Morris tribune., 1900-07-21

been or lmmeasureapie Denent TO all man
kind and more and more the civilized
peoples are beginning to realize that they
can work hand In hand with one another.
See what is happening in China today.
Read the notes issued by Won Buelow,
speaking for Germany, and John Hay,
speaking for ourselves. and how abso-
lutely alike are the policies therein indi-
Gated. We are committed to the only
course consistent with our national aalf
interest and our national self-respect and
above all for the good of mankind at laroe
The best OF all things is where new ma
tion can be brought into the circle of civil
lization as Japan has been brought and
where such is the case America will ever
be foremost to greet the new civilized
power and to work with her as we work
with Japan. But to retire from doing our
duty to the world would be inevitably to
invite the hate of civilization. The Chi
nese empire has always been against ex-
pansion and she offers today the best ex-
ample of the fruits of such policy when
logically carried out. No1ninalIy her
policy has been one of peace, in reality it
has simply been one which invites aggres-
sion from without and incites her own
people to ferooiousand hideous barbarism.
What Anticipation Means. Z
The so called anti-expansionist, when
logical, insists on our abandoning the
Americans, missionaries and laymen
alike, who are in China, to their dreadful
fate without an effort to rescue them.
and insists that America shall take no
legitimate step to secure for our mer-
chants, farmers and wageworkers the
benefit of open market. Expansion
means in the end not war but peace But
like every other great good it can nor
nally be achieved only by effort at the
outset Woe to us if we shrink from such
effort. Woe If we fail to do our duty,
though the first step seems hard to the
wcaklings and the men of little heart. If
we are to retain the respect of mankind
we must do no wrong and must endure
no wrong from others. We must strive
with earnest good faith to secure the bet
terment OF populations over which we
have assumed control. We must sh0W
ourselves anxious to work in spirit of
frank and open friendship with other DIV
ilized nations. But we must no more
shrink from introducing and establishing
liberty and just and stable government in
the islands to which our new duty sails
Us than we shrank in the past from the
various kinds of expansion which carried
us from Florida and New Mexico to
Alaska.
This election is more important than
any this country has seen save only the
election of '64, and we have the right to
appeal to every man worthy to call him
self good citizen that he shall stand by
az in this contest for upright and honest
legislation and administration at home
and abroad for the upholding of the flag
and the great privilege of doing the
worlds work as becomes great power.
Eject Of Democratic Success.
Study the Kansas City platform and
you cannot help realizing that our policy
8 the policy of humanity, that their tri-
lmph would mean misery almost un-
;hinkable and diigrace so everlasting
hat more than a generation would have
10 pass before it could be wiped out. They |
stand for laWlessness and disorder for |
dishonesty and dishonor, for license and |
disaster at home and cowardly shrinking |
rom duty abrAad. We ask the support |
# all Americans who have the welfare Of |
he country at heart, no matter what
heir political affiliations may have been
n the past. We ask the support of all
ound headed men who do not wish to see
'ur material we'll being swallowed up in
he abyss of industrial panic. We appeal !
o all good men who believe in civic de-
ency and shrink from the taint Of dnan-
ial dishonor and we appeal to all. brave
nen who are proud of the national name
nd reputation and ask them to see to it
hat we are not humiliated before man
ind and that we do not abandon the po-
ition we have taken in the forefront Of
be great nations of the earth.