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W '*% IHlill'II I'll fhe Press and Banner ABBEYILLE, 8. C. ..no^QC at JM a ruuiiHueu eveiy n ?- -- year In advance. Wednesday, Aug. 23 1899. RAILROAD BUILDING. New Koad<t and Extenftlonn la All PartN of the Stale?Information Gathered from the State Prewv In Regard to Local Railroad EnterprlseN. News and Courier. Columbia. August 21.?Special: The extension of the Atlantic Coast Line from Denmark to RobblDs has been accepted and will be ready lor passenger service In Novem ber. Freight trains are belog regularly run over tbe Southern's new extension to Sumter. Passenger schedules bave been announced to go Into effect September 4. Tbe controlling Interest In tbe Carolina and Northwestern Railway Company nas passed Into tbe bands of a Northern syndicate, and tbe announcement Is made that tbe road Is to be exteuded. Tbe grading on tbe Savannah extension of 'the Carolina Midland extension of tbe Southern bat) been completed, with tbe exception of one stretch through a "sand hill." Track laying now In progress. Tne seaboard Air Line Is doing active work on its Columbla-Cheraw link. All contracts bave been awarded and subcontractors are pushing ahead on their grading contracts. The surveying party lor ttoe "BiacK Diamond" Railroad has almost completed Its work. Tbe Northwestern Railroad is working on Its extension from Sumter to Camden. This Use is operated by tbe Atlanta Coast Line system. A railroad (rom Locfchart Mills to tbe Spartanburg, Union aud Columbia Road is to be built. Tbe Marlboro, Marion and Horry Railroad, wblcb touches Blenheim, Drake, Browu's Creek and Marlon, has been surveyed and assurances are made that It will be constructed. Tbe road from Lumberton, N. C., tbe Atlantic and Northern, is building Its line into this State. The surveys ol the Seaboard Air Line irom Columbia to Augusta and from Augusta to Charleston have been completed, and tbe contracts for tbe lined are, it 1b said, to be awarded this year. These statements give a succinct summary of what is going on }ust now in tbe railroad development of the State. It does not involve any of tbe very many rnmors that are going tbe rounds about consolidations or leases and tbe like, but summarizes tbe wouderful development of the last few months In rauroau uuiiuiuk m iuio Millions of dollars' worth of properly will be permanently Invested In this Stale, new territory Is belus opened and Boatb Carolina Is moat likely at tbe bead of tbe column In railroad development. One cause of tbis development Is there bas not recently been any hostile rallrald legislation, aud it would be a splendid Idea not to scare away tbe railroads, wblcb pay 6ucb a large proporation of taxes, and lend so much to public convenienses. Just lu a siogle day's papers there a number of Interesting railroad items, wblch shows tbe great Interest in the situation. Tbe Florence Times says: A BIG THING FOB FLOBBKCE. There is a report in railroad ciroles that on tbe opening of tbe Coaxt Line's Augusta extensions a through train will be put oo from this city to Atlanta. Tbe train proposed will be tbe same one now run as 85 and 22. Inolaceof tbe present cars there will be a magnll'.cient inoviug palaoe, tbe newest ana finest on wbeeiB, eucb as tbe Coast Line always provides when it Is moved to make a "splorge." Toe track is now counected from Denmark to Augusta, and laid with 70-pound Bieel rails, and Has been received. Tbe passenger service will be put to operation over tbe line as noon as tbe railroad commissioners have received it. It is said tbat to get tbe bed packed tbe Coast Lloe will load a long Hue of freight cars and will pull tbem I from one end to tbe other as fast as circumstances will allow, wblcb will pack tbe bed perfectly, ana no time will be lost in getting ibe improvements to work that the company proposes." Tbe new connection from Augusta to Atlanta is made possible by the recent purchase of baif interest in tbe lease of tbe Georgia Koad, oi wmcn meauua w?? wauc In tbe Tim tit a lew days ago. It looks very like tbe railroad sitaatloa Is reoolvlDg itself to a Brand consolidation of tbe Southern, tbe Louisville and Nashville, tbe Pennsylvania and tbe Vanderbllt lines out of New York. Tbls would be tbe most gigantic trust on eartb, and would practically control all tbe lines east of tbe Mississippi. Tbe only cbance tbat tbe man up a tree can see is in tbe Btrengtb of tbe Seaboard and its allies holding out. Tbe t-euboard Is making arrangements to get Into every port and every Interior city in tbe East witb its own lines, and Itlockavery like our Uncle Jobn Skelton Williams, and bis able lieutenant, Uunob McBee, are not to be caugbt napping. DENMARK TO AUGUSTA. Tben tbe Times says: "Engineer R. J. Latta on Friday accepted tbe completed roadbed of tbeOoast Line extension from Denmark ^to Robblns from Contractors Abercromble & Williams. Tbe track will not be ready for passenger service, bowever, until some time Id September." And It goes on to say: THE LINE TO CHARLESTON. "Tbe contract for building tbe Seaboard Air Line from Augusta via Barnwell to Charles ton Is to be given out by November, That's tbe news by grape vine, but It comeB straight from tbe mighty near headquarters." AN IMPORTANT LINK. "It is reported that the line of the