Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-02-23

| In LEBANON 20. LIT. NelS7, 'hO 0
| QUAY candidate to succeed Gen. Gobln,
was elected State Senator by from two
to three Thousand majority.
In Philadelphia county, Ashbridge,
Rep. is elected Mayor by about 1lO,Ooo
| majority over Hoskins, Dem.
The Democratic County Committee
| met in Butler, yesterday, and fixed up
on Saturday, June 3D., as the time for
their primary.
BELIEVING that the teaching and
practice of polygamy is an act Of rebel
| lion against the laws of the Govern
.<scffe, -crffr.- s<ei@ty, az III hiah
B. H. Roberts, Congressman-elect from
Utah, is guilty, we. therefore, as con-
gregation, do hereby declare our opposi-
ton TO the seating of said B.'H. Roberts
in the House of Representatives of the
Government of the United States.
The foregoing is the meat of resolu-
ton passed last Sunday by the congrega-
ton of the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of the Latter Day Saints, who
meet regularly at 81 Fourth avenue
| Pittsburg.
AT banquet in Boston, Thursday
night, President Mckinley spoke OF thu
Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico as a
trust committed to our care by God.
| The following extracts from his speech
show its import
| So
THE Philippines, like Cuba and
Porto Rico, We're intrusted to our hands
| by the war, and to that great trust, un-
| der the providence of God and in the
name of human progress and civillza-
| tion. we are committed IL is a trust
we have not sought; it is a trust
from which we will not finch. The
American people will hold up the hands
of their servants at home to whom they
commit its execution, while Dewey and
Otis and the brave men whom they
command, will have the support of the
country in upholding our flag where 1t
now floats, the symbol and assurance of
| liberty and justice.
~
1.-The other ggestions-First, that
!! they should be tossed into the arena of
contention for the strife of nations; or
second, be left to the anarchy and chaos
of no protectorate at all, were too
shameful to be considered. The treaty
gave them to the United States.
=
The future of the Philippine islands
| is now in the hands of the American
people. Until the treaty was ratified
or rejected the executive department OF
| this government could only preserve the
peace and protect life and property.
| That treaty now commits the free and
enfranchised Filipinos to the guiding
hand and the liberalizing influences,
| the generous sympathies, the uplifting
education, not of their American mas
| tiers, but of their American emancipa-
| tors.
mo one can tell to-day what is best
| for them or for us. ! know no one at
| this hour who is wise enough or sutfi-
GENTLY informed to determine what
| form of government will best subserve
| their interests and our interests, their
and our well being.
II
Until congress shall direct otherwise,
| it will be the duty of the executive to
possess and hold the Philippines, giving
| to the people thereof peace and order
and benefcent government, according
| them every opportunity to prosecute
| their lawful pursuits, encouraging them
| in thrift and industry, making them
| feel and know that we are their friends,
| not their enemies, that their good is oul
aim, that their welfare is our welfare
| but that neither their aspirations mol
4 l. MT ~
is acknowledged and unquestioned.
!
II have no light or knowledge moi
common to my countrymen. | do not
| prophesy. The present is all-absorbina
| to me, but cannot bound my vision by
| the blood-stained trenches around Ma
Mia, where every red drop, whether
from the veins Of an American soldier
or misguided Filipino, ia anguish tc
my heart but by the broad range o1
future years, when that group of island:
under the impulse of the year just past
shall have become the gems and glories
of those tropical seas, land of plenty
and of increasing possibilities, a people
| redeemed from savage Incidence ano
habits, devoted to the arts of peace, il
touch with the commerce and trade OF
all nations, enjoying the blessings o!
freedom, of civil and religious liberty
of education and of homes, and whose
children and children's children shall
for ages hence bless the American re
public because it emancipated and re
deemed their fatberland and set then
in the pathway of the worlds best civil
ization
| FOR several years the Chicago Fri
bune has kept tab on tie crimes ant
casualties of this country. Here ar
some OF the grim totals for 1898; Death
from disasters of various kinds, 7,343
The number of suicides was $3.50, f;
decrease of !, 900 compared with each o
the two preceding years. The numbe
of murders was 7,S40, being decreas
of 2,S12 from 1897. The lynching az
gregated 127. of which 102 were negroes
90 whites and Indians. In the matte
of charities, the gifts of which recor'
could be made up amounted to S23, 9S4,
600, as compared with S33,6l2, GA il
1897