g as rich embroideries upon the blue tapestry
of the sky, and soon the full moon began to pour its _silver_ on the
scene. As I stood gazing at the picture painted by the _gold_ of the
sun, and _silver_ of the moon, I felt whatever may have been my views
on the money question, the sun's gold-standard glory, and the moon's
free-silver coinage, as seen from these Colorado Chautauqua grounds
make me henceforth a Boulder bi-metalist."

On leaving the platform an old miner said: "How do you stand on the
money question? You got your views so mixed up with the sun and moon I
couldn't understand you."

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 m