Show EPANSIN OPPOSE II Strong Argments Against Anea j I ton of the PhilIppines FOREIGN POLICY IDEAS t J RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE 1 SARATOGA CONRENCE I r t Conquered Islands Should Be Re f gardeci As Wds 9f AmericaUn i S ti They r Able to Goy p TemselvesShould Not e Returned t Re-turned to Spain I f 1 Saratoga N X Aug 20T na tiona conferen ot the foreign policy of the United States resumed its discussions dis-cussions this morning I was presided over by Robert Treat Payne of Boston In a brIef address he defined himself as an antexpansionIst Ye must treat those Islands captured from Spain as prizes to he dealt with as we think best Ve must c10 the gest thing we can under the circumstances While we may not hold them by the right of conquest wc should see that a proper form of government is established over each Ve must never forget the prinCiples prin-Ciples that underlie this great repub lc i 1icMorefleld Storey of Boston next ad Qressed the conference At the COI1clu sIon of Mr Storeys remarks Mr Payne the chairman said that he concurred con-curred with the antexpansion features o Mr Storeys address The next speaker was Samuel Gem pers president of the federation of labor la-bor 11 Gompers opposed the expansion expan-sion idea He asserted that hal thfi population of Hawaii are contract la borersvirtualy sl vesotposed mostly of Chinese Japnese and Pr tugues of the Azores Islands He deprecated dep-recated the annexation of Hawaii but held that the acquisition of the Philippines Phil-ippines bj the United States would be many times more hurtful The Indian question he said had been a source of great annoyance to the government but it never compared with the ques I ions that would be presented by acquisition ac-quisition of the Philippines with thflir seven Inhabitants or eight millions of half civilized inhabiantsFOR FOR EXPANSION Williani Dudley Foul e of Indiana an expansionist replied to the antex pansion statements of lIessls Gom ners StO V glmr James T honker nr president 01 the CIndnnati board d hade folowed with a brief address favoring expansion Mayoi P W leldrum of Savannah presided at thIs afternoons closing session ses-sion He expressed himself as an expansionist ex-pansionist and In favor of the United States spreading its power and cQrlrol over the islands recently acquired by conquest E V Smaley of St Paul In a short address also expressed him If in favor of expansion Dr William P Wilson director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum drew an interesting sketch or the topographic topo-graphic geodcdc and climatic feature of the Philippines and made an argu mont for he retention of the sands eased on their necessity to this coun rj as a foothold fdr the extension of American commerce to the countries of the orient te RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Chancellor lcCra ken of the University Univer-sity of New York as chairman of the committee of 21 on resolutions presented pre-sented a report which he said had been unanlmcuslj agreed upon by the committ The resolutions w reunani mously adopted by the conference as follows We the participants in the national conference on the foreign policy of the United State held at Saratoga on Aug 19 and 20 1898 are unanimously agreed as follows We commend the wise and patriotic purpose of the national administration 11 first seeking to avoid war wit Spain and subsequently prosecuting the war wIth higber aims and success In brInging it to a speedy conclusion I is glorious to our arms and gratify lag to the high aspirations uf our people On behalf of freedom and human welfare we thank the officers and men of our army and navy for their skillful and heroIc achievements on land and on sea and for their chivalrous conduct toward the defeated enemy Ve be hove that the rescued and liberated people of the surrendered islands are in a sense temporarily the yards of the conquering nation and that we should treat them as such I ISLANDS SHOULD BE HELD With out success with our view of natural rIght and of the inestimable privileges of civil liberty we should not be justified in returning the conquered con-quered sJands to the misrule and oppression op-pression from which we have relieved them As soon is the islands under our present protection can be trusted to govern themselves they should be allowed to do so the United States retaining re-taining under its authority only nece tar naval stations Until such time as they may he able to govern themselves them-selves they should continue under the Protection of the United States and the question a to whether at some future period and at the mutual desire of both they should he permanently annexed should be left to the time when It arIses The United States in behalf of each territory in question and so long as it Shall continue under it protection buud adopt proper measures for securing se-curing out of the revenues of these countrIes th establishment of free eiementrJ unsectarJan schools suf cient for the instruction of all persons of school age Vp count the present an auspicious time for the establishment by the United Unit-ed States of a graded diplomatic and consular service Ve heartily approve of the principle of arbitration in the settlement of international in-ternational difficulties and urge that its largest practicable application be secured by treaties of arbitration We cordIally favor the precedent set by Presient McKinley in refusing at the beinning of the war to grant letters let-ters of marque and reprIsal and tr recommend that in the peace to we ccncluded between the United States and Spain the practice of prhteering be forever prohibited also that pro vislon be madq as foreshadowed < by the government of he United State in refusing to sign the declaration of ParIs in 1556 for the exemption from capture of prIvate property at sea In aeaordance with the enlightened sent month of mankind Chairman Henry Wade Rogers and Secretary Ralph W Eastey of Chi ego and the committee of 21 were instructed In-structed to present the resolutions to PJsident McKinley and his cabinet fort for-t ir consideratIon The convention tonight to-night adjourned subject to the cal of Chairman Rogers |