The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-01
LODGES PATRIOTISM.
Believes in Ending War With All Speed
and Dispatch.

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1t is in regard to this last question.
which is uppermost in the public mind
that l desire to speak to you. Let us
begin by dismissing all the idle jargon
and cant about imperialism, perfectly
meaningless word, full of sound and
fury signifying nothing Let us consider
in plain and simple fashion the practical
question, which is our policy in regard to
the Philippine Islands. We are right
fully in those islands. No title could be
more perfect than ours. The only gov
ernment, and the only sovereignty in the
philippines were those of SPAIN and they
nave been transferred 70 us. Rightfully
and righteously, in the Philippines, as a
consequence of Dewey's great victory in
Manila bay, we have been attacked there
by insurgent natives of the island under
ch1efs who would now be negotiating in
exile at Hong Kong, unhonored and I'M
sung, had 1t not been for the American
11eet and the American army. These in
surgents, just before the ratification of
the treaty of peace, attacked our troops,
Wantonly and without provocation, and
that was the way the war began.
The insurgent leaders showed to us the
BLACKLIST ingratttude and there Is no proof
Whatever that they represent even the
Tagal minority of the people of one ISL
and. Their leader is a self-seeking ad-
venturer who has made himself dictator
and created for his own purposes what
ever shadow of government they have
That in plain language, is the situation
and such being the situation, what does
It behooye us to do? For my own part, 1
have neither doubt nor question. l be-
lieve In retaining the Philippine Islands,
and nave always believed In that policy.
They should be retained as a possession
In our body polite nor brought within our
tariff. We can trust ourselves to govern
them well and to gain the entire assent
OF the governed. | believe that we should
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and that then We should give to those
islands the best government possible,
which know we are entirely capable of
Dong. | believe that our first and imme-
diate duty, to which all others are sub
ordinate, is to push this war with all the
energy and resources we can command to
prompt and successful conclusion and
effort the administration of President
Mckinley, which is charged with that
duty, in all measures for the accomplish
ment of It's difficult task. Such is my
OWL position such | believe to be the
right position to be taken by the people
of the United States, and I have no dolIbf
that they will take it.
REASONS FOR POSITION.
Let me now give, very briefly my rea-
sons Tor this position. They are of two
kinds. One affecting the interests of the
united States, the other our duty as a
nation; but although they spring from
different sources, both reasons are inti-
mately related. 1 have always believed
that the cardinal principle of American
craftsmanship should be to secure for the
farmers of the country the largest re-
turns, and for the wage earners the high
est possible wages and the fullest en-
ployment The attainment of these great
opJects rest primarily, and must always
rest, upon the initiative, the energy. the
enterprise and the individual independ-
ence OF the American people To these
qualtles we owe our vast success, and
h0 1o.aa
or by legislation. But it must be the
policy of our government to give to these
national qualities the fullest scope. to
insure them fair field and to guard
them from any competition which ndivid-
ual effort can not meet alone
IL is with this cardinal principle of Sc
curing the largest returns to our farmers
and the highest wages and the fullest
employment to our wage earners ALWAYS
in view, that I have advocated the pro-
lection of the home market. It is for that
reason as well as for the protection of
the quality of our citizenship, that have
urged and still urge with all my strength
the restriction of an immigration which
is continually tending to lower the rates
wholesome competition 1t is for that
reason that l have always supported the
policy of substituting ocean steamship
lines because even American energy and
enterprise can not compete with the
heavy subsidies of other nations unless
their own government sustains them and
places them upon an equality For the
same reason | advocate the extension of
our markets, because our vast industrial
growth has made our production far out
run the home market l believe. for ex-
ample. that one of the benefits of protec-
ton is to enable us to make reciprocity
treaties which will open other markets to
our products. But this is not enough
The struggle of this age of ours is in the
conflict of economic forces. The great
nations Of the earth are competing in
q desperate struggle for the worlds
would have our farms profitable and our
labor highly paid and fully employed we
must not be left behind.
STRUGGLE FOR MARKETS.
Let us look out over the world and
master the great outlines of the situa-
ton. The home market is ours. In Eu-
rope, in the midst of high tariffs and
sharp competition, we must take our
that we shall get our share. Come nearer
home. The trade of the West Indies,
largely ours today, must become more
and more So To the south of us lies
a great continent of untold richness and
as yet sparsely populated. In the
economic struggle the great nations of
Europe for many years past have been
weakly-held lands of the earth. as the
surest means of trade development Some
years ago that process of seizure began
In South America, and If we had not m
teryened 1t would have been comparative
ly but short time before South America
would have been parceled out like Africa.
We did intervene, and to some purpose
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