Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-01-12

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for their independence, just as the
Cubans, who are no better than they,
fought for their independence, to
which we solemnly declared them to
be 'of right entitledp Look at this
calmly if you oan." =. = (.
Mr. Schurz next portrays the dam
gers OF u large army, and then points
out that we may have to pay dearly
for England's friendship in this mat
ter, and shows that, while the friend
ship of the greatest naval power on
the earth is good thing to have, it
is bad thing to need, and if we ore
wise we will not put ourselves in the
position of needing it, and in this
connection comes one of the most
eloquent passages in the whole adj
dress, wherein he says:
"Our country is large enough for
several times our present population.
Our home resources are enormous,
in great part not yet touched. We
need not fear to be starved by The
completest blockade of our coasts,
for we have enough of everything
and to spare. On the contrary, such
a blockade might result in starving
others that need our products. We
are to-day ono of the greatest pow
ers on earth, without having the
most powerful fleet, and without
stepping beyond our boundaries.
We are sure to be by far tho great
est power of all, as our homogeneous,
'rtelligent and patriotic population
multiplies and our resources are de-
veloped, without firing gun Or sac
rifcing life for the sake of con-
quest-far more powerful than the
British Empire with all its Hindoos,
and than the Russian Empire with
all its Mongols. We can exercise
the most beneficial influences upon
mankind, not by forcing our rule or
our goods upon others that arc weak
by the force of bayonets and artil-
lory, but through the moral power of
our example, by proving how the
greatest as we'll as the smallest ma
tion can carry on the government of
the people, by the people and for the
people in justice, liberty, order and
peace, without large armies and ma
vies.
"Let the Republic and Great
Britain each follow the course which
its conditions and it's history have
assigned to it, and their ambitions
will not clash, and their friendship
be maintained for the good of all.
And if our British cousins should
ever get into very serious stress,
American friendship may stand be-
| hind them; but then Britain would
depend upon our friendship, which,
as an American, I should prefer, and
not America or British friendship, as
our British friends, who 80 impa-
tiently urge us to take the Philip
pines, would have it. But if We do
take the Philippines, and thus
entangle ourselves in the rivalries of
Asiatic affairs, tho future will he, as
Lord Salisbury predicted, ono OF
vars and rumors of wars, and the
time will be forever past when we
could look down with condoscending
pity on the nations of the Old World
groaning under militarism with all
its burdens"
Mr.. Schurz then takes up the argu-
ments of the imperialists, ono by one,
and passes theE in review, the talk
of our having our present territory,
the plea that our Industries need a
wider market, the talk Of the Pacific
being destined soon to be the battle
field Of commerce, the cry that we
must have coaling stations, that the
flag must not come down, the whine
that we are an isolated people. To,
all these he replies seriatim to the
effect that our present territory can
hold comfortably three times as many
people as we now have, that it is not
necessary to conquer countries in
order to trade with them, that the
trade of the Atlantic will for many
Years be moro important than that
of the Pacific, that it is cheaper to
buy coaling stations than to conquer
them, that tho flag ought to come
down except where it stands for lib
erty and justice, and as to 'isola-
ton" he says:
"What is that so-callcd isolation {?
Is it commerciaI2 Why, last year
our foreign trade amounted to nearly
1000 million dollars, and is rapidly
growing. Is that commercial isola-
ton? Remember our history. Who
was it that early in this century
broke up the piracy Of tho Barbary