The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-28

sN,srs we're asa,tsN people who then wrote
IN ,yaSSs ~ Algerian Independence Just ex-
\ sssls, "a sAes~ are foolish people now who
I talk sRsAs .AkaSs,as,ssaa Independence. BUT
s.N4aex gaSg,e> .Nc ht<t FOR many centuries,
Z AAnee 10 kSssegS Through the French con-
\ asreSs. A. Il viii come to the philippines
sNrsNsN ear refusal 20 abandon the IS
tsn.AS 50 AsssSSta has advanced over
4 rNsskeSsas ard brought peace In her tram
- h Is = sS,,,A thing Tor Germany 10 De-
Gin 4, p,AN her part abroad, and the pa
sssAytc MAY In which the German people
NAVV aphc,d the German policy OF puiiu-
iSg navy and seeing that Germany
ei,lscns are protected and Germany trace
rights throughout the world guaranteed,
,f,rs an excellent lesson to us here The
exhaustion NJ n civilized people means not
war bur peace Until we had expanded
over this country the border warfare be-
tween the white man and the req ana
among the different tribes OF RED men
was unceasing, but now that we nave
expanded. peace has come exactly as
neace has been brought TO Aleiers. to
Turkestan and the Soudan by the great
peoples Of Europe. Every such instance
Of expansion has been of immeasurable
benefit to all mankind. and more and more
the civilized peoples are beginning TO real
ize that they can work hand In hand with
one another. See what Is happening In
China to-day. Read the notes issued by
Won Buelow speaking for Germany ana
John Hay speaking for ourselves and see
how absolutely alike are the policies there
In outlined We are taking the only course
consistent with our national self-fnterest
and our national self-respect and above
all with the good OF mankind at large
''The best of all things Is where new
nation can be brought into the circle OF
civilization as Japan has been brought, and
where such is the case America will ever
be foremost to greet the new civilized
power and to work with her as we work
with Japan. But to refrain from doing
our duty In the world would be merely
ultimately 70 invite the fate of China. The
Chinese policy has always consistently
been against expansion and she offers to-
day the best example Of the fruits of such
4 policy when losically carried ont. Nom
inally her policy has been one of peace:
In reality II has simply been one which
invites aggression from without and in
cites her own people TO ferocious and hide
Dus barbarism. The so-called anti-expan-
sionist when logical. insists upon our
abandoning the Americans. missionaries
and lavmen alike. who are in China, to
their dreadful fate without an effort to
rescue them. and insists that America
shall take no legitimate step to secure for
our merchants. farmers and wageworkers
the benefit Of the open market.
Expansion means in the end not war
but peace. But like every other great
good 1t can normally be achieved only
bv effort at the outset. Woe to us IL we
shrink from such effort. Woe II we fail
to DO our duty because the first step seems
hard to the weaklings and the men of lit
lie heart If we are to retain the respect
~ mankind we must do no wrong and
must not endure wrong from others. We
must strive with earnest good faith to
secure the steady bettermert of the pop
y tsI1i NO "a n n1 rn
troll. We must show ourselves anxious TO
work in n shirt of frank and open friend
ship with other civilized nations. But we
must no more shrink from introducing or
lerlY liberty and n lust and stable gov
In the islands to which our new
duty has called MS than we shrank in the
past from the various kinds Of expansions
which carried us from Florida and New
Mexico to Alaska
This election Is more important than
my that this country has seen save only
the election of ca. and we have the right
to appeal to every man worthy to call
himself a good citizen. that he shall stand
by us I'm this contest for upright and hon
est legislation and administration az home,
md abroad for the upholding of the flag
and the great privilege of doing the worlds
work as beseems great world power.
Study the Kansas City platform and you
cannot help realizing that their policy Is
would mean misery so widespread that IL
: almost unthinkable and a disgrace so
asting that more than a generation would
nave to pass before II could be wiped out.
They stand for lawle ssness ard disorder.
'or dishonesty and dishonor. for license
and disaster at home and cowardly shrink
ng from duty abroad. We ask the sup
port Of all Americans who have the welfare
If the country at heart, no matter what
heir political affiliations may have been
N the past. We ask the support of all
men who do not wish TO see
,ur material well-being swallowed up in
he abyss of industrial panic. We appeal
o all good men who believe In civic de-
'ency and shrink from the faint of finan-
hal dishonor, and we appeal to all brave
men who are proud of the national name
and reputation. and ask them to see to
I that we are not Inundated before man
lind. and that we do not abandon the ro-
'ition we have taken in the forefront of the
great nations of the EARTH