Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-02
'gO|LOk ON EXPANSION
Illinois Senior Senator Says Hawaii
Furnishes Precedent For Keep.
ing the Philippines.
Failure to Expand Means to Sow
the Seeds Of National
Decay.

Urges United Front to Support the
Administration In Its War
Policy.
Woodstock, ILL.,, Sept. 2.-senator
Shelby NJ. Cullom faced an appreciative
audience when he advocated American
retention Of the Philippines in an adj
dress here. He was the orator of the
day at the annual gathering of the Old
Settlers Association Of McHenry coun-
ty and his remarks regarding the ma
tional necessity Of commercial expan-
sion and what he deemed to be Ameri-
cas- plain duty in the Orient We're
cheered to the echo.
Before taking up his main topic Sem
ator Cullom uttered these words OF
warning to American voters:
This nation will never perish from
the earth at the hands of a foreign foe.
We need have no fears on that score.
Our troubles will come from within. Our
danger is from want of harmony and
cooperation between labor and capital.
But in my Judgment our greatest dan
ger is the possibility of corruption in
the conduct of affairs of our great cities.
our counties, states and of the nation it
self. This latter danger will depend
largely upon the people, who are the
masters OF our public servants. The
stream does not rise higher than it's
source. Hence it becomes the duty of
every citizen to guard we'll the public
welfare and to keep the public service
| of the country pure and honest.
| Turning to the subject of the future
of the Philippines, Senator Cullom
said:
only a year ago it was my high priv
| ilege to be engaged. as one of the Unit
ed States commissioners to Hawaii, in
! looking into the problem incident to the
acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, the
key TO the Pacific. Short as has been.
i'the intervening period, that incident
\ and problem now appear almost
lost as in the gray dawn of history. The
turn in the wheel Of destiny which made
| Hawaii one of our possessions has
ceased to provoke opposition or even to
| elicit criticism. 1t is many months since
| have heard the slightest suggestion of
hostility to the acquisition of those Is
/ lands
= In looking into the historical horizon,
I L believe / am correct when | say the
/ Cuban and Philippine questions are fast
| approaching the same stage. The war
With Spain in the name of humanity
/ following so soon after the destruction
lof the battleship Maine, the magnificent
4 victory of Dewey at Manila, and the
4 treaty of peace by which was coded to
US the Philippine islands, are tides in
Z the human affairs of this nation, and
\ T.. H. 80 Il. yy-.--
other tides which in the flood sweep
{ away all barriers, and take, instead of
) being taken. The United States is now
Z. being borne to new destiny of incom-
parable greatness by food tide which
8 is absolutely irresistible Woe to the
individual who attempts to stem this
4 flood tide of destiny.
/ Not TO expand is to SOW the seeds of
death. The United States has reached
the point where to some our very pros
perity seems 4 menace. So great are
our resources and 50 vast our produc-
tive power. under the stimulus OF in
vention, that good times have once
| more settled upon our land We are re-
quired 10 take our place in the world All
large, and the world requires that We
should In the enjoyment of prosperity
4 Americans can form no conception o.
the condition Of the common people OIL
! the old world and their demand fol
| comforts which their own markets vii
not supply. IL is in this immensely o.
/ the foreign market that we see agar
that the world needs US as much as w,
need the world.
In this commercial reciprocity AM
in the entrance of our products in tn
markets of the world is the dawn of
new career of greatness. To draw bacl
from it would be cruel to others an,
aldestructive to ourselves.
!. .Of all the senseless bugbears tina
! have ever been conjured up to frightel
children of men, none was ever NOR
preposterous than the charge that t
. increase our jurisdiction is to depriv
the people of liberty. Our soldiers ar
now engaged in Luzon in doing precise
"a ly what was done for the Illinois coun
d TRY only little more than centur
: ago. Is there any citizen of this stat
" who wishes the boundary of the Unite
3 states had not been extended? Was tn
: Illinois country enslaved by that con
quest? Later we advanced across tn
Mississippi with our flag, and extende
3 the authority of the United States t
the Pacific. These several steps in gu
expansion We're the imperialism of lib
= lerty. 1t could not have been otherwise
Our flag is the emblem of freedom am
wherever it goes it is the guarantee o
& personal liberty.
8 Now, for the first time in all its his
z tory, the far east is to have the benefit
I. of genuine freedom. Millions of peopi
2 who never knew what it was before t
< live under a government founded o.
5 the rights of the people are entering
z upon new career. The mere fact tina
& one of the tribes of those islands want
8 to Cypress the others and secure do
z minion is no reason why we shout
3 leave this great and beneficient ne,
g destiny unfulflled. Aguinaldo is try
Z ing to emulate the attempts of Blac
8 Hawk, Sitting Bull and Geronimo an
g will inevitably snare their fate.
6 The mighty march of empire cannc
g be stayed in it's progress. The star
& liberty has at last become the harbinge
d Of day in the east, and the sun will nc
g be stayed in its rising by the feeble Pre-
e tests of the enemies of progress Th
q de facto government of the Unite
II States in the Philippines must becom
' the de jure government. To this ns
ton the other great world powers loo
for results The reanonsihilitv rec