The times., 1899-02-17
MIGHTY PRODLE EMS EVOLVED bY WAR
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mits the free and enfrapchised Filipinos
to the guiding hand and the liberaliZing
influences the generous sympathies, the
uplifting education. not of their American
masters, but of their American emanci
pators.
NO one can tell today what is best for
them or for us. | know no one at this
hour who is wise enough or sufficiently
informed to determine what form of gov
Crnment will best subserye their interests
and our interests their and our well-being.
II We knew everything by intXition, and
sometimes | think there are those who be
lieve that If we do not they do. we should
not need information, but unfortunately
most of us are not in that happy state.
This whole subject is now with Congress,
and Congress is the voice, the conscience.
and the judgment of the American people
Upon their Judgment and conscience can
we not rely?
Il believe in them. ! trust them. |
I know of no better or safer human tribunal
than the people. Until Congress shall di-
rect otherwise it will be the duty of the
Executive to possess and hold the Philip
( pines. giving to the people thereof peace
and order and benefccnt government, af-
/ fording them every opportunity to prose-
cute their lawful pursuits. encouraging
them in thrift and-industry. making them
| feel and know that are their friends
not their enemies; that their good is our
! aim: that their welfare is our welfare, but
that neither their aspirations nor ours can
be realized until our authority is acknowl-
edged and unQuestioned.
Under American Guidance.
THAT the inhabitants of the Philippines
/ will be benefited by this Republic is my
mistaken belief. That they will have n
( kindlier government under our guidance,
! and that they will be aided in every pos
! sbIe way to be self-respecting and self
governing people. is as true as that the
( American people love liberty and have
! an abiding faith in their own Government
I and in their own institutions. No i'm
perial designs lurk in the American mind
| They are alien to American sentiment,
! thought, and purpose. Our priceless prin-
/ ciples undergo no change under tropical
| sun. They go with the flag.
Why read We not the changec-7 truth?
| The free conquer but TO save.
| IF we can benefit these remote
peoples. who will object? IT, in the
| years of the future. they are estab-
! lished in government under law and
! liberty who will regret our perls
! and sacrifices? Who will not rejoice in
/ our heroism and humanity? Always perils
| and always after them safety: always
7 darkness ana CLOUDS. Dul dlNdNS ShliiLi9
through them the light and the sunshine.
! Always cost and sacrifice, but always after
/ them the fruition of liberty, education, 3nd
civilization.
/ Il have no light or knowledge not COM
men to my cOuntrymen. do not proph-
esy. The present is all-absorbing to me,
but l cannot bound my vision by the blood
stained trenches around Manila. where
every red drop whether from the veins OF
cold Ifnr. cd l.
pino. is anguish 10 my heart; but by the
broad range of future years, when that
group of islands 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
and habits, devoted to the arts OF peace, in
touch with the commerce and trade OF all
! nations enjoying the blessings of free
dom, of civil and religious liberty, of edu
cation and of homes, and whose children
and childrens children shall for ages hence
bless the American Republic because it
emancipated and redeemed their father;ard
and set them in the pathway of the world :
best civilization"
Secretary Long speaks.
At the close of Mr. McKinley's speech
an ode to the President, written by Sam
Walter Foss. was sung Mayor Quincy
Postmaster General Smith. and Secretary
Long also spoke. Secretary Long in part
said:
For one ! trust with all my heart that
the result Of the new relations with the
Philippines may be to aid them to the ac-
quirement of the comforts, happiness, and
benefactions of our civilization. to edu-
cate them to their political elevation and
TO help them to the establishment of theil
own seif-government and their own free
existence. Meantime our association witt
them if that association has by the forct
of events become a trust upon us may wei
be accomplished with benefit to them anC
benefit to us. There will be work in it fO
the philanthTopist, the scholar and th'
humanitarian. There will be opportunitie
for the outlet of our own enterprise. trad
and commerce. Why should not the Unite,
States, now that these lands and tribe
have been entrusted to its disposition, en-
ter upon the trust thus imposed upon i
with the determination that as it begal
: by freeing them from the yoke of oppres
sion 1t will go on and insure them still
larger blessings of liberty and civilization
and will so bear itself toward them that il
securing their welfare it shall also promot
its own, and as always happens when me-
or nations cooperate in the spirit of jus
tice and good will, the reward shall com
TO both in their mutual increase? Is no
that the statesmanship of the great Mas
ter who limited not his mission or that q
his disciples to his own chosen people, bu
! proclaimed that his gospel should b
! preached in all the world unto all nation
> that greatest statesman of all time Jesu
Christ"
After visit to the State House wher
, he will probably make speech tomOrro
: morning. and a luncheon at the CONNER
-, cial Club. President Mckinley Will retur
y to Washington at > p. m. tomorrow.
a a COURT ROOMS FLOODED.
Legal Proceedings Interrupted u