The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-26

because he buys it from the owner
Under American administration the Fill
pino who owns his little plot of ground
viii experience a security in the possess
sion of his property which he has never
known before. The English in Egypt
and India have not taken the land from
It's owners; they have confirmed the Oc-
cupantS in their ownership. In Hawaii
we have not taken the land from its
owners; we have secured it's owners in
their peaceable possession. And our adj
ministration in the Philippines will also
establish there that same security of
property and life which are the very
beginnings of civilization itself.
If the opposition declare that we ought
to set up a separate government over
the Philippines because we are setting
up separate government over Cuba, I
answer that such an error in Cuba does
not justify the same error in the Phil
ippineS. I am speaking for myself alone
but speaking thus, / say that for the
good of Cuba more even than for the
good of the United States, a separate
government over Cuba, uncontrolled by
the American republic, never should
have been promised. Cuba is a mere ex-
tension of our Atlantic coast line. 1t
commands the ocean entrances to the
Mississippi and the Isthmian canal JEFF
ferson'S dearest dream was that Cuba
should belong to the United States. To
possess this extension of American soil
has been the wish of every far-seeing
statesman from Jefferson to Blaine. An
nexation to the greatest nation the
world has ever seen would have been
prouder Cuban destiny than separate
nationality As an American possession
Cuba might possibly have been fitted
for statehood in a period not much
longer than that in which Louisiana
was prepared for statehood. Even now
the work of regeneraticn-of cleansing
cities, building roads, establishing posts.
erecting system of universal education
and the action of all the forces that
make up our civilization-is spending
forward than inn or
place in human history-American adj
miniStratiOni But yesterday there were
less than 10000 Cuban children in
school; today there are nearly $50 900
Cuban children in SchOol-American ad-
ministration. But yesterday Havana
was the source of our yellow fever
plaques; today it is nearly as healthy as
New Decentralization administration
When we stop this work and withdraw
our restraint, revolution will succeed
revolution, as in the Central and South
American countries; Havana again fes-
ter with the yellow death systematic ed
ucat1On again degenerate into sporadic
instances; and Cuba, which under our
control would have been a source of
profit, power and glory to the republic
and myself, will be a source of irritation
and of loss, or danger and disease to
both. The United States needs Cuba for
our protection; but Cuba needs the Uni
ted States for Cuba's salvation
The opposition demands that the she'd
ding of blood shall cease. So does the
government. But blood will continue to
flow until American sympathy with the
insurrection is repudiated by the Ameri-
con people. The Philippine people-aye
the wOrld-look upon this campaign as
trial before the American people of the
course of the American government in
the Philippines; and the election will
mean to them American endorsement or
rebuke of the American government.
Since men in America began to hold out
to the rebels in Luzon, hope of success
through change in national Administered
ton; since the unappreciated efforts of
our peace-loving president through the
civil commission to stop the war con-
WINGED the MalayS that we fear them
every phase of this conflict has been
planned and pursued with reference to
this election.
Fellow Americans, this is no partisan
conflict 1t is no unprecedented Strug-
gle. 1t is the ever-old and yet the ever
new, because the ever-elemental con-
test between the forces of growing ma
tionality and those who resist it; be-
tween the forces of extending dominion
and those who oppose it; between the
forces that are making us the master
people of the world and those who think
that our activities should be confined to
this continent forever. 1t is the eter-
nal duel between. the forces of progress
and reaction. of construction and diSin-
tegration, of growth and of decay Both
sides are and always have been sincere.
Men-patriOtic, brave and WiSe-have
sought to stay their tremendous pur-
pose of destiny, but their opposition was
as the finger of the babe against the
resistless pour of the gulf streams
mighty current For Gods hand was
in it all. His plans were working out
their glorious results. And just as flu
tile is resistance to the continuance to-
American people toward the mastery of
the world. This is a destiny neither
vague nor undesirable. 1t is definite. splen-
did and holy. When nations shall war