The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-07

either in themselves or in their just con-
sequences, and their abrogation is demand
ed by the declaration of democratic princi-
pies made at Kansas City.
This declaration does not denounce the
administration of President Mckinley for
it's failures, it condemns it for it's achieve
ments. 1t declares them to be destructive
of true prosperity and subverSive of our
institutions. 1t demands that the gold
standard shall be abolished and that pro-
lection to American industries shall cease.
''For the first time the sovereignty of the
United States over territory held by an
unquestionable title is to be abandoned and
the flag lowered and that, too, in cap1tula-
ton to fragrant insurrection against its
authority. All this, and more than this,
is demanded by the democratic party as
a reason for its investiture with power and
is promised to the American people in case
power is given to do it. Such demands,
such promises, such threats, such conse-
quences will receive the most considerate
condemnation of the people.
mo democratic platform, no democratic
speaker expresses any satisfaction with
our triumphs in war, or with the abound
ing prosperity of our people, or with our
international ascendency. How can they
rejoice in prosperity which fals1f1es every
prediction they made four years ago, and
the approval of which now would refute
every claim that they can possibly make
for their political restoration!
1.-THE present administration has kept the
faith in which the American people in
vested it with power, has performed every
act to which it was pledged and has ful-
filled every expectation which has arisen
from sudden events which were foreSeen
four years ago.
1.-The democratic party was silent re-
specting our relations with China, because
to declare opinions upon that subject which
the American people would not receive with
contempt and spurn with disgust would
cause the broom-stick ghost of imperial
ism and militarism to vanish in an IN
slant; so to speak would annihilate those
paramount issues because it would admit
that even the blind, when told, can per-
ceive even if they cannot see it, that the
status, the occupation and the sovereignty
of the United States in the Philippines are
at this moment and in this great Crisis
of civilization commanding and absolutely
Indispensable They vindicate the wisdom
of holding those possessions, unless the
United States is to recede to the shores
of the American continent, become her
self little China, cancel herself as factor
in the great civilizing and commercial
change in the Asiatic orient, an event fully
rs important as the discovery of America
by Columbus.
There are few events in our diplomatic
and military history more honorable than
atism and the unflinching courage by which
the administration of President Mckinley
relieved our legation and at the same time
maintained proper relations with the Chi
neSe empire.
"The policy of the United States as to
China should, in my opinion, be this: Ii
| must rescue it's citizens. 1t must exact in
demnity for all injuries to their person OF
| property 1t will insist that China shall
| observe all treaty stipulations and that
| under any and all conditions of sovereign
| ty, cession or foreign ascendency, the
| open door shall remain open, We shall use
no military force for conquest, and have
| no concert with any European power, ex.
cept to rescue our. citizens and theirs
1--WE covet no Chinese territory, and we
| will acquire none. We desire no territorial
| sphere of influence. We will give no ap-
prevail or support, physical, moral OF
| sentimental, to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
| China or to the extinction of her sovereign
| ty by the acquisition of spheres of infiu-
ence by any European power.
"I look for a regeneration of China as
| the result of the commissions she is now
| suffering. 1t will come to pass not by the
| partition CT that mighty and immemoria
| empire, but by its full entry into com
| mercial relations with the other nations OF
| the world. The process will not be a long
| one. 1t has been going on for so years
| and has become more perfect and extern
| sive every year. When fully completed the
| United States will be the greatest partici
| pant in that trade of the Pacific whicf
| Humboldt predicted more than Is years age
| would be the greatest commerce that lane
| and sea have ever known. We need Cross
| but one ocean to grasp the wealth OF
| Ormus and of Ind Europe must traverse
| four seas to share it. We can produce
| everything which that Unsuitable market
can absorb, just as now we are produc
90 rf1
| metallic and miscellaneous to every market
| in the world, as the direct result of re
publican economic policies put in fore,
during our civil war and steadily persisted
in by that party ever since.
''This is manifest destiny; 1T is writer
by an suspicious astrology upon the SKY
| of visible future. ii will give 15,OOOOO
| people to our states OF the PACING coast
il will open a career to the talents of al
aspiring youth and in every way carry TIT
United States far along on that course O
national grandeur for which / believe
L 0rdo iv,od