Expansion and Peace 33 



of the area in which peace is normal throughout the 

 world. 



The same will be true of the Philippines. If the 

 men who have counseled national degradation, na 

 tional dishonor, by urging us to leave the Philip 

 pines and put the Aguinaldan oligarchy in control 

 of those islands, could have their way, we should 

 merely turn them over to rapine and bloodshed until 

 some stronger, manlier power stepped in to do the 

 task we had shown ourselves fearful of performing. 

 But, as it is, this country will keep the islands and 

 will establish therein a stable and orderly govern 

 ment, so that one more fair spot of the world's sur 

 face shall have been snatched from the forces of 

 darkness. Fundamentally the cause of expansion is 

 the cause of peace. 



With civilized powers there is but little danger 

 of our getting into war. In the Pacific, for instance, 

 the great progressive, colonizing nations are Eng 

 land and Germany. With England we have re 

 cently begun to feel ties of kindness as well as of kin 

 ship, and with her our relations are better than ever 

 before; and so they ought to be with Germany. 

 Recently affairs in Samoa have been straightened 

 out, although there we suffered from the worst of 

 all types of government, one in which three powers 

 had a joint responsibility (the type, by the way, 

 which some of the anti-imperialists actually advo- 



