The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-23

great good of mankind, and brought
peace in its train. Now Germany has the
Gardiner, and under her administration
they will doubtless flourish In peace
What she has undertaken to do In the
Carolines, are we to shrink from doing
In the Pbiiippinesf Are we alone
among the great nations OF the world to
announce Ourselves too weak TO do our
share Of the task. too ii mid TO bear our
part OF the brudsn in extending tina reign
OF Law. OF order, Of peace. over the whole
worlds That Is what expansion means.
IL means not only the extension of
American influence and power, 1t means
the extension 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
Apaohss; every word that can be said for
Agusnaido could bs said for Sitting Bull.
Az peace and order and prosperity fol-
lowed our expansion over the lands OF
the Indians, so they will follow US In the
Philippines II we had refused to expand
over the West, do you think that the
West would hs peaceful nowp II, instead
of your forefathers settling here In OHIO
you had left Ohin to the Indians, do you
think the co uutry would have had peaos?
Indesd 1t would mot. just 80 long as
there was an independent Indian power
on your borders you were exposed to the
certainty of
CONSTANTLY RECURRENT WAR.
''If now the United States wsre to walk
out of Alaska. or out of any OF our In
dian reservations, as our opponents wish
us 10 walk ont Of the Philippines. war
would promptly eusue; war among the
natives themselves or betwsen the natives
and white tntruders; and II 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 too fesbie OF too foolish to per-
form.
Last summer the United Statss had
the honor to take what was on ths whole
the lsading part In the Pence Conference
at The Hague. We were able to play that
part solely because during the preceding
year we had fought to a victorious con-
olusion the NEST righteous foreign war in
which any nation has been engaged for
half century. Our power tn further the
cause OF peace as among thu civilized
nations OF the world has been immeas-
urably Increased because we have shown
ourselves able and willing to do our part
n policing the world. In keeping order
in tbs world's waste spaces.
Nlf we shrink from going on with the
W0Ah W8tOn We Ht1F0 DoSuA VIC 6uaA
merely lose our influence for good. When
q coward or wsakling breaches peace but
little good results; but as was shown at
The Hague this year. when mighty
people, not afraid to do Its duty In the
world, stands up for peaca. the good re-
suit is immediately manifest. When
throughout the world barhaPism has
given plaos to civilization, then, and not
till then, the reign of peace will be at
hand; and expansion Is at the moment
the way In which this nation can best do
its duty, can bsst help to bring about that
hoped-for day.
"Remembsr that
THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES
is absolutely and without qualification a
national war. With characteristic per-
version of the faots, our opponents have
spoken as though this war was unneess-
sary. as IL 1t we're now waged by Presi-
dent Mckinley on his own authority, and
without the oonsent of Congress. In the
first place, what we have done was inevi-
table, SO far as the administration and the
American people at large were concerned
There ives Just ems chance of avoiding
war. II the anti .expaneionists. the
tpsscs-at-any -pIice people. mad not delayed