The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

urable disaster to the Nation. You your
selves represent the results Of that policy
which was followed from the days of
Washington and Jefferson, through those
OF jackson down TO the time when Seward
purchased Alaska-the great American
policy which has been again applied under
President Mckinley.
ABSURD FEARS.
Absurd though the fears of men like
Quincy seem to us now, they are no more
absurd than the real or pretended fears of
our opponents will seem not a score of
years hence. Picture to yourselves the
dreadful calamity it would have been had
our Nation. in 1911. listened to the counsels
of the short-sighted and weak-hearted; If
California, Texas and Florida had been
left as Spanish-speaking communities, ard
if all the magnificent region from the Mis-
sissippi to the Pacific had been turned over
TO be quarreled for either by the local In
dian tribe or by the European nations.
Hardly less would be the calamity IL we
now turn our back upon our duty and
with craven and abject shrinking from re-
worlds work and incur the deserved con-
tempt of humanity by deliberately refus-
ing to take our place among the great ma
lions of mankind.
bring war; it ultimately brings peace. 1t is
of advantage to all and especially to the
people thereby lifted out of savagery- We
should hail the advance of every civilized
nation over barbarous peoples, so long as
that advance is not made in some form
preJudicial to the rest of mankind. l won
der how many of this audience are aware
that up to 1880 the United States paid
tribute to Algiers to secure immunity for
our sailors and commerce from the AL
gerian corSairs. The reason we did not pay
tribute after that date was because in that
years France began to expand over AL
gfers. War followed and lasted a number
of years and there were foolish people who
then wrote in praise of Algerian independ-
ence just exactly as there are foolish peO-
pie now who talk about Alguinaldian indie
~pendence. But lasting peace, the first for
many centuries, came to AlgierS through
the french conquest, as 1t Will come TO the
Philippines through our refusal to abandon
the islands. So Russia has advanced over
Turkestan and brought peace in her train.
So it is a good thing for Germany to begin
TO play her part abroad, and the patriotic
way in which the German people have up
held the German policy of building a navy
and seeing that Germany's citizens are
protected and Germany's trade rights
throughout the world guaranteed offers an
excellent lesson to us here.
1.-The expansion of a civilized people
means not war. but peace. Until We had
expanded over this country the border waP-
fare between the white man and the red
and among the different tribes of red men
was unceasing, but now that we have ex-
banded peace has come exactly as peace
mas DCC blOu6ht W tiStCis CSldi
and the Sudan by the great peoples of Eu-
rope. Every such instance of expansion
has been of unreasonable benefit TO all
mankind, and more and more the civilized
people are beginning TO realize that they
can work hand in hand with one another.
See what is happening in China to-day.
Read the notes issued by Won Buelow
speaking for Germany and John Hay
speaking for ourselves and see how abso-
lutely alike are the policies therein out
lined. We are taking the only course con-
sistent with our national self-interest and
our national self-respect, and, above all,
with the good of mankind at large.
THE best of all things is where a new
nation can be brought into the circle of
civilization, as Japan has been brought.
and where such is the case America will
ever be foremost to greet the new civilized
power and TO work with her as we work
with Japan. But to refrain from doing our
duty in the world would be merely ulti-
mately 10 invite the fate of China The
Chinese policy has always consistently
been against expansion, and she offers to-
day the best example of the fruits OF such
q policy when logically carried out. Nom
inally her policy has been one of peace;
in reality 1t has simply been one which
invites aggression from without and incites
her own people to ferocious and hideous
lists. when logical. insist on our abandoning
the Americans, missionaries and laymen
alike. who are in China to their dreadful
fate without an effort TO rescue them, and
SIC tldl ~ Siaii lohC iO lC6Atl-
mate step to secure for our merchants,
farmers and wageworkers the benefit Of
the open market.
NOT WAR, BUT PEACE.
Expansion means in the end not war,
but peace. But like every other great
good il can normally be achieved only by
effort at the outset. Woe to us if we shrink
from such effort. Woe If we fail to Go our
duty because the first step seems hard to
the weaklings and the men of little heart.
If we are to retain the respect of mankind
we must do no wrong and must not endure
wrong from others. We must strive with
earnest good faith to secure the steady
hetterment of the populations over which
we have assumed control. We must show
ourselves anxious TO work in a spirit of
frank and open friendship with other civil
lied nations. But We must no more shrink
from introducing orderly liberty and d just
and stable government in the islands to
which our new duty has called us than we
shrunk in the past from the various kinds
of expansion which carried us from Florida
and New Mexico TO Alaska.
"This election is more important than
any this country has seen save only the
election of 1864, and we have the right to
appeal to every man worthy to call him
self a good citizen that he shall stand by
us I'm this contest for upright and honest
legislation and administration at home
and abroad for the UNFOLDING of the flag
and the great privilege of doing the worlds
work as beseems a great world power.
Study the Kansas City platform and you
cannot help realizing that their policy is
the policy of infamy: that their triumph
would mean misery so widespread that II
is almost unthinkable and a disgrace so
lasting that more than a generation would
have to pass before II could be wiped out.
They stand for lawlessness and disorder.
for dishonesty and %dishonor, for license
and disaster at home and cowardly shrink
ing from duty abroad. we ask the sup
port of all Americans who have the well
fare of the country at heart, no matter
what their political affiliations may have
been in the past. We ask support of all
he men who do not wish TO see
our material well-being swallowed up in
the abyss of industrial panic. We appeal
to all good men who believe in civic de-
cency and shrink from the faint of fnan-
cial dishonor, and we appeal 10 all brave
men who are proud of the national name
and reputation and ask them to see to ii
that we are not Inundated before man
kind and tina we do not abandon the posi-
ton we nave taken in the forefront OF the
great nations of the earth
Governor Roosevelt concluded his perora-
ton at exactly $3.50 o'clock, when the audi
ence arose en- masse and over 5000 voices
shook the air for about five minutes.
A carriage was waiting at the door. the
Governor entered at once and was driven
to the station. and at 11:25 he was flying
eastward on his journey home. with the
fxeu purpose of making a speech nowhere
on roufp