Evening star., 1900-09-26
OUT FOR EXPANSION
Senator Beveridge Sounds Clarion
Note at Chicago.
AMERICA TO RULE The WORLD
Sorry We Did Not Get Cuba
With Porto Rico.
WILL HAVE IT IN TIM E

United States Senator Albert ]. Bever-
idge of Indiana was the principal orator
at republican mass meeting held in the
| Auditorium in Chicago last night. The
meeting was under the auspices of the Mar
quette Club. Senator Beverdge said in
part:
| Westward the star Of empire takes its
way'-not the star Of kingly power, for
kingdoms are everywhere dissolving in the
| increasing rights of men; not the star of
autocratic oppression, for civilization is
Frightening and the liberties of the people
are broadening under every flag that floats
but the star of empire, as Washington
| used the word when he called this republic
| an empire; Jefferson understood it
| when he declared our form Of government
| ideal for extending our EMPIRE as Mar
| shall understood it when he closed a noble
period of an immortal constitutional opin-
| ION by naming the domain of the American
people our empire This is the empire
| of which the prophetic voice declared
| Westward the star Of empire takes its
| way'-the star of the empire of liberty and
| law, of commerce and communication, of
| social order and the Gospel of our Lord
| the star of the empire of the civilization of
| the world.
I'm that path the American government
| Is marching forward, opposed at every step
|
| lie to plant the institutions Of the flag
| where events have planted that flag Itself.
| For this Is our purpose, to perform which
| the opposition to the government declares
| that the republic has warrant in the
Constitution, in morals or in the rights Of
man. And l mean to examine tonight
every argument they advance for their pol
| Icy of reaction and retreat.
| Cites the Case of the Indians.
at is not true, as the opposition asserts,
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| without instruction and guidance. If so
| the Indians were capable Of self-govern-
ment. Our America-or is America ours?-
belonged to them whether they were or
were not capable OF self-government. If
! they were capable Of self-government it
| was not only wrong, but it was crime
| to set up our Independent government on
| their land without their consent.
If this is true the Puritans, instead of
| being noble, are despicable characters, and
| the patriots of 1776, to which the opposition
compares the Fflipinos, were only swarm
OF land pirates rebelling against their cap
tain. If the opposition is right the Zulus
| who owned the Transvaal were capable of
self-government, and the Beers who
PEELED them according to the opposition,
deserve the adherence of righteous men.
But while the Beers took the lands they
occupy from the natives who peopled them,
while we peopled this country in spite of
the Indians who owned it, and while this
| may be justified by the welfare of the
world which those events advanced, that
is not what Is to be done In the Philippines.
The American government as a govern
ment will not appropriate the Fflipinos
land permit Americans as individuals to
seize it. 1t will protect the Fiipinos in
Its possessions. If any American secures
real estate in the Philippines it will be be-
cause he buys it from the owner. Under
American administration the Filipino who
owns his little plot of ground will expe-
rience a security in the possession of his
property which he has never known be-
fore.
"The English in Egypt and India have
not taken the land from its ownersi they
have confirmed the occupants in their
ownership. In Hawaii We have not taken
the land from its owners; we have secured
its owners in their peaceable possession.
And our administration in the Philippines
will also establish there that same security
OF property and life which the very
beginnings of civilization itself.
Admfres EnEland's Empire.
IF 1t be said that tropical countries can
not be peopled by the Caucasian race. l
answer that, even II true (Which Is not yet
proved, 1t Is no reason why they should
not be governed by the Caucasian race. In
dia is a tropical country. India is ruled
by Great Britain to the advantage Of In
dia and England alike. Who denies that
India's 300. 600. 900 are better off under En-
glish administration than under the bestial
tyranny of native rulers to whom the
agony OIL Clelr SuDJeCl6 was tQelF nlRneSt
form of amusement? II you think of pres
ent famine when / mention India I remind
you that famine was formerly 50 frequent
as to be familiar condition, and not the
hdeous exception whose rarity now ex-
cites the pity of the world; and that with
| famine walked the pestilence now nearly
unknown.
Grant. for the purposes of argument, the
oppositions premise that the white man
cannot people the Philippines. Grant also
that the Malays Of those islands cannot,
unaided establish civilization there build
| roads open mines. erect schools, maintain
| social order, repress piracy and administer
| safe government throughout the archipela-
| go. And this must be granted; for they
| are the same race which inhabit the Malay
peninsula.
| What, then, is the conclusion demanded
| by the general welfare of the world?
| Surely not that this land. rich in all that
civilized man requires, and these people
| needing the very blessings they ignorantly
repel, should be remanded to savagery and
| the Wilderness! If you say this you say
| that barbarism and undeveloped resources
| are better than civilization and the earth's
| resources developed. What Is the conclu-
| sion, then, which the logic of civilization
| compels from these admitted premises? 1t
| is that the reign of law must be estab-
lished throughout these islands, their re-
sources developed and their people civil
| ized by those in whose blood resides the
genius of administration.
Would Annex Cuba.
eff the opposition declares that we ought
| to set up a separate government over the
Philippines because we are setting up a
| separate government over Cuba, 1 answer
| that such an error In Cuba does not justify
| the same error in the Philippines. l am
| speaking for myself alone. but speaking
| thus 1 say that for the good of Cuba more
even than for the good Of the United States
| a separate government over Cuba uncon-
| trolled by the American republic, never
| should have been promised.
Cuba Is q mere extension Of our Atlantic
| coast line. 1t commands the ocean en-
| frances to the Mississippi and the isthmian
| canal Jeffersons dearest dream was that
| Cuba should belong to the United States
| To possess this extension Of American soil
| has been the wish of every far-seeing
statesman from Jefferson to Blaine. An
nexation to the greatest nation the world
| has ever seen would have been a prouder
Cuban destiny than separate nationality
when we withdraw our restraint reyo-