Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-28
HOPE IS EXPANSION.
Clark Howell Speaks From View of
the Great South.
AMERICAN FLAG MUST Be UPHELD

AMERICAN FLAG MUST BE UPHELD
= support for Men In the Trenches is Elo-
quently Urged-"LittIe Americans,
Taken to Task ms Class of Pes-
simIsts In All Generations.
Buffalo, Dec. 26.@sIn the Philippines
,060 American soldiers today are
standingin the trenches against the on
siaught on our national authority. 1t
Z is needless now to recount the why's
4 and wherefores of this attack. There
Is room for patriotic difference on eN-
pansion of our boundary lines and the
subsequent control of territory thus
acquired. But it should be enough for
any American citizen, whatever may be
his political opinion, to know that our
boys are being killed, our flag is being
assailed and our authority is being de-
fed
Il Such was the message brought from
the south 3todhe north5by Clark How
ell, editor of the Atlanta. Constitution.
1t was deliveredGats the banquet of the
Independent Club of Buffalo, and pa
triotic cheers were its accompaniment.
From Commercial View Point.
Retention of the Philippines was adj
vocated by Mr.. Howell, primarily on
the ground of patriotism, but he pre-
scented a oseeondarXtff argument even
more important to the commercial spir-
1T of the south. This lies in the huge
: cotton market "to be had for the ask
Ing. This phase of the question was
summarized by him in these words:
Figuring only upon the increased
demand sufficient to justify modest
wardrobe of not more than one cotton
suit to each Filipino, we have in this
Item alone a return which would very
soon meet the cash cost of the islands,
and, in addition, an investment of in
calculable wealth to the cotton indus
8 try of our country"
Mr.. Howell is known throughout the
country as the successor of the la
mented Henry w. Grady in leading the
champions of the new SOUTH" He is
not only progressive but aggressive.
The rumblings of revolt against demo>
cratic expansion plans which are now
echoing throughout the south were
given open expression by him tonight.
Coming from an acknowledged party
leader and a man widely popular with
the masses his speech is weighted with
great significance.
Pesstmism Not a New Thing.
Since the organization of the thir-
teen original states each generation has
produced some misguided citizens who,
blind to the benefits offered by exten-
sion of national domain, sought in vain
10 thwart the march of commercial
4 progress and check the current of a
nations destiny. Even prior to the
Z birth9of our republic the great Freder-
y characterized as absurd the idea of
maintaining an independent form OF
+ government covering so vast domain
rs that embraced between Maine and
Georgia.
~ sEyery extension of our border line
was met by similar argument, and
when the Oregon country was under
discussion in the '4Os senator. with
becoming seriousness, declared that no
such remote land could ever be incor-
porated and held as an integral part of
the United States; that it would re-
qnire ten months out of every twelve
for its representatives in congress to go
to and from the national capital, and
that the contemplated annexation
would prove a top heavy construction
which would weaken and crush the
tender foundation of the national fab
Tic.
But one by one new states were
nodded from new territory, and the re-
public, built on the hearts of the peo-
pie, strengthened in proportion to its
growth. When the last link was riyet-
ed in the chain of states binding the
Atlantic and the Pacific,the once strug-
Cling republic, fresh in the vigor of its
youth, and brave in the strength of all
its members, stood before the nations
of the earth a model government,
founded on the rights of all its people,
secure in the bond of their loyalty. and
permanent in the promise of their pos
terity."
Nation,s Reserve Strength.
Here1 Mr., Howell digresed from the
subject of expansion teeNplain how he
could discuss it when the theme of his
speech had been given as 'The Man
with His Hat in His Hand.' He elo-
quently pictured the departure for the
philippines of the Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment of Volunteers, which he witness
ed in the suburbs Of Atlanta. He told
how anageda southerner, who had his
only sonoin the column, DOTTED his hat
as the moving baud struck up ..The
Star-Spangled Banner.
There, !" exclaimed Mr.. Howell, sswas
the connecting link between the
hearthstone and the capitol! There
3 was the citizen who, representing the
only real, substantial element Of the
nations reserve strength-'the citizen
standing in the doorway of his home,
contented on his threshold'-had an
swered his country's call-the man of
whom Henry Grady so eloquently said:
He shall save the republic when the
i arumltap is futile and the barracks are
exhausted. In him was duty typified,
and In him slumbered the germ of sac
rifice.
Voices an Abiding Faith.
There was that in the spontaneous
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