The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-27

unmeasured terms
Territorial Avidity'.
of the Americans of the day. He as
serted that the Constitution was never
constructed "to form a covering for the
inhabitants of the Missouri and the Red
river country and finally, when his pro-
phetic vision brought before him the aw-
full picture of senators and representa-
tives from west Of the Mississippi arro-
gantly assuming right to take part In
the legislation of the country. he asked
with a fervor worthy of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist of to-day:
do you suppose the people Of the
Northern Atlantic states will or ought to
look with patience and see representatives
and senators from the Red river and Mis-
souri, country pouring into congress, man.
aging the concerns Of a seaboard fifteen
hundred miles at least from their resi-
dence and having a prepondsrancy in
councils in which constitutionally they
could never have been admitted?' And
he continued further to harrow the minds
of his hearers by stating that the expan-
sionists of that day might even intend
to establish states in California and at
the mouth of the Columbia, and concluded
by asserting that the extension Of the
plated beyond the Mississippi cannot, will
not and ought not to be borne. Well,
am addressing at this moment citizens
from the very states, the possibilities OF
whose existence appeared so terrible to
the excellent Mr.. Quincy. You yourselves
are the fruits of the expansion which he
regarded as fraught with such immeasur-
able 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 Sew
ard purchased Alaska. The great Ameri-
can policy which has again been applied
under President Mckinley
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 that it would have been
had our nation in 1911 listened to the
counsels of the shortsighted and weak
hearted; if California, Texas and Florida
had been left as Spanish-speaking COM
munities, and if all the magnificent re-
gion from the Mississippi to the Pacific
had been turned over to be quarreled for.
either by local Indian tribes or by Euro
pean nations. Hardly less would be the
calamity if we now turn our backs upon
our duty and, with craven and abjeet
shrinking from responsibility abandon
Our Part in the Worlds Work
and incur the deserved contempt Of hui
mainly by deliberately refusing to take
our place among the great nations Of
mankind.
"Remcmber that expansion does
not bring war; it ultimately brings
peace. 1t is of advantage to all.
and especially to the people lifted
out of savaGery. We should hail the
advance of every civilized nation
over barbnrOus peoples. SO long rs
that advance is not made in some
form prcjudicial to the rest of civil
lized mankind.
II wonder 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 our COM
merce from the Algerian corsairs? The
reason we did not pay tribute after that
date was because in that year France
began to expand over Algiers: War fol-
lowed and lasted a number of years, and
thee were foolish people who then wrote
in praise of Algerian independence, just
exactly as there are foolish people now
who talk about Aguinaldian independence
But lasting peace, the first for many CEN
turtles. to Algiers through the
French conquest, as it will come to the
Philippines through our refusal to aban-
don the islands. So Russia has advanced
over Turkestan and brought peace in her
train. So it Is good thing for Germany
to begin to play her part abroad; and the
patriotic way in which the German peo-
pie have upheld the German policy Of
building a navy and seeing that Ger
many's citizens are protected and Ger
many's trade rights throughout the world
guaranteed is an excellent lesson to us
here.
"The expansion of u civilized peO-
pie means not war but peace.
Until we had expanded over this coun-
try the border warfare between the white
man and the red and between the differ
ent tribes of red men was unceasing but
now that we have expanded. peace has
come; exactly as peace has been brought
to Algiers. to Turkestan and the Soudan,
by the great peoples of Europe. Every
such instance of expansion has been of
immeasurable benefit to mankind. and
more and more the civilized peoples 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 absolutely alike
are the policies therein outlined. We are
taking the only course consistent with our
material sef-interest. our national self
respect. and above all with the well-being
Of mankind at large. The best of all
things is where 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 now work with
Japan. But to refrain from doing our
duty in the world would be merely ult-
mately to invite
The Fate of China.
2 "The Chinese policy has always
consistently been against expansion,
md she offers to-day the best ex-
ample Of the fruits of such n policy
when logically carried out.
"Nominaly her policy has been one Of
peace, and in reality it has simply been
one which invited aggression from with
out and melted her own people to fero-
cous and hideous barbarism The So
called anti-expansionist. when logical.
insists upon our abandoning the Ameri-
cans. missionaries and laymen alike. who
are in China TO their dreadful fate with.
out an effort to rescue them. and insists