The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

knowing. if they know anything that their
in every island from which the Spaniards
have been driven, and caring nothing. be-
cause they wish to purchase party success
even at the cost of disloyalty to the flag,
of death and suffering to the men who
fight under the flag. Bitter indeed is the
cup they hold out to the nation to drink.
and thrice bitter it will be for the nation
If ii does not spurn It.
What they say about Cuba AMI Porto
Rico need not de;ain us for a moment In
Porto Rico we now have Governor Allen
in charge. We have established system
under which the island is advancing by
leaps and bounds to prosperity. In Cuba
we have put Gen. Leonard Wood in charge.
and all the preliminary steps have been
taken TO give to the people of the island
their own Government. Our pledge to Cuba
shall, of course. be kept. General Woods
administration is a synonym for honesty
and cleanliness. and the minute that fraud
was discovered in the postal department
the wronsdoers were hunted down in un-
sparing pursuit and the best possible proof
was thereby given that We meant what We
said and that governmental cleanliness
would be obtained. in the only possible
way. by the unsparing cutting out of cor
ruption wherever II was found.
In the Philippines.
I'VE now come to the Philippines, and
to the general question Of expansion.
Many of the positions taken by the Popu-
listic Democracy at the moment are SO
palpably dishonest and maintained in so
palpable bad faith that to state them is
sufficient. 1t is hardly necessary TO dis
cuss what they say about The Constitu-
tion following the flag The Democratic
party never championed the doctrine thus
set forth save in the dark days when IL
had become the hardmafden of slavery
and rebellion. and danced to any tune
which the apostles of slavery chose ia
pipe. When. under jefferson, the great
West beyond the Mississippi was ac-
CURED; when largely through the instru-
mentality Of Jackson. 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 Louisiana
purchase just as President Mckinley Sc
cured the Philippines. and Andrew Jack
son warred against the Serainoles when
he had acquired Florida from Spain pre-
cisely as General Macarthur is now var
ring against the bandits among the Tagals
prive jefferson and Jackson OF the need
of honor which has been held to be Pc
culiarly theirs we cannot deny the same
high praise to President Mckinley.
'Of all idle chatter the talk of danger
of militarism is the idlest. The army
We have now is. relatively to the popula-
ton of the country. less in size than it
has been again and again during the last
century and a quarter in times when We
had only our own Indians to guard
against. In Washington's Administration
General Wayne spent some three years in
Ohio warning against the Tagals of that
day with an army under him larger in
proportion to the then population of the
nation than all our present national forces,
regulars and volunteers combined. and
there is just as little danger from the
evils of militarism now as there was then.
1t is as utter folly to talk of our liberties
being menaced by the existence of a force
CAPABLE of keeping order in our outlying
possessions now as il would have been to
talk ftheir being menaced in the '10s by
the soldiers who followed Custer and his
fellows against the -Comanchcs, Apaches,
and Sioux.
"hilitnrism" n Meaningless Term.
NO. our opponents mean nothing. and
know that they mean nothing. when they
pirate about militarism' and attempt to
say that they favor expansion but are
against Imperialism They used precisely
the same arguRents six years ago against
our taking Hawaii that they now use
against our taking the Philippines. They
pulled down our flag in Hawaii lust 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 successful in this election.
Yet rot one of them now would dream of
saying that We were not right about
Hawaii; in fact. they would not do so,
when by strange irony the Kansas City
Convention had to rely upon the vote of
Hawaii before it could settle what its
views were on the financial system of our
country.
There are doubtless many worthy and
amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten
denotes. especially in the Northeast. who
oppose expansion now as men like them
have always opposed expansion. In 1911
when Louisiana was on the point Of being
admitted to the Union. and the country be-
yond the Mississippi-the country row
carved into the great States from which
so many OF my hearers eome--was being
governed territory. prototype of the |
modern anti-imperialists, the Hen Josiah I
Quincy. addressed the House of Represen- /
tatiVes in language that with very Sigh, |
variation might be used by his successors |
today In a speech that would be quite In |
place al the Kansas City Convention. or In |
any aDti-expansionist meeting of today. he |
stated that his anxiety and distress of |
mind were wholly unprecedented. for, with |
the admission of the Mississippi ter
ritory into the Union. the liberties and the |
rights of the whole people of the United |
States were SO completely upset as to |
justify arevolutiDn. He declared that if |
Louisiana was admitted into the Union,
hen the URion ought Immediately to be !;
iissolyea. He denounced in unmeasured
-trms the territory avidity' of the Ameri-
ans OF the day. He asserted that the Com
stitution was never constructed to form
covering for the inhabitants of the Mis-
.ouri and the Red River country and fin
Ally when his prophetic vision brought be-
'ore him the awful picture of Senators and
from west of the Missis-
.ippi arrogantly assuming a right 10 take
part in the legislation of the country. he
asked with a fervor worthy of the most
pronounced anti-expansionist of today
What Quincy Said.
"'Do you suppose that the people OF the
lorthern Atlantic States will or ought to
ook with patience and see Representatives
md Senators from the Red River and Mis-
souri, country pouring into Congress, man
aging the concerns of a seaboard 1850
niles at least from their residence, and
having preponderancy in councils In
which constitulionally they would never
iave been admitted?
The expansion of civilized p. ople
means not war. but peace. Uatii we lad