New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-01-11
Against
Expansions /
Carl Schurz Sees Nothing. But Trouble
As the Result of Colonistic Annex
alton.

As the Result of Colonistic Annex
alton.
American Ownership of the Nicara guam
Canal Also Fraught With Danger.
D Foreign Alliances, Especially With Great
Britain, a Singular De1usion on the
Part Of the People
Hon. Carl Schurz delivered an address
before the students Of Chicago UNIVERSE
@ty Wednesday evening on the subject
Of american Imperialism To show
to what extent the craze might carry us
he said
'f we build and own the Nicaragua
canal, instead of neutralizing it, we shall
easily persuade ourselves that our con-
& troll of chat canal will not be safe unless
/. we g own all the country down to it, so
& that it be not separated from our bord-
ers by any foreign, and possibly hostile,
power. Is this too adventurous an idea
to become true2 Why, it is not half as
adventures and extravagant as the idea
of uniting to this republic the Phillip
pines, 5000 miles away. It is already
proposed to acquire in some way strips
sof territory several miles wide on each
side of that canal for its military protec-
ton. But that will certainly be found
insufficient, if foreign countries lie be-
tween. We must, therefore, have those
countries. That means Mexico and va
rlous small Central American republics,
with population in all of about Ia
100000, mostly Spanish Indian mixture
making at least fifteen states, entitled to
thirty senators and scores of representa-
tiyes and presidential electors.
you may think that the introduction
of more than thirty men in our senate,
over eighty in the lower house of our
congress, and much over 100 votes in
our electoral college to make our laws
and elect our presidents, and incidental
ly to help us lift up the Philippines to a
higher plane of civilizations too
shocking q proposition to be entertained
for a moment, and that our people will
resist it to the bitter end. No, they will
notresist it, if indiscrimlnate expansion
has noetbecome the settled policy of the
republic, They will be told, as they are
told now, that we are in it and cannot
honorably get out of it; that destiny, and
Providence and duty demand it; that it
would be cowardly to shrink from or
new responsibilities, that those popula-
lions cannot take care of themselves,
aud that it is our mission to let them
have the blessing Of our free institutions
that we must have new markets for our
products; that those countries are rich
in resources, and that there is plenty of
money to be made by taking them; that
the American people can whip anybody
and do anything they set out to do; and
that cold Glory" should float over every
land on which we can lay our hands.
Il. eff we take those new regions, we shall
be we'll entangled in that contest for ter
ritorial aggrandizement, which distract
other nations and drives them far beyont
their original design. So twill be in
evitably with us. We shall want nev
conquests to protect that which we al
'arS possess. The greed of specula-
ling upon our government viii
a,m one point to another, ant
re new conflicts on our hand
tSknowing how we got in
IN, lnsr cahaoning this countr
,,.lnst an alliance with Great Britain
ar. ;schurz used this language:
ssLet this republic and Great Britai
each follow the course which its condi
tons and It's history have assigned to i
and their ambitions will not clash, an
their friendship will be n maintained for. th
good Of all. And if our British cousin
should ever getinto very serious stres
America friendship may stand benin chin
s them; but then Britain would Deepen
UPON our friendship, which, as an Anne
ican, I should prefer, and not Amerie
on British friendship, as our BIRTHS
friends, who so impatiently urge US I
take the Philippines, would have