The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-03
ALL FOR EXPANSION.
The Administration Follows the
Policy of Washington.
Americas Industrial and Trade Ca
pncity Enlarged by the Ac-
quirement of New Ter
rItOry.

| Washington, the eNpansionlst, was
the keynote of the speech made by
DIR. Jacob G. Schurman, president of
Cornell university and chairman of the
Philippines commission, at the Wash
! ington day exercises of the Union
League club of Chicago, at the Au-
ditorium. Upon the subject DR..
Schurman said:
1.-The greatest expanslonist OF the last
| century was George Washington himself.
/ What is the token of this wonderful CEN
! fury? | say In "a word expansion-a
boundless extension OF human knowledge
| and a vast enlarge ment OF human power.
| In this century, for the first time, the
might of intellect has given man dominion
! over the forces of nature. with the magic
! wand of science he has subdued air. hre,
water, steam, and electricity; and those
titanic forces, like ODE dent servants. now
! wait upon him, serve him, and do his bid
| ding. The miracle OF the nineteenth CEN
| fury is the systematic Harvesting OF al
| the powers of nature to do the Will OF man.
| "Our power of production having outrun
! our capacity TO consume" he said and,
| being all the time on the increase, and the
! old markets OF the world being glutted
by the products of all civilized nations.
! what new outlets are there for our waxing
productivity. what new fields for the re-
| ception of the surplus commodities we null
| tlply so rapidly anu AT u
! Ginning cost? This is the question put to
! the American people by the sphynx OF
! the twentieth century. And the life OF
I the nation in no small degree depends on
! the answer"
DR.. Schurman said that in blind idol
| airy OF the Monroe doctrine Africa $
J markets had been lost to us He said
I'm Africa we shall have only such trad
| ing rights and privileges as the European
overlords may be graciously p.eased to
vouchsafe US Happily Asia remained
! Asia, the largest, richest ard most pop
| ulous of the unoccupied markets OF the
! world All eyes were on China. with its
| splendid. inexhaustible and undeveloped
natural resources. and its 40O,GC0GC0 pc op!e
! strangely stirring with new and mighty
life. England made a great effort to keep
its trade doors open, but she failed. With
| France on the south Germany on the east
' and the Russian bears paws over all the
i north, the indepe ndenCe and territorial In
! tegrity of China trembled in the balance;
yet, II her sovereignty collapsed, IL those
European powers divided up and appro-
prated that vast empire their several an
nexations would have been closed to Amer
lean trade and commerce.
''That this disaster to our Industries has
been averted you owe to the prescience.
| wisdom and skill! Of the statesman who
to-day worthiiy fills the chair OF Washir g
ton. Thanks to the brilliant ard .ruly
memorable diplomacy of the present ad-
ministration the great nations OF Europe
have agreed-ard agreed in writing-that
whatever political or territorial policies
they may pursue in China the open door to
trade the equal commercial rights and
privileges we now enjoy with them snail
re main intact and inviolable.
Considering the prominence of our nat
ural resources and the superiority of our
skin and labor as we'll as the adding of
our proximity to Asia-for China is just
across the pond at our back door, which
may one day become our front door,
believe that no one has painted In too
\ roseate huts the possibilities Of CONNIE rcial
expansion in the orient Here Is, as it were.
! fortordained field for the surplus prod
ucts of your coming industries. Ana II
opened up at the very time when the old
limits were beginning to prove oppressive.
l." What was the secret of cur success In
compelling European nations to stand by
the policy OF the open door in China? Some
powerful cause there certainly was: for
England had failed in similar attempt
orly two or three years 90. We could not
have succeeded al that time, either; indeed.
we should not have csSayed the task. But
in the short space of two years the polit-
ical horizon Of the American has undergone
an immense expansion the astcnished ma
tons have seen US become an Asiatic pow
er. American diplomacy trumphed in
! China because the American nag waved in
the Philippines That commercial expan-
sion which the marvellous growth OF our
capital and industries had rendered indis-
, pensable to the continued vitality of the
nation was heralded by the roar OF Dewey $
guns asserted by the brilliant feats of your
armies under Otis, Macarthur and the
heroic Lawton. and finally established and
secured by an international agreement
! which will render this administration IL
lustrious in all the annals of American
diplomacy.
THE most potent factor in the making
OF this republic was the acquisition of the
! traEs Mississippi territory. Yet Jefferson
did not want it, his agents in Paris apol-
ogized for taking 1t; the constraining force
was the necessity of Napoleon I suppose
England's greatest, certainly her most
striking, achievement is the conquest OF
India Yet we have the words of Seeley for
1t that nothing great done by English
men was ever done SO blind,y, so unin-
diligently, so accidentally. The Philip
pines came to US as an unavoida BILE result
of the war with Spain. We have accepted
them and. with the aid Of Providence, we
propose to discharge our responsibilities
! for them. We never dreamed Of territorial
expansion when the war began: We did not
desire 1t when the war closed; but both
the well being of the Filipinos and the
peace of the world forbade our leaving the
archipelago n derelict in the eastern wa
tiers, the sport of the typhoons and earth
quakes of internal and external politics,
and we imperiously demanded that where
Dewey had planted our flag there II should
remain-the pledge and emblem of peace.
order. prosperity and liberty, enlightening
the eastern world.
THE commission, of which i had the
honor to be president has recommended
that the Fiipinos be given a form OF terri
torial government more liberal even than
that which Jefferson bestowed upon the
people OF the territory of Louisiana. And,
as Jefferson wrote the declaration of in
dependence, l should think that every one
might be convinced that the recommended
tion of the commission was sufficiently
liberal DO you think the Filipinos will
fare badly under government more lib
tral than that enjoyed by some of our
former territories? Is there any melting
heart here that pities n people so circum-
stanced? Pity people you have re-
deemed from foreign and domestic oppres-
! sion? Pity peopie over whom your flag
waves with the b es3ings of freedom and
| civilization? For my part ! can only con-
| grAiula. e the On lheir unparallsled good