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Volume XIV]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY.
HOW MAY THE UNITED STATES GOVERN ITS
EXTRA-CONTINENTAL TERRITORY?
THERE is a feeling in the air that this nation has reached,
or is at least approaching, a great crisis in its history.
Although I make no claim to extraordinary sensitiveness and
no pretense at prophecy, yet I must confess that I share, in
some degree, this apprehension. After considerable reflection
upon the cause of my feeling, I have made it reasonably clear
to my own mind that the danger lies not so much in the mere
possession of extra-continental territory as in the manner of
its government.
I am not of those who think that the United States ought
never to have colonies or dependencies. When this people
shall have fairly populated this country; when they shall have
arrived at a consensus of opinion in regard to the fundamental
principles of rights and policy; when they shall have planted
the laws, customs and institutions of civilization throughout
this land which they now partially inhabit - when, in short,
they shall have brought their national development to a condi-
tion of reasonable perfection, then I agree that they may right-
eously and properly take up the world-duty of carrying their
civilization into the dark places of the earth by the establish-
ment of colonies and dependencies in such places. But so long
as we do not inhabit two-thirds of the territory which we now
possess on this continent; so long as we have not explored,
Marck, 1899.
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