River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-10-11

then contemplate the magnitude of the
markets which those possessions command
in addition to their own markets,
The mercantile argument is mighty
with Americans in merely mercantile
times, and IL should be so. But the aFgu-
ment OF destiny Is the master argument
IN the hour of destiny, and ii should be so.
me American people never yet entered
on great movement for merely mercantile
reasons. Sentiment and duty have started
and controlled every noble current OF
hour destiny is the controlling considera-
ton IN the prophetic craftsmanship which
conditions require of the American people.
History establishes these propositions
First every people who have become
great have become colonizers or admins
Second. through the colonization and
administration their material and political
Third. their decline is coincident with
their abandonment of their policy OF pos
session and administration. or departure
from the true PRINCIPLES thereof
And a a corollary TO these propositions
truth
Every progressive nation Of Europe to-
day is seeking lands to COLOMBO and gov
ernments TO administer.
And can this common instinct of the
NEST progressive peoples Of the world-this
OF other natiOns-be baseless3
Denies Danger of MiIitarism.
The opposition. he continued, says all
this means a large army and a military
control. This the senator denied, saying:
THE greatest colonial power that the
world has ever seen, the empire of Great
Britain, has a smaller standing army in
times OF peace than any power of Europe
less than half as many as Germany. almost
two-thtrds less than the soldiers of France,
nearly one-third less than the soldiers
maintained by Austria. an absolutely nom
colonizin2 uower.
''Wnat IS 1t that establishes militarism in
Germany? On the west the immediate
proximity of France. her hereditary foe de-
termined on Germany's destruction. On
the east the immediate proximity Of Rus
! EfA he 49, .srr fras he he
| immediate proximity of an heterogeneous
empire. destined TO acknowledgment in the
that establishes miiftarism in France? The
| immediate proximity of Germany on the
east her hereditary foe. against whom she
has sworn national vendetta; the imme-
/ date proximity Of England on the north.
an enemy at whose hands centuries of de-
/ feat has loaded Frances blood with the
/ poison of hatred; the Immediate proximity
| Of Italy on the south. the third OF the anti
French dreibund These are the things
not colonization. not possessions, not ODE
| dtence TO the great natural law OF expan-
/ sion and growth.
| Predicts a Prosperous Future.
In conclusion the senator predicted a
/ happy and prosperous future for the Phil
/ ippines, saying:
stitution is the highest noblest and ulti-
/ mate expression; and so our constitution
4 can grow only where the simpler forms of
| our Institutions have already prepared the
4 way. Therefore, our constitution may fol-
| low the flag, but our institutions do follow
/ the flag. Our constitution did not create
our Institutions; our institutions created
/ our constitution
! Free institutions are as definite certain,
1 and concrete as our constitution itself.
| Free speech is an institution of liberty.
! Free schools are an institution of liberty.
| The freedom to worship God according
| to the dictates of conscience is an institu-
ton of liberty. Any American schoolboy
/ can catalogue free institutions. And as fast
as the simplest of these institutions pre-
pares these children Providence has given
into our keeping for higher grades just that
fast more complex forms Of our institu-
lions will follow.
And so the answer to the politicians
/ flag is this great truth of popular liberty.
| our institutions follow the flag.
our institutions not only follow the
meath its folds of glory Wherever an
American citizen goes, he carries the spirit
blood is shed to establish the sovereignty
of our flag, there are planted the imperish-
able seeds of the institutions of the ma
ton; and there those institutions flourish
| in proportion as the soil where they are
planted is prepared for them
Predicts American Mastery.
"Men-patriotic, brave and wise-have
sought to stay that tremendous purpose of
destiny but their opposition was the
finger of babe against the resistless pour
! Gods hand was in it all. His plans were
working out their glorious results. Ard
! just as futile is resistance to the contin-
uance to-day of the eternal movement of
the American people toward the mastery of
| the world. This is destiny neither vague
| nor undesirable. 1t is definite, splendid
| and holy When nations shall war no more
! without the consent of the American re-
| public; what American heart thrills not
| with pride at that prospect? And yet our
| interests are weaving themselves so rap
| idly around the world that that time is
| almost here. When governments stay the
! slaughter of human beings, because the
| American republic demands it; what Amer
| lean heart thrills not with pride at that
| prospect? And yet tonight there sits in
| Constantinople a sovereign who knows
| that that time is nearly here When the
commerce of the world on which the worlds
| peace hangs, travelling every ocean high
| way of EARTH shall pass beneath the guns
| of the great republic; what American heart
thrills not at that. prospect? Yet that
time will be here before the second admin
| istration of the last American president
of the ninenteenth century and the first
president of the twentieth century, viii
/ liam Mckinley. When any changing of the
map of earth requires conference of the
| powers, and when, at any congress of the
| nations, the American republic will pre-
side as the most powerful of powers and
most righteous of judges; what American
heart thrills not at that prospect? And
| vet, that prospect is at hand even as /
speak 1t is the high and holy destiny of
the American people, and from that des-
tiny the American bugles will never sound
retreat. Westward the star of empire
| ia Hay'i'