The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-07-25
AT Kansas City the men engagsd


ing can appreciate the fatuousness
Of that statement by the simple pro
cess Of thinking whether your liber-
ties have been Abridged by the return
Of the Minnesota and Dakota troops
who won such honor for themselves
in the PHILIPPINES. There are geo
metrical propositions so essentially
absurd that mathematicians held
their statement to be equivalent to
their refutation. So it is with this
proposition. Ii it were worth while
[ would point out it's dishonesty and
insipcerity. But, fragrant though
these are, its absurity is so much
more fragrant that nothing need be
said.
"There are doubtless many worthy
and amiable gentlemen of humanit-
arian tendencies, especially in the
northeast, who oppose expansion
now. as men like them have always
opposed expansion. In 1911 wnen
Louisiana was on the point of being
admitted to the union, and the
country beyond the Mississippi-the
country now carved into great
states from which SO many of my
hearers come-was being governed
territorially, prototy pc of the
modern anti-imperialistic, the Hoo.
Josiah Quincy addressed the house
of representatives in language that,
with very slight variation, might
be used by bis successors today. In
a speech that would be quite in
place at the Kansas City conven-
ton, or any anti-expansiopist meet
ing of today, he stated that his
anxiety and distr, SIS of mind were
wholly unprecedented, for with the
admission Of the trans Mississippi
territory into the Union, the lib
critics and the rights of the whole
people of the United States were
SO completed upset as to justify a
revolution. He declared that if
Louisiana was admitted into tie
Union, then the Union ought i'm
mediately to be dissolved. He de-
nounced in unmeasured terms the
territorial avidity Of the Ameri-
cans Of the day. He asserted that
the constitution was never con-
structed to form q cover for the in
habitants of the Missouri and Red
River country, and finally, when
his prophetic vision brought before
him the awful picture of senators.
and representative from west of
the Mississippi arrogantly assum-
ing to take part in the legislation
of the country, he asked with a
fervor worthy Of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist of today:
DO you suppose that the people Of
the Northern Atlantic states will or
ought to look with patience and see
Representatives and senators from
the Red River and Missouri country
pouring into congress, managing
the concerns Of a seaboard fifteen
hundred miles at least from their
residence, and having a prepon-
derence in councils in which con
stitutionallY they would never have
been admitte. d
And he continued further to
harrow the minds Of his hearers by
stating that the expansionists OF
that day might even intend to es-
tablish states in California and at
the mouth Of the Columbia, and con-
cluded by asserting that the 'ex-
tension of the principle (of expan-
sion) to states contemplated beyond
the mississippi cannot, will not and
ought not to be born"
''Well, | am addressing at this
moment citizens from the very
states the possibilities of whose ex-
istence appeared SO terrible to the
excellent Mr.. Quincy. You your