Northwestern Railroad will be resurveyed (rooo Providence to Camden, and that the road will probably pass through the Bradford Springs and Spring Hill section. If this report proves true and tbe road goes to Spring Hill tbe road will be of much greater benefit to tbe county than if it Is built on tbe line first surveyed through the Ratting Creek section. Tbe Spring Hill country Ib now without railroad facilities, while tbe Rafting Creek seotion is within easy reach of tbe Camden Branch of tbe Southern," says tbe Sumter Item. ' BLACK DIAMOND AND BARNWELL. The Black Diamond track will rnn about three miles from Barnwell Court House. If Ka x.aliar Vinst hflfln Iflft In fltO OAAfl 11llW* ment of Eoglaeer Kirk, be would have run Ibe line of bis survey along tbe outskirts of that progressive town. sumter's chances. The Southern Railway evidently means to make a strong pull for tbe business ofSumter, and It is going about It In tbe rlgbt wn>\ Work bas been commenced on tbe freight depot, and as soon as all tbe mater.al arrives a large foroe of bands will be employed. Tbe freight depot will be a handsome building, ISO by 40 feet Red pressed brick will be tbe material used, and tbe Joints will be finished with red cement. Tbe plans bave been drawn bo that tbe depot may be enlarged at any tlmetbat tbe business demands more room. The Bide tracks to tbe depot are being laid and a temporary spur Is also being pat In to provide convenience for handling freight that Is received before tbe depot Is completed. Tbe passenger depot will be commenced at an early day, and will be completed as quickly as possible. It will be a well appointed building, amply large to accomodate all tbe business tbe road will receive," says tbe Sumter Item. "Tbe passenger trains will be put on September^ and cooveulent schedules will be operated. Tbe time card will be Issued shortly." "At present tbe Southern Is operating two freight trains dally, and tbe service Is as qtficJt and satisfactory as could be desired. The time required for freight to reach the ?ltv frr%m \'aw Ynrfcr 1h thtpp In fnui dnvfl Freight shipped from New York on the 14ih was received yesterday, which Is quick enough to satisfy almost anybody, except those who would like to have goods sent by telegraph free to charge." ON TO SAVANNAH. The Carolina Midland extension or the Southern was surveyed from April 4 to the middle of May. On the 10th of June grading was started, and by next Saturday a sixth of the line will be laid with Iron. The foundation for the bridge over the Edlsto River Is being prepared, and the main line of the Carolina Midland, from Perry's to Allendale Is being laid with new rails and completely overhauled. The Stewart Contracting Company, of Columbia, have been awarded the contracts for the granite work to be done for the bridges along the Seaboard's line from Cayce's to m VUOian. Tbe work on the Seaboard's terminals In Columbia U progressing very rapidly. Allyou have to do when In need of any thing at the drug store Is to ring my phone 107. Those boys will do tbe rest. Dr. Hill's Heachacbe will knock that headache Into a cocked hat. For sale by MUford & DuPre. The Druggist. Phone 107. Remember to carry your prescription lo the up-to-date drug store of Mllford & DuPre. Phone 107. Save time and money by buying your amooklng tobacco, olgarett* and cigars from Mllford <f DoPre. Phone 107. J . . ... *^r?V7V.-.-Y; OM ISLAl PROBLEMS VTTD Ttl'.TM AT.T, mvi The current of a nation's history ii marked by curious and uncertain ratei of progress. At times it rolls alonf smoothly and without interruption for a generation. Again, without ap parent warning, the stream of history breaks into a tempestuous flood. Ok ways are obliterated, old landmarks are ruthlessly torn from their ancienl moorings and swept away never to b< seen again of men. When the tide recedes, the citizen gropes in vain foi the cherished objects which he and his ancestors had venerated in the past. In such manner has the swift progress of history during the past twelve months swept away absolutely and beyond recovery many time-honored ideals of political life and action once held by the people of the United State*. Overwhelmed ana oewnuereu by the splendid progress of the Spanish war. the citizen suddenly finds himself face to face with new aspects of political life and action that this contest has pressed immediately to the front. In the solution of new and weighty questions of the hour, the citizen can no longer trust to the traditions of the past. He must take new bearings In view of the new political landscape in which he finds himself. In making the decision as to our Colonial Policy he must consider not the traditions of the past, but the history of the future. In what condition does the Nation and the individual find itself to decide upon these momentous questions? Oar Physical Supremacy. The American citizen finds himself ? momhcr of a nation which has developed naturally, symmetrically and enormously as race inheritance and a superb physical enviromment has dictated from the first. In mere material progress the advance of the Nation has far exceeded the wildest dreams that might have been based upon the most extravagant standards of the past. In a single century of national existence the Nation has covered practically