34 Expansion and Peace 



cated our introducing in the Philippines, under the 

 pretence of rendering them neutral). This was 

 accomplished very largely because the three na 

 tions set good-humoredly to work to come to an 

 agreement which would do justice to all. In the 

 preliminary negotiations the agents of America and 

 Germany were Mr. Tripp and Baron Sternburg. 

 No difficulty can ever arise between Germany and 

 the United States which will not be settled with sat 

 isfaction to both, if the negotiations are conducted 

 by such representatives of the two powers as these 

 two men. What is necessary is to approach the 

 subject, not with a desire to get ahead of one an 

 other, but to do even and exact justice, and to put 

 into operation a scheme which will work, while 

 scrupulously conserving the honor and interest of 

 all concerned. 



Nations that expand and nations that do not ex 

 pand may both ultimately go down, but the one 

 leaves heirs and a glorious memory, and the other 

 leaves neither. The Roman expanded, and he has 

 left a memory which has profoundly influenced the 

 history of mankind, and he has further left as the 

 heirs of his body, and, above all, of his tongue and 

 culture, the so-called Latin peoples of Europe and 

 America. Similarly to-day it is the great expanding 

 peoples who bequeath to the future ages the great 

 memories and material results of their achievements, 



