The Norfolk weekly news., 1899-10-12
America and the phiIippincS.

that are being told by the popocratic
press that the soldiers who served in
Manila do not sustain the administration
in its course in the Philippines. The
following quotations are taken from
the chaplain's address "The world
belongs to the highest civilization.
The Philippines belong to that nation
which has brought to them order and
freedom. In that archipelago we are
responsible for these for the prcscrva.
ton of order the maintenance Of lib.
erty. The responsibility came to us
unsought; having come, we must
accept it. If the people of those islands
were themselves able to create and per
petuate these; to insure the most
per feet order, to maintain the highest
liberty if they had that self control,
that balance of Judgment, that high
executive ability essential in the appli-
cation to practice of the theory of gov
ernment, (the most difficult of all prob
lems) then might they be entrusted
with their fate. But to leave them to
misrule, to disorder within and spoil
alton from without-to do that would
be Il crime. We destroyed the only gov
ernment they had; we must provide
better. If you think that Aguinaldo
can govern the Philippines better than
Mckinley, then vote for Aguidaldo
Personality prefer Mckinley, and shall
vote for him.
This then is the issue. Not the cleo
tion of this man or that to office but the
creation of a free people. Never. since
the civil war, will your vote count for
80 much. Every vote cast in your state
has n significance far beyond the limits
of Nebraska. 1t has national mean
ing 1t has n world meaning. 1t
says whether or not the administra-
tion shall be supported in this hour of
trial in its efforts to meet the obligations
thrust upon it by the unforeseen exigen-
cies of war. 1t says whether you will
give aid and comfort to the enemies of
your country and see your flag trail
from the field of battle in disgrace.
have seen old Glory bend to the battle
storm, and would not desert her then.
Shall desert her now? No. followed
the old flag over the rice ridges of
Luzon and shall follow the old flag
here. | cannot speak officially for
my old regiment, but if you
watch the Fighting First think you
will find them voting here as they shot
in the Philippines. No man can afford
to be an obs'ructionist when his country
is Mt war.
"In time Of peace, am for the ad,
ministration when it is right; in time
of war, so long as rebellious gun is
aimed at the stars and stripes, am
for the administration, rightlor wrong.
This is not time for criticism; it is q
time for united action. The war is
upon us; we have only to fight it out
to the bitter end, and discuss politics
aftcrward. But the war will be fought
out, not in the rice swamps and bamboo
jungles of the Philippines, but at the
ballot boxes of America The triumph
of republicanism will do more to crush
the rebelliol than all the troops il
Luzon. But your ballot is your own
and you alone are responsible for it
You can vote if you WILL to foster
class spirit, to create social antipathy
to foment industrial unrest, to general,
mutual hate and distl ust in the hearts
of your countrymen, to belittle eth,
genius Of your statesmen, and th'
courage of your soldiers, to obstruc
your country's present with criticism
and becloud her future with pessimism
you can vote for that, or you can vot
for party that believes in that mutua
respect and confidence between classes
that industrial and financial stability
that reciprocity of esteem between fel
low citizens, that untrammeledi free
dom in the present and that sublim
trust for the future upon which ar
> founded all progress and prosperity
t for party that believes, not only il
, the integrity of our own people and i
4 the stainless honor of our own flag, bu
in the political redemption of the world
1 Nor shall we be without our reward
, The lands, discouraged by the crude, VI
: progressive methods, the rack rentinf
v the contiscations of Spain, these land
? when touched by the magic wand {
!. modern enterprise, and breathed upo
f by the warm breath of modern life, sha
leap with tn quickenings of a
!, exhaustless fertility, shall blossom as til
9 rose, shall pour into our storehouses
II stream of golden wealth. God nevt
o made more glourious land than IL
II Philippines,
v "And the people, crushed and bled |
k Spanish misrule, who had sunken in
d the apathy of despair, whose industl
+ had been paralyzed, whose intelle
l. Il