Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-10-04
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keep stable the government which we
first establish. or the purpose of the estab-
lishment of that government is defeated.
IF the second proposition of the opposi-
tion is performed we must
First control the finances of the Phil
lpplneS perpetually; or,
Second guarantee the loans the Phil
ippine government makes with other ma
tOnS or,
Third go to war with those nations to
defeat their collection of their just debts.
as this sound policy? Is it profitable?
Is it moral? is it just to the Filipinos, TO
the world, to ourselves? Is it humane to
the masses of those children who need
and peace Is ii prTdent, wise, far-Seelng
craftsmanship? And does the adoption of
similar course in Cuba justify it in the
Philippines?
Here is the program of reason and
righteousness, and time and events Will
make it the program of the republic:
First we have given Porto RICO such II
civil government as her situation demands
under the stars and stripes.
Second, we will put down the rebellion
and then give the Philippines such a civil
government as the situation demands, un-
der the stars and stripes.
Third We are regenerating Cuba and
when our preparatory work is done We
should have given Cuba such civil gov
ernment as her situation may demand, un-
der the stars and stripes.
1.-The sovereignty of the stars and stripes
can be nothing but blessing to any peo-
pie and to any land"
Commercial Gain for Philippines.
The commercial advantages to this coun-
try of keeping the Philippines formed an
other chapter in the senator's speech.
Said he:
To-day our trade in manufactured ar
ticles. as well as in the products of the
farm is chiefly with EUrope. our agricuI-
tural trade will continue to dominate old
world markets, although 1t will not absorb
trade with them is nearly at its zenith
Every year we buy $500 G00,0 coo of tropical
products. To-day we pay much of this
vast amount in money. Suppose we paid
for this in products which our artisans and
mechanics make and our farmers raise?
Think OF the markets that would mean for
every American factory and farm. And
remember that wages ana prices depend
on markets, not money, and prosperity de-
pends on wages and prices. And consider
the incalCulable benefit to both if this tTe-
mendous trade is between the American
people and their own possessions! And
then contemplate the magnitude of the
markets which those possessions command
in addition to their own markets!
THE mercantile argument is mighty
with Americans In merely mercantile
times, and it should be SO. But the argu-
ment of destiny is the master argument
in the hour Of destiny, and it should be so.
The American people never yet entered
on great movement for merely mercantile
reasons. Sentiment and duty have started
and controlled every noble current of
American history. And at this historic
hour destiny is the controlling considera-
tion in the prophetic craftsmanship which
conditions require of the American people.
"History establishes these propositions:
'FirSt, every people who have become
great have become colonizers or admins
traitors.
"Second. through the colonization and
administration their material and political
greatness develops
Third, their decline is .coincident with
their abandonment of their policy of pos
session and administration. or departure
from the true PRINCIPLES thereof.
Denies Danger of MiIitarism.
The opposition, he continued. says all
this means large army and military
control. This the senator denied, saying:
THE greatest colonial power that the
world has ever seen. the empire of Great
Britain. has smaller standing army in
times Of peace than any power of Europe
less than half a. many as Germany. almost
two-thirds less than the soldiers of France,
nearly one-third less than the soldiers
maintained by Austria, an absolutely non
ColOniZing power.
What is it that establishes militarism in
Germany? on the west the immediate
proximity of France. her hereditary foe, de-
termined on Germanys destruction. on
the east the immediate proximity of Rus
sia. her hereditary foe; on the south the
Immediate proximity Of an heterogeneous
empire, destined to dismembermcnt in the
swiftly approaching future. What is 1t
that establishes miitarism in France? The
immediate proximity of Germany on the
east, her hereditary foe, against whom she
has sworn national vendetta; the imme-
diate proximity of England on the north,
an enemy at whose hands centuries of de-
feat has loaded Frances blood with the
poison of hatred: the immediate proximity
of Italy on the south the third Of the anti
French dreihund. These are the things
which establish mlitarism in Europe-
not colonization. not possessions. not obe-
dienCe to the great natural law cf eXpan-
sion and growth
Predicts n Prosperous Future.
In conclusion the senator predicted .
hapDv and prosperous future for the Phil
ippnes. saying:
"Of these institutions. the American CON
stitution is the highest, noblest and ulti-
mate EXPRESSION: and so our constitution
can grow only where the simpler forms Of
our Institutions have already prepared the
way. Therefore. our constitution may fol-
low the flag, but our institutions do follow
the flag. our constitution did not create
our institutions; our institutions created
our constitution.
"Free institutions are as definite. certain.
and concrete as our constitution itself.
Free speech is an institution of liberty.
rr Tree schools are an inTtitu,o9 cor OF hcrty
to the dictates of conscience is an institu-
tion of liberty: Any American schoolboy
can catalogue free Institutions. And as fast
as the simplest of these Institutions pre-
Darcs these children Providence has given
into our keeping for higher grades just that
fast more complex forms of our institu-
tiOrs viii follow.
"And so the answer to the politicians
hattlecrv that the constitution follows the
flag is this great truth Of popular liberty,
our Institutions follow the flag.
"Our institutions not only folSw the
nag. theN accompany II. IneN troop be-
meath its folds of glory Wherever an
American citizen goes. he carries the spirit
Of our institutions. on whatever soil his
blood IS shed to establish the sovereignty
Of our flag, there are planted the imDeriSh-
able seeds Of the institutions of the ma
ton: and there those institutions flourish
in proDOrtion as the soil where they are
planted is prepared for them
Predicts American Mastery.
'Men-patriotic, brave and wise have
sought to stay that tremendous purpose of
destiny but their opposition was as the
finger of a babe against the resiStlesS pour
of the gulf streams mighty current. Ear
Gods hand was in it all. His plans were
working out their glorious results And
just as futile is resistance to the contin-
uance to-day of the eternal movement of
the American people toward the mastery of
the world. This is destiny neither vague
nor undesirable. 1t is definite splendid
and holy. When nations shall war no more
without the consent of the American re-
public; what American heart thrills not
with pride at that prospect? And yet our
interests are weaving themselves sotrap-
IDLY around the. world that that time is
almost here. When governments stay the
slaughter of human beings, because the
American republic demands it; what Amer
lean heart thrills noG with pride at that
prospect? And yet tonight there sits in