The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-26

opposition asks US TO establish. remain
stable II we withdraw our forces7 And IL
resistance broke out in the vfsayas, II re-
volt <prang into fame among the murder
Gus Moros, what would be our dutyE IL
would be TO re-enter where we had with
drawn and restore the stability OF the
government which the opposition declares
that we shall establish before we with
draw. And so the opposition programme
constantly defeats itself and compels us
TO do over and over again the work which
We must perform at the beginning Ana
all this without benefit to the Philippine
people. without improvement 10 their
lands and with immeasurable loss to our
selves, recouped not from a single source
OF profit. But the American flag hoating
there forever means not only established
liberty. but permanent stability.
Cuba. Puerto Rico and the Philippines
producing what we need and cannot so
well produce; we producing what they
need and cannot so well produce, consul
tute the very ideality Of reciprocal trade.
And with these possessions ours. that re-
ciprocal trade, established IN nature,
would be sealed to us forever by our con-
troll. II Spain exported s2s 600 OF her
products annually TO Cuba. we would
In a decade have been exporting $2eg.VU,-
coo of our products annually to Cuba
For under Spain people were rs.. o5-
and under us her people would have
been upifted and her resources oo de- neo
yeloped II Spain exported $500 81,
ippines, our exuorts. to that arch
ipelago in decade Will multiply
spaias ten-fold. For who denies that we
will do ten times more in developing phil
ippine resources than Spaniards? Already
our exports have In single year fncreas-
ed over 1900 per cent, in spite of war and
paralyzed commerce. Before annexation
our exports to Hawaii were less than So
100000 annually. today they are nearly
1900 900 annually. an increase OF over 10
per cent in less than three years Cuba
and Puerto Rico the commercial
stepping stones to South America; Ha-
wall and the Philippines are the stepping
stones 10 China and all the East. We
than from San Francisco because IL is
nearer--this IL self-evident; with South
America from Santiago easier than from
Boston; with Mexico from Havana easier
than from Baltimore We can trade with
China, Australia and Asia's unnumbered
millions easier from Manila than from
Portland. and we can trade through Man
ila from, San Francisco, Seattle. Tacoma,
Portland and the harbors OF the West
easier than from New Orleans. because II
IL nearer-this IL self-evident And II we
have Santiago, Havana. San Juan. Ha-
wall, Manila, Appari Iloilo and Cuba, we
Will have trading points with those re-
gions to which even now our increasing
production is driving us
Non-European Markets Necessary.
Today our trade in manufactured arti-
cles. as well as In the products OF the
farm, IL chiefly with Europe. Our agri-
cultural trade will always continue to
dominate Old World markets. although
IL will not absorb all our surplus. But
our manufactured trade with them Is
nearly at its zenith. Why? England is
making more than she can consume. and
seeking foreign markets for her surplus.
France u making more than she can con-
sumo, and seeking foreign markets for
her surplus. Germany is making more
than she can consume. and seeking for
eign markets for her surplus. Russia
alone for decades will be necessarily de-
tAd tn al 1AUa nnf
too, are manufacturing more than we can
consume. and more than we sell to Eu-
rope. We are raising more than we can
consume. and soon more than we can sell
to Europe. and we. too must secure new
foreign markets for our surplus. We can
not go to Europe for market for much
more than we now sell there. for that
market will soon be glutted. Where shall
we turn? Ask. rather, whore have events
turned us? To India. with her 900
consumers. to which the Philippines give
us almost equal access with England her
self to China, with her 400. 000 000 consum-
ers. to which the Philippines give us
quicker access than even Japan; 10 South
America. 10 which Cuba and Puerto Rico
give us easier access than any nation in
the world. to Australia and all oceania
TO which again the Philippines give us
easier access than England herself.
Arguments of Destiny.
The mercantile argument Is mighty
with Americans In merely mercantile
times and IL should be so; but the ar
gument OF destiny Is the master argu-
ment In the hour of destiny, and It should
be 40. The American people never yet
entered on n great movement for mere
ly mercantile reasons. Sentiment and
duty have started and controlled every
noble current Of American history. And
at this historic hour. destiny is the con-
trolling consideration In the prophetic
craftsmanship which conditions require
Of the American people.
II Is destiny that the world shall be res
a
savage men. Civilization il no less an
evolution than the changing forms OF ami
NAL and vegetable life. Surely and stead
lily the reign Of law. which is the very
spirit OF liberty, takes the place Of arb-
trary caprice. Surely and steadily the
methods OF social order are bringing the
whole earth under their subsection. And
TO deny that this II right IN to deny that
civilization should increase In this great
work the American people must have
their part. They are fitted for their work
as no people have ever been fitted. and
their work lies before them.
IL the opposition say that they grant
this. but that the higher considerations
OF abstract human rights demand that
the Philippines shall have such u gov
eminent as they wish, regardless OF the
rcst Of the world, I answer that such an
argument would have excluded the PHI
grims from Plymouth rock and the Cava-
Tiers from jamestown. Such PROPOSE
tion would have established forever the
savage sovereignty of Zulu and Matabeie
in Africa's fertile veldts. and the reign
81 the cannibal in New Zealand and Aus
tralia. The desire 81 the Filiplnos Is not
the only factor In determining their gov
eminent, just as the desire OF no indi-
Vidual man determines his conduct II
Il written IN tho moral law OF tndiyid-
uala that mo man uVeth TO himself
alone" and q IL no less written IN the
moral law ot peoples that No people
liveth 90 itself alone The world q In
,crested IN the Philippines. and has
right 20 be The world Il interested In
India and has a right 20 be Civilization
Is Interested In China and its govern
mrnt and that II the du,y % civilization
You cannot take the Philippines out 81
the operation 81 those forces which aro
binding all mankind into ono vast and
united Intelligence When Circumstance
has raised her iiRg above them we dare
not turn these misguided children over 10
destruction by themselves or spoliation
| hv athers and then make answer whom
the Cod 81 nations requires them ~ our
| hands Am I NV brothers Keeper
We are az last q great national unit
| ready 90 carry cpt that universal law ef
civilization which requires Of every neo.