Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-08

that there are more democratic senator's |
for expansion than there are republic
cans against it, and a count of senator
ial heads leaves substantial majority |
upon which President Mckinley may I
confidently rely in the enforcement of
his Philippine policy. AS a similar ma |
jority is assured in the house, there is |
not much danger that the administra-
ton is to be seriously embarrassed by
the obstructionsts. The president has
! a right to feel reasonably sure of a
hearty support from the legislative
! branch of the government.
| OUR FUTURE POSITION AMONG
NATIONS.
In an article on Ultimate World Pol
| tics in August Forum Samuel e. Moi
felt gives some figures in regard to pos
| sible expansion that show the limita-
/ tions of leading nations. He says:
The ultimate limits of expansion are
detinitely fixed and Very near. The
question is not how far the national
bubble can be blown in infinite space
before it bursts, but what share each
nation will secure in the final distribu
/ ton of the efarth's surface which Will be
/ settled certainly within the next fifty
Years. perhaps within the next twenty
/ five. Some of the elements of this set
/ element can be clearly foreseen. There
is room for only three world-powers-
I6ireat Britain Russia and the United
/ States. The French colonial empire is
Ian artificial creation that can not sur
vive the stress of war With a great sea
| power. So is that of Germany. The
most formidable nations of Continental
Europe, outside of Russia, must sink
to the rank Of second or third class
powers. . National power must
have a solid basis of population and ter
ritorial extent; and, cramped in few
hundred thousand square miles each,
4 the continental states must inevitably
be dwarfed By the powers that have
had the forethought or the good for
! tune to spread over the globe.
And how Will it be with US? The re-
gions in Asia and Africa which Great
Il Britain already has under mortgage
will bring her empire up to not less
than 100000 square miles, or one-thrd
of all the land of the earth. Russia has
1 within easy reach. in Turkey, Persia,
central Asia, and China.-not to speak
of Europe,-enongh territory to raise
the total area of her dorninions TO fully
IL. 100000 square miles. What. then. will
be our position? Including Hawaii and
Porto Rico. we have 3.613.127 square
miles. If We annex the whole of the
Philippines, we shall have 1927, 453. We
! may expect that sooner or later, Cuba
and the rest of the West Indies will
gravitate to us That will give the
United States in all something over g.
, A ttr,,
temper does not permit unprovoked ag-
Egressions upon our neighbors. there is
no other important field of expansion
: | open to US, unless Canada and Mexico
g should voluntarily cast in their lot with
: ours. If that should happen, we should
, have splendidly compact domain of
about 100000 square miles, capable OF
holding its own under all conceivable
5 conditions. But it would still rank
e only third in territorial extent. The
y British empire, even after Canada haG
been transferred to our side of tbs
u ledger, would still exceed it by fully G.
per cent; and SO would Russia AS &
nursery Of white men, however, il
would at least be equal to either OF
them.
Another alternative is reunion o,
: the members of the English speaking
g race. That would make us sharers il
e a dominion of 20.000.oO0 square miles
commanding all seas. and embracing
half the population of the world. What
d ever the rest of mankind might do tn.
d people of such domain would be Sc
= cure. So far as International relation!
We're concerned. they would have reach
ed the ultimate stability; the plane
y would contain nothing outside tfe
1t borders that could endanger them.
N IN default of these resources--if w
n neither acquire Canada and Mexico no
unite with our English-speaking kns
~ nlen-our position under the comm.
il definite world-settlement will be simple
We shall hold respectable, and ever
~ secure, but modest position as the tfirt
OF the three great powers. Our territor,
2. will be between a fourth and a third O
CT that OF Russia, and somewhat less thai
id a fourth of that of the British empire
All we can pick up In the way of stra
islands here and there will be so utterl
u insignificant, in the presence Of tn
ne carving of continents that is going q
G. before our eyes, that to digniry it wit
the name of imperialism is trif1ing wit
words If we have acquired few hun
a dred square miles in the Ladrones.
NC rev thousand in Hawaii, or even hun
~ dred thousand or so in the Philippine:
NJ we are far from becomin imperial, a
= that term will be understood in tn
ca world-settlefnent. We are merely re
az duclng IN a microscopic degree the In
A. eV1table preponderance against us tha
o. will exist when the world is permanent
OF ly partitioned
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r- PENs1ONING RAILROAD MEN.
ne 1t is announced that the Pennsylva
an MIA Railroad Company has perfecte
he plans for the pensioning of employs
AS Those who have reached the age of /
or years, or who have been in the emplo
~ of the railroad for thirty years. will /
la. retired upon an allowance which will /
ng based upon the length of service an
IT. the wages received by the pensione
=. while in active employment
The Pennsylyania Connnanv ia mo I