The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-25
EXPANSION in COMMERCE
1T GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE
GROWTH In TERRITORY,
Lieut.. Gov. WOodruff's Speech to the
an Speaks mt Nashville.

CHICAGO, Feb. A-At the Marquette
Club this evening a dinner was given to
the Republican candidates for the Illinois
gubernatorial nomination and to Lieuten-
ant Governor Woodruff, of New York. Only
two of the gubernatorial candidates. Judge
Orrin Carter and Judge Elbridge Hanecy
were present, and they, with Lieutenant
Governor Woodruff. comprised the list of
speakers. President Noyes, of the club
made short address in introducing each
Of the speakers. The speeches of Judges
Carter and Hanecy related mostly to po-
litical matters in Illinois. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Woodruff spoke on Commercial Ex-
pansion." After referring to the Demo-
cratic opposition to expansion he said:
American commercial and territorial ex-
pansion have advanced together hand in
hand. AS our pioneers have opened up new
territory and established a stable form of
government, our merchants have secured
enormous profit derived from its develop
ment. Territorial expansion has been alb
solutely necessary to the full fruition Of
our advanced industrial condition, condi-
ton largely due to the American system of
protection. This system has placed our
normally agricultural country ahead Of all
other nations in inventive and mechanical
genius, and thus we have been able to
compete successfully with our manufac-
tured products in all the markets or the
world. If the present rate of profit is to be
maintained it must come from the devel-
opment of more new territory and the
opening up of new lines of trade.
ITO obtain our share of the commercial
benefits to be derived from the rapid de-
velOpment of the nations of the Orient,
n trd Of hn
ulation of the globe, we as nation must
take an active part In the affairs OF ma
tions, and cheerfully assume whatever
burdens responsibilities are insepara-
BILE from the effort to secure that trade.
We will not only be the recipients of great
benefits ourselves, but the people with
whom we deal will also be beneficiaries.
There are immense aggregauons OF popu-
lation that contribute little or nothing 10
the satisfaction of human wants, ana the
man or nation that renders these unculti-
waited portions of the earth productive,
and brings to bear upon their fnhabitants
the civilizing influences OF the nineteenth
century, contributes TO the uplifting Oh
the whole human race.
IF YOU want instead OF commercial ex-
pansion, commercial contraction. just let
the door of China be slammed In your
faces. Have you ever seen the shoe of
Chinese lady? 1t is the final mode into
which after a diabolic process OF contrac-
ton is thrust a member Of the body that
God meant should develop into symmetri-
cal proportions with the rest of the human
form divine. Contrast that foot with the
expansive foot of the Yankee pioneer that
carries him with swinging stride across
his country's new domains. Washington
wore a number thirteen boot! Washing
ton was an ''expansionist." The Chinese
shoe is a symbol of commercial contrac-
ton 1t shrivels the understandings.
Our anti-expansionists would have to ex-
pand their Understanding" to use even
Chinese shoes. If you prefer commercial
contraction let England, France Germany
and Russia partition the Celestial empire
among themselves, thus effectually pre-
venting you from securing your share or
the immense commerce that is there to be
developed in the next few years; leave the
trans-isthmian canal for France or Eng
land or Germany to build and control; per-
NIT Japan to lay and operate the PACING
cables; turn over the Philippines, Hawai-
and Samoa to Germany or England; give
back Porto Rico to Spain: beg some ma
ton or other to relieve us from our re-
sponsibilities in Cuba; retreat completely
from our new position as the paramount
mower of the Pacific; abdicate as the ar
bitter and guardian of the destinies or the
western hemisphere: and snail-nke, crawl
back into our shell, content TO leave 10
less timid hands the sturdy hewing or the
worlds destiny in the twentieth century