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Albert J. Beveridge, THE MARCH OF
THE FLAG September 1898
- Background: The Republican party won the presidential election of 1896 by running as the party of the gold
standard, economic stability, and prosperity.William McKinley defeated the Democratic-Populist fusion
candidate William Jennings Bryan (campaigning helf from big businesses) - start of a long period of
Republican dominance. McKinley Admin went to war with Spain (1898) and acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico, and
the Philippines. The War was a response to the humanitarian crisis in Cuba AND a chance to pursue
American economic interests. Beveridge argued that the nation had a duty to extend civilization to the people
of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines while simultaneously bolstering American economic strength. --D.
Voelke
- 1. Stresses the land. Describes it as vast, prosperous, able, strong. Goes as far to compare it a soldier/guard between The Atlanic and Pacific Ocean. "a
greater England with a nobler destiny" - Compares itself to the enemy and thus shows a lack of fear. "Noble" - Views America as superior.
- 2. Focuses on the people. Describes them as gifted (masterful, tactile, powerful) "a people imperial by virtue of
their power, by right of their institutions, by authority of their Heaven-directed purposes--the propagandists and not
the misers of liberty"
- 3. Contends that God bestowed upon America faith in their mission. Focuses on the previous successful
histories ad portrays the nation as dedicated to their causes, persistent and willing to sacrifice anything for
the nation's victory. "a history divinely logical, in the process of whose tremendous reasoning we find
ourselves to-day"
- 4. "Therefore, in this campaign, the question is larger than a party question. It is an American question. It is a
world question. Shall the American people continue their march toward the commercial supremacy of the
world? Shall free institutions broaden their blessed reign as the children of liberty wax in strength, until the
empire of our principles is established over the hearts of all mankind?"
- 5."Have we no mission to perform, no duty to discharge to our fellow-man?"- Questions the potential and
intentions of the American Nations. Possibility of them being selfish and doing little despite their massive
capabilities. "who take cowardice for their companion and self for their deity--as China has, as India has, as
Egypt has?"
- 6. "Shall we be as the man who had one talent and hid it, or as he who had ten talents and used them until they grew to riches? And shall we reap the reward
that waits on our discharge of our high duty; shall we occupy new markets for what our farmers raise, our factories make, our merchants sell--aye, and, please
God, new markets for what our ships shall carry?" Stresses the need to utiilize resources and act
- 7. "Hawaii is ours; Porto Rico is to be ours; at the prayer of her people Cuba finally will be ours; in the islands of the East, even to the gates of Asia, coaling stations are to be ours at the very
least; the flag of a liberal government is to float over the Philippines" - Visions of world expansion and "colonizing". Claiming territory
- 8. Contests views of opposition. Feel they it is just to govern the incapable without their consent. "The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the
governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government""We govern the Indians without their consent, we govern our territories without their consent, we govern our children without
their consent. How do they know that our government would be without their consent?" Implies the indians dont know any better. Claims their government ensure blood and savage is not shed.
case with the Philippines
- 12."The march of the flag! In 1789 the flag of the Republic
waved over 4,000,000 souls in thirteen states, and their
savage territory which stretched to the Mississippi, to
Canada, to the Floridas. The timid minds of that day said
that no new territory was needed, and, for the hour, they
were right. But Jefferson, through whose intellect the
centuries marched; Jefferson, who dreamed of Cuba as an
American state; Jefferson, the first Imperialist of the
Republic--Jefferson acquired that imperial territory which
swept from the Mississippi to the mountains, from Texas to
the British possessions, and the march of the flag began!"
- 13. "that noble land out of which Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana have been carved was uncertain;
Jefferson, strict constructionist of constitutional power
though he was, obeyed the Anglo-Saxon impulse within
him, whose watchword then and whose watchword
throughout the world to-day is, "Forward!": another empire
was added to the Republic, and the march of the flag went
on!"
- 14. "but the people's judgment approved the command of their blood, and the march of the flag went on"!
- 15. "A screen of land from New Orleans to Florida shut us from the Gulf, and over this and the Everglade
Peninsula waved the saffron flag of Spain; Andrew Jackson seized both, the American people stood at his
back, and, under Monroe, the Floridas came under the dominion of the Republic, and the march of the flag
went on! The Cassandras prophesied every prophecy of despair we hear, to-day, but the march of the flag went
on!"
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