Show I Senator McLaurln of South Carolina I declares that tho people of the South are with him on the subject of expansion expan-sion in demanding the retention of the Philippines that they believe great opportunities op-portunities for trade will be opened to them and adds I am fo holding them and I bollevo the Southern farmers and manufacturers will sustain me In my position 1 believe further that the presence of thu United Stales and of Ho tins lh emblem of human freedom progress and clvtllzillon will carry to the millions In tin Orient unnumbered d blessings which In tho coin Ing years will bu for their betterment and amelioration and will conduce to tho perpetuity and glory of our free Institutions Institu-tions and tho commercial supremacy of Lice Nation r It Is good to read the above It Is a sign that the mists arc beginning to break away from before the Nations I eyes that I men are beginning to ask I themselves what hardship can there be I in breaking the chains from a people who hud been slaves for centuries and surrounding them with every liberty and every opportunity and with all the protection which any American on joys Is It a tyranny l to go to a meal of half savages and open schoolhouse for their children Is it wrong to possess pos-sess what is our own Why should not our ships have a resting place In the countrys remotest ports Why should there not be new fields opened I for the young men of our country to make their life battle In I |