The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-26
God Of nations requires them at. our hands.

God of nations requires them at. our hands.
Am my brothers Keeper
HOW CIVILIZATION is EFFECTED.
If you admit that IL is the purpose OF
that intelligence that rules the universe
&c civilize and unity mankind. how Is this
TO be accomplished? II you say that II Is
by leaving each people 20 themselves TO
work out their own salvation. / answer
that history shows that civilization has
been preserved only by the most superior
nations extending IL. And the method OF
extending civilization is by colonization
where the superior nations can establish
themselves among the inferior races or i'm
place Of them. IL the inferior races cannot
exist under civilization. as IN New Zealand.
Australia and the like IL IL by administers
ton where the superior nations cannot,
because of climatic conditions. establish
themselves among or supplant the inferior
races. as In Java, India and the like II IS
by creating and developing commerce
is thus that America itself was discovered;
thus that this Republic was builded: thus
that South Africa was reclaimed: thus that
Australia was recovered from the BUSH
man and made the home OF civilization;
thus that Ceylon taken from wild
men and tangled jungle and brought be-
meath the rule OF religion. law and indus
Try. IL Is thus that Egypt is being re-
deemed. her deserts fertilized. her starving
millions fed. her Fahleen made men and
the blessings Of just government bestowed
upon the land OF the Fharaohs. II is thus
that the regeneration of India has pro-
sressed her cities been cleansed. the reign
OF hygiene and health gradually established
in the very kingdom of pestilence and
disease; and the arbitrary and infamous
tyranny OF petty princes, holding power OF
life and death over miserable subjects re-
duced to the orderly administration OF
equal and unpurchased justice under equal
and impartial laws.
History establishes these propositions:
FIRST every people who have become great.
nave become colonizers or administrators:
second, through this colonization and adj
minisration their material and political
greatness develop: third. their decline Is
colncident with their abandonment OF their
poncy Oh possession and administration. or
departure from the true principles thereof.
And as corollary 10 these propositions -
TINS self-eyident and contemporaneous
truth: Every progressive nation OF Europe
to-day is seeking lands TO colonize and gov
crnments TO administer. And can this COM
mon instinct of the most progressive peo-
pes OF the world-this common conclusion
OF the abiest statesmen OF other nations
be baseless?
PROGRESSIVE NATIONS.
If the opposition ask why this is the mis-
sion of the American people now more than
heretofore, / answer that before any peo-
pie assumes these great tasks il goes
through process of consolidation and uni
fication. just a man achieves maturity
before he assumes the tasks of a man.
Great Britain never became coIonizing
and administering power until the sep
arate people OF England. Scotland, ireland
and Wales, welded into a single indivisible
people. were ready TO go forth as a national
unit and do the great work TO which the
world was calling IL. The German people did
not embark upon this natural policy until
separate dukedoms, principalities and king
doms were finally welded by a common
war, common blood. and common interests
into great single and indiyisible people
ready TO go forth as a national unit 10 the
great work 10 which the world was calling
them.
The French became colonizers OF lands
and administrators OF governments only
when her great statesmen. from Richelieu
to Colbert. had knit the separate and
divided French people into a national unit
and sent IL forth to the work TO which the
world was calling IL: and France declined
only when she abandoned that natural law
of national power and progress. and
Napoleon diverted her energies TO the in
ternal strifes of Europe. Then her decline
began. She lost Canada. The Corsican sold
Louisiana TO US. And to-day French states
men at last realize the fatal operation OF
this law when once disobeyed. and so are
seeking to become onesof the colonizng and
administering powers of earth again.
And so the American Republic has been
going through the process of fitting IL for
the execution Of this natural law of civili-
Zation. Hitherto we have had local divi-
sions. The proposition that we were sin
gle people, national unit. and not a
of segregated factions, was denied And IL
required war and commerce and time-the
shedding of blood. the uniting of commune
ties by railroads and telegraphs. the knit
ting together of the fabric of nationality
by that wonderful loom of human intelli-
gence called the post and finally. by the
common and united effort of foreign war.
TO bring us TO consciousness of our power
as people. And there is never in nature
a power without corresponding purpose.
And shall We now stop this process or
nature?
We are this at last. great national unit
ready TO carry out that universal law OF
| civilization which requires OF every people
| who have reached our high estate 20 be-
come colonizers OF new lands, adminiStra-
| tors OF orderly government over savage
| and senile peoples and the planters OF our
institutions outward and ever outward to-
| ward the overwhelming horizons OF the
| ever-increasing dominions OF the flag. And
being thus prepared, the lands and peoples
needing our administration are delivered TO
our keeping not by our design. but by oc-
currence beyond our control In the as
troncmy of destiny, American opportunity,
| American duty and American preparedness
| are in conjunction. Who will oppose their
progress?
These are the laws which history advises
are the laws Of civilizations growth. And
| these, therefore. are the high ordinances or
| universal and racial morality which has Tor
| its ultimate object that far-on divine
| event towards which civilization tends.
| And IL is 10 this divine order OF progress
| that i appeal I'm answer TO the misapplied
| Individual moraIities that would give Aus
1 tralia back TO it's bushmen. the United
| States 10 its Indians, Ceylon 10 ITS natives;