The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14

should not only see to II that the senator
they elect TO represent this state at Wash
ington Is fully impressed with the neces-
slty OF Immediate and vigorous action on
the subject Of trusts and combines. but II
should also memorable congress In the in
terest OF such legislation.
Expansion.
The people OF Michigan are very gener-
ally aware that did not favor the declara-
ton OF war against Spain. They will also
testify that when II was beyond recall my
personal opinions as 10 the wisdom OF it's
Inception did not lessen the zeal with which
/ performed my duties in connection with
the struggle that followed. While our
troops were face TO face with an enemy In
the field there was nothing for patriotism
TO do but to support with all earnestness
the administration that had charge OF the
war. Now that q treaty of peace has been
signed am again free to say that have no
apology to make for my unaltered convic-
ton that the matter in controversy might
have been settled by the resources of In
tClligent diplomacy, without shedding a
drop OF American blood. without saddling
the country with hundreds OF millions of
new debt, and without involving this coun-
try In an adventurous and dangerous pol
icy of expansion by conquests over terri
tories and peoples with which, and with
WnOm, we nave properly nOlHlHB 10 w.
i have not yet heard one valid argument
In defense of this ambitious and danger
Gus policy, as II Is now presented for con-
gressional approval. We might legi:i-
mately extend our territory on our own
continent, whenever and wherever fair
opportunity presents itself. and the is
lands of the seas near us may properly be
regarded as n part of the continent. But
the conquest and retention OF an archi-
pelago 6,000 miles from our shores, too
tropical ever to permit the settlement there
OF our own people, already densely popu-
lated by eight or ten millions OF bar
barous and alien race whom we can neither
mix with, assimilate, nor civilize, Is, in my
Judgment. little less than madness. / am
not an enemy of expansion per Sc. Most
OF the territory of the republic has been
acquired by conquest or purchase. But 1t
was on our own continent, IL not contiguous
to our own borders, and practically unin-
ha bited 1t was secured with wise provi-
sion for the future safety of the republic
and as the future home or MILLIONS Of our
increasing population. The Philippines are
in no way necessary for our safety, or even
useful therefor, as are the Hawaiian islands
and the Antilles. They can never be made
the home of Americans. With tremen-
dous effort, at enormous expense, and in
time, We may force degree
o. peace ana order there as peace was en-
conditions in which the tcening native
population may multiply still more. We
may even enforce upon them some of the
conditions of a hybrid American civiliza-
ton, which may be better or worse for
them. They may multiply there, as the
population of India has multiplied under
British domination, but we can no more
an American population In the
than Great Britain has
been able to establish an English
population in India The children
here have all to be sent home to Britain
10 grow to manhood, for If they are raised
IN India they grow up more enervated and
more helpless than the Indians themselves.
So will il be in the Philippines Americans
nay go there in small numbers to exploit
the country and hold the offices, as Eng
shmen go to India. but IL they attempt
10 bring up children there, those children
will grow UP inferior to the native Fill
pinos. This is always the case when north
ern races are transplanted TO the tropics.
We must look forward to a perpc tual
over an inferior and servile
race, who will always be alien to US, whose
masters We must be forever, whom we
must govern as interiors, whom we can
never welcome as fellow-citizens and
equals. There cannot be even q sufficient
mixture of resident Americans there per-
to govern the islands. The sup
India, by periodical drafts from our
armies and our politicians TO govern those
islands and to keep them in continuous
subsection. Permanently governed by such
aliens and foreigners who will have no in
terest at stake in the islands and little
for the people, the restless in
habitants will grow disconnected with the
slavery we will be compelled to enforce.
and the fierce Malay nature will break out
In periodical instructions which We shall
be compelled to crush with bloodshed
They are not of the mild and submissive
nature of the Hindoos, who are kept in
subsection as easily as so many sheep,
but, on the contrary, they are a proud and
warlike race who have shown in their
whole history a fierce determination never
to submit abjectly to the rule of foreign
masters.
1t is claimed that there is nothing in the
to forbid the acquisition of
any foreign lands whatsoever. This may
be so, but l can never believe that the
spirit of the constitution. the spirit of our
institutions. the genius of our people. ever
or would deliberately toler-
ate, the prospect Of acquiring control of
territory densely inhabited by people whom
We must hold in perpetual subsection by
force Of arms 1t may be said III reply to
this that we have held our own Indians in
perpetual subsection. But that was not
iglnes of this continent were here before
we were, and we had either to keep them
subject or kill them off. For the most
part we have made use of the latter proc
ess. But we cannot kill off the Filpinos,
and even IL we were to do so, we should
not profit by 1t. We have changed the
hunting ground of the American Indians
into farms and cities for our own people,
but IL we were to sweep the Philippines
bare of their present population, our own
people could not take their places. The is
lands would again fill up with tropical
races, or, at least, with Chinese and Japan
csc.
Every European power which we can,
as opportunity offers, exclude from this
continent and its adjacent islands, should
be excluded. thus removing danger which
might some time threaten our unparalleled
and splendid isolation. When we shall
have driven the last of them from AmeII-
can soil, then, indeed, shall we be indie
pendent as no other people ever were on
earth. and safe from all dangers of war
or costly complications. Why should We
cndanger, possibly destroy, this magniti-
cent destiny by engaging in the fearful
and bloody scramble for distant possess
sions on other continents for which we
have no legitimate use-which can never be
the homes OF our own race, ard whose pop
ulation we must keep as slaves? How
much better to look forward to the build
Ing up OF power cotcrminus with our
own continent occupied from gulf to pole
by a homogeneous, free, self-goyorninp