The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-19

needs of this policy of advance; there are
places in that service for you, young men.
IL you have the necessary ability and char
acter. Our diplomatic service must be I'M
proved, broadened, syStematized to meet
the necessities of the Republic as the
worlds first power. There are places in
that service for YOU, young man, IL you
have the necessary ability and character.
We are to become the administrator of
American possessions which need Amer
lean guidance and direction, and the strict
est. ablest. purest. administrative service in
the world will be that provided by the
American Congress for the government of
our fortunate dependencies. There are
places In that service for you. young man,
II you have the necessary ability and char
acter. The American navy will become as
powerful as any navy which floats upon
the bosom of the deep; there are places in
that navy for you, young men OF America,
II you have the necessary ability, character
and courage-and all Americans have cour-
age. But all these places in all the serv-
ice of the Republic are few and arduous
and poor compared with opportunities af-
forded you, young man, In private life, by
the plan proposed by the party of construc-
ton. Because this great plan of national
advance will in every direction create new
industries upon the land, launch new lines
of ships upon the sea, set i'm motion new
activities throughout the entire world of
American enterprise. And in each OF them
is place for you, young men of America.
according to your ability, your industry
and your character. And yet this Is the
plan of progress the party of destruction
asks you to destroy. 1t is the plan of prog
reSs the party OF construction asks you TO
approve-aye, not only TO approve and
make poSSible-yeS, not only to make posi-
bic. but TO be part OF. For by your ef-
forts alone, young men of America, can
the great plan of American advance, which
a Providence higher than the thought OF
President or Congress is drawing for the
American people, be carried out. And L APP
peal to you by your prospects of individual
in hxyx hat he De-
public shall be the sovereign power of
earth, by your devotion to the flag whose
whole history has been the story of ad-
vance and for whose onward march you
would gladly battle and in battle die by all
that means prosperity TO yourselves and
the true grandeur of our Nation, / appeal
to you to rally around that sacred banner
or our fathers and carry IL forward, as they
carried 1t forward, to a still broader domin-
ion and still wider glory.
CONCERNING MILITARISM
Can the young men of this Nation be
frightened by the words imperialism
'militarism' and all such shibboleths of
fear? Who can establish an empire, young
men of America, without your consent?
Where will come the soldiers who will set
their bayonets at the throat of our free
institutions. If you, young men of America,
yourselves, do not become those soldiers?
America, will you strike your colors to
fear, and that fear a fear of yourselves?
Your future Is In your own hands. Your
fate is in your own hands. There can be
no standing army which you yourselves do
not provide from among yourselves Such
standing army Is powerless except as you
equip 1t; purposeless, except as you direct
1t. And how will this programme of ma
tional advance require standing armies?
England. whose possessions make crimson
the map of every continent and every sea.
has less than ninety thousand English
soldiers in all her worldwide possessions.
The rest of her standing army, which, alto
gether, is smaller than that of any Euro
pean power, is required by European con-
ditions and not by her colonial conditions.
Study the standing armies of the world.
Study the causes that produce them. You
cannot find single instance OF militarism
caused by colonial policy. On the con-
trary. in America. such a policy will pre-
vent standing army. Our energies will
have an outlet; prosperous employment
Will keep busy those hands which, when
idle, are always dangerous. for idleness in
the ranks of labor, in the ranks of bust
ness. In the ranks Of finance-aye, even i'm
the ranks of professional life-is the only
danger this Nation has to fear. Glass
hatred, sectional strife, internal dissen-
sion--these are the rocks on which this
Republic will founder, IL IL ever does: and
II Is from these rocks of disturbance nj
nome tnat our active policy abroad draws
few American soldiers to maintain that or
der which American administration will
bring in other lands, and at the same time
supply field abroad for American activi-
ties and work for American hands at home.
than to employ many soldiers at home 10
suppress riot, disorder and insurrection
here, caused by the very fact that we have
failed TO find an outlet abroad for Ameri-
can energy and a market abroad for
American surplus products.
standing army All this Nation Is a
standing army. There Is a soldier I'm the
breast OF every free man. Our blood is the
most militant blood on earth. Indiana fur
nished forty years ago with what was then
her scanty population nearly 10000 soldiers
more soldiers than have been enlisted nv
the government from the beginning of the
Spanish var till the present hour Indiana
alone to-day can place in the field I'm a sim
gle year 100000 armed men. Militarism In
Americai IL Is here indeed-here in the
blood We young men of America have in
herited from our fathers Every generation
CT Americans have beer soldiers Miiitarism
In America, Yes, indeed there Is enough
militarism in the blood OF the free young
men OF this Republic not only to defeat the
world in arms but 20 defeat every military
uprising among ourselves which might seek
to overthrow the Republic. The future OF
the institutions OF he Republic is In the
hands of the Republics young men, and in
their hands those institutions are secure
have faith IN you, young men OK America
4 have faith in our institutions / have
faith IN our flag But the party OF destruc-
ton doubts yous fears you, denies the