Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-01-11
BEvERlDGE TALKS !.
ON The PHILIPPINES
United States Has Divine Com
mission to Establish Order
Where Chaos Reigns.
WILL BE EQUAL TO THE TRUST
Strong and Simple Governmental
System What Is Needed in the
Natives Inca-
pable of Self-Rule.

Washington, Jan. 10-The feature in
the senate today was the speech OF
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, who adj
dressed the senate on his resolution
declaring the Philippines American
territory and that the United States
proposes to retain possession of them.
He was greeted by Il brilliant audi
tence, every gallery being crowded, and
was given close attention throughout.
Senator Beveridge said, in part:
The times call for candor. The
Philippines are ours forever, territory
belonging to the United States as the
constitution calls them. And just be-
yond the Philippines are Chinas illim-
liable markets. We win not retreat
from either. We will not repudiate
our duty in the archipelago. We will
not abandon our opportunity in the
orient. We will not renounce our
part in the mission of our race. trus-
tee, under God, OF the civilization of
the world. And we will move forward
to our work, not bowling cur regrets,
like slaves whipped to their burdens,
but with gratitude for Il task worthy
of our strength, and thanksgiving to
Almighty God that he has marked us
as his chosen people, henceforth to
lead in the regeneration of the world.
This island empire is the last land
left i'm all the oceans. If 1T should
prove a mistake to abandon it, the
blunder once made would be irretriev-
able. Ii it proves a mistake to hold
it, the error can be corrected when we
will. Every other progressive nation
stands ready to relieve us.
Will BE No Mistake.
"Rut to hold it will be no mistake.
Our largest trade henceforth must be
with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean.
More and more Europe will manufac-
ture all it needs-sccure from its coll
onies the most it consumes. Where
shall we turn for consumers of our
surplus? Geography answers the
question. China is our natural GUS
toner. She is nearer to lis than to
England, Germany or Russia, the
commercial powers OF the present and
the future. They have moved nearer
to China by securing permanent bases
on her borders. The Philippines give
us IL base at the door of all the east.
Lines of navigation from our ports
to the orient and Australia; from the
Isthmian canal TO Asia; from all
oriental points to Australia converge
and separate from the Philippines.
They are a self-supporting, dividend
paving feet, permanently anchored at
a spot selected by the strategy of
providence, commanding the Pacific.
And the Pacific is the ocean of the
commerce of the future. Most future
wars will be conflicts for commerce.
The power that rules the Pacific
therefore is the power that rules the
world, and, with the Philippines, that
power is and will forever be the Amer
lean republic.
Two years ago there was no land
in all the world which we could oc-
| cupy for any purpose. Our commerce
was daily turning toward the orient,
and geography and trade develop
ments made necessary our CONNER
cial empire oyer the Pacific. And in
that ocean we had no commercial,
naval OF military base. Today we have
one of the three great ocean posses
sions of the globe, located at the most
| commanding commercial, naval and
| military points i'm the eastern seas,
within hail of India, shoulder to
| shoulder with China, richer in its OWN
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Agulnaldo, senator BeVerldge SPOKE
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