The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-30

More than so years ago manifest
destiny" was the watchword of Amer
lean progress. Expansion was in the
air, and, in fact, was the very breath
Of the American people. From that
day to this Expansion" has animated
our most progressive statesmen, and
we might as we'll attempt to stop the
flow of Niagara as to try to stop the
growth grandeur and mighty forces OF.
America In American veins flow the
masterful blood of history-Englishi
Scotch. Irish, German, French and
Scandinavian, nation builders all
rugged as the heather covered granite
hills of the highlands, gentle as the
green Wales of Killarney, dominant on
land as are the English on the sea and
with, love for native land as strong,
deep and lasting as the German affec-
ton for the fatherland. There has not
been an hour from the moment the
pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth to
the bright May day when Dewey
humbled the flag of Spain in Manila
bay when Americans have not been
the missionaries of liberty.
The Revolutionary war was for
liberty and expansion of land; the war
Of 1912 was for liberty and expansion
on the sea; the Mexican war was for
liberty and expansion to the west and
south: the rebellion was for liberty
and union everywhere, and the country
is still in the morning of its history.
The Imperialism Of the American
idea gave the French people power to
throw off the old regime and enter into
the dominion of individual sovereignty.
1t has made more than half score OF
Latin American republics strung along
the Andean mountain chain, every one
Of them children Of American thought
and of American example, and still shell
tered under the strong arm of American
protection. America never consulted
with cowardice, or took counsel with
the fearful She rejoices as strong
man to run a race, and cares not how
hard the task may be providing it be
just
The Republican policy which SO long
has guided the destiny Of republican
America has been just and generous,
opening the door of opportunity to all,
opening markets that looms may spin,
furnaces blaze, chimneys smoke, trains
fly and ships sail, making work, main
tanning wages and paying honest toll
and American skill the highest wages
in the best money in the world.
The Republican party stands for the
imperialism of opportunity, the dOm1n-
ion Of achievement, the Kingdom of
manly labor, royal remuneration for
loyal service If this be Imperialism
let the enemies of the republic make
the most Of it. The party which freed
the black man, gave work to the white
man and deals justly with the brown
man does not hesitate to go before the
sovereign voters of the country and
ask for Endorsement.
President Mckinley has been true to
the traditions and instincts of the
American people. He has continued
the policy which Jefferson inaugural
ed, which Monroe continued, which
Seward advanced, which Grant pro
NOTED. which Harrison championed
and which the growth of the republic
demanded. \ policy which Cleveland
could not change, for Hawaii is ours,
Porto Rico is ours, the gate of Asia
is ours to the glory of America and for
the good Of the natives who find shelter
and protection under the spotless folds
of our flag. This is the record and
loyal Americans glory in it. The Re
publican party is not apostate to the
spirit of the race, nor will it check the
resistless march Of liberty and free in
StitutiOnS 4-~.V rrazi.5 4fs7 ,ss-4~~7,r-
Are the Americans of today the de-
generate sons of noble sires? Our
fathers carried the flag from the Ale
ghanies to the Pacific, from Kentucky
to the gulf, from the Golden Gate to
the frozen north, and with every adj
vance the prophets of evil predicted the
fall of the republic. But the republic
grew in size, in strength and virtue.
And there is something more beyond.
There are more freedom to give, more
schOOlhOuSeS to build, more truth to
preach, more oceans to Whiten with
American commerce, more tasks to
dare, AID all the pesamfsm represent
ed by Tafnmany Hail. the solid south,
the anarchy of Chicago and the sophis-
try of the Platte cannot limit our
growth, paralyze our commerce, stop
our development OF make US recreant
to our manifest destiny.
The Kansas City platfosm by de
n0uncing expansion under the name
of imperialism, indorsed the policy of
Cleveland, who fur1ed the flag at Homo
lu1u. It returned to the old traditions
of the sixties, when the country was
urged to let the south go, to let the
imperial republic be divided, to let
slavery continue, to create line of
custom houses and block houses all
along the Mason and Dixon line, which
would have called for a standing army
in the north and another in the south,
and would have turned back the clock
of progress and tolled the deathknell
of human liberty everywhere. But no!
Liberty ard union triumphed. The
cnvprpd oo11nt1~v yAifnd IT commenced