The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-09-14

The silver IsSlc Presented.
$50 the issue Is presented. II Will be
| npled mat the demand Is for the imme-
oiited restoration Of the free coinage ~
SILVER az 10 TO !, II another issue is para
mount, this Is immediate Ii win od,ntt 80
no delay and viii suffer no postnone.
menl The relatiVe Importance Of
the Issues ] do not stop TO discuss Al.
OF tnem are important. Whichever party
rs successful will be bound IN conscl,v CO
10 carry into administration and lerisiss
uon us several declarations and doctrines
one decleraton will be as obligatory as
announcer hut al are not immediate
The Gold standard.
I'm. the first battle that of 1896 shs
d arie, OF the gold standard and of sounl
currency were triumphant, and the coun-
Try Is enjoying the fruits of that Weary
our antagonists. however are not sails.
ned. They compel us to a second battle
upoh me same lines on which the first
While regrettng the reopening Of this
question, which can oniy disturb the
present satisfactory financial condition of
the government, and visit uncertaInlv
upon our great business enterprises. we
accept the issue and again invite the
SOUND money forces to Join In winning an
other and we hope, permanent triumph
for an honest financial system which viii
continue inViolable the public faith.
As TO Porto Rico.
1--WE hold Porto Rico by the same title
! as the Philippines. The treaty of peace
which coded us the one conveyed 10 us
/ the other.
Congress has given to this island a
! government in which the inhabitants
participate. elect their own legislature'
enact their own local laws provide their
own system OF taxation, and in these re-
spects have the same power and privl-
leges enjoyed by other territories belong
ing to the United States, and a m.IIh
larger, measure of .self-government than
| n q tah = 49,,
under Jefferson.
During this intermediate period Porto
Eican products coming into the United
states pay tariff of Is per cent of the
goods going to Porto Rico pay a like rate.
The duties thus paid and collected. both
In Porto Rico and the United States. are
paid TO the government of Porto Rico
and no part Thereof is taken by the M
tional government.
The Chinese Question.
"The country has been fully advised OF
| the purposes of the United States in
China, and they Will be faithfully adj.
! hered to as already lefined.
The nation is file with gratitude that
| the little band, among them many of our
blood; who for two months had been suD-
1ected TO priVatiors and peril by the at
lacks or pitiless hordes at the Chinese
capital, exhibiting supreme courage in ths
| face of despair, have been enabled, by
1
| md shelter under their own flag.
The people not alone OF this land. but
| OF all lanuS, have watched and prayed
| through the terrible stress and protract-
| ed agony of the helpless sufferers in
| Pekln, and while at times the dark tidinga
seemed to make all hope vain, the rescu
trs never faltered in the heroic fulfill
ment of their noble task
I'VE are grateful to our own soldiers,
sailors and marines, and to all the brave
men who, though assembled under many
| standards, representing peoples and races
| strangers In country and speech, were yet
! united in the sacred mission of carrying
! succor to the besieged, with a success
that is now the cause of the worlds re-
| joicing.
The Philippines.
'As the sovereign power we can initiate
| action and shape means to ends, and
guide the Filipinos to self-development.
| ana self-goVernment. AS protectorate
power we could not initiate action, but
| would be compelled to follow and uphold
| people with no capacity yet to go alone.
: In one case We can protect ourselves
| and the Filipinos from being involved in
| dangerous complications. In the other we
| could not even protect the Filipinos until
| after their trouble had come. Besides, if
we can not establish any government of
| our own without the consent of the gov
eIned, rs our opponents contend, then we
| could not establish a stable government
| for them or make ours a protectorate
| without the like consent, and neither a
! majority of the people nor a minority o.
| the people have invited us to assume 1t.
The American question is between
| duty and desertion-'le American verdict
| Will be for duty and against desertion, for
| the republic against both anarchy and i'm
| perialism."