Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-23

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temptation of his life have led me no
fact has made deeper impression than
the one that the great dominant pur-
pose of Washingtons mind was, not
to form a confederacy of sovereign
states, but to lay broad and deep in
the virgin soil of this western world
the foundations of a mighty nation,
the first and immutable principles of
whose being should be equality and
justice and under whose. strong and
beneficent protection the cause OF lib
erty would flourish and grow strong.
Washington was a nationalist in
every thought and purpose of his mind,
firm believer Gas some Of us are to-
day. in a strong central government
an imperialist If you please, but one
whose conception of American empire
embraced no land beyond the seas.
Upon no question do we find that
he had stronger or more settled con-
victions than the one involving our
foreign relations. Again and again he
warned his country against entangling
alliances with foreign states. He was
felicitous in the thought that our iso-
lated situation made it possible to keep
aloof from the controversies of oher
nations.
Why Celebrated
"This day is celebrated by CRATE
full people who revere the memory of
Washington, who glory in his exalted
patriotism, and who have tested by
century of trying experiences the
wisdom of his counsel. Has the time
come, will it ever come, when the
| American people will be so unwise as
to disregard the sage advice of this
first citizen of the republic? We trust
not, and we believe not. Never in the
| history of our country has there been
greater need to consider and heed
the counsel of Washington respecting
our foreign relations than is presented
| by the situation in the orient, in which,
by reason of our possession of the
Philippines, we are involved to a
greater extent than is compatible with
that assurance of peace to which our
| situation otherwise entities us.
"The great dragon of the east is
arouslng from the lethargy of thou
sand years and views with no kindly
spirit the encroachments Of the occi-
dent upon his ancient domain; the re-
cent victories of Japan have warmed
his blood and aroused the conscious
ness of his strength. The greed of ma
| tions and their lust for power promise
| further aSgreSsions, with attendant
complications and increasing dangers.
Philippines Entangements
"As long as we maintain our possess
sion of the Philippines we cannot, if
we would, view from our western
shores the great drama being acted in
the east, but unhappily, we must play
a leading part in the very center of
activity, and If that part does not in
! the near future draw us into variety
of complications, from which we may
escape only by a resort to arms, 1t will
be because a merciful providence,
mindful of the great good we have
| done as nation in the past, shall
forgive our wrongdoing in having re-
tained possession of the Philippines
and spare us from the fate of war.
IF we are true to the traditions of
our country, mindful of the counsel Of
our forefathers and faithful in the dis
charge of the sacred trust they have
committed to our care, we will give up
our dominion over those islands as
soon as proper regard for whatever
duty we may owe the people thereof
will permit, and that duty will always
be limited by the higher and more sa-
cred obligations which we owe to the
sons and daughters of our own land.
while giving respectful considera-
tlOli W lile OplillOllo VI TIE lOllOWcIS VI
| Jefferson in his ideas concerning fed
eral power, 1 hold that the controlling
| logic of events has proven the superior
wisdom of the views of Washington
and Hamilton respecting the central
ization of power. for as trade and
commerce increase and the relations OF
the citizens of the different states grow
more intimate and varied, the neces-
sity for investing the central govern
ment with greater authority seems
more and more apparent.
State Lines Effaced
"The vast and efficient systems of
transportation, interlacing the different
parts of the whole country have, in a
commercial and industrial sense, prac-
tically effaced state lines and made the
interests of the people as a whole more
homogeneous and interdependent than
they were in a single state, when the
great questions of federal control were
| first discussed and the constitution
adopted.
THE grave questions concerning cor
porations, the trusts, transportation
and correlated subjects, which today
most seriously disturb the equanimity
of the people and excite their appre-
henslon, are the natural outgrowth of
these changed conditions, and these
questions can be settled wisely only by
broad and comprehensive legislation,
which cannot be accomplished except
by charging the scope Of national con-
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