The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-24
Expansion Gives Market for Surplus

international treatment, ana yet II is
the greatest unexploited market on
the globe-the market of China and
the Orient. To that market we are
carried by the development of another
principle as natural as that of indus
trial combination-the principle of e:s-
pansion. 1t is a principle universal.
and manifests itself in the life of every
individual, the progress of every bust
ness firm, and sweeps onward through
the whole range of human activity TO
the policies of nations. The boy can
scarcely care for himself; the man
cares for himself and others too.
We have expended tens of millions
of American gold to plant the begin
nings of civilization in the Philippines.
We have poured out American blood
to establish modern system. modern
methods, modern progress there. They
command the commerce of the East.
Why should we, then, in the very hour
when commercial expansion is swiftly
becoming our mortal need, abandon
this possession; throw away the mul
tiplied millions of dollars they have
invested; denounce our soldiers as
pirates; give up the mastery of the
Pacific and the control of the Orient?
1t is policy of decreptitude, a propo-
sition of disgrace. If Filipinos should
be found capable of self-government.
the Republican party will give it to
them. We are teaching them by prac.
tice; we are training them by educa-
ton. If we can make them self-gov-
erning, none will hail that consumma-
tion with such delight as we who are
instructing them. But we will not
turn them back to barbarism. We
will not abandon them to rival pow-
ers. We will not haul down the flag.
We will do our work like Americans
and men until all the East shall bless
the name Of the great republic and all
mankind cheer American beneficence
Philippine Expenses.
Do they tell us of expense? Every
dollar of expense of Philippine civil
administration is paid out of the reve-
nues of the archipelago. And the op.
position admits the necessity of our
military expense because it proposes
to keep our army there till stable gov
ernment is established, and we do not
propose to keep it longer. Our army
has steadily been reduced and we are
now creating a native constabulary
to take it's place. Spain had only ] 500
Spanish soldiers there when war broke
out-Americans can finally do with
fewer still. Unless American inter.
ests in the Orient require large force
stationed in the Philippines, we will
not in five years have 1000 American
soldiers there. If our Oriental inter-
ests demand otherwise, it is as cheap
to keep our soldiers stati oned there as
here. And they must be stationed
somewhere because they are regular
troops; and no one proposes to abol-
ish our regular army. Expense of an
enterprise Is not measured by the first
outlay. What would be said of man
who bought farm, stocked it, built
barns, erected houses, and then aban-
doned 1t because thus far all had been
outlay without income? When high
ways In Luzon Join every plantation
now separated by Wilderness; when
wilderness itself shall be plantation;
when railroads carry the archipelago's
eral wealth to its ocean ports; when
every Filipino Is educated to modern
methods and thus his consuming ca
pacity is lifted from the littleness Of
barbarism to the fullness of civilized
demands; when the trade of the Ori-
ent's hundreds of millions consumers
is won to American factories and
farms, what mind cannot see the re-
sulting profit? Shall we take no
thought of the morrow? That is the
counsel of insolvency. To preserve
present prosperity, American states
men must care for the future.
Philippine expenses! Who feels
their burden? Is it you, farmer, who
are more prosperous than you have
been for quarter of century? Your
farms alone are worth 1920, ,000, 900
more today than before the war with
Spain. Is it you, manufacturer, whose
| plants are running with double shifts? T?
You have increased your productive
investments over s500,000,000 since
the war with Spain began. Is it you.
| workingman, who in factories alone
are earning $500, 100000 more wages
every year than before our period of
expansion? In spite of the hundreds
Of millions Of war expenses, in spite
of other millions expended in laying
the foundation of future wealth In our
dependencies, Republican administra-
tion has paid it all, and in addition
and at the same time actually, reduced
the nations debt s10.0O0,OOO, and so
refunded the remainder that today the
American people pay $7,000,000 less
interest annually than we paid before
the war with Spain began; and, in ad-
dition, still and at, the same time, ac.
cumulated the heaviest surplus in our
treasury of any nation IN the world.
Think of the contrast! Eight years
ago peace, Democracy, disaster and a
deficit! Today, in spite Of war, Re-
publicanism, prosperity and a sur
plus! More STILL During the period
from March 1st, 1897, the Inauguration
of William Mckinley, until March 1,
1902, period of just five years, the
American people sold to the rest of
the world s6,630.934. .462. and bought
$3,922,923, ,566. In these five years the
balance of trade in favor of the United
States reached 81, ,70S, ,010.906. In these
five years of Republican rule. in spite
of WAR the favorable balance of trade