Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-18

Milwaukee, Sept. 14.-The feature OF
the state fair Wednesday was an ad-
dress by Gov. Scofeld who took occa-
sion to express some opinions on the
Philippine war and trusts which it was
not thought he entertained. 1t is esti-
mated that there we're $4,000 people on
the grounds and many of these heard
the governor. He said IN part:
Lessons of Adversely.
"Adversity has taught this genera
ton some wholesome lessons, which 1t
is hoped they may not have to learn
again; but it will profit us to be re-
minded occasionally that the hard
times and the disaster and distress
which the people of this country ex-
perienced since 1893 we're not due to a
scarcity of money; nor to poor crops,
nor to low prices for the products OF
mems industry; though some of these
were present at times as results of a
greater cause. 1t was lack of conf
dence engendered by a rapid tendency
toward speculation in all fields OF fl
nancial enterprise. Capital was made
timid and withdrew from many of the
ordinary fields of investment, and dis
aster followed.
Opposed to War.
81 was among those who did not be-
lieve this country should be pressed
into a war with Spain. [ still believe
that that war might have been aVerted
had it not been for undue pressure on
the part of some of the members of
congress. The present trouble has
come as a natural outgroWth of the
other, and our first duty in the prem
Uses is to accept the responsibility
It is the extreme of folly to talk
of withdrawing our troops from the
Philippines at the present time. We
have certain duties to perform; one is
to suppress instruction, and to that
end an army large enough to do 1t
promptly should be furnished; and the
next is to see to it that as rapidly as
possible a stable government for the
people of that country is established.
''The president Of the United States,
WHOSE COuuuCI
the unpleasant controversy with Spain
I'D to the present time has been digni-
fed and statesmanlike, has recently eX-
pressed some views concerning our
future relations to those far off islands
which seem to me significant. If the
papers have quoted the president cor
rectly as saying that the Philippine
islands belong to this country by right
of purchase and by this meant that
when the insurrectiOn is suppressed
those islands shall become part of
United States territory; and if the pol
icy of the war while it is in progress
is to be shaped to that end, believe
a very serious mistake may be made.
do not think that this country
should attempt to attach to itself a ter
ritory thousands of miles away, and an
alien race, that it would take centuries
to amalgamate, with ours.
eve are under sacred obligations to
these people, growing out of the pro-
gress of events up to this time, but l
cannot believe that these involve the
attempted assimilation of a people and
territory with whom we have nothing
in common.
However, our future policy as to
those islands will be settled by the
people; and the present duty of all pa
triotic citizens is to warmly support
the efforts of the administration to
suppress insurrectiOn and establish
peace In the meantime let every in
telligent citizen give earnest thought
to the problem of our future policy as
to that territory, to the end that when
the question comes before us we shall
be ready to meet it.
Trusts and Combinations.
"The moral and economic questions
arising out of the organization of So
called trusts cannot be disposed Of by
hysterical defamation. Nor will the
to them of wise trade say
ings that have grown out of the past
clear up the difficulties. We should
apply the tombstone or established
principles to them, and may, in so do
ing, remove some at the least Of the