large number Of our fellow
citizens il different parts of the coun.
try that some good would result il in
this particular crisis of our history n
national conference could be convened
Tor an interchange of views as to the
future foreign policy Of the government
A call was accordingly issued, signed
By persons in almost every state in the
Union, for conference to assemble at
saratoga, to be composed of men from
all parts of the country, without regaru
60 party lines and without reference e.
Irecouceived opinions for or against
particular policy. The gentlemen who
signed that call did so in the hope that
the resulting discussions would help H.
some measures to better understand
ing on tho momentous questions that
are now ut issue. Thank God, we are al
peace once more. We have had magnifi
cent victories, brilliantly won by mel
Of splendid courage and remarkable
skill We have triumphed over our enc
mics, rs was expected, 1t remains to be
seen whether we can triumph over our
selves, for peace has its victories as well
rs war. Let us not in the fash of sud
den victory hastily conclude that W,
have Outgrown all Of our cherished doc
trlnes Of the past and that we have 1,
Row mission in the world"
The question of the future foreign
policy Of the United States was taken
up in the afternoon. The Hon. Carl
schurz was introduced and read a paper
I'm opposition to the augmentation OF
United States territory by the annexa.
tiOn Of the islands wrested from Spain
by American arms. His argument sum.
married was that it would be breaking
Che American promise that the war was
o. be one Of humanity, not conquest /;
that the peoples sought to be annexed
were unfit TO become governing factor
III the republic; that all commercial
advantages can be secured by treaty
without annexation; that annexation
would DO only the beginning of dan.
gorous ambition, fatal to the integrity
ana purity of American institutions
The reply to Mr.. Sohurz's address was
made by Judge p. S. Grosscup Of Chi.
eago, who spoke at great length. Judge
Grosscup said in part:
IL am among those, Mr.. President.
who believe that the people of tho
United States can, without breach of
faith to tho promises of our past or
serious danger to the expectations of our
future, hold permanently all or a por.
ton Of the territory that has been oc.
rupied by our troops during the prog
ress Of the war, | am ready to 60 step
further and assert that the obligations
OF our duty toward mankind, and espe.
eially toward the particular peoples
who have been drawn within the sphere
Of our operations and toward the future
usefulness of ourselves, demand that
we should bold permanently so much
Of these, the captures Of the war, as are
aeeded to round out the moral purposes
tnr which il was inaugurated and the
greater destiny upon which as q ma
tiOn we are about to enter. i challenge
NJ the outset the statement so literally
INDUCED in by our opponents that in
taking this stand the American people
are moved by emotionalism or are de.
ceiyed by generalities.
Wars are the thunderstorms of civ
tli2ation. They never subside without
clearing the atmosphere OF much OF III
sultriness The one through which we
ar net passing seems to have envelop
e. 'ar goople Of America in a new at
musplere, We SEQ more clearly than
ever before the things that in this
world can be called our own, and the
things that stand apart from us-thC
possessions Of others; ourselves, and
our relations TO the other nations of tn,
world as distinct from ourselves, The
air through which we look Is clearer
our vision longer. aud tho outlines o.
tho future have taken on u distincmes
that leaves us no longer In doubt which
WY 10 talo up our course,
-Four months aga tho eyes ~ tho m
tiOn were hahitually turned inward,
spou itself fhu industries aud com
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