Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-25
Here and There One May Be Found
in the West.
SECRETARY WILSON'S COM MENF
The Result of Observations on His
Recent Trip.
MUST KEEP WHAT WE HAVE

Yes. you may find anti-expansionist
here and there in the west said Secretary
wilson of the Department of Agriculture
TO Star reporter today, but he is as
scarce as hungry man, and the latter is
mighty scarce these days"
Mr. Wilson was discussing his recent trip
with other members of the cabinet and the
President through the northwest and mid
die west
~ on want to remember that that country
Is the center of population and power"
he continued. "Peop'e live there and do
things They look northwardly as well as
eastwardly. They have money to buy pa
pers and magazines and to keep up with the
times. They know what is going on. l
make this observation by way of preface
The President Popular.
president Mckinley is the most popu-
lar man those people ever saw They
would appear at daylight, after having
driven twenty-five miles in wagon or
buggy, women and children, as well as
men, just to see him and hear him talk
Ihen, when the speechmaking came off
ana somebody mentioned the Philippines
you would see the hats go up and hear the
yeiIs' They want the flag TO stay where it
Is, and there is no doubt of it,
lhey haven't forgotten that when Dewey
was forced to leave Hong Kong with his
heet, by the neutrality laws, there wasn't
a stake in the whole eastern hemisphere TO
which he could tie. We've got one now,
and we are going to keep It.
We nave a home in the orient for orr
wal stiPs as well as merchant vessels, and
d starting point for commercial expeditions
INTO all Asia and Oceanica-
Commerce of the Pacific.
The western people know the value of
this. They realize that every year their
products of farm and factory are going
into the Pacific ocean in increased ratio.
lhey want to keep it up. They are think
ing more about the commerce of the west
than of the east. They have the Atlantic
ocean trade and they are getting the Pa
CHIC $. Our people are not going To tyr-
ANNIE over the Fiipinos They will CON-
tribute money to send them school teach
ers and missionaries, and they will make
Inc Philippines to blossom like the rose
Inc westerners believe the east IS all
rsht on this question. No importance Is
a1tached to Atkinson and his followers
Ihey KNOW that Massachusetts is furnish
ing the largest quota of enlistments for tho
new regiments. In the civil war copper-
neaos used to get A-inch rope now and
then, but 1t is not worth the EXPENSE 70 1Isa
rope now. These little fellows who are
parking at the heels of President McKin-
icy ana carping at his doing what the Com
stitution. the laws and the people require.
90 not alarm the western people
Land Acquired by Treaty.
The residents of that section do not for
get that the land which they live on was
acquired by treaty They have no inten
ton of alternating Iowa and Minnesota, nor
of alternating any other territory We have
more recently obtained by treaty
That is the sentiment of our people As
| said in the beginning. there are isolated
cases of anti-expansionists In the country
but to find them requires microscope or
search as diligent the one instituted
by the scriptural woman who lost the piece
of money"