The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-25
RUSSIA Is WARNED.
Senator Lodges Startling Speech on
Chinese Question.

Boston Mass. June 25. = Senator
HessFSs Cabot Lodge a member of the
foreign relations committee of the
senate, made a remarkable speech at
the Saturday afternoon meeting of the
Essex club, held to ratify the nomina-
ton of Mckinley and Roosevelt. He
described the work of the past four
years, commented on the work of the
convention, declared that Roosevelt
vas a great civic executive and hero,
and made the following close. which
evoked tremendous applause:
We have put the tariff law on the
statute books: we have put the gold
standard law on the statute books;
we have fought the war with Spain; we
have made the peace with Spain; we
have given Hawaii government; we
have given Alaska a government; we
have given Porto Rico a government;
we are restoring order in the Philip
pines; we are guiding Cuba along the
path to independence and safe govern
fnSnt- Ihefe remains the question OF
Expansion I am not going to argue that
great question here this afternoon. 1
shall have occasion to say a great deal
about it to the people of Massachusetts,
1 suppose, before they vote in NOVem-
Der. But all eyes are fixed upon China.
1t looks as if the agony of that great
empire, so long predicted, had begun.
1t may be postponed; it may be put off;
but the great question of China is
had never seen Manila Bay. We had
for thirty years but one ship on the
China station. the old Monocacy, which
vas too weak to be taken across to
If it had not been for the war in
the Philippines our missionaries, our
traders, our consuls and our merchants
would be today unprotected in China,
or left in the protection of some other
naI2n- As it is, holding Manila, we are
the strongest naval power in the east
and can protect our own. We are no
longer to live ike a hermit crab, not
allowing our people to go into China
or India, or our missionaries to spread
religion. We are to protect them. We
are to take our share in the trade
and commerce of the mighty east. We
need the markets Of China, and say
Manila, which came to us providen-
war, is the great guarantee of American
safety in the east. And as to the Fill
ipinos. If the Republican party could be
trusted to free 1000 900 Slaves in
our own land, is it to be suspected of a
wish to make 100000 new slaves in
the Philippine Islands? Their welfare
is to us a sacred trust. We are to
guide them in the great problem of self
government
I'VE have China on the far western
shore of the Pacific. but we hold the
other side. The people who live on the
furthest shore Of the Pacific can not
! De a matter OF lHQlU6I6nC6 TO the mas
| ters of the western coast of North
America. Study the Chinese question.
It is the great question of the day. The
! events that are going on today in Chi
/ ma are big with future results. All
/ the great nations of the world are gath
cred there. One great nation is plan
/ ming to seize that empire and close it
/ to the rest Of the world. That, in ouI
/ own interest. and in the interests OF
/ humanity, and the interests of civil
| zation, too, we can not afford. I am
/ not afraid ever to see the United
/ States take her place in the struggle OF
the great world powers. where she be-
/ longs. I do not mean that we will have
| to NEEDLE in Europe. God forbid! But
t I do say that the other side of the
| Pacific is an American interest, and
I want to see the United States protect
| her own throughout the east. She car
/ do it. We are no weaklin@s. The
blood of youth is in our veins and we
shall triumph over these difficulties as
we have triumphed over greater ones
in the past No one has yet come be-
meath the flag except to bless it, anC
the people wherever it waves today, il
the far East, will bless it, too. even a:
we and our children" prolonged ap-
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