Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-01-10
BEVERIDGE'S SPEECH.
The Indiana Senator's Address or
The Philippines.
He Gives the Conclusions which His
Observations COmpeI--we should
Not Repudiate Our Duties
In the Far East.

summer IN the lSlunuS. ana gives WIZ
liable information i'm regard to our
new possessions. Mr.. Beveridge said
in part as follows;
MIR. Presidents:
| address the senate at this time
because senators and members of the
house on both sides have asked that
l give to congress and the country my
in the Philippines and
the far east, and the conclusions which
those observations compel; and be-
cause OF hurtful resolutions and ut
terances made in the senate, which
will cost and is costing the lives of
American soldiers.
Mr.. President, the times call for
candor. The Philippines are ours for
ever, territory belonging to the Unit
ed States,' as the constitution calls
them. And just beyond the Philip
pines are China's illimitable markets
We will not retreat from either. We
will not repudiate our duty in the
archipelago. We will not abandon our
opportunity in the Orient. We will
not renounce our part in the mission
of our race, trustee, under God, of the
civilization of the world. And we will
move forward to our work, not howl.
ing our regrets like slaves whipped
to their burdens, but with gratitude
for task worthy of our strength
and Thanksgiving to Almighty Goo
that He has marked us as His choser
people, henceforth to lead in the re
generation of the world.
This island empire is the last lane
left in all the oceans. If it should
prove mistake to abandon it, the
blunder once made would be irretriev
able. II it proves a mistake to hold
it, the error can be corrected wher
we will; every other progressive ma
tion stands ready to relieve us.
But to hold it will be no mistake
Our largest trade henceforth must bt
with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean
More and more Europe will manufac
ture all it needs-secure from its col
onies the most it consumes. Where
shall we turn for consumers of oul
surplus? Geography answers the
question. China is our natural Gus
toner. She is nearer to us than tC
England, Germany or Russia, the com
mercial powers of the present and the
future. They have moved nearer tC
on her borders. The Philippines give
us base at the door of all the east
Lines of navigation from our ports
TO the Orient and Australia; from the
Isthmian canal to Asia; from all Ori
entail ports to Australia, converge al
and separate from the Philippines
And the Pacific is the ocean of th'
commerce of the future. Most future
wars will be conflicts for commerce
The power that rules the Pacific
therefore, is the power that rules the
world. And, with the Philippines
that power is and forever will be the
American republic.
Value OF ChInR's Trade.
China's trade is the mightiest com
mercial fact in our future. Her for
eign commerce was S2s5,73s, 300 in
1897, of which we, her neighbor, had
less than IS per cent, of which only u
little more than half was merchandise
sold to China by US. We ought to
have so per cent, and we will. And
China's foreign commerce is only be-
ginning. She needs, and in 50 years
will have, 2O,QOO miles of railway
Who can estimate her commerce then
That statesman commits crime
against American trade-against the
American grower of cotton, wheat
and tobacco. the American manufac-
turer of machinery and clothing
who fails to put America where she
commands that trade. Chinese trade
is growing beyond belief; she is spend
ing the revenues of the empire to
finish her railroad into Pekin herself
and she is in physical possession OF
the imperial province of Manchuria
Japan's Chinese trade is multiplying
in volume and value; she is bending
her energy to her merchant marine
and is located along China's very
coast. But Manila Is nearer China
than Yokohama is. The Philippines
command the commercial situation of
the entire east. Can America best
trade with China from San Francisco
or New York? From San Francisco,
of course. But if San Francisco were
closer TO China than New York is TO
Pittsburgh, what then? And Manila
is nearer Hong Kong than Havana is
10 Washington. And yet American
statesmen plan to surrender this COM
mercial throne of the Orient where
Providence and our soldiers lives
have placed us.
Resources and Size of Islands.
But if they did not command China,
India, the Orient, the whole Pacific
for purposes of offense, defense and
trade, the Philippines are so valuable
in themselves that we should hold
them. have cruised more than 1000
miles through the archipelago, every
moment a surprise at it's loveliness
and wealth. | have ridden hundreds
of miles on the islands, every foot of
the way a revelation of vegetable and
riches. No land in America
in fertility the plains and
valleys of LuZon. Rice and coffee,
sugar and cocoanuts, hemp and tobac-
co, and many products of the temper
ate, as well as tropic zone, grow in
various sections of the archipelago
have seen hundreds of bushels OF In
dian corn lying in a road fringed with
banana trees. The forests of Negros
MindanaO, Mindora, Paluan, and part
of Lulon are invaluable and intact
The wood of the Philippines can sup
ply the furniture of the world for
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