109
Address at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Miami
University, June 15, 1899.

VIII. LATER ASPECTS OF OUR NEW DUTIES 161
At Princeton University, on Commemoration Day,
October 21, 1899.

IX. A CONTINENTAL UNION 199
At the Massachusetts Club, Boston, March 3, 1900.

X. OUR NEW INTERESTS 221
At the University of California, on Charter Day,
March 23, 1900.

XI. "UNOFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS" 259
At the Farewell Banquet to the Philippine Commission,
San Francisco, April 12, 1900.

APPENDICES

1. POWER TO ACQUIRE AND GOVERN TERRITORY 271

2. THE TARIFF IN UNITED STATES TERRITORY 277

3. THE RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS AS TO CUBA 280

4. THE PROTOCOL OF WASHINGTON 282

5. THE PEACE OF PARIS 285

I

THE TERRITORY WITH WHICH WE ARE THREATENED

This paper first appeared in "The Century Magazine" for September,
1898, for which it was written some time before the author's
appointment as a member of the Paris Commission to negotiate the terms
of peace with Spain, and, in fact, before hostilities had been
suspended or the peace protocol agreed upon in Washington.

THE TERRITORY WITH WHICH WE ARE THREATENED

Men are everywhere asking what should be our course about the territory
conquered in this war. Some inquire merely if it is good policy for the
United States to abandon its continental limitations, and extend its
rule over semi-tropical countries with mixed populations. Others ask if
it would not be the wisest policy to give them away after conquering
them, or abandon them. They say it would be ruinous to admit them as
States to equal rights with ourselves, and contrary to the Constitution
to hold them permanently as Territories. It would be bad policy, they
argue, to lower the standard of our population by taking in hordes of
West Indians and Asiatics; bad policy to run any chance of allowing
these people to become some day joint arbiters with ourselves of the
national destinies; bad policy to abandon the principles of
Washington's Farewell Address, to which we have adhered for a century,
and involve ourselves in the Eastern quest