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


so the American Repub.c has been going
| through the process of nt;ng it for the
| execution Of this natural i.w of civiliza-
| ton. Hitherto we have h.,d local divis-
| ions. The proposition hat we were sim
| gle people. q national unit. and not a
sum of segregated factions, was denied.
| And 1t REQUIRED war and commerce and
| tlme-the shedding of blood the uniting
| OF communities by railroads and tele-
| graphs, the knitting together of the fabric
| Of nationality by that wonderful loom of
| human intelligence called the post; and
| finally, by the common and united effort
| or a foreign war to bring us to a con-
| seriousness OF our power as people. And
there IS never in nature a power with
cut a corresponding purpose. And shall
we now stop this process of nature?
I'VE are this at last. great national
| unit ready to carry out that universal law
of civilization which requires of every
people who have reached our high estate
to become colonizers oe new lands. adj
| ministratorS of orderly government over
savage and Senilc peoples and the plan
tiers of our institutions outward and ever
outward toward the every widening hori-
IONS of the embarrassing dominions of
the flag. And being thus prepared the
| lands and peoples needing our administra-
tion are delivered to our keeping, not by
our design, but by occurrence beyond our
control. In tho astronomy of Destiny,
American opport unity, American duty and
American preparedness are in conjunc-
ton. Who will oppose their progress!"
large part of the speech was devoted
| to militarism, the speaker arguing that
militarism was prevented, and not caused,
| by colonization. Separate government
| in Cuba is the only proposed step that
creates conditions of militarism in Amer
| lea"
Further discussing the Philippine prob
lem, the speaker declared: "Our institu-
tions, and not our Constitution, follow our
flag"
In answer to the argument that the eX-
tension of territory into foreign lands and
the power that the rule of this territory
put into the hands of the President and
Congress were dangerous to the liberties
of the people. Senator Beveridge said:
THE American peoples liberties can
never be endangered at the hands of the
American people and, therefore, their
liberties cannot be endangered by the ex-
is power exercised by the American people
themselves Their laws are the
peoples laws. Their COVER is the peo-
pies power. And if you fear this power,
you fear the people. If you want that
power restricted, it is because you want
the power of the people restricted; and
a restriction of their power is a restric-
ton of their liberty
Having thus reasoned round in a circle
to the point of first starting, the speaker
took UP the Cuban frauds, and promised
better things in the future.
On the question of Filipino competition
with American labor. he said: IF they
declare that if We keep the Philippines the
| American workngman will suffer by COM
| petition with Philippine labor, 1 answer
that one American will do more in a sim
gle day than Filipino will do in work
| ing week. And, therefore, they cannot
compete with us. if they would"
After having, satisfactorily to himself
at least, disposed of the labor question,
Senator Beverage turns to the task of
justifying the Porto Rican tariff bill. 1.-THE
law as finally enacted" he says. "is a
compromise of all opinions within the Re-
publican party" And then he makes this
startling confession:
"The conflicting views of Republican
legislators were considered. The con-
ficting views of Republican newspapers
| of the country were considered. The con-
| hicting views of Republican voters of the
country were considered And this is
the greatest glory of the Republican par
| ty it is the only political organization in
the world that permit liberty of thought
But where did the Porto Rican come
| in-he who pays the freight?
| Senator BeveridCe deplorcs the she'd
ding of blood in the Philippines, but de-
clares that blood will continue to flow
until Mckinley is reelected President.
And this made an oratorical spring board
from which the speaker leaDed into a
sea of glowing praise of Mckinley He
said: "a Washington prepared the Re-
public to enter the 10Th century. so Nc
Kinley has repaired the Republic to en-
ter the goth &c injury. Futile to-
day is resistance to the eternal movement
of the American people toward the mas
terry of the world. This is destiny Meth
err vague nor undesirable. 1t is definite,
splendid and holy. When nations shall
war no more without the consent of the
American Republic; what American heart
thrills not with pride at that prospect?
And yet our interests are weaving them
selves so rapidly around the world that
that time is allno st here. When govern
ments stay the slaughter of human be-
ings, because the American Republic de-
mands it; what American heart thrills
not with pride at that prospect? And
yet tonight there sits in Constantinople a
sovereign who knows that that time is
nearly here. When the commerce of the
world on which the worlds peace hangs,
travelling every oc can highway of EARTH
shall pass beneath the guns of the great
Republics; what American heart thrills
not at that prospect? Yet that time will
be here Before the econd administration
of the last American President of the
nineteenth century and the first President
of the twentieth century, VIM. Mckinley.
When any changing of the map of earth
requires q conference of the powers, and
when, at any Congress of the Nations, the
American Republic will preside as the
most powerful of powers and most right
eous of judges; what American heart
thrills not at that prospect? And yet,
that prospect is at hand, even as l speak