Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-09
THE PRESIDENTS DECLARE
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President Mckinley made Il notable
speech at the meeting of the Ohio So
ciety in New York. 1t was Il typical
speech-full Of patriotism and sober
common sense-and II that will ap-
peal to patriotic people. The presi-
dent said in reviewing the business
prosperity of the country:
We will soon have legislative assur-
ance of the continuance of the gold
standard with which we measure our
exchanges, and we have the open door
in the far East, through which to mar
ket Il products. We are neither in
alliance nor %entangled with any foreign
power, but Oh terms of amity and COR
diality with all. We buy from all Of
them and sell to all of them, and our
sales exceeded II purchases in the
past two years by over 81, 1000, OO0, 1000.
Markets have been increased and
mortgages have been reduced. Inter-
est has fallen and wages have adj
vanced. The public debt is decreas-
ing. The country is we'll to do. Its
people, for the most part, are happy
and contented. They have good times
and are on good terms with the nations
Of the world.
And with regard to the Philippine
policy of the government the presi-
dents remarks were clear and firm.
There was no shifting-no evasion of
issues. There can be no question as
to the honesty Of purpose expressed in
the following which is a stirring an
swer to the mouthings of the so-called
anti-imperialists:
No political cutlery can abolish our
treaty Of peace with Spain or absolve
us from it's sole n engagements. 1t
is the peoples question and will he
until it's determination is written out
in their enlightened verdict. We must
choose between manly doing and base
desertion. 1t will never be the latter.
There can be nc Imperialism. Those
who fear are against it. Those who
have faith in the republic are against
it. So that there is universal abhor-
renee for it and unanimous opposition
to it. Our only difference is that those
who do not agree with us have no con-
tidence in the virtue or capacity or
high purpose or good faith of this free
people as a civilizing agency, while we
believe that the century of free gov
eminent which the American people
have enjoyed has not rendered them
faithleSs or irresolute. but has fitted
them for the great task of lifting up
and assisting to better conditions those
people of distant countries who.
through the fortunes of battle, become
our wards. Let us fail not. This is
no time for faint hearts, no excuse for
regrets.
Nations do not grow in strength and
the aus OF liberty is not advanced
by the doing of easy things. The
harder the task the greater will be the
results, the benefits and the blessings.
Failure to deal with our task is to
lose faith in Il popular institutions.
The liberators will never become the
oppresSors. a s~elf-governed people
will never permit despotism in any
government which they foster and de-
fend.
Gentlemen, we have the new care
and cannot shift it. And in breaking
up II camp of eas and isolation, let
us M:avely, fully and soberly Judge
the march of faith and falter not until
the work is done. 1t is not possible
that 75,OOO,0OO of American freemen
are unable to establish liberty and JUS
tice and good government in our new
possessions. The burden of our OPP
! portunity. The opportunity is greater
than the burden. May God give us
strength to bear the one and wisdom
so to embrace the other as to carry to
o'r distant acquisitions the guarantees
of "life. liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness."