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the orient. The Senator dwelt at length
upon the commercial advantage to be
gained by the retention of the islands,
which may be used as base in the grow
ing trade with China. Senator Beveridge
said:
The times call for candor. The Philip
pines are ours forever, territory belonging
to the United States" as the Constitution
are China's illimitable markets. We will
not retreat from either. We will not re-
pudiate our duty In the archipelago. We
will not abandon our opportunity In the
Orient. We will not renounce our part In
the mission of our race, trustee, under God,
OF the civilization of the world And we
will move forward to our work, not bowling
our regrets like slaves whipped to their bur
dens, but with gratitude for a task worthy
or our strength and thanksgiving to Al
mighty God that he has marked us as his
chosen people, henceforth to lead In the re-
generation of the world.
This island empire is the last land left In
all the oceans. II 1t should prove mistake
to abandon IL, the blunder once made would
be irretrievable. If 1t proves a mistake to
hold IL, the error can be corrected when we
Will; every other progressive nation stands
But to hold 1t will be no mistake. Our
largest trade henceforth must be with Asia
The Pacific Is our ocean. More and more
Europe will manufacture all II needs; secure
from its colonies the most 1t consumes
Where shall we turn for consumers of our
surplus? Geography answers the question
China Is our natural customer. She Is near
err to us than to England, Germany or Rus
sia, the commercial powers of the present
and the future. They have moved nearer to
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the door of all the East.
Lines of navigation from our ports to the
Orient and Australia, from the isthmian
Australia, converge at and separate from the
Philippines. They are self.suppcrting.
dividend.paying fleet, permanently anchored
at a spot selected by the strategy of Provi-
dence, commanding the Pacific. And the
Pacific Is the ocean Of the commerce of the
future. Most future wars will be conflicts
for commerce. The power that rules the
Pacific, therefore, is the power that rules
the world, and, with the Philippines, that
power is and will forever be the American
republic.
Two years ago there was no land In all
the world which we could occupy for any
purpose. Our commerce was daily turning
toward the Orient, and geography and trade
developments made necessary our CONNER
cia empire over the Pacific. And in that
ocean we bad no commercial, naval or mil
ltary base. To-day we have one of the three
great ocean possessions Of the globe, 10:
Gated at the most commanding commercial,
naval and military points In the eastern
seas, within hail Of India shoulder to shout
der with China, richer in its own resources
than any. equal body of land on the entire
globe and peopled by a race which civillza-
tlOH utHldUuS Suull De improved.
Shall we abandon IL? That man little
knows the common people of the republic,
little understands the instincts of our race
who thinks we will not hold 1t fast and hold
IL Cbrever, administering just government
by simplest methods. We may trick up de.
Vices to shift our burden and lessen our
opportunities: They will avail us nothing
but delay. We may tangle conditions by
applying academic arrangements of self-gov.
eminent to crude situation; their failure
VIII drive us to our duty In the end
Value of China's Trade.
After referring to the value of China's
trade, the resources and immense size of
the islands, the climate, the character of
the people and to Aguinaldo, Senator
Beveridge spoke of the military situation,
defending Gen. Otis. The campaign, he
said, had been as perfect as possible with
the force at hand.
We have been delayed first, by a failure
to comprehend the immensely of our acqui-
sition; second, by insufficient force; ana,
third, by our efforts for peace. lasting
peace can be assured only by overwhelming
forces In ceaseless action until universal
and absolutely final defeat Is inflicted ON
the enemy.
Our mistake has not been cruelty. II has
been Kindness; II has been the application
to Spanish Malays of methods appropriate to
New England Every device OF mercy every
method of Cancellation has been employed
by the peace-loving President of the Amer
vi
experienced In oriental revolt The friendl,
methods of peace have been thoroughly
tried, only to make peace more difficult
There is not now, and never was, any DOS
sible course but ceaseless operations In the
field and loyal support of the war at home
Had Aguinaldo not understood that in
America, even In the American Congress-
even here in the Senate, he and his cause
were supported, had he not known that IL
was proclaimed on the stump and in the
press OF a faction In the United States tina,
every shot his misguided followers fired into
the breasts OF American soldiers was like the
yolleys fired by Washlngton's men against
the soldiers OF King George, his insurrection
would have dissolved before 1t entirely
crystallizcd.
The Filipinos, Senator Beveridge said
are children utterly incapable of self gov
eminent; the English or Dutch systems
Of government were impossible and pro-
tectorate impracticable. He continued:
We must never forget that In dealing with
the Filipinos we deal with children. And
so our government must be simple and
OF those two words must be written In every
line of Philippine legislation; realized in
every act Of Philippine administration.
Our administration must be examples. You
cannot teach the Filipino by precept. All
object lesson is the only lesson he compre-
derby, equal, impartial government, under
equal laws justly administered, because he
has never seen such a government. He
must ne SHOWN the SIMPLEST results OF gOOu
government by actual example In order that
he may begin to understand Its most ele
mentary principles. There must be no prom
Use whatever OF the franchise until the peo-
pie have been prepared for IL.
Senator Beverage claimed that the ma
lions power to make rules and regula-
tions for the government of its posses
sions was not confined to any given set
of rules or regulations. 1t was not con-
fined to any particular formula of laws
of kind of government or type of admin
istration.
This question is deeper than any question
of party politics; deeper than any question
Of isolated policy Of our country even; deep
err even than any question of constitutional
power IL Is elemental. II Is racial. God
has not been preparing the English speaking
and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years
for nothing hut vain and idle self-contempla.
ton and self-adminlstration. No: he has
made us the master organizers OF the world
TO establish system where chaos reigns. He
has given us the spirit OF progress to over
whelm the forces OF reaction throughout the
earth. He has made us adopts In govern
ment that we may administer government,
among savage and senie peoples.
Were II not for such n force as this the
world would relapse into barbarian and