The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-29


,hizers in Congress, who compared him to
George Washington and his half naked
followers 10 the heroes of Kings Mouutaii 1
and Buuber Hill Stme of them now can
not conceal the chagrin which they feel at
the capture CT Aguinado aud the cessation of
hostilities. Its charged that my vote rati-
fed the treaty and s'oppei the wa. lfso.
| an. proud of the faci, and an thsnkful
th t Ihad the strength to Go ny duty and
cast that vote fear that would not have
had the coursge to doit, had not felt that
MY ;ote was absolutely necessary; but realiz
ing he farreachipg effect and the fearful re-
sponsibility, cast nv vote accordingly.
have never see" the lay when l regrettedit,
and nv children will remember it after an
dead, with pleasure and pride, as the most
glorious set ofny life.
EXPANSION
I VIII not undertake to demonstrate the
wisdom Of expansion, but will content my
self by simply saying that We are nation OF
ezpansionists. We have expanded during
the last one hundred Yeas on this continent
from eight hundred thousand 10 four mi lion
square miles. Expansion IS the bedrock Of
Democracy Thomas Jefferson, the first
expansion President, added l, ,l22, 900 square
miles to our area. The annexation of Texas,
California. Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada
were BY D mocratsc Administrations. An.
drew jackson would today be denounced as
an 1mperialist by the very same people who
eat jackson day dinners and worship at
his shrine. Old Hickey said OF this sub
iect, i have thought with the ancient Ro-
man, that il is right never to cede any ter.
ritory within the boundary OF the Republic,
but always to add to it by honorable treaty,
thus extending the area Of freedom All
this talk about imperialism is bosh. The
people understand it as the cry Of wolf,
when there is 10 wolf. When Mr.. Bryan
abandoned the money question and at
tempted to substitute Imperialism he stood
about as much chance of being elected as 8
q split.foot bull-!rog did of kicking all the
water out of Lake Michigan. At least, that
is the opinion ofa friend ofnice. The price
paid for these i.lands has been given as an
objection This Is absurd. England, France,
Germany, Russia or Japan would pay ten
times as much to occupy our position in thu
Phi ippine Islands. Lying as they do along
the Asialic coast, they are the gateway to the
Orient.
Tue people of the South are vitally in
tert sted il the trade of China; 80 far, we
have only touched one of the provinces.
Minister WI, the other night in Charlotte,
told of the teeming millious in South China,
and sid the great problem was to clothe the
people They are forced TO use silk to make
lheir clothes, but that tins was expensive and
almost an impos5ibility. l am told that,
for fear Of wearing them out, the Chinese
very rarely wash their clothes. | have
heard it vittily said that the chief difference
between the Chinese and Japanese is, that
the former never wash their clothes. and the
latter never wash their body. Believe it
was Mr.. WI who said the other night, to
teach the Chinese to wear cotton shirts aud
then get the emperor to issue an edict to make
the tails only one inch longer, and the cot
ton crop of the South would bs exhausted by
that one inch, and none left for Europe. II
any argument was needed to show the i'm
portance of these markets, the effect OF
recept troubles in China is sufficient. Cot
ton goods are stacked u in the warehouses
unstable, and when the best judges thought
last fell that cotton would be twelve and one
half to fifteen cents per pound ithas declined
more than three cents. I an an expan
sionist-I favor the political, commercial and
religious expansion Of our country. This is
along the line Of progress. We ca2not at
tain ce' tain growth and then stand still.
AS in hein6iVidual, so in the nation We
either move forward towards perfection, or
backwards towards decay. There are Ger
tain crises in the life of every man which
seized leads to success, let them pass and the
chance is lost forever. The capacity to take
advantage of the opportunity constitutes the
difference between the man who succeeds
aod the one~who fai s, and SC it is With
nations. We have grsodiy seized our op-
portunities, and ! for one am in favor of
pushing it to the limit. During the past
century we have been absorbed in testing
the great question Unconstitutional represen-
iative government and the development OF
America. The time has now come when we
must have foreign trade, aud not merely
subsidiary 10 our industrial development at
home but as necessary to QUE continue
prosperity. Our resources and population
demend worldwide avenues Of trade, and
we cannot separate the commercial and
political ellen ents iovolvei. Whist are we to
do with our surplus products? This is the
question eDsagiog the attention of all the
civilized nations of the earth. The only
field unoccupied is in the Orient believe
that the time is near at hand when the cot
ton trade of the South will be with the Ori
ent. When our commerce on the Atlantic
will be insignificant compared with that of
the Pacific Minister WI gave US some
valuable information at Charlotte. Our
manufacturers are reaching out for this
trade, and what better caa ! do IS you Sena-
tor than help them. No Sste will reap a
richer reward than South Carolina, with all
the water power and manufacturing develop
melt in the Piedmont reg on, and with three
such-haroors as Charleston, Georgetown and
Port Royal. How can better serve the
farmers of this STATE? They will share in the
benefits Of this trade. Here is the United
States midway between Europe and Asia
Almost an island when the canal is cut
with the Gulf Of Mexico on the South and
the Great Lakes on the North; the Atlantic
on one side and the Pacific on the other, and
with the people of TWO continents bidding
for our products. the possibilities dazzel the
Imagination. 1t is no idle dream. believe
that most Of the people within the sound Of
my voice will live to see itreaizsd We have
become pacific power with 5000 miles of
coast on that ocean; with the Hawaiian
Islands and Aleutian Islands as resting
places, and the Philippines as 8 key to the
"Open Door," We are the only nation strong
enough to >ompel Russia, with her trans
Siberian Railroad, to respect the integrity
Of the Chinese Empire. As long as the
United States and Japan say "No," the Chi
nese Empire must remain intact and the door
be left open to our products When think
of how strangely it has all come about | can
not but believe that the hand of God is guild
ing this government, and that he has watch
ed over and directed US along the path
where lie greatness, peace and prosperity.
cannot undertake to discuss the question OF
a government for these outlying possessions;
we have settled other problems Of more
complex nature, and I cannot but believe
that solution will be found just; humane