The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-16

and relieve Russia of and occupy Port Ar
thur. and proceed TO civilize and regen-
crate the natives.
Mr.. President, my understanding OF the
duty and the mission OF the American
people was something far different | had
conceived Us 10 be the last hope CT re-
publics. blessed with magnificent and
large and fertile, and varied area, which
we were gradually filling up as our own
population increased and where we were
welcoming the advent of strangers and
foreigners and oppressed from other lands.
ard were seeking TO assimilate them with
us as citizens OF a free republic. and /
was OF the impression that our
land was not yet full, not yet
US days. we hoped. OF peace, vast and in
teresting and noble social problems that.
within our own borders, we were to work
out; that we had said to the nations OF
may hold your thrones so long as the peo-
pie will tolerate you, but this continent Is
forever devoted to liberty and you shall not
put your foot upon IL nor shall we inter-
fere with territories which you claim
That. as / understand, is our mission, our
purpose and our destiny. But events, con-
corning which we had but little share. have
placed Us in possession of these great
we meet every duty at home. fairly and
good naturally and hopefully and man
fashion
THE SENATOR STARTLED.
Mr. President, 1 believe IT would be
idle for US to talk of being a God-given
nation with an ability to regenerate and
colonize and civilize. not possessed by any
other people In the world. / was some
what startled by the utterances of the Sem
ator from Indiana when he told US that
menced outside and Uttered back. and that
h.
which exists in all our large towns and
cities almost without exception throughout
these United States. a corruption which is
growing less each year and will as men
grow better and take greater interest In
civil government. We had only to intrust
the experiement of governors of the
Philippines to the precinct committeeman
OF Indiana and other States when. by the
purity OF government which would be adj
ministered In the Philippines a reflected
glory and purity would shine across to our
land which would make at once our civic
administration pure and stainless.
Mr.. President, IL that be true. the Phil
ippines would be worth to use a great many
hundred. millions OF dollars of their soil,
consisting of lava beds and craters of dead
volcanoes. but it is not so We will meet
this question and we~will stumble and fall
upon IL and make mistakes and pick our
selves up and go on again. When we took
these islands We thought We had taken
from Spain an orphan asylum. which we
were to nourfsh and nurture and make
happy. 1t looks as IL We might possibly
have taken over instead home for incor-
rigibles- But If we have. we will still deal
with them in the same brave American
fashion.
ut comes to the end of the century when
the world Is growing better and more be-
neficent and kinder; when men recognize. as
never before, their duties towards their
fellow-men; when the rich are getting
richer and the poor are getting rich too,
and IL we do our duty by these islands,
as we shall. the time will some day come
when the sun of prosperity which now
shines and Eliminates and blesses our own
country will shed its refulgent rays as well
upon those islanders in the far-off south
ern seas"