Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-06-08
',FAVORS EXPANSION.
DIR. TALMAGE DISCUSSES AN ABSORB.
ING THEME.
points out the wny For the Ameri-
cun People to Perform n Mighty
WorI-Thcy Hold the Key to the
Worlds Redemption.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891

Copyright Louis Klopsch, 1S99l
WASHINGTON, juno 4.--In this discourse
DR.. Talmagc steers clear of the political
pntanglcmcnts of our time and recon-
mcnds that which will meet the approval
bf all who hope for the pcrpctuity of our
scpublc and the welfare of other lands;
NeXt Genesis xviii, Ii, "Thou shalt
spread abroad to the west and to the
Fast"
Since the Americana fIispanic war is
concluded and the United States cmbas-
sador is on the way to Madrid and the
Spanish ambassador is on the way to
Washington the people of our country
are divided into CXpHnsionsts and anti
eNpansioniss From different stand
point from that usually taken | discuss
this all absorbing theme. ! leave the po-
litiral aspect of this subject to statesmen
and warriors and pray Almighty God
that they may he enabled to rightly settle
the question whether the islands in con-
trorersy shall he finally annexed, or held
under protectorate, or resigned to them
selves, while | call attention to the fact
that Il campaign of moral and religious
EXPANSION ought to be Immediately
opened on widest and grandcst scale.
At the close of this war God has put
;nto the hands of this country tho key to
,Lo ,.n-lrs rod,,rntion Iteretoforo tbo
,oIioi,rs ,,ovnr,.nt in n,oon lands had 10
prccede the educational After in China
and India and the islands of the sea the
missionaries have laborcd over 30 or -
years the printing press and the secular
school came in Now to bette advan-
tage thar ever bcfo'e religious and secu-
lar enlgc s1,.".cnj MAJ 90 side by side,
and so the work be accomplished in short
ti,@o mud moro thorouphly Starring
9TH tho f,,t tb,+ in Cuh, and portn
Rico and fI,c pLilinnino Islands ot least
.l~oo.fnrrths ~ thn noonlc con mother
read nor write. what an opportunity for
school md printing press, Within five
years every mau in those islands may be
taught to read not only the Bible. but the
Declaration of Independence and tho
constitution of the United states and the
biography Of George Washington and OF
Abraham Lincoln.
1t seems t. me that the government or
Che United States ought 10y vote Of con-
gross afford common schools and printing
presses to those benightcd regions. Our
national legislature by one vote appro-
priated S3OOoO,oOo 10 give bread and
hedlcine to CUBA. W ny not ny similar
generosity give $1oooo,ooo for feeding
nnd healing the minds and souls OF those
ignorant ana hcsotiod ar'hlp'IaEoeS' IN
She name OF cod | nominate a School for
eVerN T''Ehborhooc or Cupa' Porto Iico
ana the lhIIpplhcS' rs soon as the
&aVel iaHN AZ i o CLOCK or next Dec On
'he ta"'c oi N'""t' anu H'uSe oi IePie
epHIa'lNeS ana INC ron mas preh cal'eu anu
,he Prrl'lh'h"rleS opSo' Nru iet some mem
p'i " our II" ',o"". 'etlSi"'"re' WIN
snihn ana Son' "i'i No,ce S'r"hE enough 10
oe nearu H"u Only through those ha'lS
pu' through Chrlstcndoiil' propose
AIe'S"re i"r tle H''nt", a'iu moran ulSeh
'nr"'Iulen' OF ''e lSi'"uS III controversy
Higher Civilization.
What has made American civilization
2he highest civilization the world has
ever seen? Next to the Bible and the
church. schools, common schools, schools
reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
mud from British America TO the gulf Of
Moylco. FIVE years under such cduca-
tic2al advantages and the whole subject
That keeps our public men agitated. some
OF them to frothing at the mouth, win
settle itself Give those islands readers.
spoilers, aIithmetics, histories, black
boards. maps Biographies, globes. Let
the state legislatures Mt their next meet
ing some of them assembling in early au-
tumu, take parts of those islands under
their especial educational patronage.
What is needed is state and national ac-
ton in this mater OF schools
Then lot the editorial associations of
the nitcd States, as many of such or
yan -atious rs there are states, resolve at
the next couvocatior to establish in every
region Of th@,c islands printing press,
to be supported 10y people Of this country
until it ca become self supporting Each
OF these state editorial associations send
ing out to- those islands at least one cdi-
tor ana two reporters and cough typesct-
tiers, down will 90 the ignorance and ST.
pcrstitiun of Those islands as certainly ne
the Spauish fleet under Corvcro sank nm
der the pounding of our American bottle-
ships, and into their every nort will 90
intelligence and love of free institutions
as certainly as into tho horhor Of NariI,
went Admiral Dewey ON that fomons
night when he was NOT exnccted Hoes
printing press, Nothin, can stand ho-
fore its bombordment Editor. of Amer
lean neV~papers and publisbers Of Am.r-
Jean books, Take the ordination for
such magnificent service Itoquencc on
Sonder Capitol hill cannot meet the ex-
agency. Eplgrams of political platforms
or III state legislatures will not hasten
the desired contamination one week or
on" hour or ono moment.
When CubanS and Porto Ricans and
Flupinos see the morning and evening