Evening star., 1900-10-10

menace to our peace and a diSturber of our
prosperity; we drove Spain forever out of
that beautiful island. We did not take the
sovereignty In Cuba, and today the sover-
eighty of the island is in the air. and 1T
will fall upon any stable government that
may be formed in Cuba. We are today un-
Gertaking to help to form that government;
we intend to carry out the agreement that
Congress imposed upon
Il opposed the agreement that Congress
imposed upon u.s. L opposed the agreement.
1 believe in the annexation of Cuba to the
United States, but we will carry out that
agreement in good faith. We annexed Porto
Rico and her sovereignty is ours, and no
nation ever treated any dependency or any
territory. or any district SO generously and
magnifcently as have treated Porto
Rico. It's commerce will be ours also, and
1t has already increased over 200 per cent.
We got the Island Of Guam to land our
cables on.
II believe as wise a man as Carl Schurz
said that we had paid $20,O0O0OO or 81
head for the F'ilipinos. Now. why can
a great man be a demagogue? Do you
know? I do not see for the life OF me. Carl
Schurz knew that that was nothing but the
greatest of demagOgueries. Germany paid
France over three hundred million francs
for the Improvement which France had
made in Alsace and Lorraine. Mexico paid
the mother government when she was re-
lieved from IT, and the South American re-
public did the same thing to the mother
country. The precedents were all that
way, and we, as great and powerful and
rich nation, dealing with a bankrupt foe,
could not do any less than Mexico or other
nations. Oh. how L despise man who Is
a demagogue?
Let me talk honestly and truly to you.
They say it has cost us great deal. 1t
has cost us over there $1SO, 100000 and 1000
lives.
Where to Put Blame.
'cIf that treaty had been ratified in the
ITrit al tot III
had been reported from our committee on
foreign relations, and those speeches had
not been made In open session. 1t would not
have cost us s15,0O0,OOO
Europe has been thirstng for that archi-
pelago for the last fifty years. Germany
has been trying for twenty years to buy an
| island but Spain was too proud to sell an
| inch Now do you suppose Europe is go
| ing to stand by and look on and see us
! leave that archipelago. and leave 1T In
charge of Aguinaldo? And when these In
surrections come up as they go In there to
| protect their citizens and their property,
| or In the pretense of protecting them, and
| it. we will see what sort of stable gov
] ernment Aguinaldo will have to call for
protection against all Europe.
Just think of it! Why, he would have to
have Russia's army. Well, they say 1t has
| cost us a good deal of money.
What else did we get? The Philippine
| archipelago, and from a commercial point
| Of view it was more to us than all the Gu
| bas and Porto Ricos you can imagine. Take
| this archipelago, and it is marvelously at
tractive. In the whole world there is moth
| ing like it. Its boundless forests. conta in
| ing the best merchantable woods in the
| world today; its minerals and metals, Its
! iron ore. its coal-everything awaiting for
| development. From commercial point of
| view. from a strategic point Of view. the
7 archipelago is worth a thousand times more
| for it's commerce than 1t ever would cost
us. Only two days from Hong Kong. 1t
puts us right into the front door of China
with her 4OO.00O.OOO of people. 1t puts us
| right in the threshold Of the orient with
| 100000. The city of Manila is distrib-
| uting point for products of the United
| States of America, which in the next fifty
years will be worth more to us than Hong
| Kong ever was to Great Britain.
| You remember a few years ago all Eu-
| rope were talking about the dividing of
| China, and that each was going to take its
| share; 1t was going to shut the door in our
| lean products at all, but since the thunder
of Dewey's guns at Manila they recognized
| this republic for the first time as one of the
greatest of the worlds powers"
| Now a World Power.
After describing the growth Of the United
States to a world power Senator Frye con-
| tinued:
| who Is controlling affairs in China to-
| day? 1t Is the United States Of America,
because We are today one of the world 8
| great powers: become so because we fought
| the war with Spain. and because we have
expanded into the great Pacific ocean.
| What shall We do with the archipelago?
| Bryan says II he is elected he is going
| to call Congress and he Is going to allow
1 Aguinaldo to form a stable government
What then? What has Aguinaldo to form
j the minority of one tribe only. There are
eighty tribes out there, and that ID all that