The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-20

which would be turned against the
other native tribes if We let them
alone. What would the Democracy
have us do? Give them up to rapine
and bloOdshed, and leave the islands
at flotsam and jatsam on the face of
the waters? There are parallels in our
own history. We purchased Florida
from Spain in 1921 when it had four
thousand white settlers, for five mil
lions of dollars, and other valuable
considerations. The Seminoles, natives
Of the soil, brave, resOlute, having far
greater intelligence and character than
the Tagals, disputed our possession
We sent andrew Jackson down to fight
them and it took us tWenty-one years
to subdue them and send what was
left of them west of the Mississippi
If the "Anti-eVerythings" had lived
then, they wouldI suppose have urged
us to turn over Florida tC DsceOla the
Aguinaldo of the Sen 1les! Would
you, after the war Mexico and
the Gadsden purchas ave given the
great area south and vest of the Ar
kansas to the red Apache? Not so did
our fathers construe their duty, and
as they built, so shall we, their sons.
Meanwhile, American enterprise and
ingenuity and push may be depended
upon to develop the resources of the
islands, and makeI them an added
source of wealth to our country. The
wise craftsmanship of the president
and our able secretary of state has al
ready brought from the countries of
Europe a recognition of our right to
share in the vast commercial advant-
ages which will follow the opening of
| the Chinese Empire to foreign trade;
| the Nicaraguan canal will be soon con-
| structed; Hawaii with it's valuable
| harbor, is ours; we possess the best
of the Samoan Islands, with its mag
| .9 I Dl,s
| almost at the door of China, and If
| counses of fear do not prevail, this
generation will see the American ma
| ton girdling half the globe with it's
! flag extending it's foreign commerce
! to the uttermost parts of the earth,
| and taking it's place among the great
world-nations, a power for good, for
peace, and for righteousness.
QUESTION FOR VOTES.
Never since "a, when the voters .of
| the country We're called upon to deter
mine whether the efforts of Abraham
| Lincoln to preserve the Union should
be continued, or whether they should
| be abandoned and other measures at
| tempted have questions so vital been
presented to the American people for
! settlement. Their decision must deter
! mine the maintenance or the degree
| dation of both our national credit and
!
president could paralyze the operation
| of the new currency law as effectively
! as If it We're wiped from our statute
! books. A Democratic victory would in
! fuse new life into the Tagal insurrec-
| ton, cost us the lives of thousands
| of our gallant army in the Philippines,
| impair or destroy our prestige, if not
| our power, in the islands, make us a
! byWord among the other great nations
of the world, and obliterate our in
fluence in the settlement of the vital
questions certain to arise when China
shall be opened to foreign commerce.
There is little room for fear. The
farmer and the artisan in their day of
prosperity still remember the impov-
erishment and blight of Democracy,
and the Chicago platform has no al
lurements for them.
| Our National honor is equally secure.
The American people are neither pol
| trOons nor pessimiSts, and they will
not signalize the dawn of the new CEN
turn by the surrender of either con-
| victions or territory. Every soldier
| back from the islands, and they are in
almost every hamlet in the land, re-
| turns an advocate of their retention.
| Our dead are buried along the sands
of Luzon, and on it's soil no foreign
flag shall ever salute the dawn.
THE NEW CENTURY.
We stand at the dawn of the new
century. Before it shall have reached
its meridian the youngest here will