the same ground that other peoples have painfully traversed in the progress of a thousaud years. Without undue pride, the American people should today clearly realize that the United States is far and away the most powerful nation the history of the world has seen. In population, in intelligence, in 11? nrno 11 V? orhinh mfltrAa 1/UtJ aWUUiUlOKU nvMinjj n u.v? ? for success in peace or war, this nation far outranks in effective power any single nation of the ancient or modem w6rld. The mere existence of 70,000,000 intelligent people, living harmoniously under one accepted government; seated securely is the single largest area of fertile land upon the globe; of a blood either inherited or assimilated, embodying the best virtues of a race that has made history for a thousand years ; safe from cjl attack; abundantly prolific; pacific by disposition, yet of abounding selfrespect?these other characteristics of this people present a spectacle of national unity and power that should make every'Americau citizen proud of his race and land. It should fill him with a just sense of the responsibility resting upon him as a member of the-race that has heretofore, and must hereafter, shape the history of tbe world. Nor alone in intellectual and material strength does this nation outrauk any Civilization of past or present times. Its moral strength is of a stamp and vigor that renders doubly effective the resources of land and intellect. This combination of physical resources, vast population and moral vigor, united in a new race whose veins are filled with clean, fresh blood?unlike the Latin peoples now tottering to the grave?present a phenomenon which 4,1 ? ? ? onrl f xtfqr\ ninol I Lit? WUJTU pCUJJiCD auu ijiauuivui goverments of tbe European continent will do well to consider in their lawless and arbitrary division of tbe Eastern world. Witb a full knowledge of our preponderance ; with a desire to mould our policy according to what has been considered right and moral among tbe the best Civilizations of the past; above all, with a firm faith in tbe German-Anglo-Saxon Civilization as representing the best conception of Qoverment and Morals that history preseuts?with these things in view should the American citizen approach the duty of the hour. Onr Historic Vlewn of American Destluy. A people that has hitherto attended strictly to its own affairs, and studiously remained within tbe limits of its own continents, the United States i? tndftv nailed unon to arranee the destinies of three different peoples in three different quarters of the globe. Happy, for an entire century, in the universal belief that the nation would never extend its boundaries beyond its own continent, the United States finds itself to-day the embarrassed owner of colonies of whose acquisition its people bad never dreamed. Foreign nations, judging our Civilization by its own, can never be convinced that we had not cleverly planned tbe acquisition of these islands beyond the sea. Happily, our own prepou derance and tbe knowledge of our own iutegrity may render us totally indifferent to what these foreign nations think or do not think. In solving the problem of our colonial domains, we are accountable to ourselves alone. Hawaii. Proceeding in due order, it may be said that our first foundling was clearly a case of Manifest Destiny, long thwarted in her efforts. The Hawaiian civilization of today is a product of American hand and brain that has been at work in this outlying island for fifty years. The trade ol Hawaii is largely American. Her industries, material resources and accumulated wealth are almost wholly the result of American enterprise. But for American civilization Hawaii would be to-day a howling cannibalistic isle, or a European nonproductive colony, under the Iron heel of military law. Hawaii is the key which, In the hands of any other nation, may at anj time unlock the door to our Pacific coast. By every law of trade; b> every demand of national safety ; bj every behest of Civilization and good government, this island should have been ours not five, but fifty years ago That this splendid possession has now A Ion nnf tn Uo r? r 11H c 1UIU UU1 inp- uvrv ?u ivu v. uv?v immaturity?but as a fully perfected fruit, is not alone a tribute to th< mauifest destiny of our race. Ii happily removes the Hawaiian ques tion from the realm of controversy It is a fact accomplished and s( I accomplished that the most bittei f mi 1 'ii id' I I . | | foreign critics cauuot gainsay our rights. Cnba And Porto Klco. By the same considerations that have finally made Hawaii a part of the United States, Cuba Porto Rico should likewise have been ours half a centure ago. That the inevitable destiny of our race has likewise cast 3 these foundlings into our lap. almost 3 without a struggle, is another proof r that mediaeval bigotry and misrule [ shall not dominate the Western world. . The future of these isles should be T burdened with no great problems. I Porto Rico is now a component porj tion of the United States. It is an I island comparatively small, accessible } and well supplied with military roads. , There should be nothing serious to r encounter beyond the inevitable frici tion that must follow the displacement ; of a semi-barbarous rule by civilized forma of government. Keep