The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16
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#.,bv for Aguinaldo and his followers as
,naoDle struggling to be free" We hear
- echo and the reverberations from polit-
- orators. of the statement in all its
Xs,rnos that governments derive all their
nj covers from the consent of the gov
&grei. and that the Fflpinos are entitled
Il !, Govern themselves. The air is filed,
3o, with the assertion that what is cali
al expansion is opposed to the policy and
znraeitces of our fathers; that in taking pos
4 session of the Philippines We are departing
81 rom our ancestral habits and traditions.
H. is hard to understand how any in
,eligent and well informed Americans can
nike this statement with the history of
his ancestors lying open before him. Even
school boy acquaintance with English
and American history, would show that
f,r fifteen hundred years his ancestors
have been steadily and irresistably ex-
| handing. territorially, westward, by force
| and arms. When the attention of one of
| tbase sympathsers with the Filipinos is
| called TO the fact that when the war of
tba revolution ended the western boundary
of the United States was the Mississippi
/ and the Ohio and that we have acquired
an the balance of the territory by ex-
mansion, some of it by purchase and some
Inv conquest; they reply by the strange
statement that that was contiguous and
all within the same continent. In the same
breath these same gentlemen admit that it
is proper to take Cuba or Porto Rico or
Alaska as we have done. They are not
contiguous. But they also forget that
this westward march of conquest by the
ADalo-Saxons did not begin in America.
The island Of Great Britain is a part of
The continent of Europe, it is true but
the Anglo-SaXon crossed the German
ocean to seize it, But the most striking
case is that of taking the North Ameri-
can continent away from the Indians.
They crossed three thousand miles of
ocean in order to conquer them and take
possession of this continent. 1t is impos-
sible TO distinguish between the expansion
from England into North America and
the expansion from North America into
the Philippine archipelago.
Westward the Empire.
When the war of the revolu-
ton ended the United States was
composed of a narrow strip by the side
of the Atlantic ocean Before the war
with Spain began a north and south line
drawn through the center of the United
States was in the Pacific ocean west of
San Francisco; that is to say, measuring
the United States from east to west be-
fore we took the Philippines, the central
point was westward of San Francisco.
1T will not do to say that our fathers
we're wrong, that the occupancy of this
continent and it's development has been a
failure and contrary to either human or
divine laws. Hard as has been in some
respects the lot of the North American In
dian, he did not deserve to keep this con-
tnent He only wanted il to use it for a
hunting and fighting ground. He never
had any such possession of the land as
would in law ripen into a title. He never
enclosed it; he never cleared and Guilt
waited it, he built no cities; he laid out no
roads and established no institutions. Out
side of Mexico there were not any per-
manent structures. 1t was an unbroken
stretch of forest and plain, of mountain
and stream, from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc It would have been In that condi-
ton to-day il the Indian had been left
to roam over it undisturbed. Look at IL
now; Studded with beautiful cities. COW
cred with productive farms, interlaced
with railroads and telegraph lines, must
cal with the hum of machinery, sprinkled
thick with churches. for all and school
houses for all, and bearing upon its bosom
teeming population of seventy millions
of happy and prosperous people, for whom
1t furnishes an abundant supply of food,
and then sends a surplus to the old world
sufficient to feed millions more.
March of the AngIO-SaxOn.
HAS not the world been benefited by the
coming of the Anglo-Saxon to North
America? The same marked change will
be wrought in the Philippines In this
generation you will see Anglo-Sax-
on civilization in those Islands,
with its churches for ALL its
schools for all, its absolute freedom of
conscience and of speech, its railroads, its
factories, its banks, It's farms and its asy
lums for the unfortunate. Honest gov
eminent will work its magical results
there. The purblind politician who OPP
pose the policy of Anglo-Saxon progress.
which for want of a better name is called
expansion and who attacks the admins
uation or the party which favors expan-
SION, is inviting his own political destruc-
ton.
1t is well for us all TO remember that
the American revolution did not change,
mas not changed and will not change In
one jot or one title this racial instinct
ana habit 1t ought not to change it.
Inc world is better for the westward
march of the Anglo-SaXon race. Nor can
De truly said that the principles estab-
Hshed by the American revolution, the
doctrines of free government set up by
our fathers in the revolution, have af-
leFFgd al all this racial instinct and prac-
uce 1t is not true that there is anything
III republican Institutions which will pre-
uark continent wherever found and ele-
nauhg ciYi4izing and Christanizing them.
ne worst enemy of republican institu-
,'VHs Is ne who teaches that they are in
nerehtiy Incapable of territorial expansion.
10 say that the high privilege of taking
poSSeSslon of countries inhabited by be-
ulsnled and inferior races and bringing
".ein up TO higher and better standard
ciVlhzation and developing their coun-
Wy IS reserved for monarchial govern
".Hls is to stab the republican ideas in
Ntais' 1t is not true that there is
l ceiect in our form of government or
publican institutions, which will pre-
them from marching, step by step
-u 1901 by foot. with monarchies into
r' quarter of the earth where the hu-
+. race can be bettered by their pres
deny that there is anything in
t tcan institutions which demands
'Aey should he cribbed, cabined and
I"u". "a within any one continent or any
portion of the earth's surface.
"eNtd be better for the world if these
icons should be planted in ali coun-
Just as they were planted in North
'.ea' and are now being planted in the