THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESD AY, JULY 18, 1900. Published Dslly, Eseept Bundst-. br Th Trib une I'ubUihlng ( ompiny, at I'UtyCtntlMontlu MVY S niCIIAtW, ndltor. O. K. UYXDCK. Ditlncn Uanscer. New Vcrlf Office) 150 Nassau St. S. 8. VIUTMND, Sole Agent for Foreign Advertising Cntcred t tlie Teutonic t Scranton, r., ai Second Class Mall Matter. When space will permit, The Tribune la a wsjs cjicl to print ahort letters from Its mends tearing on current topic, but Its rule Is that these must be sinned, lor publication, by the writer's real name; and the condition precedent to acceptance Is that all contributions ahall b subject to editorial rerlalon. SCHANTON, JULY 18, 1900. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. National. Preildcnt-WILUAJI McKINLF.T. VIce-lTcslclent-THEODOlli: HOOSEVELT. State. Concrcssmen al-Lore-e OAI.USIK A OuOW, nonritT h roi:nnr.i:it. Auditor C'cncral-K. II. IlARDKKDERait. County. Congrcss-WIiXIAM COXSHM Judue ni.OHOi: M WATSOV. Sheritl-JOIiN II. rI.LOVS. Treasurer J. A FCIUNTOX. Wstrl;t Attorney-W IM.IAM II. LEWIS. Prothonotarv JOI1K COIT-LAND. Clerk ot Courts TIIOM S I. DANIELS. Ilccorder of Ilecds-UIIL IIOSN. Hrehtcr of Wills W. K. IirCK. Jury CommlssIoncr-r.DWAnD U. STUROES. Legislative. Klrst DMrlct-TIIOMAS ,T. REYNOLDS. Sc-ond District JOHN SCIirUl It, .lit. Third Dlstrlet-MIWARD JAMrS, JR. Fourth Dlslrlit -P. A. PIIILU1N. r.cnBhlp without rcsnrd to party Is back of Mm, to the last man and dollar, waiting simply his word ot command. Uut for the present, the forces nlrendy nvnildblo will first bo utlllsr-d and tha rlhlurbanpo of a new levy will be iivolded If possible. The decllon Is muniro.tly prudent and Just. China differs most materially from other nations In the fact that the mob Is more powetful than the government. A' If the proposed curfew act can be made to Include Scranton'a children of a tough age as well as those of a ten der age, It would Indeed bo a boon. IT The Proposed Curfew Lnw. -ION Tlffi prlnclplo that pre vention Is better than cure, the proposition of a curfew law for Scranton has argu ments to commend It. True, It Involves an exorcise of police authority some what more extreme than Is customary; but on the other hand, the social dan gers arising from the unrestricted pres ence of young children on the streets at unseasonable hours, and under temptations to vice which appear to be more numerous than formerly, require dennlto. action on the part of the offi cers of the law, and If nothing better can be suggested than the curfew law, let that be tried. T'c believe that It Is not an exagger ation to pronounce the conditions prevalent In this city In respect to the loitering of young girls on the publlo thoroughfares at night In many parts of town, and In the, vicinity of the parks and sequestered places more es pecially, app'illlng. How much of this Is harmless and how much vicious, who enn say? The mayor's court frequently discloses examples of crime and ruin traceable directly to this deplorabla laxity of parental control, and It is obvious that the Instances of harm which reach publicity In the mayor's court are few In comparison with the number that are hushed up. Some waywardness Is to be expected i a token of fallible human nature; but HUiely this does not Justify the ab sence of official cognizance of the chief contiibuttng cause. It may be that sufficient laws already exist for the correction of most of this evil. Certainly the cordons of the law can be more tightly drawn than they have yet been drawn around the social evil as ptactlced by notorious women Plying their miserable business with out concealment and as encouraged by landlords willing to rent their property for Immoral purposes. The recent be ginning made by the Men's union to ward enforcing the drastic penalties provided ngalnst such offenders Is a step In the right direction and If fol lowed up will do much to cleanse the ntmosphere. An energetic use of the police forco to reduce the amount of professional vice In this vicinity would be a good introduction for a curfow law. Pitching Into Roosevelt. CCOUDlNa to Chicago ad vices, the Democratic cam paign managers, anticipat ing the enthusiasm likely to bo created by Colonel ltoosevclt in the west, are cudgeling their brains to lay out a plan of campaign to counteract it. Their first thought was to thiow rid icule upon his military record, to ex ploit him before the people as a fire cater and bluffer, as a man with an undeserved reputation for bravery; In short, as a military faker. The Chi cago Itccord, on Independent paper, says they put a man upon the records and he looked through them from be ginning tp end, only to have to report as follows; "I have reread cable grams, letters and reports from San tiago, Siboney, Camp "Wlkoff and Tam pa until I am tired, and, to tell tho truth. 