out the . politicians and the carpet-baggers ; ? give the island an economic industrial I government and it will speedily merge [ into tbe body of tbe great republic. > The future of Cuba must differ some[ what from that of Porto Rico. In a I moment of what now seem9 ill-gotten . generosity, the nation pledged tbe i world Cuba should be given self i government of her own. The history i of tbe pa-t six months indicates too , clearly that this isle is not yet ripe for absolute self-control arid that her future cannot be safely placed at once in the keeping of her own inexperii enced people. She must be slowly schooled to self-control, and must then be given a fair opportunity to i,0? nnnaoit.v finr Rplf-riilft under ouun LICI vuj/MUJvj .w. ~ American supervision. We may give Cuba the opportunity to govern herself but can we make the men fit to govern out of Spanish stock ? The ultimate future of this isle is foreo-dained. She will be given her chance to redeem herself. She will probably fail, as has almost every other Spanish-American people of the western hemisphere. Cuba will then be merged into the United States, and her people will gradually melt into the Anglo-Saxon civilization, as did their kindred peoEle in tbe Floridas, Texas and ioui9iana. The PblllpplneN. The final parting of the roads comes upon the question of tbe Philipines. Tbe other islands were component portions of North America, but temporarily detached. Tbe Philippines bring us into another hemisphere ; throw us into contact with questions and races, of whose existence we hardly knew a year ago. Reducing tbe Philippine question to its lowest terms, its solution becomes more plain. Prior to the war these islands belonged to Spain. Where did she get them ? She discovered them some four hundred years ago, and has since misgoverned them by the sole right of superior power. We destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manilla, not to secure these island*, but to protect our own Pacific coast. The surrender of Manilla carried the surrender of the islands, and the close of the war found them in our hands. Not Desire, but Destiny, has thrust this burden on us. The Philippines are now our own, first, by the universal law of war which permits the victor to absorb the spoils of the vanquished in such reasonable amount as shall compensate him for injury done and outlay made. This is the lower law, accepted by the higher Civilized Nations of the continent, ana wnicu none or mem have denied aesent. The Philipines are also ours, by that higher law, which justifies an advanced Civilization in crushing a despotic and vicious government and bestowing upon a suffering people the right to live a free and decent life. They are ours by that inexorable law of nature that replaces the rack, tbe tax collector and the hangman with the schoolhouse, the township meeting and tbe Law. Is Expansion Unconstitutional ? Next in order comes the claim put forth by many cloistered and learned folk that the acquisition of new territorv is unconstitutional and against the traditions of the United States. Is this so, and if so, what is the basis for the claim ? In the whole body of the Constitution there is no reference to the acquisition of new territory. There is nothing that can be construed to cover tnis contingency. The argument that we cannot, therefore, annex new territory, has been largely based upon this lack of specific consent to such expansion. This objection is sophistical and totally contrary to common sense. The mere state of Sovereignty itself implies many acts and obligation not specified in the Constitution. Thev are the natural attributes of National Supremacy and are so manifestly bound up in the very fabric of the Constitution that they need no direct mandate in bla<;k and white. The Constitution does not specifically provide that we defend ourselves if attacked. Nor does the Constitution, in terms, deny the right of Secession to a state wmcn do longer aeBires 10 retain its place in tbe national union. Yet we have waged both defensive and offensive warfare when common sense demanded. We fought the greatest war in history to retain states which desired to secede yet no mau can point to the constitutional . mandate in black and white which authorized the coercion of the Southern States. Yet neither of ihese acts of Sovereignty was more logical than is the retention of conquered territory thrust upon us against our will and in such a manner that it cannot be abandoned without a distinct moral wrong against Progress and Civilization. Neither i3 there any precedent against expansion in our written or recorded law. ' If so, where is it, who wrote it and whero is it now concealed ? Trndltons Favor a Wise Expnnslon. ' Still less do our alleged traditions ' ofler any barrier to such wise and I necessary expansions as are vitally necessary to our national safety and well being. On the contrary, the i history of the United States is but the story of puccessive expansions, by which the necessities of increasing 1 population has led us to absorb inferior races and to open new lands to s Industry and Civilization. Our own r English ancestry first drove out the : Indian, and then the Dutch, and then ' the French. The very ancestors or ' these particular patriots who dow I