The National tribune., 1899-12-14
The Main Points of the Presidents Message.

3hS MAN OAutS VI buC EICploChb ulCood6Cs
81 urgently recommend that to support
the existing gold standard, and to main
tain the parity in value of the coins of the
two metals (gold and silver and the equal
power of every dollar at all times in the
market and in the payment of debts the
Secretary of the Treasury be given addi-
tional power and charged with the duty to
sell United States bonds and to employ
such other effective means as may be neces-
sary to these ends"
Il am satisfied the Judgment of the coun-
try favors the policy of aid to our merchant
marine, which will broaden our commerce
and markets and upbuild our sea-carrying
capacity for the products of agriculture and
manufacture, which, with the increase of
our Navy, mean more work and wages to
our countrymen, IS well as safeguard to
American interests in every part OF the
| world"
Combinations Of capital organized into
trusts to control the conditions OF trade
| among our citizens, to stifie competition,
limit production, and determine the prices
| of products used and consumed by the
people, are justly provoking public dis
| cussion, and should early claim the atten-
| ton of Congress- 1t is univers-
ally conceded that combinations which en-
gross or control the market of any particG-
| lar kind of merchandise or commodity
| necessary to the general community, by
suppressing natural and ordinary compe-
| titiOn, whereby prices are unduly enhanced
| to the general consumer, are obnoxious not
public welfare. There must be a remedy
| for the evils involved in such organizations. !"
"This Government has maintained an
attitude OF neutrality in the unfortunate
contest between Great Britain and the Boer
States of Africa. We have remained faith
full to the precept Of avoiding entangling
alliances as to affairs not of our direct CON
Germ. Had circumstances suggested that
the parties to the quarrel would have well
coined any kindly expression of the hope
OF the American people that war might be
averted, good offices would have been
gladly rendered"
"I'his Nation has assumed before the
world grave responsibility for the future
good government of Cuba. We have ac.
lcepted trust, the fulfillment of which calls
for the sternest integrity of purpose and the
lexercise of the highest wisdom. The new
Cuba yet to arise from the ashes of the past
must needs be bound to us by ties of singu
lar intimacy and strength if its enduring
welfare is to be assured. Whether those
ties shall be organic or conventional the
destinies of Cuba are in some rightful form
and manner irrevocably linked with om
own, but how and how far is for the future
to determine in the ripenesS of events
; Whatever be the outcome, we must see to il
that free Cuba be reality, not a name, 8
perfect entity, not hasty experiment
!
!. Our plain duty is to abolish all customs
tariffs between the United States and Porte
Rico, and give her products free access t.
our markets"
The future government of the Philip.
pines rests with the Government of the
United States Few graver responsibilities
have ever been confided to u.s. If we accept
them in spirit worthy of our race and oul
traditions, great opportunity comes with
them. The islands lie under the shelter OF
our flag. They are ours by every title OF
law end equity. They cannot be aban.
doned. Ii we desert them. we leave them
at once to anarchy and finally to barbarism
We fling them golden apple of discord
among the rival powers, no one of which
could permit another To seize them un-
questioned. Their rich plains and valleys
would be the scene of endless strife and
bloodshed. The advent of Dewey's fleet in
Manila Bay, instead of being, as we hope
the dawn of a new day of freedom and
progress, will have been the beginning OF
an era of misery and violence worse than
any which has darkened their unhappy
past. Until Congress shall have
made known the formal expression of its
will shall use the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the statutes to up.
hold the sovereignty of the United States
in those distant islands as in all other
places where our flag rightfully floats ]
shall put at the disposal of the Army and
Navy all means which the liberality of Con-
gress and the people have provided to cause
this unprovoked and wasteful insurrection
to cease"