Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1900-03-09
Cant. Mansur an EzpansiOnist.


for Office or who works for a friend
that is candidate, INDUCES similar
wish, hoping therein to find objec-
stionable features that can be used to
the detriment of the enemy.
Capt w H. Mansur of Chillicothe,
who tdge Rucker's opponent for
con- ess has never written a book
that know OF, but he did write a
lette p6t only so, but had it pub
lishe "a the Chillicothe Constitution,
bearing date of January 70, 1899,
concerning the retention of the Philip
pine ISLANDS by the United States. A
COPY of this letter is in our posses
slon+ and in order that Capt. ManSur
may not be misrepresented and the
Democrats of the district may know
his position on the vexed question,
we shis week publish the letter in full
asfoIows;
sIregard the Philippines and vi
cinitY as the greatest theater of i'm
portant events on TIE globe. The cry
of Cairo to Cape Town, the Siberian
railroad project, the critical condition
of affairs In China in reference to
closed doors or open doors, the jeal-
eusy and epulation between the great
forceful Christian nations 'of the
world, are all centered and clustered
about great coming events in that
locality.
"Taaethere ma y, be danger is pos
sibly fact. The world rolls over
every 4S hours; everything moves;
our responsibilities are not to be
ignored or evaded. England, Ger
many and the United States are the
three great, Protestant forceful ma
tions of the earth. Believing that our
form of government Is the best on the
globe, and the fortunes of war have
left Philippines on our hands, We
are uhoer an moral Obligations to
give them the benefit of our benefi-
cent advantages and blessings of gov
ernment. That they are to be an
cement of weakness in finance or in
war is possibly a debatable question,
but lean to the side that they will
be an element of strength on both
propositions.
"When the doors of China are
opened and those wonderful railways
are opened up, the Yellow sea will be
the center of more business and traffic
than anything on the Pacific coast.
With Americans in the Philippines,
with organized capital, bankers, brok-
ers, commission merchants, specula-
tors, merchants and all classes of COM
merce represented, we would be fa-
vorably situated to receive the pro-
ducts of the Ohio, Mississippi and
Missouri river valleys through the
Panama canal, and by catching the
stream OF commerce that would come
out of the Yellow sea and exchanging
our products for theirs, II is the great
est field on the globe to-day. We owe
it to our tramps, unemployed labor,
to the betterment of our producers,
to agriculture and all our business in
terests at home and abroad to stand
by and make the most of this issue.
The Monroe doctrine has posi-
bly, given mortal offense to the mon
forms of government, and 1t
seems If we are strong enough we
will enforce it, and if we do not avail
ourselves of growth, when other
forceful nations are growing, dire
may result tc US. So l am
for the retention of the Philippines
that we may be in line on questions
of progress, growth, expansion of
commerce and questions of phiIan-
.hropy and good government and our
duty to the great God who rules the
universe.
If the Democratic party in 1900
inserts plank in its national platform
favorable to expansion the disaffec-
ion in the Republican ranks will give
is the victory, for New England in the
interest of the Pacifc railrnads will