So if some one should say to me:  “Do you believe in imperialism of humanity:”  If asked:  “Do you believe in expansion,” my answer is; “I believe in the expansion of human brotherhood.”  “I believe there’s a destiny that shapes our ends,” and since the Philippine Islands were pitched into our lap in a night, it may be it was done that the home, the church and the school might have a chance under civil liberty in the Philippine Islands.  With boundless resources and immense means, are linked great responsibilities, and we who live in freedom’s land, and humanity’s century, are under obligations to help carry the light of Christian civilization to the darkest corners of the earth.

Along with the Christian missionary goes that other “pathfinder of civilization,” the commercial traveler, who is known as the “evangel of peaceful exchange” that makes the whole world kin.  When the Filipinos are fit for self-government, let us do as we did Cuba, make them as free as the air they breathe, but keep the key to Manila Bay as our doorway to the Orient; for whatever may be said of the old “Joss House” kingdom with all her superstitions, she possesses today the “greatest combination of natural conditions for industrial activity of any undeveloped part of the globe.”  By building the Suez Canal England secured an advantage of three thousand miles, in her oriental trade over the United States.  The Panama Canal wipes out this advantage and places the trade of New York a thousand miles nearer than that of Liverpool.

Now let the United States build her own merchant marine, then with her own ships, loaded with her own goods, in her own harbor at Manila, she has easy access to the Orient, with its seven hundred and fifty millions of people, who purchased last year more than a billion and a half dollars worth of the kind of goods we have to sell, and much of it cotton goods, which means future employment for the growing millions of negroes in the South.  While it may be best to confine our territorial domain within our ocean ditches, we must encourage commercial expansion, for we have already one hundred millions of people; soon we will have one hundred and fifty millions, and experts tell us when the present century closes there will be three hundred millions in this country.  If this republic would build for the future she must strive to create a world-wide business fraternity, through which will go and grow the spirit of the noblest civilization of the world.

Another swing of the searchlight and it falls upon The Labor and Capital Question.

After all the years of education, agitation and legislation, we find capital combining in great corporations on one hand, and labor organizing in great trade unions on the other.  Like two great armies they face each other, both determined to win.  While capital is expanding on one side, the wants of the laboring classes are expanding on the other.  They see excursion trains bound for world’s fairs; they