Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-06

degenerate sons OF noble sires? Our
fathers carried the flag from the
Alleghanies to the Pacific, from Ken
tucky to the Gulf, from the Golden
Gate to the frozen north, and with
every advance the prophets OF evil
predicted the fall OF the republic.
But the republic grew in size. in
strength and virtue. And there is
something more beyond. There is
more freedom to give, more school
houses to build, more truth to
preach, more oceans to whiten with
American commerce, more tasks to
dare, and all the pessimism repre-
sented by Tammany Hall, the solid
south, the anarchy OF Chicago and
the sophistry Of the Platte, cannot
limit our growth, paralyze our COM
merce, stop our development or
make us recreant to our manifest
destiny.
The Kansas City platform by de-
nouncing expansion under the name
OF imperialism endorsed the policy OF
Cleveland, who furled the flag at
Honolulu. 1t returned to the old
traditions OF the sixties when the
country was urged to let the south
go, to let the imperial republic be
divided, to let slavery continue, to
create line OF custom houses and
block houses all along the Mason
and Dixon line, which would have
called for a standing army in the
north and another in the south, and
would have turned back the clock of
progress and tolled the death knell
OF human liberty everywhere. But
no, liberty and union triumphed.
The severed country united. It COM
menced to grow. Railways were
pushed to the sunset. Alaska be-
came ours. Hawaii begged for adop-
tion and we took her in; Guam
Joined the procession; the Philip
pines, just awake to the fact that
one American promise is worth more
than sixteen Spanish bonds, sees the
star OF hope rising and looks for
peace, prosperity and regeneration
under the benign influence OF Ameri-
can schools, American commerce,
American laws and American Justice.
II this be Imperialism let the Demo
Gratis make the most OF it.
It comes with poor grace from
modern so-called Democrats to op-
pose expansion-even island expan-
siOn-when that has been the tradi-
tional policy Of the party from the
days Of Jefferson to the days OF
Buchanan. @
In 1916 President Polk offered to
purchase Cuba from Spain for the
sum Of 500, 900, 900, though he had
no authority from Congress to make
the proposal and he certainly could
not have obtained the money with
out such authority, had Spain ac-
cepted. But the offer was refused.
Again in 1854, under the admins
tration OF President Pierce, our then
ministers to England, France and
Spain, who were James Buchanan,
James Y. Mason and Pierre Soule,
met at Ostend and issued the famous
Ostend manifesto, which in effect was
that if Spain should refuse to sell
Cuba to the United States for $12O,-
900, 900, 1--WE should be justified by
every law, human and divine, in
wrestling it from Spain if we possess
the power
This came to nothing, but in the
next administration President Bu.
Il
chanan in three of his annual mes.
sages to Congress urged that Cuba
ought to be made by purchase part
of the United States. A bill for the
purchase OF Cuba was introduced
during Buchanan's term by Senator
Slidell, but failed of.adoption.
But not only did Democratic presi-
dents favor the annexation Of Cuba,
but an effort was made by President
Pierce to annex Hawaii, and treaty
Of annexation was made by our min
lister to the Hawaiian Islands, David
u. Gregg. The President did not ap-
prove OF some of the articles OF the
treaty because they provided for the
immediate Incorporation OF the is-
lands as an independent state in the
Union. He wished to receive. them
as a territory, leaving the question
of statehood to future determina alton.
The negotiations subsequently, failed,
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