Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-05

start to have given him the land ot,t-
fright, but this had not been done ana
pending the trouncing was no time q
do 1t. About this time big, burly son.
who had done but four years work
since back before the Sos (and during
these four years he was unfortunate in
his crops), began shouting from across
the wayI say, dad, You are cruel
master. There is not a spark OF human
| Kindness in YOU. Why don't you give
him the forty? Pay the taxes; you keep
UP the fences; protect HE cropyi II he has
any, from marauding herds-from OUT
side interference--while he works out
his destiny. Do you knaw what my
4 friend did?
He let that fellow howl. He had
heard that voice before. He proceeded
TO administer the punishment. to adj
Just matters, meanwhile telling the boy
that he should have the utmost partici-i
patton in the management of the farm
OF which he was capable. He said to
4 NM: You have never seen crop
| raised 1ou do not know how to do
anything necessary TO raise crop. As
/ soon as You are able to raise beans
you shall have control of the bean
/ palch. When You are able to raise
corn you shall have the corn field: you
shall have all the responsibility OF
/ which You are capable. But one thing
4 shall not do. / shall not put the bur-
den on my family Of paying the taxes
ana Keeping up the fences while you l1n-
aided and alone go thru the evolution
from a street gaminto farmer Then
| he Went home and he afterward told me
that he said that night to that big Tub
Der of son: You are the biggest idiot
4 ever say for one of your inches. The
responsibility of that waif is not on me
alone. but upon. the whole family We
/ Will jointly answer by and by for his,
| future. He is a stranger TO discipline
and a stranger to industry. If you love
him, or have any regard for me, or for
the authority of our home, for heavens
sake keep your mouth shut until there
/ snail be some slight recognition of our
authority
or course, this Illustration does not
cover the question Of title to the Phil
sppine islands, but the title is not in
dispute. The ratification of the treaty
Was the discrimination on the part at
the United States that we had authority
20 acquire the islands, and that when
Inc treaty Vas ratified and the twenty
iniiilons paid our title would be perfect
Any talk TO the contrary Is from cheap
orators who imagine they are before an
audience of the same grade of compre-
hension as themselves
1 One hundred and forty years ago
4 England acquired the sovereignty of
the territory that we now call Canada
Which was then sixty days distant from
4 The home government. II was a wild
country, inhabited in part by the
French, whom England had recently
conquered. but mostly by tribes of red
men. speaking different dialects: never
. having observed much less participated
IN. a stable government. The interviews
ling years have wrought wonders. West
Tern civilization has swept the country,
and the abgrEines. comparatively few.
tho they We're. being unable To asssni-
| late have persisted. The tlttest have
survived. II, the evolution Of people,
and manners and customs, there has
also been an evolution in government
land the Inhabitants have been given
! the LARGEST possible participation there
in: until Canada Still, subject to Great
britain, is so Well satisfied with her po-
| iitical condition II think speak adj
lNisedly) that she would accept neither
Independence nor annexation TO the
limited States. Her people are industri-
lous. prosperous. contented and loyal to
/ the core. None can be found mure
5Iprompt to obey the call of the aged
queen, even in conflict where public
sentiment condemns the course of the
ihcne government. England maintains
La tariff as against Canada and Canada
maintains one as against England
both countries have been benefited and
lneither desires a change.
In 1885 we acquired the sovereignty
Iof a group of islands only thirty days
distant; more densely peopied it is
Itrue, than was Canada, but by tribes
the number of which we have not yet
learned. speaking different languages
! indulging in most primitive customs,
never having observed much less par
lticipated in a stable government. all
their teachings having been tyrannical
land all their experiences oppressive.
I'VE are charged. as was England, with
1.-THE responsibility of extending western
fertilization. 1t may take as long. as it
ldid in Canada, and, aided by steam and
lelectricity. it may move more rapidly,
lbut it Will cover the islands. The ma
ltiNes will either assimilate or perish. If
l.they perish. as have the aborigines of
ICanada, it Will be in obedience 10 the
Isame inexorable law: the f1ttest will
survive. If they assimilate, they will
|need a strong nand to guide and wise
council to direct. But if England can
TACT SO wisely and deal so justly with
the people of Canada as to both merit
4 and retain their love and fealty, may
I'VE not safely assume the re responsibility
THAT has bee thrust upon US unsought,
4 with the determination to deal justly
land 10 act wisely: and with the conf
ldent assurance that our mistakes,
which probably Will be many, will be
lcorrected ii not by ourselves then by
Iour children: and that out Of it all shall
leone, in the providence of God. and in
ithe fullness of time, much good to US
land greater good to them.
In all seriousness, and as loyal
/ American citizen rather than as par
jtisan. let me urge that. in the new
lalignment of parties inaugurated in
1900 and perhaps not yet perfected,
every thinking man who can hold his
|conduct in obedience to his better judg-
lment. who loves his country more than
Inc loves his party traditions, unite his
Ipoiitical fortunes With the marty