The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-26
He DEFENDS IMPERIALISM
And His Chief Argument is That It
Will Pay.
FAyoRs HOLDING EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT
Thinks Mistake Was Made When Cuba Was
Set Free. Wants the United States to
Plant Colonies All Around
the World.
the World.
(By the Associated Press.)


Chicago, Sept. Ex-senator Albert j.
Beveridge, of Indiana, was the chief
speaker at a Republican mass meeting
which was held tonight in the auditorium
under the auspices of the Marquette Club
There was a great desire to hear the
Senator, and early in the day all the
tickets that had been prepared for ad-
mission had been given away and hun
dreds of people were admitted to the hall
after the ticket holders had taken their
seats.
Judge Nathaniel G. Sears, of this city,
presided and when in his speech of in
PRODUCTION he announced that Senator
Beverage would reply to Mr.. Bryan S
letter of acceptance, and also discuss the
Philippine question there was a loud out
burst of cheers. Senator Beveridge spoke
as follows:
westward the Star of Empire takes
its Way Not the star of kingly power,
for kingdoms are everywhere dissolving
in the increasing rights of men; not the
star of autocraric oppression, for civili-
cation is Frightening and the liberties of
the people are broadening under every
flag that floats. But the star of empire,
as Washington used the word. when he
called this Republic an empire; as JEFF
ferson understood it, when he declared
our form of government ideal for extend
ing our empire; as Marshall understood
1t. when he closed a noble period of an
immortal constitutional opinion by naming
the domain OF the American people our
empire This is the empire of which the
prophetic voice declared Westward the
Star Empire takes its Way-the star of
the empire of liberty and law, of com
merce and communication, of social order
and the Gospel of our Lord-tke star of
the empire of the civilization of the world
Westward that star of empire takes it's
course. And today it illumines our path
of duty across the Pacific into the islands
and lands where Providence has called
US. In that path the American govern
ment is marching forward, opposed at
every step by those who deny the right
of the Republic to plant the institutions
of the flag where events have planted that
flag itself. For this is our purpose. to
perform which the opposition to the gov
eminent declares that the Republic has
no warrant in the Constitution. in morals
or in the rights of man. And / mean to
examine tonight every argument they ad-
vance for their policy of reaction and
retreat"
JUSTIFICATION OF CONQUEST.
Having said this much by way of intro
duction, the speaker proceeded to justify
the taking of America from the Indians on
the ground that they were not capable of
self government and added:
But while we peocled this country in
spite OF the Indian who owned it. and
while this may be justified by the well
fare of the world which those events ad-
vanced. that IS not what is to be done
in the Philippines. The American gov
eminent as a government, will not APP
propriate the FiliDinos' land or permit
Americans IS individuals to seize 1t. 1t
will protect the Filipinos in it's posses
sions If any American secures real es-
tate in the Philippines, it will be because
he buys it from the owner Under Amer
lean administration the Filipino who owns
his little plot of ground will experience a
security in the possession of his property
which he has never known before"
Replying to the objection that "tropi
cal countries cannot be peopled by the
Caucasian race" Senator Beveridge said !:
81 answer that. even if true (Which is
not yet proved), it is no reason why they
should not be governed by the Caucasian
race. India is a tropical country. India
is ruled by Great Britain to the advantage
of India and England alike
From this he argues that God has deliv-
cred the antipodes into the hands of the
Americans ''to develop their resources,
to regenerate their people and to estab-
lish there the civilization of w-born
liberty and liberty-born law
FREE CUBA" A MISTAKE.
The Senator declared the resolution
passed by Congress setting up a separate
government over Cuba, an error, and pre-
dicted that within twenty-five years we.
shall again be forced to assume the gov
eminent OF the island" He added: Il
say that Porto Rico is ours, and ours for
ever, the Philippines are ours forever,
and Cuba ought to have been ours. and
by the free choice of her. people some day
will be ours. and ours forever"
Touching Mr. Bryan's declaration of his
intention, if elected to establish stable
government in the Philippines, the speak
er asked:
Suppose satisfactory government is
established, turned over to the Filipinos
and American troops withdrawn. The
new government would experience feuds,
factions and revolution. This is the his
tory of every new government 1t was
so even with the American people. Wit
ness Shay's Rebellion against the Nation
al government. almost shaking it's foun-
dations; witness the Whiskey Rebellion
in Pennsylvania, which required the first
exercise of armed national power to
maintain order with State of the Union.
And We were of self-governing race-at
that period we were almost wholly Anglo
Saxon. How can we expect the Philippine
MaIays to escape this common fate of all
new governments? If the American gov
eminent has been on the point of dissolu-