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Show find enough to do at generous wages to make them a comfortable livelihood, and thus kindle their self-respect. Hence it is just as necessary to see to the material as to the moral status of people. Indeed, until men have enough of prosperity to kindle an honest pride in their hearts, it is not much use to i tell them that they should live higher, and purer lives. Governments can do little for people except to clear obstructions from their paths, do away with unnecessary laws, the friction of which is a hindrance hin-drance to progress, and to open new fields wherein the energies of the people peo-ple can be exerted. Hence the acquisition of iho Philippines Philip-pines is a boon to the people of this country, especially of the West coast. The capture of Jlanila and Ihe sinking sink-ing of Cervera's fleet suddenly made of the United States a world power. It was at once discernible in the increased increas-ed trade that came to our country; it is apparent every day now in the negotiations ne-gotiations going on in China, where the United States is taking first place, and where it is clear that Gat Britain, Germany and Russia are more anxious to be in accord with the United States than with all the other powers combined. com-bined. Hence the acquisition of the Philippines by our country is a notice to all the world that henceforth there is a new power to lie consulted, and a power, too. that is not seeking more territory, but only asking that justice shall be done on all sides. This will give to our country added, immense prestige, and it will be seen more and more in the direction which trade will take. From the great central mountains of Asia the rivers run down to the racifie. Upon their banks and on the shore of the great ocean are gathered two-fifths of the human race. In a little while 1 these swarming millions will be stretching out their arms to us, and trade will follow the flag to them. For the west coast of our country it will mean a transformation in trade. Indeed that transformation has already al-ready begun. The lumber, the flour, the fish, the fruit, the salted meats, have found n new market, and its swelling proportions are taxing annually annual-ly more and more the capacity of the coast to supply it. and there is more and more demand inland for products. JVitli the completion of the new rail- nm u me sea. i neu an me resources of Utah .will be levied upon to fill the mighty orders. Utah has a direct interest in-terest in this expansion: it will magnify mag-nify her trade: it will make new fields for the energies of her sons to assert themselves in, and they will go out to their work with the flag and all its added splendors and prestige over them. an., it will tie their letter of introduction, in-troduction, their certificate of character charac-ter to draw to them the respect and good will of the peoples beyond the sea. We do not see how any young man can be anything else except a Republican this year. -Salt Lake Tribune. IMPERIAL EXPANSION. The Interest of the Rocky Jlountain Region Demands It. There aretwo sides to the question of expansion. One is the moral, the other is the commercial side. The one includes the carrying of order, peace and Christianity tho softer graces of civilization to lands that for all time have been in darkness; the other the extension of the material interests of the people of our own country. Devout men see in the capture of Jlanila, Jla-nila, without the loss of a life, the finger of God guiding the prows of Dewey's ships over the torpedoes and directing the guns to annihilate tho Spanish squadron, and believe that the purpose behind all was, that out of the chaos, out of the breaking of immemorial im-memorial fetters and the doing away with unspeakable cruelties, a new enlightenment en-lightenment should arise, that Justice and Mercy should have thrones built to them on lands that had never known aught but cruelty and wrong, and that the old flag should, for the myriads of Asia, become what for a century past it lias been to the oppressed of Eurape, a beacon of peace, of prosperity a Star of Hope. But nothing is wrought of good in this world save through labor, and hence the first essential of advancement advance-ment is to make sure that the poor may |
