Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-22

@''A+hA' N'4L4A 'EfIIida4gs Will JGIdi4s VIII
eEery civilized power that has interests in
that greatest Of all oceans. With every
orderly, peace-ioviHg. civilized country
great or small, we can work with per
feet harmony. But with savagery there
can be no peace until We have inst made
evident our strength.
Expansion Makes for Peace.
The whole history Of our century shows
a diminishing tendency 10 war between
civilized powers. and shows also that the
existence Of savage or bzrbarous state
inevitably means war, sooner or later
Every expansion of civilized power Is a
conquest Tor peace. Remember that even
this great country Of ours, as well as al
European countries, paid tribute to tie
Moorish pirates as late as 1870, and piEAc5
in It's most abhorrent form was not aboi-
tshed IN the Mediterranean until the
French expanded into Algiers and the Turk
L. the Mediterranean. What the French
have done in Alglers, the English have
dcne n Egypt and the Soudan. While
Egypt was under Arab Basha and the
bUudan under the Inahdi, the two coun-
tries We're sinking steadily back into mere
saNagery; until they were held by strong
and civilized race no advance was possible.
both Countries. Turkistan was mere
chaos OF murder and iawlessness until the
wave OF Russian expansion swept over the
country, TO the great good OF mankind.
and brought peace in its train: Now Ger
many has the caroIihes, and under her
administration they will doubtless -four
ish in peace What she has undertaken 10
do in the Carolines, are We TO shrink from
doing in the Philippines? Are We alone
among the great nations Of the world TO
announce ourselves TOO weak 10 do our
part of the burden I'm extending the reign
OF law, of order. of peace. over the whole
world? That is what expansion, means
j means not only the extension OF Ameri-
can influence and power; 1t means the ex-
tension of liberty and order and the bring
ing nearer by gigantic strides OF the day
49,. t,aIH fan1EA ~ IN
FiIipinos and Indians.
Every argument that can be made for
the Philippines could be made for the Apa-
ches: every word that can be said for
AguinaIdo could be said for Sitting Bull.
AS peace and order and prosperity fol-
lowed our expansion over the lands OF the
Indians, so they will follow US in the
Philippines. II we had refused TO expand
over the West, do you think that the West
would be peaceful now? II, instead of your
forefathers settling here in Ohio. you had
left Ohio TO the Indians. do you think
the country would have had peace? In
deed It would not. just so long as there
was an Independent Indian power on your
borders you were exposed TO the Certainty
OF constantly recurrent war. IL now me
United States were 10 walk out OF Alaska
or out of our Indian reservations. as our
opponents wish us to walk out of the Phil
ippines, war would promptly ensue: war
among the natives themselves or between
the natives and white intruders; and II
We ulQ not aBdlu SItp IN anu StLlIt titc
matter, why. some other great nation
would have to undertake the work which
We had proved ourselves too feeble or too
foolish to perform.
Last summer the United States had the
honor to take what was on the whole the
leading part in the peace conference at The
Hague. We were able to play that part
solely because during the preceding year
we had fought to a victorious conclusion
the most righteous foreign war In which
any nation had been engaged for half a
century. Our power to further the cause
of peace. as among the civilized nations OF
the world. has been immeasurably in
creased because we have shown ourselves
able and willing to do our part in policing
the world in keeping order in the world :
waste spaces.
No Time Now to Shrink.
"If We shrink from going on with the
work which We have begun we shall merely
lose our influence for good. When a cow
ard weakling breaches peace but little
good results: but, as was shown at The
Hague last year, when a mighty people,
not afraid to do its duty in the world,
stands up for peace. the good result Is
Immediately manifest. When throughout
The world barbariSm has given place to
civilization. then, and not till then. the
reign Of peace will be al hand; and ex-
pansion Is at the moment the way in
which this nation can best do its duty. can
best help to bring about that hoped-for
day;
pines is absolutely and without qualifica-
tiOn national war. With characteristic
perversion of the facts, our opponents have
spoken as though this war were unneces-
baryr as II II were now waged oy Presl,
dent Mckinley on his own authority, and
without the warrant OF congress. In the
first place, what we have done was in
evitable, so far as the administration and
The american people at large were con.
avoiding war. If the anti-eNpansiouists !
the peace-at-any-prlc people. had not de-
layed the treaty in the senate; if by their
Tagals. We should probably never have
had any war in the Philippines. Agui- |
-la!do's proclamation proves beyond the
shadow OF doubt that the insurgents have |
held out on the strength OF the hoped-for |
aid. from the Democratic party and from
the anti-eNpansionists here in. our home. |
Had these men not given the impression
that the american people was divided, had
ihey not worked for delay. there would |
probably have been no revolt and no blood
shed. BY their clamor and by their OBJ |
Structive tactics in the senate they not
only delayed the adoption Of the treaty, |
but gave Aguinaldo and his people the idea
a war against our flag: and. moreover, |
they have actually given this support. |
We are the true party Of peace. for last |
ing peace can come only through the |
course of conduct we advocate.
Struggle Was Inevitable.
IN view Of this attitude of certain Of |
our people, the struggle was inevitable |
When Dewey smashed the Spanish fleet II |
meant that the islands would fall into |
chaos unless either the United States or
some other str02G power took possession:
Itnlcss We were willing 10 see the fleet OF !
another power sail into the harbor as |
Dewev's feet sailed away.
The treaty with Spain was finally rati-
fed by the senate. but II was not ratified !
by the Spanith government until a fort |
might after congress had adjourned. leav-
Ing the president 10 act as the nation g |
Tcrresentative The lower house had
meanwhile, taken its share in the ratif-
Cauon rhe opposition was 50 small as 20 |
l." lusiSU!roanu hv passing the appro- /
Isriatiop Of S1o.goNonJ as required hT tie /
treaty. The islands thus. by the ratifcs-
tt1n ef the treaty and by the action Of the
senate ana the h0rsr Of representatives. in !
passing the S2nw0 6op augmentation bin