New-York tribune., 1900-10-20
EXPANSION rs DESTINY
THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT FIGHTING GOD
AND NATURE, SAYS BISHOP FOWLER.

Chicago Oct 1e.-This evening Bishop Fowler. Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Buffalo, spoke
TO a great assemblage in the Auditorium un6nr the
auspices of the Marquette Club on Lincoln and
Mckinley" He held the close attention OF his hear
for two hours. At times the applause was
! tremendous. Bishop Fowler said:
here talk under the ausPiGeS Of the 1dan MaE
and Mckinley. In coupling these names mes In ,ns TINS
knowledge to faith, from that Which we, know to
that which We believe All men nonor @ ror Llr0n 'O
He gave brief summary of commercial condi-
tions existing in the United States in 1895 Forty
per cent of the railroads in the hands OF re-
ceiyers onequarter OF twenty million laporlns men
were idle and one-tenth Of twenty million more
were working on reduced time or wages our annual
exports had diminished s20ooo0ooO our bank de-
posits had been reduced to 1970o0,O0o; business
failures had increased from 10000 under President
Harrison to IS 900 under Cleveland Farm products
were not worth raising and farmers could not pay
interest on their mortgages; merchants were hep-
less factories were closed. furnaces were cold and
mines were shut down. This had been brought
about by competition with foreign cheap labor by
free trade,
Continuing Bishop Fowler said that IN 1896 Bryan
prophesed that Republican SUCCESS would mean
four years more of such conditions. and he out
lined existing commercial conditions TO show that
these predictions had tailed.
Taking I'D the subject Of expansion he said In
parts
As a believer in American history, 1 am an eN-
pansionist. II Republican doctrine ana DeuIo-
cratic practice Expan ansion is the law or saxon he
When man accepted individual account ntaolity ol-
reotiy to God without the intervention of any man
then God gave him self-reliance and sent MN
about the Job of subduing and saving the world,
and he is out and It. The effort to sweep PACK PACK
the tide of the ocean is more certain to win than
the men who stake their success hGhtns eXpsn-
sion, for they lghting not merely Mc9iM5ey onns
but they are also lighting the resistless forge run
ming through all of nature-the force OF Eatu-
raj selection-and they are also lighting coos
eternal purpose to elevate the races Expansion
Is in our blood. in history. In our religion 1t
is our destiny. -,
To call expansion Imperialism is either foolish
or insinoere, both. No department of the Govern
ment could usurp supreme power. Congress could
not do II. The Senate could not undertake It, Ine
president least OF all, could resist the people He
is under law. always He IS able only to execute
the will of the people. The only possible emperor
is the absolute power above Congress. above the
dent, seventy-seven millions of people.
If Mckinley is reelected he Will continue the
protective tariff; he will retain the gold standard;
he keep flag floating all our territory,
preserving our National honor; he will hold the
United States up to the front as world Power,
secure the open door for trade and the Gospel and
help to perpetuate civilization thus Fastening the
end of heathenism and the Characterization OF the
world.