Morris tribune., 1900-07-21
enunoIareu y sA.e .preSsnsasiyes or .
political party
Recalls Lawtouss 9,attar.

PSAAsASesA POD
Recalls Lawtoass Letter.
would ask those who by their word
have encouraged the warfare of the Philin-
pines against us to recall the letter Of Gem
eral Lawton written just before his death
in which he pointed cut that the blood of
his soldiers reddened the hands Of the men
at home who encouraged our foes abroad
Some years ago when certain Eastern.
ers were claInoring in the name of hu.
manity against the army officers who
warred to protect the Western SETTLERS
from the Indians General Sheridan wrote /.
II do not know how far these humani-
tarians should be accused on account of
their ignorance, but surely it is the only
excuse that can give shadow of justifica.
tion for aiding and abetting such horrid
crimes" !"
The scheming politicians at Kansas
City have not even the excuse Of ianor-
ance when they incite the insurgents to
fresh warfare against our soldiers with
the base hope that thereby they NAV
further their owl political advancement
There are doubtless many worthy and
amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten
dencies, especially in the Northwest. who
oppose expansion now, as men like them
have always opposei expansion. In 1911
when Louisiana was on the point of being
admitted to the Union and the country be-
yoNd the Mississippi-the country now
carved into the great states from which so
many of my hearers come-wAs being gov
erned territorially, aprototype of the mod
ern anti-imperislists the Hon. Josiah
Quincy, addressed the house of represen-
tatives in language that with very slight
variation might be used by his successors
today.
Would Be in Place at Kansas City.
In speech that would be quite in place
at the Kansas City convention or in any
anti-expanslonist meeting of today, he
stated that his anxiety and distress
of mind were wholly unprecedented,
for with the admission of the trans
mississippi territory into the Union
the liberties and rights Of the whole peO-
pie of the United States were so much up
set as to justify revolution. He declared
that ii Louisiana was admitted into the
Union then the Union ought Immediately
to be dissolved. He denounced in un-
measured terms the territorial avidity"
OF the Americans Of the day. He asserted
that the constitution was never con-
structed Ito form covering for the In
habitants of the Missouri and the Red
River country" ahd finally, when his
prophetic vision brought before him tho
awful picture of senators and representa-
tlVes from west Of the Mississippi AFRO
gantly assuming right to take part in
the legislation Of the country, he asked
with fervor worthy of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist of today:
DO you suppose the people OF the
Northern Atlantic states will or ought to
look with patience and see senator's and
representatives from the Red River and
Missouri country pouring into congress,
managing the concerns Of seaboard
], 800 miles at least from their residence
and making preponderancy in councils
In which constitutionally they would
never have been admitted?" And he con-
tinued further to harrow the minds of his
hearers by stating that the expansionists
OF that day might even intend to estap-
Of the Columbia; and concluded by assert
Ing that "the extension Of the principle
Of expansion to states contemplated be-
Yond the Mississippi cannot, will not and
ought not to be borne"
Their Argument Is Absurd
Well, / am addressing at this moment |
,itizens from the very states, the possibil- |
ties of whose existence appeared so terri
Die to the excellent Mr.. Quincy. You
nave seen yourselves the fruit of expan-
ZION which he regarded as fraught with
such immeasurable disaster to the nation.
You yourselves represent the results of
oh foil q
lays Of Washington and Jefferson,
through those of Jackson down to the
lime when Seward purchased Alaska-the
Ireat American policy which has again
,een applied under President Mckinley
Absurd though the fears of mon like
quincy seem to us now they are no more
'bsurd than the real or pretended fears Of
'ur opponents will seem not a score of
ears hence. Picture to yourselves the
readful calamity that it would have been
lad our nation In 1911 listened to the
ounsels Of the shortsighted and weak
earted, if California, Texas and Florida
ad been left as Spanish communities
nd if all the magnifcent region from the
dississippi to the Pacific had been turned
yer to be quarreled for either by the local
ndian tribes or the European nations.
hardly less would be the calamity if we
urned our back upon our duty and with
raven and abject shrinking from re-
possibility abandon our part Of the
7orld' s work and incur the deserved con-
empt of humanity by deliberately refus-
lg to take our place among the great ma
ons of mankind. Remember that ex'
ansion does not bring war, it ultimately
rings peace. 1t is of advantage to ALL
specially to the people thereby lifted out
savagery
Expansion of Civilization Means Peace.
We should hail the advance of every
yilized nation over barbarous peoples, sc
ing as that advance is, not made in some !
,rm prejudicial to the rest of mankind.
wonder how many of this audience are
ware that up to 1880 the United States
aid tribute to Algiers to secure immu
ity for our sailors and our commerce
ON the Algerian corsairs2 The reason
g did not pay tribute after that date was
ecause in that year France began to ex-
and over Algiers War followed and {
,sted number of years, and there were
'olish people who then wrote in praise of
lgerian independence, just exactly as
lere are foolish people now who talk
bout Aguinaldian Independence. But
sting peace, the first for many centuries, Z