Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-31
OUR FUTURE COLONIAL POLICY.


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powers as s citizens offs the state of New York; that accommodation
and free movement of ommerc nus De the san as between the stats;
nv as tEsW would involve the introduction int the United States of thu pro-
ducts o thesei Islands raised by practically pauper labor, to compete with our
own products, n labor,t the olys afetyf for our people is to at once get rid of
them by Handing then overt HE inhabitants Tor n vernme that the lin
habtants nay provide for themselves, simply guaranteeing tina n power shall
seize M subjugate Them. s.r
The answer to his, which has the support of The unform egkIaton Oh cor
gress, the uniform action of our government, and the uniform deciions of the
supreme court, including the lasto n by Judge Lacombe, is that tn United
States can provide n % form of government for these islands except that which
1t is prohibited from doing by the restrictions in III institute that it can
apply the tariff avs bth to goods entering the islands and to goods coming
from the islands inot he United States; that will enact such aws opo-
ment against foreign competition n pauper labor from thu formation oft he
government; that 1T will give to these islands what they never have 'had-jus-
tie law order, protection for life and property, and that elemental security
freedom of action which Justify investment n promote development
progress.
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hy to govern themselves. to enact wise Law N to obey them, representative
government viii be accorded, until ultimately the United States will probably
De epresent b " a governor N possibly som appomtNe judges Of atheh nigh
este courts A hese island we're abe to support a large population to
pay enormous taxation under Spanish rule, with all its injustice n oppres-
sion, under" tise enlightened scheme of government instead of putting burdens
upon the United States theyw will pay a Ii the expenses Of their W government.
of the American m n nav which, nay be necessarily to keep theref for
a time n the building of railroads highways. The products will enor-
mously increase M THEN wants in proportion. so that besides being saf-sus-
tanlngt they Will become great markets or the manufacture of tn United
States, nd recppcaHy the United States will take from them a constantly in
creasing moun of those tropical products which we nw import from every
tropical country n the world. With the Philippine archipelago prosperous
greater success than in the past with the European nations who are striving
for supremacy that vast market Of he Orient to which all modernd paom
ay n van is seeking "a entrance.
The question is confused at present by free traders sounding a ase alarm:
by democrats popunsts m free silver people endeavoing to overthrow the
republican party by a fake cry of the danger OF tropical competition. If cor
gTess would in the next few weeks establish governments for these possess
this is to be he fxedp policy of h COY eminent, and apply such tariff laws as
would give "a large preference over tn rest Of the world to our island posses
sions, the almost instantaneous bushes IS activity M prosperity which would
follow would swee objections DIRECTORS alike into oblivion before thu No
vembere election
the line under h leadership of men of