Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-09

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ana or Texas and it rests upon higher
duty to humanity.
No American executive has right
to take one rod of land from under the
Sovereignty of the American people
and he will maintain that sovereignty
| in the island of Luzon come who may
against it,
He spoke in strong condemnation of
the untrue criticisms and aspersions of
the American arms which are being
circulated for political effect throughout
the country.
The men who stand beneath our flag
in Luzon will be faithful to YOU" he
said, and ask the American people
that they be faithful and just to them"
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, who
spoke to the sentiment of the present
administration was greeted with wild
applause.
The remarks of Senator Fairbanks
were in part as follows:
The present administration needs
neither an apologist nor an eulogist.
Its imperishable record is written and
| IS before the world. 1t is an admins
tration of arduous deeds done, which
lift it above the dead-level of history.
| 1t mas been confronted With great ques-
lions of domestic policy; it has solved
Them. 1t also has encountered grave
foreign problems. and we'll it has met
them. No emergency has been so great
| or eXigency so severe that it has not
been on the high plane of national duty
and national honor
Were the present administration
committed TO debased free silver cur
lrency and to free trade the splendid
Transformation we have witnessed
would have been an utter and absolute
limpossibility, and the calamities from
(which we have successfully and happi-
lly escaped would have been but multi
piled.
There were indeed domestic ques-
lions numerous and grave enough to alb
sorb the attention of the administration,
butit inherited an ample legacy of in
! ternational problems of more than
usual gravity.
For humanty's sake the administra-
Ition had appealed 10 the Spanish cabi-
net IN behalf of Cuba but a MEDIEVAL
Il
Voice of nineteenth century civilization.
Ian efforts to mediate peace having
failed. the dread alternative of war
Ealone remained.
The supreme demand of the Ameri-
lean people Was voiced in the order of
lthe administration which flashed to
Hong Kong Find the Spanish fleet and
aestrov it. How we'll this order was
interpreted and executed the world
1 knows The intrepid Dewey, in one
tshort hour stood with the foremost adj
ynirals of all the ages.
An army of a quarter of million of
linen was called from the myriad voca-
lions of peace: organized equipped and
lPut in the field with almost Incredible
ldispatch. No better soldiers ever an
swereei the call to arms. They We're
i American soldiers. ready and eager to
lseiye At the post of duty counting no
Esacrifice TOO great in their country S
'Ecause.
The administration sought no sordid
lends. no territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT II
sought no Naporonic extension of em-
pire; 1t desired only peace, with her
i ,boundless joys, her limitless posslbili-
liies. Peace of which the country had
iheen 50 long enamored. 1t had addee
4 Hawaii to our domain through the in
strumentality of diplomacy and from
5 the dictates of the highest statesman
ship in the national interest; but i
f coveted no other lands and no othe
peoples. Hawaii was indeed troph,
enough to signalize an administra
ton.
The congress. with due deliberatioi
and with exceptional unanimity, de
s elared war, and the senate Of tn.
Tinted states after a protracted de
lbate. ratified the treaty Of peace.
With the treaty came new and re
Elnote lands. rev peoples new and un
Expected responsibilities; but the.
icaine as the logical sequence of war
and not as the fruit of its supreme pur
Ipose
ne sword was drawn in the higl
land holy allse of humanity; it va
i drawn to liberate peoples from barbar
Eors tvranftical rule. from horrors whicl
Z disgraeed savasely
Our forces in the Philippines forme
/ 80 League with Aguinaldo; made N
/ compact with him for subordinating Ia
j authority Of the United states TO hi
il sclf Reconstructed dictatorship. Gu
peerl4ss captain Of the seas added i'm
{ pcrishable glory TO the American fas
d He could not have surrendered the fel
Z lof his Incompatible victory TO the il
Ii surgent ohieftain.
d When the administration overthre'
L ihe Spanish authority in Manila il owe
I a high and solemn duty To the Amer
i. cans the British, the Germans. III
{. French. the Spaniards and other ni