The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-30

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be open even In that event for our In.
oreasing cotton goods from our weloom.
90 cotton mills as woll from oil our
other reaournas Of trade without en-
broiling oursolvos in all oftho evils
which follow in tho wake Of tho sejzipg
of foreign territory. :
=, what 40 wewant with moro territory?
There arc waste plaooB enough ia our
own land that noed building up. 1
There are lido people enough horo to
DO employed without putting capital
olsowhoro to train up untamod poonle
to trades aad handicrafts. Lat us tako
oaro Of our own laboring GLASS at homo
before expanding our surplus onerges
on others.
Far bettor would it be for us to OK :.
pend tho money which tho govornmont
will waste in suoh untried ventures in
q measure Of governmental relief for the
education Of our ohiidrou by tuning it
over to tho Stntcs to bo administered
under thoir school laws in proportion
to tho population.
Such oiIcumBoribed d countries rs Great
Britain with its over crowded popula-
tion and its noar by adjacent opemies
may see some advantage in acquiring
colonies whose peoplo can be turned
into standing armies to holp in hor do.
fonse andaD an outlet for hor Ears and
Lords, but Wo have no syoh conditions
at all.
ln my humble judgment whom Dewoy
landed at Manila aud took oharge Of
Archipelago Of tho PHILIPPINES iustoad
Of oonfning his action to tho ordor ito
find and deatroy tho Spanish naos",
which with addod glory to tho Amori-
csn tlAg ho did, policy was openod up
which porlonds, if carried out, grave
and terrible dissstor to our people as a
nation.
Tho half child and half savage inhabi-
tants Of these islepds wero found in ro-
volt with spain and ought to have boen
left alone to havo holped in hsr needed
humiliation.
But we wcro on tho crest of victory
and tho Republican politicians noeing
tho opportunity to extend thoir grasp
ing methods opened wido the now door
in order that thero should be now folds
for monopolies and trusts. The prin.
ciplos Of tho fors fathor Puritan; tho
hopo Of tho gallant Uavalior aud tho
:T3St of sha sturdy iIugenot wihun they
sottled this country and redeemed it
from klngy coloniz htiou that wo should
shine as an exampl ple to other nations as
tho yopublio Of the pooplo and for tho
people was tranpled in the dust; and
by the treaty Of Paris that policy of
plundor way attempted to bo notified
by an act Of purchase.
Such policy begun has no bounds
to its fruition and therein lies tho dan.
gsr. Tho PHILIPPINES will not DO enough
TO satisfy the cupidity Of grasping after
foreign territory. Eight thousand miles
away from us in unknown seas and amid
unknown people it will require stand.
ing army equal to thore Of tho Powor
Of Europe to maintain our authority
amoDg the nations and our prestige
among the powers Of oarth; and this
drain upon our treasury kept full by
taxation, Indirect through it be from a
suffering people is to bo counted as
nothing, for it givos tho administration
party the opportunity to mako moro Of
tioes to bo filled by moro supp ortoIs.
The maintenance Of such dope ndon.
clos ovon if it bo in tho shape of
q protectorato government only will
load to the formation Of military
assistance to othor powors for
mutual interests, and this will newt
ably lead Us into tho warliko embroil-
mont in tho inevitable warlikc struggle
which is always impending and must
sooner or later come DotWcon tho armed
powers Of Europe aud Asia and all of
this danger 10 tho principles and policy
Of our Inatitution is without tho slight.
est neooasity therefore, because whom
we had vihdicaied q rig t and the abili.
ty to be World Power all we had to
do was to require by treaty or purchase
if noed bo, cosling stations for our
ships, keep up our navy and domand
proper treaty rights in the future as in
tho past for the open door Of trade and
the free spread of tho religion of Chris.
tianity, and it mover w>uld or oJuld ho
| denied.
A recent Independence Day bard has
put tho whole thing in yerao in nut
shell.
"Grcat is our heritage Of hopo, and groat
The obligation OF our oivio fate
owe need
The fine audacities Of honest dood,
The homely old intsgrities Of soul,
The Swift temeritics that take tho part
Ofoutcast Rig 1.-THE wisdom of tho heart;
Brave hopes that hlammon never can de,ain
Nor sully with his gainlcss clutch for
gain
To popularizo this propaganda for
greed and gain, tho willy managers Of
this policy ondcavor to infuso into it a
destiny aud a fate in which thoy say
Religion must tako partl
Tho religion Of tao mock and lowly
NazAreno as given US in tho NV Dis
ronsstion Of Gods Revelation, was
mover intended to be propagated and
extended with tho Bible in ono hand
and Mauscr rifo in tho other.
"Peaoo and good will" is the frontis,
pieoe on the pure whito banner Of chris
tianity. That religion people do not
embrace which comes to them at tho
mouth Of tho cannon, nor 8ill they buy
goods from those who battor down thoir
placos OF trado with the guns Of war
ships.
This pernioious policy Of aggressive
tori, orial eXpanoion has already given
birth to a.youug Hercules OF dsoord
and danger in tho shape OF Oongros,
sional ABsoLUTIsM nurtured by tho par-
ty in powor and advocated by its pimps,
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