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a system of reciprocal benefit and
obligation"
II. EXPANSION.

Roosevelt repeats substantially what
he has said before. Expansion OF
some sort has been the characteristic
of American history. 1t involves
risks, but the Americans are not
afraid to run risks. No people capable
of developing self-government have
anything to fear from US. Our treat
ment of Cuba illustrates this. We
have given the Cubans freedom,
established law and order in Cuba,
secured for them sanitary we'll be-
ing, done all at great expense, and
asked nothing in return ''save that
at no time shall their independence
be prostituted TO the advantage of
some foreign rival of ours, so as to
menace our we'll being" Our course
in the Philippines he regards as
equally a matter for national pride.
For the suppression Of the F~ilipinos'
revolt he offers no apologies he
justiies it on the broad ground that
it is the duty of civilized nations to
destroy barbarian. What he says
on this subject is so admirably said
and so in consonanoe with the prin-
ciples which The Outlook has been
advocating that we report it nearly
entire:
"Barbarism has and can have no
place in a civilized world. 1t is our
duty toward the people living in bar.
barism TO see that they are freed
from their chains, and we can only
free them by destroying barbarism
itself. The missionary, the merchant,
and the soldier may each have to
play a part in this destruction, and
in the consequent uplifting of the
people. Exactly as it is the duty Of
a civilized power s~orupulously to re-
spect the rights of all weaker civil
lied powers and gladly to help those
who + struggling towards civiliza-
tion, SO it is it's duty TO put down
savagery and barbarism. As in such
a work human instruments must be
used, and as human instruments are
imperfect, this means that at times
there will be injustice that at times
merchant, or soldier, or even mis-
sionary may do wrong. Let us in
stantlY condemn and rectify such
wrong when it occurs, and if possible
punish the wrongdoer. But shame,
thrice shame to US, if we are SO fool
ish as to make such occasional wrong
doing an excuse for failing to per.
form a great and righteous task. Not
only in our own land, but through
out the world, throughout all his
tory, the advance of civilization has
been of incalculable benefit to man
kind, and those through whom it has
advanced deserve the highest honor.
All honor to the missionary, all
honor to the soldier, all honor TO the
merchant who now in our day have
done so much to bring light into the
worlds dark places"
The work thus begun in the Philip
pines by our soldiers, and now being
carried forward under the wise ad-
ministration of Governor Taft
giving to the islands ga peace and
liberty of which they never even
dreamed" must be carried on to it's
completion. "We shall make mis-
takes and if we let These mistakes
brighten Us from III work, we shall
show ourselves weaklings." In the
past 1--WE have made many FLANDERS
and have been guilty of many short,
comings, and yet in the end we have
always come out victorious, because
we have refused to be daunted by
plumbers and defeats-have recog
nized them, but persevered in spite
of them. So it must be in the
future" The Outlook gives so much
space to this address because it may
fairly be taken as an expression, not
only of the Vice-P Presidents faith,
but of the faith of the young Repub-
licans of the West, whom he, prob
ably better than any other man, rep
resents. If we couple his more virile
and heroic speech with the more con-
sentative and commercial speech of
the President, they may be taken TO.
gether as defining the policy Of the
Republican party somewhat as fol.
lows: At home, individual liberty,
under such regulation of law as will
protect not only the weak from tho
strong, but the unwise from the cun.
ming, and the individual from prac-
teal desDotism by great organiza-
tions; abroad, the continuance of