The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-28


nearer Washington by months than !
New Orleans was in Jefferson's admin
istration. The flag carries with it every
where the genius and spirit of Ameri-
can liberty and law No American
governor. council and judiciary would
be tyrants il they could. and could not
be if they would. An insult or n blow
at civil or religious liberty by an Amer
lean administration. in far-off L.uzon
would he flashed under the ocean and
across the land. The people would rise
In hot Indignation. demanding Justice
and punishment, which the president
and congress would be swift to grant
and infiict.
All other nations have been familiar
through the ages with the power Of
sovereignty. Their people have grad
uaily won Individual rights from the
throne. but without impairing in its
national relations this power. We have
developed the other way. Slowly and
reluctantly we have surrendered in
dividual rights that we might be a ma
ton. We have been hundred years
trying to understand that a govern
ment of the people has all the strength.
perpetutty and powers of sovereignty,
Dut with an ever-present responsible
ity to the people. When submitted TO
the arbitrament of the sword, the sac
rifice of a million noble lives on one
side and the other opened the minds Of
friends and foes 10 broader and more
elevated understanding of the in
dissoluble unity, the vast and expans-
i've possibilities, the creative and
beneficent spirit and the mighty and
glorious power Of the United States.
The fears daily expressed of disas-
trous consequences to ourselves from
the productions and industries of these
islands have no justification in the
long experience of other nations. Great
Britain has found her best markets in
her colonies and no invasion of her in
dustries from them. The same is true
of the crowded, highly organized, and
sensitive Industrial interests of Holland.
The people of the temperate zones gov
ern all tropical countries outside the
Americas. The northern races are the
migrators. the colOnizers, the rulers,
and the organizers of the productive
energies of the world. There is a close
ness and contact between all parts Of
the lands and peoples which are under
one general government Though
Great Britain has no greater CONNER
cial advantages with her colonies than
other and competing countries. yet she
furnishes d per cent Of their imports,
and if analyzed so as 20 select only the
articles she produces the proportion
would be greater. The rapid develop
ment of wants and ability to crafty
them created by civilization and sta BILE
government will enormously Increase
the consumption and purchasing power
OF the Inhabitants Of our island pos
sessions.
America and Europe are the bene-
hciaries and the victims of the mar
velous development of the nineteenth
century. Electricity, steam and inven-
ton have stimulated production be-
yond living limits. unless new markets
can be discovered. Now the worlds
problem Of markets for the surplus OF
farms and factories, or low wages,
want OF employment. idleness, and
want is near our own doors. The mar
kets for the products of our farms and
factories accessible by the Atlantic
ocean will soon be filled. But across
the Pacific are limitiess opportunities.
Within a distance from Manila not
much greater than Havana from New
York live 900, 100000 of people. purchas-
ing now annually from all nations. of
the things which we produce, to the
sum of u thousand millions OF dollars,
of which we furnish five per cent. And
yet with our Pacific coast and its en-
terprising people, the opening of the
canal across the isthmus and an Ameri-
can merchant marine that five per cent
should be fifty. With railroads open-
ing w these countries and civiiizat tion
stimulating their people. the possible
Increase in their trade dazZles the
Imagination. TO relieve home cong s.
zion starvation anG revolution. Eng
land, Germany and France are inc, ,nas-
ing their armies, charging their 'lents
and either waging war or on the eve Of
great conflicts whic partitionins AZ
RIGA. threatening China, seizlng Asiatic
princlpalities and inad'y building rail-
roads across the continents of Ae'a
and Africa. by victorious war and
triumphant diplomacy we are in our
own territory within easy reach, at
Manila. of China. Siam, Korea, Annan!,
the East Indies and Japan. Without
war or entangl.ng alliances we will
have equal rights with other nations
to the ports of the Orient. with all thae
II means for the demonstrated SUPER
iority of our mltnufacturcs and The sur
plus harvests of our farms.
O.
This is not q sordid view, nor can any
right apprehension of our Philippine
IOlicv or our relations to our island
colonies be sordd or purely CONNER
cial. In spite Of ourselves We have
colonial possessions. We have no poll
Icy to declare. no glittering resolutions
or prOclamations to make and in the
future to embarrass us We will stamp
out the insurrectiOn and establish a
stable government. We will organize
local government. We will constitute
courts. We will insure with the whole
power of the United States security for
life and property freedom of religion
and the equal and just administration
of the Law The kindergarten Of lib
erty, under competent instructors, rap
idly develops its pupils for larger re-
sponsibilities for citizenship, respect for
law, for judicial duties and for a con-
stantly increasing share i'm their local
and general assemblies. Ono year OF
rule by the United States in Cuba is a
convincing object lesson. BrigandS have
become farmers, and revolutions con-
servative citizens. Order has taken the
place of anarchy, and law of license.
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