The Newtown bee., 1900-06-15

purchs sed at the expense of honor, and the early decades furnish another. In the early years of this century, the Medi.
 te'ranean Sea swarmed with pirates.
 Every year thousands of men and vast
 stores were sacrificed to their greed. The nations bordering the shores of the Medi- terranean earned a quasi peace by pay ing tribute money. Our Nation fought several sea-fights with these pirates, but
 made no earnest attempt to subdue them. In the year 1880 ve paid our last tribute. In that year France began in seriousness
 the conquest of Algier', and since that
 day it Lhas been better for Algiers and
 better for the rest of the world. Peace
 through war.
 Could we sit by and have the atrocities
 of Weyler go on right at our doors !?
 These things at last became a stench in
 our nostrils; could we stand the noisome-
 ness? We could have peace if we made
 no interference, but who wants such 8 peace? This Nation did not and SO it en-
 tered upon war, not moved by the
 spirit of revenge, not animated by the
 theslust of conquest, but simply that
 through war righteous peace might come.
 Those who plead for peace at any price,
 as if with all our getting we must get that, though all else goes by the board, would of course sympathizs with those foolish young women who send flowers n tho co1 oP fhn if he were hero and not rascal.
 UNDER THE GUIsE OF A DESIRE FOR PEACE
 men sympathize with the Mahdists of the Soudon and call Englsntla 8 butcher be- cause she conquered them, when the story told by the Austrian priests who suffered bitter outrages under the Mabdists places them in any other light than that of the downtrodden who want our sympathy and help against tyran-
 nous superior. Under the guise of 8 desire for peace sympathetic voices go to Agufnaldo across the sea and really load the rifis tbat shoot our soldiers down. What the United States wants in the Philippines is not conquest, for the islands are already ours, but peace, a con. dition of things that will allow the establishment of stable government {; and when 8 civilized nation treats with 8 barbarous nation, force is the weapon to be used, force, of course, always backed by fair dealing. It has been 8 matter of history that in our treatment of the Indians we have had more trouble from those tribes which we have coddled and petted than from those which we have brought to terms by force. As civilized nations get more and more of the surface of the earth war is going to
 be more rare. When England, the "little island and mighty empire" shall extend her hand across the wave and clasp the
 hand of this great republic to form an Anglo-American alliance, it will be long step toward the establishment of universal peace. The best way to get lasting peace is to expand the borders of
 the great civilized Powers, and let us not cry ''Shame !" when the hand of God
 plainly leads us to the control of bar
 barous lands beyond the sea. The history
 of this country has been history of ex-
 pansion. Under Washington and Adams
 we expanded to the Mississippi; under
 Jefferson we expanded to the mouth of
 the Columbia; under Monroe, and there is so much talk about the Monroe doc-
 urine as being the clinehing argument
 why we should not move another step
 beyond our limits here, under Monroe
 we expanded into Florida; then into
 Texas and California; largely as the
 work of Secretary Seward we expanded
 into the Nations ssice.box," Alaska
 while under every administration we have expanded our frontier as the emigrant
 wagon hss climbed the hills and in long
 lire has wended it's way over the plains.
 You cannot point to single instance in
 history, where the extension of the bor- der-line of civilization has not brought blessing. When Russia waged war with Turkey, servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and
 Bulgaria either became independant or passed from under the baleful rule of the Turk to the beneficent protectorate of Austria. and thus an end was put to the disaensions that for many years had dis turbed the Balkans. Peace through war.
 War brings peace. What true and last ing peace the Civil War has made in our own land The pain, the bitter sorrow that were largely in the thought immedi- ately after the war have mostly passed out of mind. Memorial Day ia now largely kept by those who had no part in 1