Show NOT OT ilia arguments are an being prove that the tb expansion of l States II previous to the pan lit M weir W wean a natural tural growth w while the which Inevitably followed that tut Is II Yom till lIt ot of both 10 facts In and logic this c must be surd u The fact k II that this hu bas kept on adding to 0 its Ita territory as the fO for se 10 doing arose or the our cur rent of 01 events event made It Inevitable the Iou Louisiana pare was ft such dob a national necee sty t It was made in ia or to give to this country UI the control Aver Oer th th the great highway ot of travel and commerce for lor all tilt the mates upon the he stream Ir TM The l of oC FIori Florida Texas I and ad Call fonts Cornia wu undoubtedly lJ for similar ml TM tI commercial and nd other l to the country were the Ifa leading lna motives In the tra Alaska Aluk I Ip neither contiguous territory nor wan It at t the time ot of tb the purchase considered very valuable yet It wan ae ac Qui with Ita it inhabitants for reasons deemed of clent Importance to warrant the transaction All II this la generally and no ar fault le II no found with tM the policy that was for Cor this but bat when the question qUOD I Is of Porto Rico Reo and 1141 particularly of oC tile the es a mt great mo many lei an In ID a similar policy Ut the ruin of oC tM the Republic In their view all 11 the previous purchase of ct territory whether or Gf not Dot at a willie while the or of the Philippines I fa Imperialism II I II I They turg t however the at chief act I In III this W Was not DOt this roan COUll try forced hUo lab a war r b by I I I beyond bulun control 1 What admin could have kept back tM the wave of 01 popular that swept this country a an aD lit on OD a tie alon of mete mercy w was sent Dt to destruction And the war once be Iq ii concluded how bow the nation Datto with hence withdraw from Ute the that folloWed It should not be 1 let eight of that tbt b by the brilliant achieved tb the Ita gates Mea became responsible to the world err tor the establishment of order and law in 18 the abandoned It by It and abel as a long u Agul alde and his 1111 a ut of outlaws continue to make life property uneaSe on the island Illand of LUlun tb the akin nt duty ot of this govern lOern merit is II to 10 meet with a sat C force torce to cheek It and O OIt It Th The world looks to us u to tie do this t tand and having bu been forced Into I a war that transferred the sovereignty e over tile the tilea a from Madrid to toton ton th the work must be dons as wr what hat will witt be tb the polk policy ot of u the urr towards U the Pippins after tile the tilt h hoe bees accomplished U Ut this Is II perishes It is II Thane nee is II a logic lorte of sV is which no IO sophistry al swill It 11 dot doe not Dot I show that t tM States attic eM puce are an wW will t t to te swells ion Aerial w iW th rho or of the islands kelp It ft elp to be for tor a title si t c Isi a to er them Im from bom u taw MY 4 f than ht period which may ma be brief a ere al WIll ter mist t the of If the United will ha have to hi be and d respected Then the future of Jt the a ato to complete or er i to t e Union of 0 American will hits ba to be decided sad today II saw man knows what hat will be necessary n y or policy shall Iball be To announce now what then would be prophetic and premature Ht but not or 01 certain In regard to of 01 the statement of Admiral De hewey in re reply pi ply to the hi of a general n ral may be read rd lie He dle declares that all that tb the lead leader were bout about at the time of tile the outbreak out break of 01 tile the war was u the termination of the tyranny of Spain which they had lIMn been fighting After tilt the d 4 of oC Montijo Aset the city olt he be beH and lit 1 I H aye virtually surrendered apt ut that It If we had bad ba had G 5 troop there st It that time we could have gone ashore and been received by the rill Flit pines a deliverers They Tile had bad abIG no DO thought then of Independence That ht was waa an aD afterthought of their lead era daring tile the Interim between the smashing of the Ip and the arrival of 01 the hi United States troops This Thill should bould be satisfactory at aeto to every ve American ciUlla tf It the war t of tit establishing lishing orderly conditions on the Philip Philippines pines h has been 11 retarded tilt the fault II theirs who for Cor pur purposes 1 and ins III bUI conceit commenced a campaign i against Ia their friends and nd from the hated rule rul But tb the indications oa are that tile the la in sine 1111 conflict II b nearing ii eliu ad Till The work or of reconstruction will tin be beIer caller Ier and ultimately the will the coo course taken tn In the history of nations It II he very often found fouad that blessings come from sources like the hon honey In the body of tile the slain lion lloa of oC the ancient and Judge of 01 lutes |