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then the senator proceeded with a dramatic and eloquent catalogueof the magnificent resources, extent, and wealth of the PhilippineIslands "beyond which lies China's trade" which he valued at $285,-738,000 of which we were getting only 9 per cent and of which"under God," as we "regenerate the world," we should get 50 percent. Lifting his arm aloft, holding a lump of gold in his hand, heexclaimed dramatically: "I have a nugget of pure gold picked upin its present form on the banks of a Philippine creek. I have golddust washed out by the crude process of careless natives from thesands of a Philippine stream." And then he said that it must be ourgreat objective "to establish the supremacy of the American racethroughout the Pacific and throughout the East to the end of time."Self-government for Asiatics, people with savage blood, Orientalblood, Malay blood, and Spanish example—this was not to be thoughtof. He prophesied that "self-government and the internal developmentof the country have been the dominant notes of our first century;administration and development of other lands will be thedominant notes of our second century." And he ended with thisrhetorical flourish:This question is elemental. It is racial. God has not been preparing theEnglish-speaking and Teutonic people for a thousand years for nothingbut vain and idle contemplation and self-administration. No! He has madeus the master organizers of this world to establish system where chaosreigns. He has given us the spirit of progress, to overwhelm the forces ofreaction throughout the earth. He has made us adepts in government thatwe may administer government among savage and senile peoples. . . . Andof all our race He has marked the American people as the chosen nationto finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine missionof America. . . . We are the trustees of the world's progress, guardiansof its righteous peace. The judgment of the Master is upon us: "Ye havebeen faithful over few things. I will make you ruler over many things."When the senator had finished this strange melange of world duty,world glory, world opportunity, regeneration of savage and senilepeoples, 50 per cent of the trade of China and gold nuggets on thebanks of streams, imperial destiny and treasure, the venerable SenatorHoar of Massachusetts, who had been shocked at the spectacleof the eloquent young senator summoning America to her imperial2x8