raise the cry of Imperialism, were the 5 first to drive the untutored savage out . of New England, with a melancholy, ' but no less persistent zeal. ! From the beginning of our national I government we have lost no oppori tunity to extend our national domain, t Thomas Jefferson, who had much to - say about peace and various mixed . theories of human rights, wasted scant ) time when the mo9t favorable chance r in history offered the territory ofi - - ' ; : V ; ' % I Louisiana to the United States Thomas Jefferson abandoned theor on the spot, and for once consortei with comrnou sense. In spite o frenzied opposition he bought Louis iana without the consent of Congres and upon his own responsibility. To a ay, me cmizauoD 01 du,uuu,uu?i, uov resident in the Mississippi valley justify and approve the wisdom of thi act. Without this enlightened purchas we should still be a second class na tion, hemmed in by the Mississipp river and the Atlantic coast. Mexia or France or Spain would have occu pied all that vast parallelogram between New Orleans, Lake Superior Oregon and California. In 1821 we absorbed the,Florida because they bad become a commoi nuisance. Tbey were misgoverned bi Spain in the same shocking manne as she has misgoverned the Wes Indies and the Philippines. Th Floridas were a menace to the pros perity and happiness of the civilize* people who were endeavoring to Hv< peacefully and decently by their side Andrew Jackson wanted no rhetorici on the occasion. He seized thi Floridas, and while we afterwards mad< payment for the same, this was doni not as a matter of right, but as a sop t< the outraged dignity of 8pain. In 1848 we absorbed the best portioi of Mexico because our slave-holdini rulers demauded more room to raia slaves and cottoD and other things This seizure of Mexicau territory wai a crudely brutal act. However bas< the means, the final result has beei wholly desirable. It has opened up t< Civilization a region which woul< otherwise have remained as bare an< profitless as most of Mexido is today In 1850 we absorbed Oregon, partly because we had discovered It, bu particulary because we needed it ii our onward progress to the West Nay, we were even at the point of wai with England because we did not a the same time secure British Colum bia, then a portion of the Oregot territory. In 1865 we took the Gadsdei Purchase to protect our own frontier In 1867 we took Alaska because i was cheap and a bargin and it purchase forever excluded the Russiai empire from the American continent 6o. far from our acquisitions weaken ing the Republic, they have really made it what it is to-day. Nearly hal of our population is to-day residem in the acquired portion of the Unitec States. More than half of our natura resources and future wealth jvil be found in such portions as we hav< annexed since we became a common wealth. As a matter of fact, history shows our sainted faithers even mor< crudely acquisitive than ourselves, foi they lived in a day when the stronj invariably preyed upon the weak ant UtttlUUt) BCl&CU WUAM3YC1 woo uupuwui ed and near at band. Commercial, Strategic and Hora Considerations. Thfi Pbilipine question then resolvei itself into a discussion upon tb< (1) Commercial, (2) Strategic and (3 Moral aspects of the case. Will the accession of these islandi increase the general prosperity of th< United States? Will they be of strategic value in th< protection of our interests at horn* and in the eastern world ? Lastly, can we abandon them witt safety to ourselves and with justice t< ?f fV*n IQIom/IQ 9 lilC lliuauiiauto w1 uuc loiauuo * A year ago the American people would have considered mad anyon< who bad suggested the possibility o acquiring territory in Asiatic waters So fast has history moved, however that to-day hardly a citizen can d< found who feels assured that we should abandon the Philippines. Commercially speaking, there car be no question that the Philippine! would be of vast importance to th< United States, including 1,400 sep arate isles, lying almost wholly ic tropic waters; stretching 800 milef from north to south; occupying more territory than all New England, these islands are a vast empire in then; selves. They constitute a store oi tropical and mineral wealth, such ac now remains unexploited in no por tionofthe world. These islands, produce spontaneously and almost without cultivation, nearly every single nhipnt. of necessity and luxury whicb we do Dot produce ourselves. Thej produce coffee, sugar, rice, hemp gutls percha, cotton, indigo and nearlj every product of the tropical and semitropical zones. Notwithstanding an occupancy of 400 years Spain hat explored only a small portion of thf group. These islands are paid to contain iron, gold, and copper. It is also said that some of the outlying islands contain large deposits of coal. Such deposits, if existing, are of the ver\i highest value. Aside from New South Wales and some half-worked lodes ic China and Tonquin, there is little 01 no coal in the Far East. Such deposits alone would be justification enough, from a commerical point of view, tc retain these islands. Notwithstanding the semibarbarous government of the Philippine islands, which has hitherto crushed industry with ail manner of taxes and extortions, the total value of the Philippine exports