The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-01
LODGES PATRIOTISM
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/ by any European power. We have now
| little of the trade with South America.
| we should, we must have most of II,
ana we should also use all our vast IN
! fiuence to promote in those regions peace
/ and good government upon which pros
perity and development rest
! Africa has been divided, and there again
| We must take our chance with the rest;
I but over in Asia there is a market greater
/ than all those | have mentioned, the mar
/ ket of China. The course of eastern
/ trade, flowing always westward, has for
4 centuries regulated exchanges and built
( up great cities in its course from the
I days of Byzantium to those of London.
I / have said that it always flowed toward
/ the west. Now mark the coming change.
4 The American people have crossed the
continent. They are building up an en-
4 pire-pardon the word-on their Pacific
coast. That coast. with the exception of
1 British Columbia, is all American. Thence
/ they look out across the Pacific which
! Seward, like many another prophet crying
/ in the wilderness, declared nearly 80 years
/ ago would be the future scene OF the
4 great commerce and traffic Of the world.
THE PACIFIC TRADE.
Now we have come to the edge of the
Pacific and we see what Seward meant.
/ The coast on the other side has become
I OF vital interest to us, for we mean that
/ part of the mighty river Of eastern trade
shall flow no longer westward but turn
I its course to the east and pour through
4 the Golden Gate, the deep waters of Port
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canal into the United States. Our trade
with China has been growing rapidly.
/ We ask no favors; we only ask that we
shall be admitted to that great market
upon the same terms with the rest of the
world. But within a few years we have
4 seen Russia closing in upon the Chinese
empire To her vast possessions in Eu-
\ rope and Siberia she is planning to add
( the Chinese empire. with it's 450, 600, 900
people. If she succeeds we shall not only
+ be excluded from those markets. but we
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! controlling an extent of territory and a
mass of population the like of which the
world mas never seen. In the presence of
/ such colossus of despotism and military
/ socialism the welfare of every free people
/ is in danger Long before any one
dreamed that we should ever know the
Philippines except by name, some of us
| In washington had foreseen this peril
/ looming on the horizon, and had real
lied that sooner or later the United States
I in mere self-defense would be OBLIGED TO
| take an interest in the Chinese question
and to insist that we would not he shut
out from those markets. 1t was becom-
| ing apparent that the owners of one side
Of the Pacific could no longer remain in
different to the fate of Their other side.
| But how or in what way we were to as
! sert or maintain our rights, the wisest
came the Spanish war Dewey's fleet was
! at Manila and We were the masters of
me philippines We were an eastern
| Pacific at Hawaii and we had our foot
| hold on the Island of Luzon.
MASTER OF MANILA.
! The master of Manila can make terms
! with every power in the east, and those
! vast markets must be held open in. the
interests of our industry and our COM
| merce, OF our farmers and our working
! men, to the free competition of man
kind, contest in which the genius of
American enterprise need fear no rival.
One word more. There is another side
ha oil do 81 I,,t- 8
/ honor. We were brought to the Philip
pines by the fortune of war l can con-
ceive of differences of opinion as to the
| wisdom of our keeping them. l can I'M
derstand differences of opinion as to our
methods of governing and administering
them, but can not understand when our
soldiers are in the field, face to face with
an enemy, that there should be any party
or any organization of men in this coun-
try ready to cry out Surrender" The
soldiers of the United States in the Philin-
pines, where they have the right to be
! by the laws Of nations, by the laws of
TINS country and by the laws of sound
morals, are fighting, with the public
enemies of the United States. Under those
circumstances l see but one course.
i 90 not know how others may vote,
but vote with the army that wears the
uniform and carries the flag of my coun-
try. When the enemy has yielded and
1.-THE war is over, we can discuss other
matters of government and administra-
ton We took from Spain the sovereignty
of those islands; we alone stand between
those islands and utter anarchy or their
i conquest by Russia or Germany | am
| opposed TO turning those islands over to
anarchy The proposition that we should
allow the first self-chosen dictator VINO
come along to establish a government
ana that we should agree to stand out
side and do nothing but protect him and
| light any other nation that he chooses
| to pick quarrel with. is too absurd to
require .Trefutation:. If we are to have re-
sponsibiltty We will have the power that
| goes with II. l am opposed to turning
those islands over to any other nation.
CAN GIVE PEACE AND HAPPINESS.
I believe that we can give to those peo-
pie a large measure of peace and hap
| piness, of freedom and prosperity than
any other nation in the world for I be-
| the good faith Of the American people
think, therefore, that 1t is our duty to
stay there, and nation, like a man,
must not fail in its duty.
| The world has been largely governed
and always will be largely governed, not
by cool reasoning or by philosophy, but
| by sentiment Mankind is moved by
faiths and by beliefs. 1t was belief in
Rome that made Rome great: 1t was a
profound religious faith which swept all
Europe into the crusades. II was faith
in democracy, in man and in his destiny
which enabled Fracne to face banded
Europe and carry its armies from Madrid
to Moscow. 1t was faith in the Union
faith in the future of the United States,
faith in democracy, which made this
people fight four years of civil war to a
4 victorious conclusion. Filth and belief in
4 our country are the most precious pos
sessions that we have. Anything which
tends to lower or weaken that faith is a
deadly injury.
If we fail in a national duty, if we re-
treat before an armed enen., we weaken
and we injure the national glory and the
faith. that goes with it. We can subdue
this insurrection, we can bring peace and
order to these islands, we can give liberty
and prosperity to their inhabitants 1t
is our duty to stay there and to do these
things. Shall we hesitate in the pres
ence of such duty and such vast and
vital interests of our own? Shall we
make what Dante calls the great re-
| fusal," shall we call home Dewey
ships, shall we bid our soldiers retreat
shall we haul down the flag and as we
fold 1t up write upon it failure word
which has never been there yet? There
j is but one answer that l can make to
these questions. but one answer that the
American people, brave and high-spirited
as they are, will make, and that answer