The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-23

arguments Of thoss who In 1861 TO 1866
sought to bring us to ruin.
EVERY arguments advanced by our OPP
ponsnts can be parallsled In the speeches
OF thesr predecessors during the Civil
War. 1hsy use catch words now as they
used catch words then. They attack us
as tmDerialists We ARE no more imper-
iaIists than we:e the men who voted for
Lincoln and who lore arms under Grant
and sherman In 1884. Admiral Dewey
when he went into Msnila bay Gid not
serve the designs of imperialists. He WAS
merely carrying out the historic policy OF
this nation; the policy which was pur-
sued BY Georgs Rogers Clarke, when by
conquest he added Indiana and Illinois to
the Union during the Revolutionary
War; by Sam Houston when he and his
followers brought about the admission
OF Texas TO the United States; by Fra
mont. and every other settler, explorer or
soldier who helped push our country g
bounds westward to the Pacific. The men
OF no years ago who fouRdsd Maristta
aud laid the foundations Of this great
state OF Ohio. In what was then an To-
dian haunted wilderness, were but
pioneers In the great work of expansion
which has gone on until the present day.
hemember that expansion Is not only
THE HAND-MAIp OF GREATNESS,
but, above all. 1t is the hand maid of
peace. Great civilized powers are, I firm
ly believe. growing more and more able
to live in permanent peace with one an
other; but no civilized power Is or ever
has been able permanently to keep peace
with savage, barharous, or semi-barbar-
Gus peoples, because these latter are not
able to SO conduct themselves as to rem
der peace possible. The day when uni
versai psaoe is possible can only come
when the nations of the world have
grown civilized. In some places this
stats OF things can come about merely by
growth OF civilization In the state itself;
elsewhere 1t has to come about by the sx.
pansion OF the areat, orderly, psaee-lov-
ing powers. We of the Unltsd States are
not In the slightest danger Of any trouble
with the Can adams on the north, nor
with the Mexioans on the south: 1t is not
conceivable that a difiicdltF should arise
with either that could not be settled by
peaeeable msthods. So In ths Pacific,
able to work hand In hand with England,
with Germany. with Japan, with every
civilized power that has interests In that
greatest of all OCEANS With every order
ly. peaoe-loving civilized country, great
or small, we can work with perfect har-
mony. 0ub Win savagery thsre can be
NO peace until we have first made evident
our strength.
"The whole history OF our century
shows u diminishing tendency to war be-
tween civilized powers. and Shows also
that the existence of a savage or barbar-
GUS state inevitably means war sooner or
later. Every expansion Of a civilized
power Is conquest for peace. Remsm-
Der 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 abhorent
form was not abolished In the Msditer-
ranean until the French expanded into
Algiers and the Turk was driven from
Greece. Then peace came to the Mediter-
ranean. What this French have done in
Algiers, the English have done In Egypt
and the Soudan. While Egypt was under
Arab Pasha and the Soudan under the
Mahdi, the two countries were sinking
steadily back into mere savagery until
they were held by a strong and eivilized
race no advance was possible. Now
PEACE AND PROSPERITY
have come to both ountrisG Turkista
was mere chaos OF murder and lawlsss-
ness until the wave of Ruzrianr axnax.s iar,