Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-19


erysta lllxe into, one party. and against
thsh. PARTY the el9ments. that destroy
tilat rate ana retreat. cryitallixe Into
aMdtliera party No matter What names
these parties may bear. this ID the ma.
ture and purpose OF each construction
on the one hand, destruction on the
other hand
And thiesis the first natural develop
ment that determinessthe line of cleav-
age which is separating the American,
people into two parties for the present
and for, the future.
The second natural development, per-
haps, grows out OF this. When a people
reach its young manhood. as the Ameri-s
can people has reached its young man
hood they naturally look beyond their
Boundaries for opportunities for their
energy and enterprise. The world. be-
comes their field. They must look be-
You'd the boundaries. because they begin
to produce more than they can consume;
because they become conscious OF q de-
veloped strength which the work OF mere
internal development does not satisfy;
because. by the very law Of being. they
are no longer content to live to them
selves alone; because they hear
1.-THE voices OF the sea calling
to them: because visions of 9TH
| er lands rise before them; because an.
lexpulsive energy sends them outward to
the ends Of the earth. 1t is a law of ma
lture, whose compelling influence every
lnation that has written on history's
pages a record of achievement has felt
and obeyed. And in obeying this nat
ural law of national development every
people have achieved their greatest
glory and accomplished their greatest
duty In advancing the common civiliza-
ton Of mankind.
But there are, and always have been,
and always will be, those who resist
obedience to this great law of national
advance, and, therefore, of lnternation-
| al communication and civilization. In
England there is what is called Little
/ England who has opposed England's
lpolicy Of colonial and commercial adj
vance. In Germany there has been and
still is the party Of Little GERMANY
which resists that great development OF
the German people which has made
tGermany's advance all around the world
lin the last ten years the wonder and en-
Wy OF Germany's rivals. In Russia there
has been for 200 years the party of Lit
| tie Russia'-the party that has resisted
the expansion of the empire OF the car.
4 They objected to the securing of Siberia.
and actually checked for nearly 100
years Russia 9 expansion over that great
Idominion which all men of all nations
NOW perceive will soon be Russia s
4 greatest source of strength And Just 80
lin America, there has been and will all
ways be, the party OF Little America
who has resisted, now resists, and all
ways will resist the progress of his
Ecountry because he lacks faith in the
American people, and doubts after all,
1.-THE strength OF our free institutions.
And now and for all the future the
republican party is to be the party of
construction and advance, and the par
Ity of anintelligent, Systematic and defi-
mite foreign policy, instead of a hap
hazard, retreating and pointless foreign
Epolicv: the party that, at home, fosters
land directs the energies that produce
and then finds abroad an outlet for
those products: the party that sees in
| the American flag something more than
1 an apologetic emblem. and that beholds
I'm that banner the ensign of the people
/ whom Providence has appointed to lead
the world until our work Is done. The
democratic party s now. and forever
will be. the party Of reaction against the
progressive tendencies of the republican
party; the party that, resists construc-
ltive methods at home and the party
that sounds retreat at every suggestion
4 of an advancing and definite American
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