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 And, first of the colonial system. Contessedly it will be departure in the history ot this country and 1 as yet untried experiment. It is said that the Anglo-SaXon race has mani 1 tested capacity to govern well that we are of that race and that, there fore, we could we'll govern those is- lands as colonies. India and Egypt are pointed to with pride as the achievements of our race in the way of government. do not question the capacity,of the race on either side of the waters to well and wisely govern others l object to it because it an tagonizeS the principles upon which this government was founded, which have controlled it's life up to the pres ent time, and the perfection of which has been the hope and aspiration of every true American. Those principles were expressed in the Declaration of Independence in these words:
 We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights
 that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. "
 Upon these immortal principles this goyernmen was established and we have again and again proclaimed to the world that they are the founda- tions upon which this gouernment rests, and have appealed to our pros perity and success as evidence of the justice of those principles. Somehow or other, l still believe in the Declara- tion of Independence.
 INsTRI NIENT> OF CIVILIZATION.
 To hear some talk, you would think ! that all the influences going out from | this Christian nation to the hethen i have been Christian, purifying, ele- vatng; but the fact is, that even from Puritan New England there have gone more gallons Of whiskey than bibles. Ii anyone imagines that this | will be changed when We come into control of the Philippines and at, ! tempt to rule them: that thereafter 1 only missionaries and bibles will pass | thither from America, he sadly under rates the locomotive capacity of the | devil.
 ! Again necessity of colonial posses Sions is an increase in our regular | army. and the first increase proposed l is from 30, 900 to 100, coo men. It is strange commentary that at the close ] of the Nineteenth century the head of the most arbitrary government in i the civilized world, the Car of the | RuSsiaS, is inviting the nations of the world to a decrease in their arms, ! while this, the freest land, is propOS- l ing an increase. Yet such seems to | be the imperative need. If we enter upon the system of colonial expansion | We have lived and prOspered for l23 | years with handful of regulars. We have preserved peace at home and have been respected abroad Govern ment by consent of the governed has | little need of the soldier. So the world has come to believe, and it is so. ' Are we ready to forfeit this high pO- sition: Do we not endanger the very | foundation principles of this govern ment when we make the blare of the bugle and the tramp of the armed bat talion the music which is heard on every side and the inspiration which attracts the ambition af our youth?
 My friend, two visions rise before me: One of a nation growing in pOpu- lation, riches and strength, reaching out the strong hand to bring within its dominion weaker aud distant races and lands, holding them by force for the rapid wealth they may bring with, perhaps, the occasional glory. success and sacrifice of war; won drously, luxurious life into which the fortunate few shall enter: an accumu- lation of magniiicence which for a term will charm and dazzle, and then the shadow of the awful question: whether human nature has changed, and the old law that history repeats itself, has lost its force, whether the ascending splendor of imperial power is to be followed by the descending gloom of luxury. decay and ruin.
 The other of a nation, where the spirit of the pilgrim and the Hugue- not remains the living and control ling force. affirming that the Declara. tion of Independence. the farewell ad- dress of the Father of his Country, and
 Monroe Doctrine shall never pass into innocuous desuetude: deyoting its en, orgies to the development of the mex haustible resources of its great conti' mental territory: solving the problem , of universal personal and political lib , erty, of government by the consent
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