The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-02
S|DLEY COMES OUT
FOR EXPANSION.
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gone from rack to rack and scaffold to
scaffold.
shall we hold Puerto Rico and the
Philippine archipelago" asked Sibley.
Every foot. No nation on earth has
higher right of title to rod Of soil. We
have double title of purchase and conquest.
and my belief is that where once the
shadow OF our banner has fallen there
Will survive a race of free men, and
would hold Cuba until stability, order
good government and the protection of
life and property were assured. l am go
ing 10 echo the presidents query. who
will haul down the fiagT Who planted II
there? What cabinet council, what war
rior, what statesman, what senator or
representative. what body OF men formed
any plan Of conquest? The cries of suf-
fering humanity rang in our ears and we
stopped our ears. The groans were heard,
but answered not We saw them
stripped and wounded on our way to Jeri-
cho and, like the priest and the Levite, Wa
passed by on the other side. Not unheard
those cries and groans at the throne of
the Almighty, who, to awaken us from the
apathy of our almost criminal indifference,
permitted the engines of his wrath TO
hurl their thunderbolts under the bows
OF the Maine. lying peacefully at anchor
in the Havana harbor. Nor keenest
sighted statesman. nor most daring war
rior. had dreamed even OF the possibility
Of great gain. growth or greatness TO come
to us as a nation from that war OF which
the blowing up of the Maine was the first
declaration. God and the valor of the
American arms gave us that territory,
not because we are nation altogether
free, altogether pure altogether blame
less. but because. working through Him
an instrumentaiity, He has given it
to the boldest, the freest, the most
progressive, the most enlightened and the
most Christian of all nations of the pres
ent age"
Sibley believed the United States was
destined to carry the arts of peace and the
story of the cross to the remotest corners
Of the globe. He appealed to the Demo-
cratic side TO come back to the teachings
of the Democratic fathers. Expansion had
been fathered and advocated by jefferson,
Jackson. Polk and Buchanan.
only towards oppose IT, Buchanan
said. and he was the last Democratic pres
ident we have had" Uaughter)
The Nicaragua canal should be built, he
said. and the subsidy bin to encourage
American shipping passed China was to
be dismembered. We must reach out and
get our share OF its commerce
DesertfOn Would lie PusfiIan imous
III this administration" he went on,
shall surrender the Philippines the histor-
ian OF the future, which extois Jefferson.
Madison, Tyler and Polk viii write down
Mckinleys action as the most pusilani-
nous In the record. But this administra-
ton Will not surrender. Its critics will be
forgotten. Every advance to higher and
nobler forms of life has been opposed by
some old conservative mossbacker, who
prated OF the good old days wnen his
grandfather swung by his tail In the forest
primeval."
Mission to Fullau.
Sibley concluded as follows:
Mr.. Chairman. every dictate of reason
and OF prudence. every dictate of business
sense and of commercial advantage. every
prompting of humanity, and every obliga-
ton OF plighted fraternity unite in the
demand that we 10 forward We have a
mission to fulfill. destiny 20 accomplish,
an example 10 be afforded TO the nations
how they may justly rule themselves not in
license, but In liberty.
Shall we falter in our duty shall we haul
down that flag whose waving stripes be
speak the red OF sacrifice and the white
of purity, and whose silver stars shining
in the field OF blue are an aspiration and
an inspiration to ell that IL noble In life
and beneficient in government? No. let II
float and.
:" Under its folds shall brothers be knit In
closer bands
From the mountain crest 10 the gray sa,
sands,
And the world be better weenr"
Great ovation Accorded Him.
When sibley concluded he received an
ovation such as has not been accorded any
speaker In the house this session.
The debate then returned to the cues
ton of iynchings in the South.
Klutz. N. G.. and Griggs. Ca. defended
the South. The latter described some OF
the atrocities which led to ynchinxs. While
he did not Justify law breaking he declared
that those who condemned the iynching~
unaualiiedly had water. not blood. in their
veins. tAppIause)
Gaines Tenn, raised the question as to
the application OF the constitution to our
new possessions, holding that It did apply.
and citing decisions Of the courts relative
to Alaska in support OF his position
This closed the general debate
HIT III. reported the diplomatic and
appropriation bin.
At $40 the house adjourned
IN THE SENATE.