The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-22

MonD6E1 In Q6aI1ng Win O6n6r nations
that benefits must be given when
benefits are sought. It is not pos
sible so dogmatize as TO the exact
way of attaining this end, for the
exact conditions cannot be foretold.
In the long run one of our prime
needs is stability and continuity of
economic policy, and yet, through
treaty II by direct legislation, il may
at least in certain cases become ad
vantageous TO supplement- our pres
emit policy by a system of reciprocal
benefit and obligation.
OUR CAREER OF EXPANSION.
Throughout a large part of our
national are u history has been
one of expansion, the expansion be-
ing of different kinds at different
times. This explanation is not a
matter of regret, but of pride. 1t is
vain to tell a people as masterful as
III that the spirit of enterprise is
not safe. The true American has
never feared TO run risks when the
prize to be won was of sufficient value.
No nation capable of self-govern-
ment and of developing by it's own
efforts a sane and orderly civiliza-
ton, nc matter how small it may be,
has anything to fear from us. Our
dealings with Cuba illustrate this
and should be forever a subject of
just national pride. We speak in no
spirit of arrogance when we state as
a simple history fact that never in
recent years has any great nation
acted with suoh disinterestedness as
we have shown in Cuba. We freed
the island from the Spanish yoke.
We then earnestly did our best TO
help the Cubans in the establish
ment of free education, of law and
order, of material prosperity, Of the
cleanliness necessary TO sanitary
we'll being in their great cities. We
did all this at great expense of treas
ure, at some expense of life, and now
we are establishing them in a free
and independent commonwealth and
have f-3ked in return nothing what
ever save that at no time shall their
independence be prostituted TO the
advantage of some foreign rival of
ours or so as so menace our we'll be-
ing. To have failed TO ask this
would have amounted to national
qualification on our part.
WHAT HAvE WE DONE FOB THE is
LANDS?
In the Philippines we have brought
peace, and we are at this moment
giving them such freedom and self,
government as they could IN,
der any conceivable conditions have
obtained had we turned them loose
to sink into a weller of blood and
confusion or 80 become the prey Of
some strong tyranny without OF
within. The bare recital of the facts
is sufficient to show that we did Oul
duty, and what prouder title to honor
can a nation have than TO have done
it's duty? We have done our'duty tC
ourselves, and we have done the
higher duty of promoting the oivili
ZatiOn of mankind. The first essen
tial to oi~ viiization is law. Anarchy
is simply the handmaiden and fore
runner of tyranny and despOtism
Law aud order enforced by justice
and by strength lie at the founda
ton of eli Utilization. Law must bt
based upon Justice, else it canno'
stand, and it must be enforced with
resolute 1rmness, because weakness
in enforcing it means in the end thai
there is no justice and Nc law, moth
ing but the rule OF disOrderly anC
INSCRIPTIONS strength. Without
the habit of orderly obedience to thC
law, without the stern enforcement
of the laws as the expense of those
who def 4ntly resist them, there cal
be no possible progress, moral o.
material, in civilization. There cal
be no weakening of the law-abidinG
spirit at home if we are permanently
to succeed, and just as little can WI
afford 20 show weakness abroad
Lawlessness and anarchy were pu'
down in the Philippines as a pre-
requisite to inducing the reign o.
Justice.
Barbarism has and can have NJ
place in a civilized world. It is oul
duty toward the people living in bar
barism to see that they are freed