'Teddy' Is too much for me. There Is no doubt ho was tho best ad vertised commander during tho wnr, and he did things and said things which no other colonel, except ho had as good a 'pull' with the administra tion ns 'Teddy' had, would have dared to do or say. Uut the- cold fact re mains that ltoosevclt was a b ave fel low and did great work. There Is no doubt that he Is claiming much that was done by other colonels and sol diers, but ho was no 'bluffer.' Tho ono thing which we have which will put lilm In a bad light Is his claim that his regiment of tho rough riders did nil the fighting at San Juan hill. The reports and tho dispatches from the front during that time do not bear out his claim." "Whether Teddy's men did all the fighting at San Juan or only a part ot it, they at least did their whole duty; they set an example that will live In our history, and that Is the main thing. Uut there Is nnother crltcism ngalnst lloosevelt which tho Democratic cam paign managers Intend tow circulate, they purpose to print fac similes of tho Santiago round robin, the American officers' piotest against Secretary Al ger's officious order to General Shatter to move his fever-stricken army fifteen miles up hill to San Luis nt the rate of two miles a day, an order which Itoosevelt, in his Impetuous way, Is said to have denounced as muiderous, because the men were too weak to obey it. The Democrats have found out that Theodore ltoosevclt had a good deal to do with getting that mis taken order ieoked and the depleted troops brought north to Long Island, where they could get back into a healthy condition; and they seem to think thnt tho republication of the round robin, of which they pay he Is the author, will in some mysterious way reflect upon his docility ns a sol dier and pillory him before the people as a man who thought more of sav ing the flower of our army than ho did of ruffling Oeneral Alger's susceptible feelings. Mnyba It will. Maybe Teddy doesn't care if it does, since ho ca. lied his point. Incidentally Genoial Alger has retired to prlate life. So by all leans let us hae the round robin as a campaign Issue. It was tiled In New York and it made lloosevelt governor. There are those who believe It will yet contribute to his election as piesldent. It certainly will not Inlrfeie with his prospects for tho vice presidency; for, after all, the people like tho kind ot men who don't stand on ceiemony when there is something of great im portance to bo done and done quickly. Tho sltuntlon In the offices of the yel low New York dalles becomes mote appalling hourly. K ilentlal nomination had not Quay controlled a largo tnijority of the state's delegation ami or. tiered otherwise. Ilie atatc might base had one of the foreign ambasidor had Quay anJ Penrose consented to the appointment of some reputable min, but they Insisted that unless one of their own kind vv u named no other Tcnnsjlvanlan should bo honored The stite would not be represented In tla cabinet If the president had nut brushed aside tho protests of Quay and ap pointed Charles I'moiy bmlth In aplto of them The atatc will not be represented on tho nitlonal executive committee botause Quay Insisted on bring himself nude the number and that vvould hive been worse than not belnp; represented at all. We have shown that tho last state ment as to Quay Insisting on going on tho national executive committee Is without foundation. As to Charles Kinory Smith's appointment to tho cabinet, It was Quay's motion that gave unanimous confirmation, In which Penrose cheerfully Joined, Regarding tho ambassadorship matter, Pennsyl vania already has nn ambassador and a good ono In Charlemagne Tower, our representative at St. Petersburg, and as for tho Smith vlce-prcsldentlal boom wo are not aware that the "Wllkes-Uarro Itccord, or any other In surgent oracle, did enough for It when there was n chanco for It to succeed to entitle It now to undertake to locate the blame for its failure. "What's the use of so much misrepresentation? ROOSEVELT OPENS THE CAMPAIGN (.Concluded from Page 1.1 The United States wants no Chinese territory, but the opportunity to give Pilnce Tuan an American ttlal by Jury or court martial will be appreciated by all. i a Parties on tho back scats are re hpectfully requested to refrain from remarks In reference to Ice when Dem ocratic orators denounce the trusts. Newspaper writers who can tell In pilnt Just how military operations should bo conducted In China are springing up like mushrooms. Quite a number of "Wall street lambs had difficulty In getting In out of the wet when the recent showers saved tho corn crop from disaster. To express It In vulgar vernacular, the enthusiasm thus far over the nom ination of Adlal Stevenson "wouldn't Jar you." THAT PLATT ORM. It is well that tho principal labors of the cenjus enumerator were complet ed before the beginning of the "hot spell." Tho present state of tempera ture Is not conducive to civil answers to what may seem needless questions. s No Special Session. (a-r-IIi: CALLING of congress to- H frpthnr In n Ennolnl coeclnn I. JL the stifling heat of midsum mer and on the eve of a