The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-18

lowed from the days Of Washington and Jefer-
son, through those Of Jackson down to the time
when Seward 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 score OF years
hence. Picture to yourself the dreadful calamity
that IL would have been had our nation In ISL
listened to the counses OF the shortsighted and
weak akhearted; II California, Texas and FLORIDA
had been left as Spanish.spcakng communities,
and II all the magnificent region from the Mis-
sissippi to the Pacific had been turned over to
be auarrelled for either by the local Indian
tribes or by the European nations. Hardly less
would be the calamity II We now turn our
backs upon our duty and with craven and alb
jcct shrinking from responsibility abandon our
part OF the worlds work and incur the deserved
contempt Of humanity by deliberately refusing
to take our place among the great nations OF
mankind.
Remember that expansion docs not bring war;
Il ultimately brings peace, 1t is OF advantage
to all and especially to the people thereby lifted
out OF sayagery. 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 / won
| der how many Of the audience are aware that
| up to 1890 the United States-pad tribute to
| Algiers to secure immunity for our sailors and
| commerce from the Algerian corsairs. The rea'
| son we did not pay tribute after that date was
| because in that year France began to expand
| over Algiers War followed and lasted a number
| Of years, and there foolish people then who
wrote in praise Of Algerian independence Just
| exactly as there are foolish people who now
talk about Aguinaldian independence. But last
| ing 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 upheld the Ger
| man policy Of building a navy and seeing that
Germany's citizens protected and Germanys
| trade rights throughout the world guaranteed,
| offers an excellent lesson to us here. The ex-
pansion Of a civilized people means, not war,
| but peace. Until we had expanded over this
| country, the border warfare between the white
| man and the red and among the different tribes
! Of red men was unceasng, but now that we have
| expanded, peace has come exactly as peace mas
been brought to Algiers, to Turkestan and the
Soudan by the great peoples OF Europe Every
such instance Of expansion has been OF immeas'
urable benefit to all mankind, and more end
more the civilized peoples are beginning to real
ize that they can work hand in hand with one
another. See what is happening in China today.
Read the notes issued by Won Buelow speaking
for Germany and John Hay speaking for our
selves and see how absolutely alike are the poli'
ces therein outlined. We are taking the only
course consistent with our national seltintares'
and our national selfrespect and above. all with
the good Of mankind at large.
China's Anti-Expansion Example.
The best Of all things is where new nation
can be brought into the circle OF civilization a!
Japan has been brought, and where such is thu
case America will ever be foremost to greet thu
new civilized power and to work with her a.
we work with Japan. But to refrain from doing
our duty in the world would be merely ulti
mately to invite the fate of China. The Chimes
policy has always consistently been against ex
pansion, and she offers today the best example
OF the fruits Of such a policy when logical!
carried out. Nominally her policy has been on
which invites aggression from without and in
cites her people to ferocious and hideou
barbarism. The so.called antiexpansionist, whe
logical, insists upon our abandoning the Ameri
} cans, missionaries and laymen alike, who ar
J in China, to their dreadful fate without an ef
fort to rescue them and insists that Amsric
shall take no legitimate steps to secure for ou
merchants, farmers and wage-workcrs the benei
> OF the open market
Y Expansion means, in the end not war, bu
! peace. But like every other great good it ca
E normally be achieved only by an effort at tn
outset. Woe to us il shrink from such e.
r forts Woe il we fail to do our duty becaus
u ! the first step seems hard to the weaklngs an
V the men Of little heart. II we to retain tn
Q respect Of mankind we must not do wrong an
I must not endure wrong from Others. We mu
= strive with earnest good faith to secure I'll
i steady betterment of the populations over whic
e we have assumed control. We must show ou
selves anxious to work in spirit Of frank an
IL open friendship with other civilized nation
a But we must no more shrink from introducin
i orderly liberty and a just and stable goyerl
= ment in the islands to which our new duty HI
. called us than we shrunk in the past from Il
n various kinds of expansions which carried
y from Florida and New Mexico to Alaska.
h This election is more important than any thu
e this country has seen save only the election
h '6i, and we have the right to appeal to evel
L man worthy to call himself good citizen, th
n he shall stand by in this contest for uprigl
n and honest legislation and administration
y home and abroad for the upholding of the fl
4, and the great privilege Of doing the world
n work as beseems a great world power. StuC
ir the Kansas City platform and you cannot he
ID realizing that their policy is the policy OF /
d fanny that their triumph would mean misery
le widespread that it is almost unthinkable and
lie disgrace so lasting that more than a generate
e. would have to pass before it could be wip
out. They stand for lawlessness and disord6
for dishonesty and dishonor, for license and d
n abroad. We ask the support of all America
nc who have the welfare Of the country at heal
re no matter what their political affiliations mi
le have been in the past. We ask the support
le all sound-headed men who do not wish to S
d. our material well.being swallowed up in t
re abyss of industrial panic We appeal to all go
ne men who believe in civic decency and shr
m from the faint Of financial dishonor and we a
IN peal to all brave men who are proud of t
IL national name and reputation and ask them
ir see to it that we not humiliated before ma
at kind, and that we do not abandon the positi
I'd we have taken in the forefront Of the great I
lg tions of the eartn.
p. Governor Roosevelt concluded h
tn peroration at exactly $50 o'clock, whe
er the audience arose en- masse and the
e, voices shook the air for about fl,
IN minutes. A carriage was waiting
ne the door. The governor entered
~ once, was driven to the station ar
,l at 11.25 he was flying eastward on h
nd journey home, with the fixed purpo
he Of making no speeches en- route.
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