Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-24
The President Will Begin Work
Upon it Immediately.
POINTS TO BE TOUCHED UPON
late Speeches on the preSIden s
western Tour-PhIlippineS POLL
Cy TO Be Announced In the
ne Ssage-The Subj ct of Trust
LeaiSIatiOn-A New Department
of Commerce.

Washington, Oct. 23.-AH the infor-
nation now obtainable indicates that
rthe next message of President McKin-
lex to congress will be the most i'm
perfSQt that an executive has written
since eS days of the civil war. In
| statesmanship politics and finance it
will touch thNcountry in its most vital
places InasmG>p as the message win
be long and important one the pres
ident will begin worn upon it almost
! Immediately. He will nave about six
weeks to complete tins work, and in
the meantime he will have toSeal with
the routine matters which comeNo ana
with all other questions which av
! arise He will not have any too miNA
time to get the document in shape foiV
congress.
No doubt is now left as to the pres
ident's intentions as to the Philippines
His speeches in the west have clearly
demonstrated that he will recommend
to congress that the islands become
che property of the United States for
ain time to come. He will not recon-
mend how the islands may be treated,
as that question will be left to con-
gress, bat he will go so far as to ask
congress to take some definite action
as early as possible to indicate the in
tentions of the United States. He
will do this for >one important reason
that the Filipinos>may know that there
is no longer hope for them to continue
the insurrection. The president has as
certained that the FilfRinos are daily
growing more hopeful that the next
election may bring about a. change in
the policy of the United Stabes. They
do not believe that congress Will take
any action at the coming session. and
think that the whole question of their
future will be left until after the ma
tional election of next year. The presi-
dent sees that if congress should take
prompt action one source of Filipino
hope would be eliminated. With that
step taken, the insurrection would
weaken, and if there should be discon-
tent year from now it would be sup
pressed by the returns of the presiden-
tiaI election. The president and his
of the result of the next election. They
had no doubt before the president went
west, they said, and they now believe
that the country will overwhelmingly
support the republicans in the policy
of expansion which the president has
laid down so unmistakably within the
last few weeks. With this certainty,
7 1n
gressive action by the army, but ag-
gressive action by thel legislative and
executive branches of the government.
He will not mince words, therefore in
mis- coming message. He will commit
himself to expansion and to the reten-
ton of the Philippines. He will advise
congress that the sooner the Filipinos
are made aware of the intention of this
country, the quicker they will relin-
quish their benigerent ideas
The presidents recommendations
will anticipate the fight of 1900 to a
great extent. The democrats will be
met earlier than they expected, and the
leaders hope that when the
campaign of next year comes around
the democrats will not have enough
left of the Philippine issue, owing to
public opinion, upon which to go to the
If this issue can be cut from
under them they will have to fall back
upon free silver and that is what the
the president included, de-
sire. Upon free silver the democrats
would stand no earthly chance Of win
ming, the republicans say.
The rapidity with which the presi-
dent reveals his determination as to
the Philippines affords deep interest to
the administration leaders who have
remained in Washington. Cabinet Off
,ials who accompanied the president
vent away with him without an idea
hat he intended to commit himself SO
Up to within the last few
months he had never announced, even
1t a cabinet meeting. that he believed
he country should permanently retain
he islands. The drift of his remarks
las always been toward retention, and
.abinet officials inferred that this
would be the ultimate position of their
,hief. but they did not have a word of
lis upon which to say positively that
lie intended to commit himself SO early.
they have predicted that he would
ommit the whole matter to congress
Without an expression of his own as to
What ought to be done about the fu-
nj