presidential campaign, when the mind of well-nigh every member is devoted to the manufacture of campaign nm - munition for partisan ndvantage, could be Justified only by the most impera tive national necessity. The first r-1-ports of the Tlen-Tsln light, which con Slveycd tho Impression that the co-oper-atlng forces had sustained a crush ;lng .defeat, would, If confirmed, have potrifed to such a necessity because '"Jsifob a reverse would bo likely to cre mate, an. jy.precedented crisis la China, threatening the whole of that great as, empire, with embroilment In the an iarchy which as yet is confined to the northern provinces. Uut the later information, received yesterday, of final victory won after .heroic eacrlflce by the armies of civil ization puts a more hopeful aspect up"cm the situation. Tho Chinese fan Hatlcs nre now deprived of the ti emend- ous, advantage which would have come to them through the prestige of Initial success; the Intelligent elements of the "" Pekln dynasty appear to have aroused their sluggish wits to a clearer com prehension of the requirements of their '..perilous attitude, and with the near .proximity of powerful relnfoi cements '.the allies are now in position at least J-to hold their own while the various powers are concentrating their strength 'for the concerted ultimate advance ..'upon tho Chinese capital. lv It would be dishonest to conceal that j.tho crisis Is still most grave; and cir cumstances may at any moment force the administration to summon congress for the purpose of authorizing an extra ' enlistment of 'troops. Should this con tingency arise, the president would act ''upon the Instant. He has this whole matter fully in hand and every energy of tho government and of loyal cltl- Qunyphobln. OMK OP OUU esteemed con tempoiailes, notably tho "VUkes-I3ane Record, profesa to be greatly chagilned that In tho formation of the new Republi can national executive committee Pennsylvania Is not represented. Says tho Record; It is only Just to Chalrmnn Hinna to explain why Pennsylvania, tho btnncr ltciublltun state, was Ignored ill tho selection of the numbers of this most iiupoitant committee. The explana tion (un be trivin in a few vvords The only aspirant from this state was M. S. Qujv and Ihiiiman llann.i knew well that Quav wjitKd the pi lie only iwtaue it might bt n k!o to serve his own purposes, and not bic u i h wai anxious to promote the interests of the undi datis and tho pally. Chairman Hjiiiu well Ivnew that Mr Quay thorough! hates President McKinle), Ucause tho lattrr refused point blank to use his influence to have Quay admitted to a seat In the senate on the certificate of appoint ment given him by Governor Stone Manna also knew that It would bu Impossible for the execu tive commlttie to to opente hirmonlously If Mr. Quay wire a member. Of course, the latter and his machine adherents will be bitterl of fended, but they would have bien furious if some other Pennsylvania Republlian bad been se lected. Chairman 11 anna ami those who advised him therefore concluded that less barm would be done by leaving the Kev stone state unrepre sented than by placing on the committee a man who would be certain to Incur the violent fac tional hatred of the Quay machine contingent. This Interesting "explanation" would poss'.'ss considerably more Importance if it were true. As a matter of fact, it Is erroneous In Its first and chief alle gation ot fact. Colonel Quay was not "an aspirant" for tho place, but when he gave to Representative Connell his proxy to attend the national commit tee meeting at Philadelphia, immed lately after the adjoin ninent of the convention, he Instiucted Mr, Connelt to say, In case the question came up. that ho was not prepared to accept a place on tho executlvo 'Committee. It Is amusing to say thai ho could not have had this place had he wanted It. The Republican campaign leaders are not turning down political generals of the M. S. Quay typo because of sore head factional dissension of limited area. That was shown by their greeting to Quay during the national convention. The Record continues; In this incident we have only another illustra tion of the effects ot QuajUui on the Republican party of this state. Pennsylvania might have had a formUlablt camlJdaU for ths tics preei- Hdltor of Tho Tribune Sir: I have been reading with considerable In terest that wonderful platform which Mr. Rrjan forced the Kansas City convention to adopt. I luvo taken more than usual Interest In the plat form because It was heralded in a special from Kansas City as reading "like a charter of hu man rights," and given out at tho South Side mcctiug the other night as a second Declaration of Independence. In this article I propose to speak more putlcularly of the first plank which alhrms belief in tho principles of the glorious Declaration of Independence. Why this waste of time? Was It because the Democratic party has behavcel itself so bully In tho past that Mr. Ilrjan knows the pceiple havev an