was nearly $30,000,000 in 1897. As showing its latent possibilities, it may be said that the exports of the one small islands of Java, near at hand, amounted in 1897, under the wise rule of Holland, to 225,000,00C guilders, or $90,000,000. Yet Java is no richer in natural resources, and is only one-half as large. Tbe Eastern Question. Turning to the political and strategic factors connected with tbe Philippines, we are confronted with the fact that the possessor of the Philippine islands to-day holds the bey tc the Eastern Question. Reared in almost complete ignorance of the portentous problems now pressing for solution In the Far East the people of the United States are not rwinnarpc] int/> this vexed and yju Ijr ? perplexing question, but its final solution is thrust unexpectedly and unceremoniously into our bands. The Eastern Question in the Fai East as well as in the West, is simplj the question as to which of the Euro' pean powers shall absorb the dying nationalities of the Orient. The pasl three hundred years in Asia is the history of the division of the national domain of the Malay, Hindoo anc Mongolian races. The Malavs and Hindoos have* al ready been absorbed, The Mongoliac alone remain. Hitherto the superior energies anc colon izing powers of England hav? enable^ her to acquire the lion's share Duritfg this period France has always demanded compensation for Eng land's gains, while Russia has quietly but assiduously, chipped of fragment! all along her vast frontiers, unti to-day she threatens the very existenc* of the Mongolian empire. Spain, it her shame and weakness, has playec no part in this cannibalistic feast foi some two hundred years. Nominally possessing the richest colony in th< East, she has only remained its owne; because the other nations could decld< ; i"'Tr': ' v- ?v.'i. upon no amicable division of h< f colonial aomain. | The Asiatic Equilibrium ITpiict. Thus has tbe so-called equilibrium 1 s tbe East been maintained by d i- plomatic "Accessions" and Compens; v lions" and "Realms of Influence" ti J the fateful day when Dewey destroye s tbe Spanish fleet in Manilla ba; When the diplomats of Europe wot e on May 4, tney confronted tbe fa . that their eastern mosaic bad bee >i broken into a thousand fragments. _ 1 JtJ iL?. 0 INCH HIOLie UIU lllf^ 1IUU tuc UliOl 1QI . ed equilibrium shattered, upon wbic 1 they had expended patient generatioi t of diplomacy. They were furth< confronted with a new power in tl s East, whose approach had not eve 3 been remotely anticipated. The key I Y the situtation bad not only been take r from their grasp, but it had bee t unconsciously taken by a natio e whose latent strength of resistam i- rendered useless any return to tt j conditions before existing. kUfAhln r?r>rv{ nfn/1 ] 0 VJCi UJOUJ) UllLOllj uioappviui^u j !. ber share of the eastern spoils, had f< e some time looked upon the Philii e pines for "Compensation." Duric e the preliminary controversies betwee a Spain and the United States, Ge 3 many had ostentatiously and offensiv ly sided with her European neighbo ] She did this with her eye upon tl ? Philippines. Her fleet was even the a collected in eastern seas ready to bac . up Spanish claims if her safety an 3 self-interest might so dicate. As pri 3 dence dictated other wise, German 1 has abstained thus far from anytbic 5 more than a display of ill will and ev i humor. 1 As for .Russia, she had ardent] , desired to be left alone. She had ei j gulfed China in a treaty by which si t was gradually absorbing all Mai ! churia. Russia only desired undi *AnAoo A fho nrnnoaa t # IU1UCU UU?4^5 VMV }/* vwwu r digestion. By a clever diplomacy sb t bad gradually alienated the contienti . nations from England and all tt ! Continent played cat's paw at tt behest of St. Petereburgh. ) Japan still chewed the cud of bitt< . melancholy, because Russia had sei t ed all the fruits of the Japanese victoi 3 in 1892. Yet Japan was powerla i without allies to prevent the gradui , absorption of China by her Russia . guest. In the meantime, Englan j looking vainly for support, was n< f yet prepared to beard her Russian riv t in the East. France, in her fond ho[ 1 of protection against Germany, wi 1 still a tool of Russia and a mere paw i in the crame of Russia dlDlomacv. a It was at this polnt'that Englia . preati ge reached its nadir, and tba j Russian progress seemed destined i 3 make ali China a Russian province. f The battle of Manilla changed hii f tory in a night. An Anglo-Saxc 1 nation, with strong but undevelopc . ideas as to the duties of it* race, bi seized the key. The projected absor] tion and partition of ihe Cbina 1 empire became aDd impossibility i once. 9 Strategic Strength of the Philippine ? While it is difficult for our people 1 ' realize that the seizure of these islanc involve such vast interests in the Eas I a brief glance at the map will sho the point at once. The archipelago of the Philippim confronts the coast of Asia for nearl 800 miles. It commands the coast of Chini Tonquin, Cochin China and Annan the Malay penisula and the Polyne ian isles. Manilla Ib only 700 miles, or thirty six hours from the English port i Hongkong. This is the port of tt great city of Canton, and the outlet < the richest portion of the Chinei empire. All the vast commerce of the Ft East