The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-02-15

It's nash-light revealed 20 every man
woman and child In tho United states
the hideous condition In a ncighboring g.
land and tho responsibility OF the Amer
can government within thirty days. ou
OF a million volunteers who had onercd q
enlist. 250,Oo0 had been moved into camp
Sampson and schley had paced around
Cuba an impenetrable blockade. ano
Dewey, sailing acros the far Eastern
oceans to fnd the enemy's ships and de-
stroy them. no matter what might he the
discrepancy between his own force and
that Of his foe, had won the right to re-
peat the famous phrase Of Caesar. I
came. I saw, I conquered"
I cannot see how the administration or
the peace commissioners representing the
United States could have made any milder
or any different terms from those which
were embodied In that treaty which was
happily fatiled by the senate last Tues
iay
Aguinaldo builded better than ne knew
when he ordered that midnight assault
upon the American soldiers. he assured
for his people American liberty, Jaw. and
injustice, instead OF the outocraoy and
the sure and certain development OF tyr
amy under the government Of an advent
urer who had once sold his country for
Spanish gold and kept the money and re-
pudiated the contract BY the ratification
d the treaty the waverlng prestige OF the
United States with foreign nations has
been restored. The solemnity Of the sit
uation, the gravity Of the responsibilities
we have assured and the difficulties Of the
task which are before us We all admit
But government of the people and by the
people demonstrate their capacity for
leadership In the affairs Of the world by
solving difficult problems overcoming
great obstacles and 30 setting perllous
complications that civilization is advanced
freedom enjoyed ana commerce extended.
CNBA MAY BE oURe-
Tho United States win not % beyond
this continent for new stars for our flag
or new states for our union. cuba may
In time be tho exception because Of its
to our shores, and Because a
ferry Will be run between our coast and
that beautiful Island. But that event will
not occur until American emigration and
settlement have made free Cuba pros,
Derous American republic. wit, American
IDEAS. American institutions and Ameri-
an spirit and clamoring for admission as
fully demonstrated American state to
he American union. Far distant coun-
tries, peopled by alien races, with alien
civilization, will never be Incorporated
ls part Of our governing body. l believe
hat the untried experiment of American
aw and justice Will, when understood in
he Philippines, gradually educate these
peoples 20 the point wIIere tney can be
safely entrusted with the management Of
heir own affairs Native armies, and a
native police. ofricered by American Of
ncers and supported by the revenues Of
the islands In which they serve will keep
the peace and protect lives and proper
ties. American courts and American
ool houses will rear generation which
can appreciate the value OF liberty, which
loes not mean license. but does mean
'aw While the United States Is meeting
The destiny and fulfilling the missions
which God has 30 mysteriously devolved
upon Il, the American congress- win form
ulate laws and organize governments for
.hese new possessions. which, while de-
veloplng them. win prevent anv interter-
ance with the rights or the position or
he income Of American latOr ON the
,o0tr,rv. these new possessions AMI the
toothold we have in them r. the cxten-
ION OF trade wi open he markets Of the
far East and tho narSets th'sp -
'ands 70 the products Of our fields and
our factories. Abraham Lincoln struck
the key note OF American development
when he said that the civil war must be
prosecuted "untn the Mississippi river
~uns unvexed to the sea" He saw that
while the United States was the greatest
market within itslf OF the world, the sur
plus OF our production must become 90
great that to prevent suffocation we must
eek and find the countries and the peo-
pes which would need the products OF
our labor.
When the echo ofthe guns Of the Amer-l
can navy and American army died away,
the worldwide empire OF Charles ". Phr
lip II and Of Ferdinand and Isabs:ie had
vanished. II had become miraga Of his
Aol y nc guns bA bSNFN HtAHA7A INV
Spanish rcet ma - us q worll-p1wer the
suns OF Dewey agl'lE the Ftnuhibe
avltes Of Aguina - have nlall tItar the
pathway 70 Philippine government Ths
unknown Dewey OF a year ago has taken
his place among the foremost OF navala
heroes OF our time. and as we think OF
his treatment OF delicate complications
with Germany and with other foreign ma
tions ana with the spaniards and with
the natives across the sea, we are obtain
ing a clearer vision Of a great American
statesman.
We look back over tho past to wonder
and rejoice at the settlement OF the recon
structlon prohlem-the greatest ever
forced upon a government coming out OF
civll war. We look at the events OF
today. and see that reconstruction 30 com.
plete that Union and Confederate, Fed
eral and Rebel, are emulous only as tc
which SHAH more glorlously serve the llae
Of the Union. We lock forward 70 thS
future with confidence and hope, for th'
nation which reconstructed itself out ol
the ruins Of q civil strife will successfully
solve the problems OF the expans,oa Ol
It's territory ana the extension Of ia
power.
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