inkling that bis party has no deflnlto understanding of the real meaning of the grtat declaration of July 4, 1770? Does ho and his followers think tho people arc so short memoried as to have forgotten the past history of the so-called Demo cratic part? Does he and bis followers think that tho people have forgotten the tact that It was the Demoeratlo party that tried to force the sitem of human slavery upon bleeding Kan sas? Does he and his followers have the thought tint they ean blind tho people to the fact that it was the Democratic party that caused John llrown to be hanged at Harper's Kerry In lf59f Does Mr. Ilnan and his followers think tho people who love the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence nre ready to accept the aflirmatlon of the Kansas City platform as an honest expression of belief by tho Democratic part in those principles, when it is written in letters of blood that the Democratic mobs killed Owen Lovcjo and made life almost a burden to orators like Wcjidell Phillips, William Meid OarriiOn and others because theie worthless pre ached deliverance for the down-troelelen col ored man? Does Mr. Ilran and his party think tint the American people have forgotten the canelng by the Democratic Preston Brooks of Charles Sumner In the United States senate be cause Mr Sumner hail shown in faithful speech the machinations of the Democratic party in re gard to securing for the slaveholders the fair kenl of Kansis? 'Ibe rceoid of the Democratic party is black with attempts to crmh free speech and liberty on American soil. Xo wonder that Mr. Ilran and his followers ar anxious to cover the past record by re aflirmatlon of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Hut the flcople do not forget the record The people know tho af firmation of a lellef in the Declaration of Inde pendence is hpocritical and Intended to deceive and teduce theie who arc removed so manv jcars from tho times tint tried men's souls that many know of the facts mentioned above only from the re ailing of history. The declaration of thi Ir belief in the great American Magna Chart is like Satan's attempt to preach the gospel of the Lord and Master, it is the invitation ot the spider to the 11 to walk into the parlor. The American people will not bo deceived by the speclnus, demagogic attempt to lead them astray by such bjpocritlcal affirmation as that in plank one of the Kansas City platform J. II. Wheeler. Scranton, July 10. essentially absurd that mathematicians hold their statement to be equivalent to their refutation. So It is with this proposition. If it were worth while I would point out its dishonesty and in sincerity. But flagrant though these arc, Its absurdity la so much more flagrant that nothing need be said. So It Is with their cant about "militarism" and "Intimidation and oppression at home," as following what they ro pleased to call "conquest abroad " We cannot argue with them on this proposition, because no se rious man thinks for one moment that they believe what they assert. During the great civil war there vvcro many preachers of the gospel of dlsloalty among the so called Copperheads of the North, and these men, like their repre sentatives among our opponents today, prophe sied the subversion of the country when tho great armies of Grant and Sherman should come back from the war; but the great armies of Grant and Sherman returneil to civil life and were swallowed up among their fellow iltliens without a ripple. A considerable army was kept for a ear or two on the Indian frontier and In some of tho Southern states; but it never entered tho bead of a human being to attempt what the Copperhead prophets of disaster had frantically forctcld. In '03 or 'DO you our selves saw regiments and brigades and divisions return from Cuba, IVrto ltlco and tho Philip pines to be disbanded and swallowed up In the mass of the people, it volunteers, snd if regu lars, to resume their ordinary work In fort and cantonment; and after greeting them on tho day they returned, the bulk of people would never have been able to tell except by the nev papers whether they had come back or not. Of all Idle chatter the talk of danger of militarism is the idlest. The army we have now is relatively to the population of the country less in sUc than it lias been again and again during tho last cen tury and a quarter, in times when we bad only our own Indians to guard against. In Wash ington's admlnlstiation. General Wano spelt some three jears In Ohio warring against the Tagals of that day, with under him an army larger In proportion to tho then population of the nation than all our present national foris, regulars and volunteers combined and there is Just as little danger from the evils of militarism now as there was then. It Is a utlcr folly to talk ot our liberties being menaced by the ex istence of a force capible of keping order in our outlving possessions now as It would have been to talk of their being menaced In the sev enties by the soldiers