Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

done in Algers the English have done IN
Egypt and the Soudan. While EGYPT WIS W%as
under Arabi Pasha and the Soudan unHer
the mahdi the two countries were sinking
steadily back into mere saVagerYi untl,
they were held by strong and clVlllaeu
and prosperity have come to both counss
tries. Turkistan was mere chaos ot
murder and lawessness until the wave OF
Russian expansion swept over the country,
to the great good of mankind. and proush ste
peace in it's train. Now Germany. mas tne ne
Carolnes and under it's administration they
will doubtles flourish in peace Mhat II
has undertaken to do in the Carolnes are
we to shrink from doing in the Philippines?
Are we alone among the great nations OF
the world to announce ourselves too weak
to do our share of the task. too timid to
bear our part of the burden in extending
the reign of law, of order of peace over
the whole world? That Is what eNpans on
means. 1t means not only the extension
the extension of liberty and order and the
bringing nearer by gigantic strides of the
days when peace shall come to the whole
earth.
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 con-
clusion the most righteous foreign war In
which any nation has been engaged Tor
half a century. Our power to further
the cause of peace as among the civilized
nations of the world has been immeas-
| ourselves able and willing to do our part
in policing the world, in keeping order in
| the worlds waste spaces.
1t is National War.
Remember that the war in the Philippines
| Is absolutely and without qualification a
| national war With characteristic perver-
| sion of the facts our opponents have spoken
| as though this war wa unnecessary, as If
| it were now waged by President Mckinley
| on his own authority, and without the
consent of congress. In the first place,
| hat hnN don irnN tlhl co y
as the administration and the American
people at large We're concerned There
was Just one chance of avoiding war. If
the anti-eXpansionists, the peace-at- any
| price people, had not delayed the treaty
| in the senate. IL by their loose invectiye
they had not misled the Tagals, We should
| Philippines. Aguinaldo's proclamation
proves beyond shadow of doubt that the
of the hoped-for aid from the democratic
party and from the anti-eXpansionists here
in our home land.
The treaty with Spain was finally rati.
| fed by the senate, but 1t was not ratified
by the Spanish government until a fort.
night after congress had adjourned, leav'
ing the president to act as the nations
representative. The lower house had
meanwhile. taken its share in the ratica.
tiOn Cthe opposition was small as to be
insigniticanp by passing the appropriation
of $40 100000, as required by the treaty
The islands thus, by the ratification of the
treaty and by the action of the senate anC
house of representatives in passing the
5000 900 appropriation hill, became part OF
the United States, and 1t was just as much
the presidents duty to keep order in then
by the use of the army, 1t would Do
his duty to keep order in Arizona by The
use of the army in case of an Apache
outbreak. Nor Is this all.
In passing the army bill congress eX
plicitly recognized the fact that there wa!
"A Philippine insurrection and that it hat
to be put down by the use of our armed
forces. 1t provided for an army of owe
$4,000 regulars and over 10000 volunteer
especially with a view Of meeting the pres
ent eXgences it set forth that the arm.
should be kept up to these figures for tw'
years. In other words, congress explicit.
provided an army of nearly 100000 men 10
the purpose of carrying out the Philippine
war. Under such circumstances the tall
of this war being unauthorized by congress
can be due only to ignorance or else to
willful intention to suppress the facts.
} The path of expansion is the path o
, national honor, the path toward universe
peace. You, my countrymen, cannot refus
to tread 1t unless you are willing to re
nOunce your claims to be the heirs of tn
ages and to abandon all pretense of fol
, lowing in the footsteps of Washington, o
! Lincoln, aud of all the great American
; who have made our past history might
! and glorious.