Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-05-26
FRIDAY, MAY 2e, 1859.
NO SOUND.

At the banquet recently given
Senator Frye by the business men
of New York City, the dis
tinguished statesman from Maine
delivered a brilliant address on.
"Our Trade and Commerce Gen
orally, and the Best Methods for
Promoting Them" In closing,
Senator Frye said:
What shall we do with the P%hilippines7 In
my judgment there will be no uncertain sound
in the answer of our people. They have been
acquired honestly, and in their requirement we
have dealt generously with Spain. We will hold
them as our own, for the goodo of the people who
inhabit them and for the immense advantage,
commercially, they promise us. We will give
them a good government, relief from burden
some taxation, ample security in all their civil
and religious rights. We will build highways
construct railroads, erect school houses and
churches. We will allow them to participate in
government so far and so fast as we may find
them capable. We will give employment to
labor and good wages to the laborer. We will
arouse in them an ambitio on to become good
citizens, competent to manage their own local
affairs and interests. We will make it possible
or them, some time in the future, to form q
table republican government. capable of max
ing treaties, enfor cling their rights under them
and observing their obligations. Then we,
alone being the judges of their competency, will
surrender to them the sovereignty, reserving,
to ourselves the naval and coaling stations
necessary for our and its protection.
In the meantime, we will not restore a rod to
Spain or sell a rod to any nation of the earth;
nor will we permit our supreme authority to be
diminished or questioned by any power within
or without the islands. Such utterances as
these may subject me to the charge of being an
expansionist. I plead guilty to the indictment,
and find myself in most exalted company.
In 1903, when our area was only a little over
eight hundred thousand square miles, the
Louisiana territory was anpexed. It included
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon, Colorado, North and South Dakota,
Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming,
1,171,0O square miles. What an outcry the anti
expansionists raised! Senator White of Della
ware declared sit would prove the greatest
curse that could, befall u.s." Representative
Griswold Of Connecticut: ut will prove the
subversion of our Union"
A voice Of Massa chusetts was heard, az now.
Josiah Quincy, when it was proposed to admit
Louisiana as a state, speaking of the purchase
of the territory, said: "If this bill passes, the
bonds of the Union are virtually dissolved. The
constitution never was and never can be strained
to lap over all the wilderness of the West. 1t
never was intended to form a covering for Mis-.
souri, and the Red River country. Attempt to
otrotrh II ovor thoeo md ~ will ho ro,t os,,rdor
You have no authority to throw the rights and
liberties and prosperity of these people into
hotchpot with the wild men of Missouri, mol
VIII bask on the sands in the mouth of the
blow to the constitution"
Dickerson of New Jersey, said: "Oregon can
never be one of the United States. The Union
is already too extensive"
Even as late as 1845, when Texas was undel
discussion, Daniel Webster deplored the tenden
cy to enlarge our territory, and declared it wal
dangerous to our institutions.
But in spite of the prophecies of evil, we kept
right on extending; in 1919 added Florida
Texas in 1876 New Mexico and California il
1848; Alaska in 1857, until we have increased oul
original 10000 square miles to over 100000
and our constitution survives; our Declaration
of Independence lives, and our Union is NOR.
powerfully cemented than ever. I am encour
aged and strengthened in my faith that tn,
Republic will survive the acquisition of Cubs
Porto Rico and the Philippines and that TIL,
advantages to be derived by us, commercially
will compensate us a hpndredfold for all til,
cost, while the war waged for humanity's SAX,
will, il we are faithful, lay up for the Republi,
treasures in heaven.
Tho Rismarck Tr;h,,no ooroos+;