who followed Custer snJ bis fellows against the Comanche, Apache and Siout. No, our opponents mean nothing, and know that they mean nothing, when they prate about "militarism," and attempt to say tint they fivor expansion but are against "imperialism " They used precisely the same arguments sit ears ago against our taking Hawaii that they now use against our taking the Philippines They pulled down our flag in Hawaii Just si they now wish to pull it down in the Philippines. We had to undo their work In Hawaii Just as, in the end, but at an infinite cost of bloodshed and woe, we would have to do in the Philippines, should they be successful In this election Yet not ono of them now woulil dream ot saing that we were not right about Hawaii; in fact they would not do so, when, by a strange irony, the Kan-as City convention bad to rely upon the vote of Hawaii before it could settle its views on the financial system of our country. HIS PARTY. Umler elate of July 13 "Democrat" writes to the New 'iork Sun: "Tho 'Grand old Democra tic part' was sandbagged at the Chicago conven tion, and the dose was repeated at Kansas City. We arc on Queer street for four cars more. Bear with us a while. We shall try again in inn), i'ur tho nonce honest Democrats are with out a part." To which the bun replies: "Our friend is radii ally mistaken Men of his politics have staring them In the face a party that stands for ever) essential Idea for the sake of which they have been forced to abandon the revolutionized Democracy. The Republican party is for honest money; It opposes the shame and disaster of repudiation of the national debt The Republican party beliives in the constitu tional principle first announced and practised by Thomas JcfTcrton, giving to this nation the eiulckenliig life of expansion the power to grow. Of another JctTcrfonian irinclple, second to none In the political philosophy of that firt of Dem ocratic statesmen, the Republican party is today tho sole defender. It Is sgaln't the rabid tin Democratic spirit that tries to create class hatred and poison the public mind with anarchy. It is against the bastard socialism and the unbound ed centralizing theories of tha Populltts, today the mainstay of lirjanlsm, "The Republican party Is for tho original democratic order of the republic, which Branlsm threatens at every hand It is for equal rights as against the vicious class distinction that Dry. anlim leads to in the bsttlo which the Demo cratic leader himself hii announced against "wealth." The Republican paity It for ihe American flag. Its dignity and authority In all territories vvliero It Hies ai emblematic of our loverclfnty, and for Its prestige ubioad. The attack upon the sort of Democracy our Scranton friend was bred In is today so direct and angry, although waged in the Democratic name, that no voter nt his inborn sentiments can con scicntiousl lir.ltate a moment in Joining hands with the part) of the defence, which todap hap pens to bo led by two candidates nominated by a national convention labelled Republican, sven McKinley and Roosevelt." PLAYING THE YEARS AWAY. Ho pla)ed with me long years ago, And as we rnmpod and ran I liked to make believe that I Had grown to be a man. My little one and I play now, As he and I did then, And as we romp I lnslco believe That I'm a boy agan. Chicago Timet Herald. Policy Proposed. As regards the Philippines even the Kansas Citv convention felt that they bad to propose some policy, and what they propose Is that wc should first clve them a stable form of govern ment; second, independence, and third, protec Hon from outside interference. By the order in which they put thes-c propositions they showed their estimate of their importance. Well, what we arc doing now Is preclsel and exactly to try and secure a stable form ot government in tho Philippines, and the chief obstacle In our way is the support given to the bloody Agulnal ellan oligarchy b) their sympathisers among the people who were represented in the Kansas City convention. Moreover, now wo actually arc seeing that no outside ration Interferes In the Island. After wc have secured a stable gov eminent, wo intend to give them self govern ment as rapidly as they are fitted for it. Our opponents say that they wh-li now to give them independence. To give "independence now would be precisely like giving Independence to the wildest tribe of Apaches in Aritona " It would moan the turning over of the mobt peace ful, law-abiding and prosperous part of the popu lation to bo plundered by tho banditti who are following Agulnaldo. In China wc see at this moment the awful t'agedy that is following Just exactly such a movement os that which the so called anil im perialists have championed In the Philippines. The Boxers in China are the precise analogues ond representatives of the Agulnaldlan rebels in the Philippine Had wc adopted the "policy of scuttle" In the Philippines, the policy which our political opponents now champion, the streets of Manila would