The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-26

After pointing out the commercial adj
vantages" to come from the imperial pol
icy the speaker said that Cuba and Porto
Rico are the commercial stepping stones
to South America; Hawaii and the Philip
pines are the stepping-stones to China
and all the East
Further impressing "the argument of
the pocket book" the speaker looked into
the future and saw the Isthmian canal
built. "That canal. too. will be ours. &c
1.-THE commerce from Europe to Asia will
pass through that canal Then this
glorious vision of conquest unrolled be-
fore him:
A DREAM OF EMPIRE.
when an English ship, laden with Eng
lsh goods bound for the Orient, sails
westward. her first sight of land will be
| Porto Pico-and Cuba. also. as | hope
with the Stars and Stripes above them. AS
it passes through the welded waters OF
the Isthmian sea. still the Stars ana
Stripes above them. Half way across that
/ great American ocean, known as the Pa
cific, the first port of call and exchange
will be the Islands of Hawaii. with the
Stars and Stripes above them. And fur
Their west rs the land of sunrise and
sunset lifts before the eyes of the crew
of the merchantmen, they will behold
| glowing in the heavens of the east still
| again and still forever, those Stars and
Stripes of glory. And if that ship set
sail from Australia for Japan, it must stop
and trade in ports of that greatest COM
mercial stronghold in the world, the Phil
ippine Islands, with the Stars and Stripes
above each one of them"
= he
| speaker said meant new. but non Euro
pean, markets. Cali this means employ
ment to every American workingman on
farm, in factory, shop, store and mine,
on railroad and in ship; it means plenty
in the American home for hundred years
and maybe centuries to come; it means
the industrial and commercial lordship of
the world by American labor and CAPT
tai"
THE ARGUMENT OF DESTINY.
While he thought this mercantile ar
gument' . mighty one with Americans,
il Senator Beveridge considered 'the argu-
ment of destiny the master argument in
the hour of destiny, and it should be so. =
The speaker further stated the cold,
cruel argument of Destiny, so frequently
used by tyrants:
''The desire of the Filipinos is not the
only factor in determining their govern
ment. Just as the desire of no individual
man determines his conduct. 1t is writ
ten in the moral law of individuals that
No man liveth to himself alone; and it
is also written in the moral law of peo-
i pies that No people lixeth to itself alone
The world is interested in the Philippines,
/, and has a right to be. The world is inter-
ested N India. and has right to be.
Civilization is interested in China and it's
government, and that is the duty of civil
ization. You cannot take the Philippines
out of the operation of those forces which
are binding all mankind into one vast and
united intelligence. When circumstance
has raised our flag above them. we dare
not turn these misguided children over
to destruction by themselves or spolia-
ton hv others. and then make answer
when the God of nations requires them at
our hands, Am l my brothers keeper? p -
Taking this argument of Destiny "as
a basis the speaker found that history
establishes these propositions:
First, every people who have become
great, have become colonizers or admin
istrators.
| O6COlu, ILLS COlOulZdIIOH anu
administration their material and polit-
ical greatness develops.
Third, their decline is concident with
their abandonment of their policy of pos
session and administration, or departure
from the true principles thereof.
''And as a corrollary to these PROPOSE
tions is this self-evident and contempora-
neous truth:
Every progressive nation of Europe
today is seeking lands to colonize and gov
ernments to administer"
"If the opposition ask why this is the
mission of the American people now more
than heretofore, l answer that before any
people assumes these great tasks it
goes through a process of consolidation
and uniication. lust as a man achieves
maturity before he assumes the tasks of
| a man. Great Britain never became a
colonizing and administering power I'M
til the separate people of England, Scot
land, Ireland and Wales. welded into a
| single indivisible people, were ready to
! go forth as a national unit and do the
| great work to which the world was calling
it. The German people did not embark
upon this natural policy until separate
! dukedoms, municipalities and kingdoms
j were finally welded by common war,
common blood and common interests into
| great single and indivisible people
ready to go forth as a national unit to
/, the great work to which the world was
/, calling them. The French became colo
| nizers of lands and administrators of gov
{, ernments only when their great states
men from Richelieu to Colbert had knit
| the separate and divided French people
| into a national unit and sent it forth to
| the work to which the world was calling it,
! and France declined only when she aban-
doned that natural law of national power
and progress, and Napoleon diverted her
energies to the internal strifes of Eu-
rope. Then her decline began. She lost
Canada. The Corsican sold Louisiana to
us. And today French statesmen at last
realize the fatal operation of this law
when once disobeyed, and so are seeking
to become one of the colonizing and ad-
ministrating powers of earth again. And
CASTORIA ForInfants and Children.