Source: Albert J Beveridge, The “March of the Flag,” Beginning of Greater America [Indianapolis?] [1898], available at https://archive.org/details/marchofflagbegin00beve/page/n5/mode/2up. Fellow citizens, it is a noble land that God has given us;

Fellow Americans of California and the Pacific Slope The Pacific is the ocean of the future; and the Pacific is yours. The markets of the Orient are the Republic’s future

Congressional Record, 56th Congress, 1st Session, 9 January 1900, 704-712. Beveridge was a Republican Senator from Indiana from 1899–1911. MR. PRESIDENT,1 the times call for candor. The Philippines are ours