have xvitncseJ such scenes os those of the 6treets of Pekln To al low the Filipino rebels to establish their own so called government and then to piotcct thein against other civilized nations would bo exaetlv as If we now sided with tho Boxers in China, demanded for them the "Illicit" to butcher their neighbors, allowed them to establish their own "Independent government," and linn agreed to protect them from the wrath of clvllirrd mankind. A moie wicked absurdity than tho Kansas City proposition for dealing with the Philippines was never enunciated by the repre sentatives of a political paity. General Lawton's Letter. I would ak those who by their word have en couraged the Filipinos against us to recall the letter of General Lawton, written Just before his death. In which bo pointed out that tho blood of his soldiers reddened the hands of the men at home who encouraged our foes abroad Some )cara ago when certain easterners were clamoring In tho name of humanity against tho army officers who warred to protect the western settlers from the Indians, General Sheridan wrote: "I do not know how far these humani tarians should be accused on account ot their lgnoranco, but surely It It the only excuse that can give a shadow of Justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes." The scheming politicians st Kansas City have not even the ex cuse of Ignorance when they Incite the Insur gents to fresh warfare against our soldiers with the base hope that thereby they may further their own political advancements. There are, doubtless, many worthy and amiable gentlemen cf humanitarian tendencies, especially In the northeast, who oppose expansion now, as many like them have alwavs opposed expansion. In 1811 when Louisiana was on the point of being admitted to the Union, and tho country be) ond the Mississippi the country now caned Into the great states from which so many of my hearers come was being governed territorially, a proto. t)pe of the modem antl Imperialists, the Hon. Joslah Quincy, addressed the house of represcn tatives In language that, with very slight varia tion, might be used by his successors today. In a speech that would be quite in place at the Kansas City convention, or in any anu-espan-sionlst meeting ot today, he stated that his anxi ety and distress of mind were wholly unprece dented, for with the admltsion of tho trans Mississippi territory Into the Union the liberties and the rights of tho whole people of tho Unltx (States were so completely upset at to Justify a revolution. He declared that if Loutslana wit admitted Into the Union, then tin Union ought Immediately lo be dissolved. He denounced in unmeasured tcrmt the "territorial avidity" of the Americant of the day. He assertcel that the constitution vat never constructed to form a covering for the Inhabitants of the Missouri and Reel River country" and finally, when his pro. phetlc vision brought before him the awful pic ture of senators and representatives from west of the Mississippi arrogantl) assuming a right to take part in the legislation of the country, ho asked with a fervor worthy of the most pro nounced antl expansionist of toua)i "Do )ou suppose the people) ot the North Atlantic States will or ought to look with patience and tee representatives and senators from tue Red River and Missouri country pouring into congress, man aging the concerns of a seaboard fifteen hundred miles at least from their resldenco and having a prrponderancy In councils in which constitu tionally they would never have been admitted?" And he continued further to harrow the minds of his hearers by stating that the expansionists ct that day mlg..t even li.tfnd to establish states In California and at the mouth of the Columbia) and concluded by asserting that "tho extension of the principle "(of expansion) to states con templated beyond the Mississippi cannot, will not and ought not to be borne." Well, I am ad dressing at this moment citizens from the very states, the possibilities ot whose existence ap peared so terrible to ths excellent Mr. Quincy, You yourselves are the fruits of the expansion which he regarded as fraught wllh sucn Immeas urable danger to the nation. You yourselves rep resent the results of that policy which was fol lowed from the days of Washington and Jcffcr son, through those of Jackson down to the time when Seward purchased Alaska the great Ameri can policy which has again been applied under President McKinley. Absurd though Ihe fears of men like (Julncy seem to us now, they are no more absurd than the real or pretended fears of our opponents will seem not a score of )cart hence. Picture to jourtelf the dreadful calamity that It would have been had our nation In lfll listened to the counsels of the short-sighted and weak-hearted; If California, Texas and Florida had been left at Spanish speaking communities, and if all the magnificent region from the Mis sissippi to the raclflc had been turned over to be quarrelled for either by the local Indian tribes