The record-union., 1899-10-22

no more 1mperiaIlStS than We're the men
who voted for Lincoln, and who bore
arms under Grant and Sherman in
1864. Admiral Dewey when he went
into Manila Bay did not serve the de-
signs of imperialists. He was merely
carrying out the historic policy of this
nation; the policy which was pursued
by George Rogers Clarke, when by con-
quest he added Indiana and Illinois to
the Union during the Revolutionary
War; by Sam Houston when he and his
followers brought about the admission
of Texas to the United States; by Fre
mont, and every other settler, explorer
or soldier who helped push our coun-
try's bounds westward to the Pacific.
THE men of 40 years ago who found
ed Marietta and laid the foundations of
this great State of Ohio, in what was
then 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 civilized powers are, L firmly be-
live in permanent peace with one an
other; but no civilized power is or ever
has been able to keep peace with saw
age, barbarous or semi barbarous peo-
Piles, because these latter are not able
to so conduct themselves as to render
peace possible. The day when univer-
sal peace is possible can only come
when the nations of the world have
grown civilized.
I'm some places this state@of things
can come about merely by growth of
civilization in the state itself; else
where it has to come about by the ex-
pansion of the great, orderly, peace-lov-
ing 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 conceivable that a diff
Guilty should arise with either that
could not be settled by peaceable meth
DDS.
so in the Pacific, I most firmly be-
lieve that we shall be able to work
hand in hand with England. with Ger
many, with Japan, with every civilized
power that has interests in that great
est of all oceans. With every orderly,
peace-loving civilized country, great or
small, we can work with perfect har-
mony. 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
between civilized powers, and shows
also that the existence of a savage
or barbarous state inevitably means
wars sooner or later. Every expan-
sion of a civilized power is a conquest
for peace. Remember 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 it's most abhorent form was
not abolished in the Mediterranean un-
til the French expanded into Algiers,
and the Turk was driven from Greece.
Then peace came to the Mediterranean.
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 more savagery; un-
til they were held by strong and civ
ilized race no advance was possible.
Now peace and prosperity have come
to both countries.
''Turkistan was a mere chaos of mur-
der 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
her administration they will doubtless
flourish in peace. What she has under
taken 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 do 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 American
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 Apache; every word that can be
said for Aguinaldo could be said for
Sitting Bull. AS peace and order and
prosperity followed 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 that the West would be
peaceful now? If, instead of your fore
fathers settling here in Ohio, you had
left Ohio to the Indians, do you think
the country would have had peace? In
deed it would not Just so long as
there was an independent Indian power
on your borders you were exposed to
the certainty of constantly recurrent
wars.
IF now the United States were to
walk out of Alaska or out 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 had proved ourselves toe
feeble or too foolish to perform.
Last summer the United States had
the honor to take what was, on the
whole, the leading part in the peace
conference at The Hague We were
able to play that part solely because
during the preceding year we ha6
fought to a victorious conclusion the
most righteous foreign war in which
any nation has been engaged for hall
a century. Our power to further the