Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-17

OF lenders; from a deficiency in rev.
enue to a surplus; from fear to conf
dence; from enforced idleness to prof
liable employment. The public faith
has been upheld, public order has been
maintained. We have prosperitv at
home and prestige abroad.
The is to I Menace Still Continues.
unIortunately the threat of 1896 has
Just been renewed by the allied parties
Withouc abatement or modification
me gold bill has been denounced and
lts repeal demanded. The menace of
10 to l, therefore, still hangs over us
with all its dire consequences to cred
It and confidence, to business and in
dustry. The enemies OF sound cur
rency are rallying their scattered
forces. The people must once more
unite and overcome the advocates of
reputation and must not relax their
energy until the battle for public honor
and honest money shall again triumph.
A congress which will sustain and
1t need be, strengthen the present law
can prevent financial catastrophe
which every lover of the republic is
interested to avert
NOT satisfied witt, assaulting the cur
rency and credit of the government
our political adversaries condemn the
tariff law enacted at the extra session
OF congress in 1897, known as the
Dlngley act, passed in obedience to
the VIII OIL the people at the election
OF the previous November, law which
| atonce stimulated our industries, open
ed the idle factories and mines and
gave to the laborer and to the farmer
fair returns for their toll and invest
ment. Shall we go back to a. tariff
which brings deficiency in our reve-
nues and destruction to our industrial
enterprises?
Faithful to it's pledges in these inter-
nal affairs, how has the government
discharged it's international duties?
Our platform of 1896 declared "The
Hawaiian islands should be controlled
by the United States and no foreign
power should be permitted to inter-
fere with them"
| This purpose has been fully accom-
plished by annexation and delegates
from those beautiful islands partici-
pated in the convention for which you
| speak today.
In the great conference of nations at
The Hague we reafTirmed before the
world the Monroe doctrine and our
adherence to it and our determination
not to participate in the complications
of Europe. We have happily ended
the European alliance in Samoa, secur-
| ing to ourselves one of the most val
liable harbors in the Pacific ocean,
while the open door in China gives to
| us fair and equal competition in the
vast trade Of the orient. Some things
have happened which We're not promis-
| ed nor even foreseen and our purpose
| in relation to them must not be left
in doubt. A just war has been waged
| for humanity and with it
have come new problems and re
| sponsibilities. Spain has been elected
! from the western hemisphere and
our flag floats over her former terri
tory. Cuba has been liberated and
our guarantees to her people will be
sacredly executed A beneficient gov
eminent has been provided for Porto
Rico. The Philippines are ours and
American authority must be supreme
thruout the archipelago. There will
be amnesty abroad and liberality, but
no abatement Of our rights, no aban-
donment of our duty. There must be
no scuttle policy. We will fulfill in
the Philippines the obligations i'm
posed by the triumphs of our arms
and by the treaty of peace, by inter-
national law, by the nations sense of
honor, and more than ALL by the
rights, interests and conditions of the
Philippine peoples themselves. No
outside interference blocks the way
to peace and a stable government.
The obstructionists are here, not
elsewhere. They may postpone, but
they cannot defeat the realization of
the high purpose of this nation to re-
store order to the islands and to es-
tablish a just and generous govern
ment, in which the inhabitants shall
have the largest participation for
which they are capable. The organic
ed forces which have been misled into
rebellion have been dispersed by our
faithful soldiers and sailors, and the
people of the islands, delivered from
anarchy, pillage and oppression, rec
ognize American sovereignty as the
symbol and the pledge of peace, JUS
tice, religious freedom, education, pur-
ity of life and property and the well
/ Ae1iS oiip piOoPShiCJ VI bhCi1 oOfSldl
communities.
We reassert the early principle of
the republican party lines sustained
by unbroken judicial precedents, that
the Representative of the people in
congress assembled have full legisla-
tive power over territory belonging
to the United States subject to the
fundamental safeguards of liberty,
Justice and personal rights and are
vested with ample authority to act
"for the highest interests of our ma
tion and the people entrusted to it's
care"
This doctrine, first proclaimed in
the cause of freedom will never be
used as weapon for oppression. |
am glad to be assured by you that
what we have done in the far east
has the approval of the country.
The sudden and terrible crisis in
China calls for the grayest consid-
eration and you will not expect from
me now any further expression than
to say that my best efforts shall be
given to the immediate purpose of
! Drotecting the lives of our citizens