The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-06
c. K. DAVIS.

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SENATOR c. K. DAVIS.
either in themselves or in their just con-
sequences, and their a%brogation is demand
ed by the declaration of democratic princi-
Piles made at Kansas City.
This declaration does not denounce the
administration of President Mckinley for
its failures, it condemns it for its achieve
ments. 1t declares them to be destructive
of true prosperity and subversiye of our
institutions 1t demands that the gold
STANDARD shall be abolished and that pro-
lection to American industries shall cease.
For the first time the sovereignty of the
United States over territory held by an
unquestionable title is to be abandoned and
the flag lowered and that, too, in capitula-
ton to a fragrant instruction against its
authority. All this, and more than this,
is demanded by the democratic party as
a reason for its investiture with power and
is promised to the American people in case
power is given to do it. Such demands,
such promises, such threats, such conse-
quences will receive the most considerate
condemnation of the people. III.
mo democratic platform, no democratic
speaker expresses any satisfaction with
our trtumphS In war, or with the abound
ing prosperity of our people, or with our
International ~ascendency. How can they
rejoice in a prosperity which ~falsiies every
prediction they made four years ago, and
the approval of which now would refute
every claim that they can possibly make
for their political restoration?
1.-THE present administrator has kept the
faith in which the American people in
vested it with power, has performed every
act to which it was pledged, and has full
filled every expectation which has arisen
from sudden events which were foreseen
four years ago.
THE democratic party was silent re-
specting our relations with China, because
to declare opinions upon that subject which
the American people would not receive with
contempt and spurn with disgust would
cause the broom-stick ghost of imperial
ism ard militarism to vanish in an In
slant; so to speak would annihilate those
paramount issues because it would admit
that even the blind, when told, can. per
ceive, even if they cannot see it, that the
status, the occupation and the sovereignty
of the United States in the Philippines are
at this moment and in his great crisis
of civilization commanding and absolutely
indispensable. They vindicate the wisdom
of holding those possessions, unless the
United States is to recede to the shores
of the American continent, become her
self a little China, cancel herself as a factor
in the great civilizing and commercial
change in the Asiatic orient, an event fully
DIS important as the discovery OIL America
by Columbus. uL
There are few events in our diplomatic
and military history more honorable than
the consummate skill, the wise consery-
atism and the unfiinching courage by which
the administration of President Mckinley
relieved our legation and at the same time
maintained proper relations with the Chi
nese empire. 90
1.-THE policy of the United States as to
China should, in my opinion, be this: 1t
must rescue it's citizens. 1t must xac in
demnity for all injuries to their person or
property. 1t will insist that China shall
Observe all treaty stipulations and that,
under any and all conditions of sovereign
ty, cession or foreign ~ascendency, the
open door shall remain open. We shall use
no military force for conquest, and have
no concert with any European power, ex-
cept to rescue our citizens and theirs.
I'VE covet no Chinese territory, and we
will acquire none. We desire no territorial
sphere of influence. We will give no ap-
proval or support, physical, moral or
sentimental, to the dismemberment of
China, or-to the extinction Of her sovereign
ty by the acquisition of spheres of influ-
ence by any European power.
II look for a regeneration of China as
the result of the. commissions she is now
suffering. 1t will come to pass not by the
partition of that mighty and immemorial
empire, but by it's full entry into com
mercial relations with the other nations of
the world. h process will not be a long
one. 1t has been going. on for so years,
and has become more perfect and extern
sive every year. When fully completed the
United States will be the greatest p%artici-
pant in that trade of the Pacific which
Humboldt predicted more than rs years ago
would be the greatest m that a
n sea have ever known. We need cross
but one ocean to grasp the wealth of
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four seas to share it. We can produce
everything which that Unsuitable market
can absorb. just as now we are produc-
ing and exporting our fabrics, textile,
metallic and miscellaneous to every market
in the world, as the direct result of re-
during our civil war n steadily persisted
in by that party ever since.
This is manifest destiny; it is written
by an suspicious astrology upon the sky
Of a visible future. Ii will give liz, 900, 900
people to our states of the Pacific coast;
it will open a career to the talents of an
aspiring youth and in every way carry the
United States far along on that course of
national grandeur for which I believe it
was ordained.
Imperialism is not the paramount issue
of the campaign and cannot be made so.
The adjustment Of my question as to the
Philippines is to be considered after re-
DelliOu against II SOVEREIGNTY dAu oo
thority of the United States has been put
down. The paramount issues this year are
financial and economic. Shall the anti
protection party of 16 to 1 be put in power
to advance its principles by the enormous
powers of executive influence in. case Mr..
Bryan is elected, and win the first en-
yssement in a campaign the next battle of
which will be for the control Of both houses
of congress?
The question for the plain people is. do
they wish, with the instructions of a bit
ter experience fresh and deep in their MEM
cries, to change or submit to the change
Of that Astounding prosperity which came
with the election of President Mckinley
q prosperity which no democratic platform