New-York tribune., 1900-07-18

cOme-was being governed terriorially. pr9to-
tyne OF the moddTa b Of
tatives In language that. with very slght Varla-
a speech that would be quite in place at the Kan
sas city convention. or in any antl-expansionisii
distress OF mind were wholly unRfeeeaenea err IIr
tory into the Union the liberties ana the @ rIshts us
of the whole people of the United States were SO
Geeared hat If louisiana was admitted into the
Union then the Union ought Immediately to be
He denounced in unmeaspred terms the terrific,
asserted that the ~ Constitution was never
structed Ito form covering for the inhabitants
OF the Missouri and the Red River country and and
him the awful picture Of Senator'S and KePresehI-
assuming right to take part in the legislation OF
you suppose the people of the Northern Atlantic
Mh nd from the Red River
and Missouri country pouring into CONGRESS man
miles least from their residence. and having a
ally they would never have been admltted?" and
he continued further to harrow the minds Of his
day might even intend to establish States In Cali
concnded by az asserting that the extension Of the
M 6of to states & C 1 e
not to be borne"
FRUITS OF EARLY EXPANSION.
Well. I addressing at this moment citizens
from the very States the possibilities of whose ex-
quincy. You yourselves are the fruits of the ex-
immcasurable disaster to the Nation You your
selves represent the results of that policy which
Jefferson through those Of jackson down to the
time when Seward purchased Aiaska-the great
9nder re5de9 MaKney S ABSURD ff though RD4Se tSe
are no more absurd than the real or pretended
fears of our opponents will seem not score of
calamity that it would have been had our Nation
and weakhearted; if California, Texas and Florida
had been left as Spanish speaking communities, and
to the Pacific had been turned oyer to be qparreed
pean nations Hardly less would be the calamity
II we now turn our back upon our duty and with
abandon part Of the worlds work and incur the
1uS1g TO take our place among the great nations OF
Remember that expansion does not bring war;
all and especially 10 the people thereby lifted out
cvilized t nation over baEbarous peoples long as
10 NE ne rest OF mankind wonder how many
Of this audience are aware that up to 1880 the
munity for our sailors and commerce from the
Algerian r5It t0rsairs The reason we did not pay
lowed and lasted number Of years, and there were
foolish people who Their wrote in praise Of Algerian
independence Just exactly as there are foolish
pie pie now who talk about Agunaldlan independence.
dame But lasting f o the Fst I for many Centuries
II VIII come 70 the philippines through cur refusal
brought peace in her train. So it is a good thing
for for Germany to begin to Play her part abroad and
have upheld the Germa1 policy of building a navy
and emng !' B oaoa RRe %oTd
guaranteed offers an excellent lesson to US here.
The expansion of a civilized people means not war,
but peace. Until we had expanded this
the red and among the different tribes of red men
was unceasing. but now that we have expanded
to Algters, 10 Turkestan and the Soudan by the
Every such instance Of expansion has been of
fmmeasurable benefit to al mankind, and more
aiize that they can work ha nd in hand With one
9notheF See what is h9npeHTng IN China today
for German, and John Hay, speaking for ourselves.
consistent with our National seif-interest and our
Of mankind at large.
ANTI-EXPANsION CHINESE POLICY.
The best of all things is where new nation
has teen bTonpbT and where re- such is the case
America will be foremost to greet the new
with Japan. But to refrain from doing cur duty in
mouq & 0e bnaye mbgTsy no Sa 70 nTe one
siseutly been against expansion and she offers to-
lev when Si oslcaIqy Carried out Nonnaiiy her pol
Icy has been ore Of Ieaee; in reality It has simply
and notes her Own people to sns
when logical insists upon our abandoning the
bmericans, missionaries and laymen alike, who are
in China. to their dreadful fa:e without an effort
to rescue them and insists that America shall take
legitimate step to secure ror our merchants,
farmers and waTeworkers the benefit OF the open
market.
Put like every other e~e2t good, 1t normally be
achieved only hy effort at the outset. Woe to us If
we shrink from such tort Woe II we faiI to 40
our duty because the first step seems hard to the
wea klings and the men of little heart If are TO
re- ain the respect of mankind must do no wrong
and must not endure wrong from others We must
strive with earnest good faith to secure the steady
betterment of the populations over which we nave
to work in a spirit of frank and open friendship
with other civilized nations But we must no more
shrink from introducing orderly liberty and just
new duty has called us than we shrank in the past
from the various kinds of expansions Which carried
us from Florida and NewMeXicO to Alaska
ms eItCI1 Is @ iio 6nI,y The eiection 3f 1874
and the right to appeal to every man worthy
10 call himself a good citizen that he shall stand by
US in this contest for upright and honest legislation
holding OF the flag and the great prVlIege or dong
the worlds work beseem a great world Power.
help realizing that their policy is the policy of in
fanny that their triumph would mean misery so
Widespread that 1t is almost unthnkable and dis
grace so lasting that more than Seneratlon would
have TO pass before 1t could be wiped out.
They stand for lawlessnesS and disorder, for dis
honesty and dishonor IGT nceIlSe anu alS5tsler at
home and cowardly shrinking from DUTY abroad
We ask the support Of an Americans who Who nave nave
their political affiliations may have been in the
past We ask the support OF all sound-headed men
who do not wish to see our material WeI-oelnS
allowed up in the abyss of industrial panic. We
aDpeal TO all good who believe in civic decency
and shrink from the taint of financial dshonor and
we appeal 10 all brave who proud of the
National name and reputation, and ask them to see
to it that not Inundated before mankind
and that we do abandon the position have
taken in the forefront Of the great nations of the
earth.
IDAHO STATE CONVENTIONS
FUSION OF DEMOCRATS, SILVER REPUBLICANS