New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
TRUE NATIONAL POLICY.
SENATOR BEyERIDGE SETS FORTH
THE AMERICAN SITUATION AT
GRANT CLUB MEETING.


tor Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, arrived here
this morning and met by party of prominent
citizens and members of the Grant Club and driven
to the home of his half brother, Charles Doyle.
Senator Beveridge dned with Governor Shaw, Sem
Dolliver and others and was afterward shown
about the city, meeting the State officers at the
Capitol
This evening Senator Beverdge delivered the
principal address at the annual meeting of the
Grant Club the leading social and POLITICAL club
OF the State. John I. Webster, OF Omaha, spoke
The United States, the Nation of Destiny" sena-
tor Dolliver responded to the toast Ulysses S.
Grant A large number of out of town guests was
present. A reception and banquet followed
Senator Beverdge spoke on THE American Sit
uation' In part he said:
There are two points of acute American interest
gsstve that it is almost dramatic that these two
Philippine Islands came by conquest and pur
Geh dr 4ey M are hear of II the @ VeS a
even richer than that garden spot over TINS DO
rapidly than the same achievement ever ac-
cGmplished anywhere or az any time under similar %
the foundation of permanent peace Is finally laid
maintained This work is in our hands We can
not hand it over 10 Germany, who Is anxious to
is willing to undertake it; cannot surrender it to
Japan. who is eager to undertake it. The Filipinos
we could justify policy of retreat, even If the
is difficult if we were willing abdicate the
commercial throne Of the Far East all this would
hunger for the Philippines would permit either of
the others to acquire them from us. The Philip
pine situation is that our business there Is mex
trcabe and permanent.
THE REAL CUBAN PROBLEM
In Cuba in the Philippines the American peo-
pie will take no counsel from doubts and fears The
purpose of all American statesmanshp with refer-
ence to Cuba has been and Is the welfare OF the
American people The welfare of the Cuban people
Is not Inconsistent with the interests and safety OF
can interests Cuban safety and American safety,
Cuban prosperity and American prosperity are iden
safeguards against Cuban Indebtedness. We are not
conspirne against the welfare Of the cuban % people
providing for the welfare OF the CUBAN peo-
pie. When provide that Cuba shall never be
stroying Cuban indanendence. we are establishing
It and setting metes and bounds where all lnterter-
ence shall meet the sentinel of American authority
When provide that American guns from Cuban
ports shall command the entrances to the Gulf, we
We are guaranteeing it by the blood of every Ameri,
can soldier VINO mans our Cunin sdi b i 9nfe
of the Cuban people. And when we ordaln that at
to nrote eft Fights property liberty itself do not
demosh Cuban liberty We preserve ana 9eten9
order law and justice: and order justice ana Ia"
Our Cuban legislation is the most important de-
velopment of national power since the Consttutl9n
was adopted Cpon the H THe msT OF ' o the Globe
may depend not only the preservation OF @ Ihe ln ~
the whole world. Within the present century IN m
ternational complica tions will occur where terTi-
tory may he assigned to the keeping OF the Tepuodic
by the other great powers of the world. We may az
not mt to annex such territory thus rnaknS max 10 20
inhabt tants citizens Of the republic and yer UP 10
our philippine period. annexation was as me onS MY
mali mo want to own it as property and govern it
as a possession: and yet up to the hour OF our
the only methods we had employed But our CHnan
legislation creates a new method "l ~ ~ - ne
guardianship of any territory which may iau 10 "S'
OUR VANTAGE GROUND IN CHINA
can dom
partition of China even n9w Is 5en,tn IN 9plomatc
ny d9rcf o9f 9t Ir b bv he Of commercial
cupancy and industrial development IN rhS er sSl
Gns be snman9s upon American No
American statesman excuse himself tor me
eXcHsSSn S OF ronnd that While attending to
affairs the teTrEry 1 W, Where 1nra fhd Of eG onr Tas
without precaution having been taken TO preserve
sav v absf the danger is not Imminent Statesman
ship must consider the future Statesmansnip m mus S
arrange conditions to-day so that the result or
ons be- natural and inevitable And So while America
wants no part of China; while America viii decline
be active participant in Chna's coInmercial i
vantages being preserved in every province of the
America prefers that the integrity OK Chlnl com
merciaIly as well politically, shall be preserved
open to every merchant and manufacturer OF every
nation OF the world on equal terms -o,,,,,+ ,,,,,
But America will not go 10 war TO prevent Eng
land Germany Russia, France or any other coun-
try from asserting their respective spheres of COM
mercial influence in China. America wants no war
anywhere or at any time when it can be avoided
without sacrificing the honor interest OF the
American people. All that America is CONCERNED
in is that when China's partition occurs the door
shall be kept open to American goods, no matter
how tightly 1t is shut against any other nation In
this situation possession of the Philippines
makes us masters of the game. And In this sltu-
alton liberty Of action the part OF our govern
ment is necessary TO our mastering this greatest
commercial arrangement OF history. And so II is
that the power of free hand developed in the Phil
ippines and more in Cuba; so It is that
purely American government in the Philippines:
so il is that the Philippines themselves become
necessary TO the American future In the Far East.
Let the man who would disturb this stua ton
answer to the coming generations of American
workingmen whose livelihood will depend upon
markets 1t was not the method OF Grant to
render to the enemy a strategic position once
cured. The ground he gained he held. Where
Grant planted the flag the flag remained 1t was
a principle of American life which Grant
nounced when he declared I'VE will fight 1t out on
this line