The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

they have gone up one brick at time,
and they are as much at home on the
topmost course as on the first" 1t struck
me then that this was valuable lesson,
applied to our daily life We must build
slowly if we would be sure. We must rise
gradually step by step, If we would keep
our heads
So, too, in our treatment of others. if
we have fortunately reached the higher
plane ourselves, let US not fail to recoIlect
that we owe duty to those toiling ones
who are mounting as painfully and slowly
as we did the steps that we have trod
II IS question of humanity, Neither
race nor creed can become a reason for
our lndlfterence or neglect. and q mans
patent of nobility should be his willing
ness TO do good honest work, We have,
as nation, reached high plane and we
nave been rising so rapidly of late that
perhaps we do not see quite clearly at
the moment; but the glamor will soon
pass and then, l have no doubt we shall
see plainly the path along which duty
bids us travel
am a believer in President McKinlev's
pohcy, and | propose, as good, patriotic
cltlZen, TO uphold that policy. It is too
late now, 1t seems to me- to cavil at the
progress of events in the Philippines. II
is dreadful to read daily in the news
papers of the spilling of the blood of our
good, brave American boys. How little
can we appreciate to the full the terrible
ho'oeslctness that must have accom-
panied the physical discomfort and hard
Snip OF their campaign on strange and
hostile shore
Our California boys, who are soon to be
al nome again, will tell you about this:
put we can imagine that the emotion that
VIII oVerpoWer them when the good ship
brings them within sight of the Golden
Gate again will be one Of the thrills of
he which you and 1 and all of us would
give much to just once experience. Their
labors and their sacrifices will not be in
vain, for the stars and stripes are some
time going to mean more of good and hap
piness for the Filipinos than for the peo-
pie who took the flag there.
The future of those islands, so far as
the United States is concerned, is a prob
lem indeed, but it is problem the sol1
ton of which will lie in the business of
our administration of those islands. What
we shall want there first will be not state
hood hood but military government, with
Civil Governor-able, honest and kind
whose underlying principle of action will
be the, determination to do those things
which are right to be done in the interest
of the people.
The betterment of their physical. rnoro1
and commercial condition is the point we
want to reach, and the only men who % ~
help US to attain that point are the men
OF honest purpose, who are willing To
go there not for what they themselves 20 ~
get out of the country but for what thav
can give to 1t. We have plenty of such
men, and l am confident that our wiSa
President will find them. Meantime a
l SAID before, am for upholding his
hands, and | wish him godspeed in his
high and difficult task. LIS
Gentlemen, this is an interesting os
wide lie subject Ss but in taking it up have ave-
far. l thank you again for the ereot eo4
courtesy and honor you have accorded me
and, again expressing the pleasure feel
at at me m51ee1ing you mere tonight, 1 sit down
sladiy and with pleasant anticipations Of
what is yet to come. LUIS ol
AND then came General T. H. Hub
bard, who talked of esoteric matters
He labored sweatingly over the details
and intricacies Of Southern Pacific