The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-24
will De for the nation If it does not
spurn it.

Spurn 1t.
Jefferson's and Jackson's Precedents.
when under jefferson the great west
beyond the Mississippi was acquired
Florida was added TO the union, the new
provinces with their Indian populations,
were governed precisely and exactly. on
the theory under which the Philippines
are now governed
"President jefferson secured the Louisi-
ana purchase just as President Mckinley
secured the Philippines and Andrew Jack
son warred against the Seminoles when
we had acquired Florida from Spain, pre-
cisely as Gen. Macarthur is now warning
against the bandits among the Tagals. in
Luzon. Unless we are willing to deprive
Jefferson and Jackson of the need OF honor
winch has been held to be peculiarly theirs,
We cannot deny the same high praise to
President Mckinley
AT Kansas City the men engaged IN
preaching the gospel of alshonor and re-
quotation soiemniy asserted mat nm nm,
men OF Minnesota and the Dakotas who
are here tins evening can appreciate the
! tatuousness OF that statement by the
simple process of thinking whether your
.luerties have been abridged by the return
of the Minnesota and Dakota troops who
| won such honor Tor themselves III the
/ Philippines.
The army we have now is, relatively to
| the population OF the country, less IN size
| than il has been again and AGAIN during
the last century and quarter, in times
when we had only our own Indians 10
| guard against.
/ ''Our opponents mean nothing, and know
that they mean nothing, when they pirate
| about mllitarsm and attempt to say that
/ they favor expansion, but are against
imperialism. They used precisely the
same arguments six years ago against our
our taking the Philippines. They pulled
down our flag in Hawaii just as they now
wish to pull it down in the Philippines.
| We had to undo their work in Hawaii just
as in the end but at AN infinite cost OF
bloodshed and Woe. We would have to do
in the Philippines, should they be success
full in this election
yet not one OF them now would dream
of saving that we We're not right about
Hawaii.
Would License Murder.
"Our opponents say that they wish now
to give the Philippines independence. To
give Independence now would be precisely
tribe of Apaches in Arizona. 1T would
mean the turning over OF the most peace
ful, aw-abding and prosperous part of
the population TO be plundered by the ban
dltti who are following Aguinaldo.
I'm China we see at this moment the
awful tragedy that is following just eX-
actly such movement as that which the
so-called anti-imperialists have cham
pioned in the Philippines. The Boxers in
resentatives of the Aguinaldian rebels in
the Philippines. Had we adopted the pol
icy of scuttle' in the Philippines the policy
which our political opponents now cham
pion, the streets of Manila would have
witnessed such scenes as those OF the
streets of Picking, TO allow the Filipino
government and then to protect then
against other civilized nations would be
exactly as if we now sided with the Box
ers in China demanded for them the lib
erty to butcher their neiShbors, allowed
them 10 establish their own Independent
government. and then agreed to protert
them from the wrath of civilized man..
"A more wicked absurdity than. the Kan
sas City proposition for dealing with th'
Philippines was never enunciated by thu
representatives of a political party
EynnnsiOn Means Pence.
"EXpansion means in the end not war
but peace. Eut, like every other great good
it can be achieved only by effort at tn
outset Woe to US If we shrink from sucl
! effort Woe if we fail to do our duty be
cause the first step seems hard to tn
, weaklngS and the men of little heart.
: we are to retain the respect of mankin
} we must do no wrong and must not en-
dure wrong from others. We must striv
steady betterment of the populations owe
which We have assumed control. We mus
show ourselves anxious to work in a spir
: of frank and open friendship with othe
shrink from introducing oraer~ !ihcrt
: and just and stable government in til
\ islands to which our new duty has calle
us than We shrunk in the past from III
e various kinds of expansion which carrie
I us from Florida and New Mexico
Alaska.
Policy of Infamy.
G Study the Kansas City platform, an
= you cannot help realizing that their polio
a is the policy of infamy, that their trump
it is almost unthinkable and a disgrace
lasting that more than generation wou
have to pass before it could be wiped out.
l. They stand for lawlessness and di
Is order for dishonesty and dishonor, fl
e license and disaster at home and coward
IL, shrinking from duty abroad"