Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-07-25

"This purpose has been fully ac-
complished by annexation, md dele
gates from those beautiful islands
participated in the convention for
which you speak to-day. In the
great conference of nations at The
Hague we reaflirmcd before the
world the Monroe doctrine and our
adherence to it and our determine
tion not to participate in the compli-
cations of Europe. We have hap
PLY ended the European alliance in
Samoa, securing to ourselves one
Of the most valuable 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 were not promised, nor even
foresecn, and our purposes in rcla-
ton to them must not be left in
doubt. A just war has been wagcd
for humanity and with it has come
new problems and responsibilities.
Spain has been elected from the
western hemisphere, and our flag
floats over her former territory.
Cuba has been liberated and our
guarantee to her people will be
sacradly executed. A bcnelicicnt
government has been proddcd for
Porto Rico.
"Fhc Philippines are ours and
American authority must be supreme
throughout the archipelago. There
will be amnesty, broad and liberal,
but no abatement of our rights, 10
abandonment of our duty. There
must be no scuttle policy. We will
fulfill in the Philippines the obliga-
tions imposed by the triumphs of our
arms and by the treaty of peace by
international law; by the nations
sense of honor; and, more than all,
by the rights, interests and condi-
tions of the Filipino people them
selves.
"No outside interference blocks
the way to peace and stable gov
ernment. The obstructionists are
here, not elsewhere. They may
postpone, but they cannot defeat the
realization of the high purpose of
this nation to restore order to the
island and to establish Just and
generous government, in which the
inhabitants shall have the largest
participation for which they are
capable. The organized forces which
have been misled into rebellion have
been dispersed by our faithful sol
dicrs and sailors and the people of
the island delivered from anarchy,
pillage and oppression, recognize
American sovereignty as the symbol
and pledge of peace, justice, law,
religious freedom, education, the
security of life and property, and
the welfare and prosperity Of their
several communities. We rcassert
the early principal of the Rcpubli-
can party, sustained by unbrokcn
judicial preccdents, that the repre-
scntat,yes of the people in Congress
assembled have full Legislative power
over territory belonging to the
United States subject to the funda-
mental safeguards of liberty, Justice
and personal rights, and are vested
with ample authority to act 'for the
highest interests of our nation and
the people cntruscd to its care
"This doctrine, first proclaimed in
the cause of freedom, will never be
used as a 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.
"Thc sudden and terrible crisis in
China calls for the gravcst consider
alton and you will not expect from
me now any further express ion than
to say that my best efforts shall be
given to the immediate purp osc of
protecting the lives of our citizens
who are in peril, with the ultimate
object of the protection and welfare
of China, the safeguarding Of all
our treaty r.shts and the maintc-
nance Of those principles of impc-
rial intercourse to which the civil
ized world is pledged.
81 can not conclude congratulating
my countrymen upon the strong
national sentiment which finds cx-
preston in every part of our com
mon country and the increased re.
spect with which the Amcricanism
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