The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-07-27

30 many Of my hearers come-was being
governed territorially, prototype Of tho
modern anti-imperialists, the Hon. Josiah
Quincy, addressed the house Of represent
tatives In language that, with very slight
variation. might be used by his successors
to-day. In speech that would be quite
in place at the Kansas City convention,
or in any anti-expansionist meeting Of to.
day, he stated that his anxiety and dis
tress OF mind were wholly unprecedented.
for with the admission Of the TRANSMITS
sissippi territory into the Union the lib
critics and the rights Of the whole people
Of the United States were 80 completely
upset as to justify a revolution. He de-
clared that II Louisiana was admitted to
the Union, then the Union ought imme-
diate,y to be dissolved He denounced in
unmeasured terms
Territorial Avidity'
OF the Americans Of tho day. He as
serted that the Constitution was never
constructed Ito form a covering for tho
inhabitants Of the Missouri and the Red
river country and finally, when his pro-
phettc vision brought before him the aw-
ful picture Of senators and representa-
tives from west Of the Mississippi arro-
gantly assuming q right to take part In
the legislation of the country, he asked
with fervor worthy Of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist of to. day:
DO you suppose the people Of the
Northern Atlantic states will or ought to
look with patience and see representatives
and senators from the Red river and Mis-
souri, country pouring into congress- man
aging the concerns Of q sesboard fifteen
hundred miles at least from their resi-
dence and having PREF onderancy In
councils in which constit'1tionally they
could never have been adrnitted?' And
he continued further to harrow the minds
of his hearers by stating that the expan.
sionists Of that day might even intend
to establish states in California and at
the mouth Of the Columbia. and concluded
by asserting that the extension Of the
principle (of expansion) to states contem-
plated beyond the Mississippi cannot, will
not and ought not to be borne Well, I
am addressing at this moment citizens
from the very states, the possibilities OF
whose existence appeared 80 terrible to
the excellent Mr.. Quincy. You yourselves
are the fruits of the expansion which he
regarded as fraught with such immeasur-
able disaster to the nation. You your
selves represent the results Of that policy
which was followed from the days OF
Washington and Jefferson, through those
OF Jackson. down to the time when Sew
ard purchased Alaska. The great Ameri-
can policy which has again been applied
under President Mckinley
absurd though the fears Of men like
Quincy seem to US now, they are no more
absurd than the real or pretended fears of
our opponents will seem not score of
years hence. Picture to yourselves tho
dreadful calamity that 1t would have been
had our nation in 1911 listened to tho
counsels Of the shortsighted and weak
hearted; If California, Texas and Florida
had been left as Spanlsh-speaking COM
munities, and If all the magnificent re-
gion from the Mississippi to the Pacific
had been turned over to be quarreled for.
either by local Indian tribes or by Euro
pean nations. Hardly less would be the
calamity II We now turn our backs upon
our duty and. with craven and abteet
shrinking from responsibility, abandon
Our Part in the Worlds Work
and incur the deserved contempt Of hu-
mainly by deliberately refusing to take
our place among tho great nations OF
mankind. ,;:.,E II . ky:y... f,s.r-s
. "Renenber that expansion does
not bring war; 1t ultimately bringa