Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-29
ISSUES OF THIS YEAR.
The President should Have Parti-
san Congress to Help Handle
New Difficulties.

The congress which will be elected
n few weeks hence will have to deal
with more questions of great impor-
tance than presented themselves to
any congress which has met since the
civil war and reconstruction days. 1t
will have to devise a system of govern
ment for each of our new possessions
with the possible exception of Hawaii,
which may be attended to in the COM
ing short session of the present con-
gress. The work of forming per-
manent army to meet the new needs
which enlarged territory will impose
may possibly be transacted in the COM
ing four months session of the exist
ing congress, but the chances are that
it will go over to the next body. Then,
too, a staff organization for the army
in line with modern requirements will
have to be devised. The old issue of
the staff and line wrangle in the navy
will have to be settled, and a new sys-
TEN of naval promotions must be
created.
Work enough to keep a congress
busy during nearly all of its term
aside altogether from the routine
business of the government, has here
been cited. The task of framing gov
ernments which will recognize the
local capabilities and meet the pc
culiar needs of the people of Cuba,
Puerto Rico and the Philippines de-
mands time and intelligence. In
considerabl degree the conditions
here are new. Some of the peoples to
be dealt with may have to remain IN
a state of dependence forever. 1he
full itorial status which is enjoyed
by New Mexico, Arizona and Okla
homa cannot be extended to any OF
our new possessions Immediately,
though the indications are that 1t may
safely be given to Puerto Rico before
MANY more years pass. An entirely
different and less advanced sort OF a
government will have to be provided
for the Philippines. Government for
Cuba will involve some delicate ques-
tions of a different order from those
which will come up in the Puerto
Rican and Philippine matters.
For the adjustment of all these com
plex questions the republican party
will be held primarily responsible.
The necessity, therefore, for the re-
publicans to elect a majority of the
next house of representatives and to
gain the two or three seats which Will
give them control of the senate is par
ticularly urgent. \ republican con-
gress should be chosen to assist the
republican president in dealing with
these delicate issues. Not since 1870,
when Georgia. the last of the seeded
states, was restored to her old rela-
tions to the union, has congress been
called upon { o deal with so many ques-
tions requiring discrimination, bal
ance and tact as will present them
selves to the congress which is to be
elected little less than two months
hence. The president in managing the
war which has brought all these
troublesome issues to the front, and in
dealing with some of them in their
rudimentary stage since the armistice
began, has shown excellent Judgment.
1t is particularly essential that the
congress elected on November shall
be in partisan accord with him on
these and the other great issues which
may arise.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat