The Princeton union., 1900-07-26
baurd II l,ough the fears 81 men IKE

Absurd tllough Ii the fears sof men ike
Quincy seem to US now, they are no more
/ absurd than the real Or pret nded fears ofS
1 1 our opp ponents will seem not a score of.
/ years hence Pict2 TO yourselves the
dreadful calamity that its would have been
shad { our nation IA 1S1 lss listened tos the
counsels OF the shortstgh ghted and weak
Isshearted; !; IL CAL ifornIa Texas and Florida
had been LETT! as s5panls sh-spe eaking COM
munities, and IL all the magnificent re-s
gion from the Mississippi TO the Pacific
had been turned over to#be qi1arreled Tor,
either BY local Indian tribes or by Euro
/ pean nations Hardy less would be the
calamity II we now turn our backs upon
our duty and. with craven and ab5eet
shrinking from responsibility, abandon
Our Part In the WOrld's WOrl< 81
and incur the deserved contempt OF hu>5
manity by deliberately refusing to take
our place among the great nations Of
mankind.
ssRemember that expansion does
not bring wnrs II ultimnteIy brings
! peace. III II of advantaee Ia. alI,e
nnd esp eciaIIy to the people Iifted
ont Of savagery. We should hail the
advance of every civilized nation
over barbnrOus peoples. 80 long ~
that advance Il NOT made In some
Il l~ds
/ liked mankind
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 corsafrs? The
treason we did not pay tribute after that
/ date was because In that year France
IBbegaE to expand over Algiers. War fol-
I lowed and lasted q 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 Aguinaldfan Independence
/ But lasting peace, the first for many cen-
turfes, came to Algiers through the
i French conquest, as It will come to the
Philippines through our refusal to aban-
don the islands. So Russia has advanced
Lover 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-
1 pie have upheld the German policy Of
Building navy and seeing that Ger
| many's citizens are protected and Ger
many's trade rights throughout the world
4 guaranteed Is an excellent lesson to us
here.
s.The expansion Of q civilized peo-
PIE lneans-nOt " ar but peace.
Until we had expanded over this coun-
i try the border warfare between the white
q man and the red and between the differ
[sent tribes Of red men was unceasing, but
i now that we have expanded, peace has
4 come; exactly as peace has been brought
to tAIgiers, to Turkestan and the Soudan,
by the great peoples Of Europe. Every
4 such instance of expansion has been Of
4 immeasurable benefit to mankind, and
q more and more the civilized peoples are
q beginning TO realize that they can work
handS IN hand with one another. See what
1 IS happening in China to-day. Read the
notes issued by Won Buelow, speaking for
4 Germany, and John Hay, speaking for
ourselves, and see how absolutely alike
are the policies therein outlined. We are
4 taking the only course consistent with our
i material self-interest, our national self
respect, and above all with the Well-be1nR
i Of mankind al large The hest of ali
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t'tlt INTO tnes ol ciVilization, q
4 sis stheEcase America will ever be foremost
1 to greet the new civilized power and to
i work with her az we now 5w work with
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duty duty IN the Worio @ Would De merely uiti-
Il
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oon.istantIvh hea,, :, s a..i s. ~ an n.iom
/ and she offera to-dny the best ex.@
ample of the fruits Of such a policy,
when. eEically carried out.
n ominally her policy has been one Of
peace. ana IN reality II has simply been
% one SWhlch when hVleds IhVlted aggression from wath-fs
4 out ana &lnclted her% own people TO Zero
cious and hldeous barbarism The So
called ant1-expans1on1st. 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
i 1nat America shall take no legitimate
i step to secure for our merchants farmers
4 and and WageWorkers N the benefit of the open
lsllH market.s3
mansion mems IN the emu not
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4 set. woe to IS. 81 We .hrinl fron
/ such e1rort: woe IL we fail to do our
duty because the nrst step seems
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