or by tho European nations. Hardly lest would be tho calamity If we now turn our backs upon our duty anft with craven anil ab ject shrinking from rcpnnsiblllty abandon our part of the world's work ami incur trie eiescrvcu contempt of humanity by deliberately refusing to take our place among the great nations ot mankind. Remember that expansion does not bring war; it ultimately brings peace. It Is of advantage to nil ond especially to the people thereby lifted out of savagery. Wc should ball the advance of every clvllltcd nation over barbarous peoples, so long ns tint advance is not made In somo form prejudicial to the rest of mankind. I won der how many of the audience are aware that up to 1S30 the United Slates raid tribute to Algiers to secure Immunity for our sailors and commerce from the Algerian corsairs. The rea son we did not pay tribute after that date was because in that )ear France began to expand over Algiers. War followed and lasted a number of cars, and there were foolish people then who wrote in praise of Algerian Independence Just exactly as there arc foolish people who now talk about Agulnaldlan Independence But last ing peace, the first for many centuries, came to Algiers through the French conquest, as It will come to tho Philippines through our refusal to abandon the Islands. So Russia has advanced over Turkestan and brought peace in her train. So it Is a good thing for Germany to begin to play her part abroad, and the patriotic way in which the German people have upneiu me ucr man policy of building a navy and seeing that Germany's citizens are protected and Germany's trade rights throughout tho world guaranteed, offers an excellent lesson to us here. The ex pansion of a civilized people means, not war, but peace. Until we had expanded over this country, the border warfare between the white man and the red and amom? the different tribes of red men was unceasing, but now that wc have rxpamUel, peace- has come exactly as peace hat been brought to Algiers, to Turkestan and the Soudan by the great peoples of F.uropo. Every such Instance of expansion has been of Immeas urable benefit to all mankind, and moro end more the civlll?ed peoples are beginning to real ize that they can vvdrk hand in hand with one another. 5cc what is happening in China todiy. Read the notes Issued by Von Buclow speaking for Germany and John Hay speaking for our selves and see how absolutely alike are the poli cies therein outlined. We arc taking the only course consistent with our national self Interest and our national self-respect and above, all with the good of mankind at large. China's Anti-Expansion Example. The best of all things Is where a new nation can be brought into the circle of civilization rs Japan hat teen brought, and where such Is the case America will ever be foremost to greet tho new civilized power and to work w'th her as we work with Japan. But to refrain from doing our duty In the world would be merely ulti mately to invite the fate of China. The Chinese policy has always consistently been against ex pansion, and she offers today the best example of tho fruits ot such a policy when logically carried out. Nominally her policy has been one which invites aggression from without, and in cites her own people to ferocious and hldi-oui barbarism. The so called anti-expansionist, wlieo logical, Insists upon our abandoning tho Amftl cons, missionaries and la) men alike, who are In China, to their dreadful fate without an ef fort to rescue them and Insists that Am-rlci 6lall take no legltimalc steps to sccura for our merchants, farmers and wage-workers the bim-Ut of the open market Expansion means, In tho end, not war, but peace. But like every other great good it can normally be achieved only by an effort at the outset. Woe to us It we shrink iram sucn ci- forts Woe if we fail to do our duty because the first step seems hard to the weaklings anl the men of little heart. If wc are to retain the respect of mankind we must not do wrong and mu6t not endure wrong from others. We must strive with earnest good faith to secure the steady betterment of the populations over which we have assumed control. ,We must 6how our selves anxious to work in a spirit of frank and open friendship with other civilized nations. But we must no more 6hrink from introducing orderly liberty and a Just and stable govern ment in the Islands to which our new duty hoi called us than wc shrunk in the past from the various kinds of expansions which carried us from Florida and New Mexico to Alaska. This election is more important tlTan any that this country has seen save 'only the election of '01, and we have the right to appeal to every man worthy to call himself a good citizen, that ho shall stand by us in this contest for upright and honest legislation one! administration at home and abroad for tho upholding of the fla and tho great privilege of doing tho world's work as beseems, a great world power. 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