Show OUR EXPANDING COUNTRY the expansionist an excellent magazine devoted to the growth of our country and filled with facts and figures going to show the great benefits of expansion has been received at this office it Is published at broadway new york ve give the address that those who desire so may send for it and become posted anji subject now occupying of the na atton the last an article by jno barrett who was sent in 1891 by grover cleveland to slam as united states minister he has since become recognized as an authority on oriental commerce his study of asiatic affairs forced upon him the conviction that this country under proper guidance Is destined lo 10 play a most important and profitable part in the commerce of the far east from a firm belief in the wonderful opportunities awaiting our intelligent grasp in asia he became a pronounced expansionist and when bryan proclaimed against the westward march of our civilization our flag and our commerce john barrett renounced his allegiance to democracy and declared his devotion to the wide americanism so ably put by president mckenley and the republican leaders in congress defending the policy that keeps the stars and stripes afloat in the philippines mr barrett touches upon a very important subject as to the justice of the position taken by the united states in its aggressive advance toward obtaining a greaten volume of the trade of the orient no man in all our diplomatic service Is better posted on the events leading up to the acquisition of the philippines by the united states or the treatment of the natives since dewey first landed marines at referring to the aid and comfort our anti expansionists are giving the lawless element of luzon and the other islands mr darrett says in support of my contention can do no better than quote from the letter written to me from manila by gen H W lawton about two months before he was shot like the adice of one crying in the wilderness yet ever cheerful and persistent si he wrote I 1 would to god that the truth of this whole philippine situation could be known by everyone in america as I 1 know it it the real history inspiration and conditions of this insurrection and the influences local and external that now encourage the enemy as well as the actual possibilities of these islands and peoples and their relations to this great east could be understood at home we would hear no more talk of unjust shooting of government into the or of hauling down our flag in the philippines ft the o called anti imperial ests would honestly ascertain the truth on the ground and not in distant america they whom I 1 believe to be honest men misinformed would be convinced of the error of their statements and conclusions and of the unfortunate effect of their publications here if I 1 am shot ay a bullet it might as well come from one of my own men because I 1 know from observations confirmed by captured prisoners that the continuance of fighting is chiefly due to reports that are sent out from america |