New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-22
SAVAGERY INVOLVES WAR

The whole history Of our century shows
diminishing tendency TO war between civilized
Powers and shows also that tn" existence II
savage or Darbarous Stat. Inevitably means war
sooner or later. Every expansion Of a civilized
Power is conquest for peace Remember That
even this great country Of ours. as well as all
European countries. paid tribute to the Moorish
pirates as late as 1880. and piracy in its most
abhorrent form not abolished in the Medi-
terranean until the French expanded into Al
giers and the Turk driven from Greece
Then peace came to the Mediterranean What
the French have done in Algiers the English
have done in Egypt and the Soudan While
Egypt was under Arab Pacha and the Soudan
under the Mahdi the two countries were sink
! ing steadily back into mere savagsry; until
they were held by a strong and civilized race no
advance was possible Now peace and pros
| perty have come 10 both countries.
Turkcstan was mere chaos Of murder and
| laWlessness until the wave Of Russian expan-
sion swept over the country to the great good
| of mankind. and brought peace in It's train
| Now Germany has the Caroncs. and under her
| administration they viii doubtless flourish in
| peace. What she has undertaken 10 do in the
| CarOlincs are we TO shrink from doing IN the
| Philippines? Are We alone among the great
| nations Of the word to announce ourselves too
weak to do our share Of the task, too timid 20
bear our part of the burden in extending the
| reign Of law. Of order Of peace. over the whole
| world? That is what expansion means. II
means not only the extension Of American IN
liberty and order and the bringing nearer hy
| gigantic strides Of the day when peace shall
! come to the whole earth
| Every argument that be made for the
| Philippines could he made for the Apaches;
| every word that can he said for Aguinaldo could
be said for Sitting Bull. As peace and order
! and prosperity followed our expansion oyer the
| lands Of the Indians. so they will follow us in
the Philippines II had refused 10 expand
! over the West. do you think that the West would
! be peaceful now? If instead Of your fore
| fathers settling hero in Ohio YOU had left Ohio
10 the Indians. do you think the country would
have had peace? Indeed ii would not Just 50
har IL dor fnfiis
! on your borders YOU were exposed to tho GER
| tainty Of constantly recurrent If now the
| United States were 10 walk out Of Alaska or
| out Of any Of our Indian reservations as our
! opponents wish us to walk ont of the Philip
| pines. war would promptly cnsue-war among
| the natives themselves between the natives
| and white ntruders: and il 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 feeble or too
foolish To perform.
Our PART IN PEACE CONFERENCE.
Last summer the United States had the honor
to take what was on the whole the leading part
| in the Peace Conference at The Hague We
were able to play that part solely because in
! the preceding year we had fought 10 q Viciori-
| Gus conclusion the most righteous foreign war in
| which any nation has been engaged for half
! century Our power To further the cause If
| peace among the civilized nations Of the world
mas oeen imineasurahly increased because we
| have shown ourselves able and willing to do our
| part in policing the world. in keeping order in
| the worlds waste places.
II we shrink from going with the work
| which we have begun we shall merely lose our
| influence for good. When coward or weak
| ling breaches peace but little good results: but
| az shown at The Hague last year when a
mighty people not afraid to do its duty in the
! world stands up for peace. the good result is
! Immediately manifest When throughout the
| world barbarism has given place to civilization.
! then. and not til then. the reign Of peace viii
| he at hand. and expansion is az The moment
| the way in which this nation can best do it's
duty. can best help to bring about that hoped
for day.
Remember that the war I'm the Philippines s
absolutely and without qualification a national
war With characteristic pcrversion Of the facts.
our opponents have spoken as though this war
was unnecessary. az if II were now Waged by
without the warrant Of Congress. In the first
! place. what have done was inevitable. so
far the Administration and the American
| people at large were concerned There was inst
one chance Of avoiding war. If the anti-expan-
sonists the peace al any price people. had not
delayed the treaty in the Senate. IL by their
| loose inVective they had not misled the Tagas.
| We should probably never have had any war IN
the Philippines.
Aeunaldo's proclamation proves beyond a
| shadow Of doubt that the insurgents have held
out on the strength Of the hoped for aid from
the Democratic party and from the anti-eypau-
sionisis here in our home Had these men not
given the impression that the American peopla
were divided, had they not worked for DELAY
there would probably have been no revolt and
no blOodshod. Bv their clamor and hv the =
Obstructive tactics in the Senate they not only
delayed the adoption Of the treaty. bu, gave IA
Aguinaldo and his people the idea that they
our nag, and. moreover. they have actually