with Europe passess betwee Manilla and the port of our Angli Saxon kindred at Hongkong. The Philippines are but a thousan miles -from Japan, and this is n distance in the vast waste of tb Asiatic seas. The largest portion of the com men of America with India, Singapori Burmab, passes through these sea and is commanded by our new acqui sition. Id fact, Manilla to the one mic point in the east where all the gref lines of ocean traffic are held in sui command. The geometrical center ( a vast circle, it is almost equi-distat from Peking, Tokio and Singapore. It is the only available point in th east where France, Russia or Gei many could have obtained desirabl coaling and commercial stations witt out a struggle. It will be seen, then fore, that our position in the Philif pines is fraught with possibilities the we have hardly commenced to grasr The Despoiling or China. Yet another question of the greatet moment intellects itself. This touci es upon the future of the Chines empire. Absorbed in our own affaire we iiav i hitherto remained oblivious to the fat * that we have neglected the greater aDd most profitable markets of th 1 world. One by one, great fragment > of the East have been torn off b foreign power* and shut to our legit mate commerce. Without a protes we have seen our commercial treatle violated, and have been ousted froc our legitimate traffic in the Easi Contented with our own and Eur( pean markets, we have apparentl ' overlooked the fact that the market I nf Qnn nrm nflo nannla are all but finall closed to the enterprise and energy c ' our people. Now that Chance or Destiny ha placed us in command of the situs tion, what do we propose to do abou s it? Shall we abandon this vantag i placed unconsciously in our grasp, c shall we make intelligent UBe of th > great Godsend which has been thru; upon us? Shall we, by the abandonment < ' the Philippines permit the gradut , dismemberment of China amon t European powers, and the consequec I loss of our Chinese trade; or shall w 1 demand that this rich field he lei I open to the legitimate trade of a alike? We Mast Hold This Key. Regardless of the perplexing detail \ of this problem, can the patrioti t American citizen hesitate for on moment in bis decision v [ The Philippines are ours by th [ right of war, to which civilized Europ gives consent. They are ours by th - higher law that has tbus given i helpless and wickedly governed peopl into our hands. Our flag now wave I above the Philippines. In the intei 5 est of humanity and of enligbtene . self-interest, there should it remai i until Homeone prove strong enough t pull it down. , While the retention of these island j is tilled with vexed problems, thes 1 are nothing as compared with th ? momentous evils that would folloi i the abandonmedt of the islands. 1 What of the alternative ? r If we do not take them, who will ? j We could not abandon them t a EDgland or sell them to any other m r tion without universal war. 91 If the United States does not retai nil II < H'l.i ---- - i er the Philippines they must go back to the insurgents. Were we now to leave them, their condition would be even more lamentable than under the n corrupting rule of Spaiu. 1" Wotu T?nrrlq nH oangtnrs mftV p.nm pare the mercenary Aguinaldo to || Washington and Bolivar. They may ,d continue to offer moral support y- against our arms and fleets. The peo:? pie of the United States however will ct not believe that the man who has D counseled wholesale slaughter of all foreigners on the island is a patriot nor a statesman, nor qualified to erect lh an independent government. 18 Neither will they surrender into the Br bands of Malay bowmen the lives of 16 thousands of innocent Spanish people nor the millions of property whose security is dependent upon civilized n and enlightened government. 10 If we are afraid to take the Responsibility, will History ever justify us in 56 destroying the only system of Govern16 ment these islands possessed and then abandoning them to the anarchy that n must follow native "attempts to )r govern ? ' P" Wether it be called Annexation, '8 Autonomy or a Protectorate, the fuin ture of all these islands must be r" Anglo-Saxon?not Latin nor Malay e nor Japanese. r* While the natives of these islands 16 will be given Liberty it must be Lib!? erty on Anglo-Saxon lines. It will never be the License under which the ia 8pnni8h-American Republics have J" mocked Republican Government for three-quarters of a century past. Hold all the Islands. Do not all the arguments in favor of y holding Manilla as a coaling station Q- apply equally well to the island of Luie zon and the balance of the group ? Furthermore, will there not be much s- less friction with foreign powers if we of at once take over the whole group as a le legitimate spoil of war ? Nor is" there any daDger that the alleged "powers" ie will actively interfere if we boldly and courageously stand by our rights. All of them have too many troubles of >r their own to actively antagonize the z* rising giant of the west, right on the y tbresnold of bis recent victory. 8" There may be diplomatic threats al and murmurs, but no nation is in Q shape to actively resist the United d States. Even if they do, the fleets of Japan and England are both at our command, and with this combination >? we control the world. 