The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-19
BEVER|DGE ON EXPANSION.
TELLS HOW 1T Is NECESSARY FOR
COMMERCIAL NATION.
strong speech by Indiana senator
Who shows How We Can Take I'm
Outside Territory-The Standing

Senator Beveriage. Of Indiana. spoke in
Kansas City recently TO large audience
IN tent at Shelley park. the
tent in which Mr.. Bryan spoke two weeks
before The capacity OF the tent was
taxed standing room being az a premium.
He said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: In this cam
paign the paramount issue Is patriotism.
For this Is an American campaign. High
er than all partisan divisions are involved
the interests OF the American people
against the interests OF every other ma
ton. Deeper than all surface discussion
are involved the struggle OF the American
people for the markets OF the world with
every other progressive people for the
markets Of the world In other cam
paigns We have been engaged with our In
ternal aNairs. because our immediate In
terests tien required our attention to our
internal afraite. hut today we are engaged
in the affairs az tho world. because our
immediate interests now and for all the
future require attention 10 the affairs OF
the world. Heretofore we have been de-
velcpirg our continent establishing an
American tariff policy, settling our f,nan-
cfal system so that It's disturbance 50
fatal 10 prosperity. would not recur with
every election Heretofore we have been
making our nationality: by n network ~
railroads hv that greet web ~ inteili-
gencs called the telegraph. bv every agen-
rv- ~ commerce and communication which
makes the American in California the
rost door reighbor Of the American IN
Maine and over all BY that rnigh.tes,
armed conflict aver waref ~ man. whore
p million martyrs 70 nationality laid down
their lives, we have been making our
selves ono people a national unit. SIN
gle ara sovereign Individual among the
governments OF men
considered from the low v'ew-nort %
mere material proereritv the American
people have been heretofore Interested
only in continental DEVELOPMENT internal
Improvement. and securing an American
market for the American produrer Con-
sidered from the lofty view-noint OF hts
tory and deSsinv. we have see~ growing
into our national manhood developing
into a united and indivisshie neonle ara
realizing the nronhetic words with which
the constitution is commenced: we the
people OF the United States of America
instead ~ We tho states And now
that we have achieved our national man
hood. secured our hor,o market fnr our
home producer. established safe ard
honest system ~ finance. 70 forth
to actively and a~gressively compete
with other nations for those markets of
mankind which those other nations here
tofore have almost monopolized.
Colonies Furnish Markets.
"rf the opposition tells YOU that colonies
40 not helm trade. ask them vhv n that
f. true, II Is that Enelaud's period OF COM
mercfal greatness has h.en her period OF
colonial greatness Ask thor WHY II IL
that Germany. wherever she can all
around the globe. IL securing new possess
sions and dependencies Ask then, why
II is that France is extending her domin-
onrortrnitv affords; Ask them why II IL
that Russia is spreading her terri
tory even when that which she alreadv has
ss undcveloned7 Russia's statesmen are
the farest-sighted statesmen in the world
Germany's statesmen study nothing but
Germany's commercial and military SUI
premaey. Enrland's statesmen. educated
for the purpose. schooied in statacrnft.
maintained permanently in public life are
the shrewdest commercial statesmen the
world has ever Seen France is awaken
ing from the policy of ruin into which
Napoleon plunged her. and her statesmen
are devotlng themselves To the growth OF
French commerce. And vet the statesmen
OF all these great powers agree that the
possession Of dependencfe. Is the hest
method 81 securing new trade and holding
that trade after u II secured. England
sends one-third OF MI her exports 10 her
colonies or dependenries Germany and
France are beginning 20 follow her exam
pie. And more than what those nations
send 10 their possessions ~ sent 10 those
markets which those possessions influence
and command
Adapted TO Holding Dependencies.
'If the opposition says that our form
OF government Is not adapted 70 holding
dependencies and colonial possessions,
and that our republican form OF govern
ment " more valuable to us than MI the
stronghnld~ ~ commerce of the world
answer that France Is a republican form
OF government and yet France has be-
gun TO administer her possessions almost
rs ably as England. I answer that
England, n monarchy In name. Is a re-
public In reality, whose queen has not
the powers given by thu constitution TO
our president; and vet democratic Eng
land. whose responsible government
changes not every four years. hut often
In as many months, democratic Eng
land. which Is as sensitive TO the will ~
the people as the Thermometer IL 70 cold
or heat: democratic England. more nexi-
HE and popular In government than any
nation on earth democratic England ie,
nevertheless the ahlesi administrator Of
possessions the world has ever seen Why
cannot the republic held possessions and
administer government over Them This
world has got to be occupied lay civilized
mankind. Rovernment OF lherty ana law