18 U Tbe Basslan Peril. Nor from a Jarger historical view, t should our people overlook the fact tQ that any action regarding the Philippines will affect for good or evil the a. whole future history of Democratic ^ ? A n/wla_Uovnn uoveruuieut auu tuo nugiv-uuvu >c| race. i8 ODe hundred years ago Napoleon p. shrewdly remarked that the next ^ century would see tbe world Cossack jt, or Republican. Since that day the colossal development of the Russian empire has * threatened to engulf the entire East:o em world in its onward progress, is The Latin race, now in decay, has t, ceased to play any material part in the <7 history of the world. The next century must develop the supremacy of 38 the Germanic or Slavonic race, y There is no room for compromise. The Civilization of America and Europe and the Germanic race, or the i, Civilization of Asia and the Slav must s- finally survive. While we please ourselves with i. nni-serv traditions regarding tbe an Df cient friendship of Russia for the te United States, it were little less than of idiocy to believe that there can be any je common unity between the extreme Despotism ana the extreme Democracy ir of the age. n Russia represents ignorance, bigotry 0- and slavery of mankind. She has placed her foot upon every germ that d makes towards progress and Individo ual freedom. She is diametrically e oppossed to every cherished theory that the Germanic peoples hold reJe garding Politics, Eeligion or the Law. e, She is the one great, inexorable, b, portentous enemy of modern progress 1- and the Germanic race. Having absorbed China, with 300,I 000,000 people at her command, what; it will then become of Europe? 'e It will be Asiatic and not Germanic. >f And after Europe, what of America it and the future of Free Government in the wor d? r? A Real Peril. e It 18 aimcuit to impress upon Americans Jiviog in the security of J* their virgin land that they owe exact > and certain duties to the future of ^ Democracy and Civilization. History J* is but a story of the survival of the races and race ideas. Why should future history differ from the past? If for no other reason, we should' ' hold the Phillippines intact to estab,e lisli a permanent and impregnable barrier to the progress of Asiatic cive ilization in the world. Eugiand wi'l 5t shortly have to fight a decisive battie for the existence of European e civilization in the East. While we| need not become involved in actual j v mor nra ahnuld clvp her all the moral i* assistance in our power. This cad be done in no better way !S tbau holding the hey to the East, D which in other hands might be betrayt* ed into the enemy of our race and >" culture. ^ Voice of the Went. y We, as a nation, have never yet failed to rise to the full compass and greatness demanded by the destiny of 8 our race. l" Why should we fail in this? l' We will not fail. We are not a race that fails. Our forefathers encounter'e ed much vaster problems in the past, ,r and shall we say that we are unworthy ? to follow in their footsteps? Shall we shrink ignoble from the path plainly blazed out before us by our Destiny, )f and by our duties towards the human " race? S While some closet thinkers of the Eastern coast may shrink with fear re from these new problems, there is no [f apprehension for our future among 11 the 50,0)0,000 people who fill the vast realm between toe Aiiegnenies and the Pacific coast. The people who have wickedly "expanded" into 18 the Mississippi va'lev, and have turnlC ed the Louisiana purchase, the Mexe ican Cession and the Oregons into the granary of the world are not perplexed e with the intellectual fantasies which 10 paralize the overcultured intellect of e the East. a Their thoughts and aspirations are e American and not European. 8 From the first they believed ferently T' and ardently the full righteousness d uf the war which has destroyed the n last lingering tyranny of Spain in two 0 quarters of the globe. Breathing the pure air of mountain ranges, vast 18 plains and prairie lands, their convice tions are a product of honest toil in e forests and in field. They are not v impregnated with those purely com 1 ? I ?uuu u I uiencai cuuaiueittuuua wuiuu uavw su often be-numbed the natural humanity of the East. The people of the 0 West whose soldiery have born the l" brunt of the recent contest, both in Cuba and the Phillippines do not pro-j Eose that the blood of their soils shall HVA hPAn ahari.itv^uin... ?' They do notj>ropose that these two ware shall hfcve been* fought without a distinct and permanent gain to the cause of real Liberty and Good Government in this world. The people of the western empire do not propose to surrender back to bar- ; % barium a single foot of territory once reclaimed from bigotry and misgovernment Where American blood has once been shed and the American flag has once been raised, there they believe it should stay in spite of all the world. Today the seat of empire resides not upon the Atlantic coast, but far inland, where the Mississippi and its tributaries wander towards the sea. The. West has not lived down the great migratory and civilizing instincts inherent in its blood. It voices these instincts In no uncertain terms. It does not fear the Future. 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