The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-17

have been so funded WITH Il 60"
Of many millions Vi 80
instead of 16 10 l for when oui oFt
ents contended four years ago -
has been enacted which. whlie u'"
u, forms Of our money. secures one nAeo
for every dollar. and that Tue o
10 the civilized world
-, ,arir whicf. protects American Ia
hor and industry and provides ample
novenues has been written in public law
have lower interest and higher WAGES
money and fewer mortgages. Inc
worlds markets have been opened ~
american products which go now where
nov have never gone before. We nave
naesed from a bond-issuing TO a Dohu-
: OWING nation. from a nation Of borrow
are ~ a nation Of lenders; from a de-
fciencv in revenue to a surplus; from lear
confidence: from enforced idleness 10
employment. The public faltn
has been upheld; public order mas peeh
maintained. We have prosperity al nome
and prestige abroad.
SAYS OUR HONOR IS THREATENED.
unfortunately the threat of 1896 has
irst heen renewed by the allied parties
without abatement or modification. Inc
bill has been denounced and us re-
neal demanded. The menace OF 10 10 l.
still hangs over US with all 10
dire consequences to credit ana Conn
dence. to business and industry. Inc
enemies Of sound currency are raliylhs
their scattered forces. The people must
once more unite and overcome the do-
vocates of reputation and must not re-
lax their energy until the battle LOT pun
lie honor and honest money shall again
triumph.
"a Congress whsh will sustain and if
need be. strengthen the present law, can
prevent a financial catastrophe which
every lover Of the republic is interested
to avert.
Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
rencv and credit of the Government, our
adyersaries condemn the tariff
law enacted at the extra session OF Con-
cress in 1897, known as the Dingley act,
passed in obedience to the will Of the
people expressed at the election in the
November, a law which at once
our industries, opened the idle
and mines and gave to the Ia
borer and to the farmer fair returns
for their toll and investment. Shall we
back to a tariff which brings de-
1iciency IN our revenues and destruction
TO our Industrial enterprises.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
"Faithful to it's pledges in these in
ternal affairs, how has the Government
discharged it's international duties?
''Our platform of 1896 declared the
Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by
the United States and no foreign owe
should be permitted to interfere with
them.
sSThio nl1rnNcn hoe hnnn fn11U QnP0m-
plished by annexation, and delegates
from those beautiful islands have par
ticipated in the convention for which
you speak today. In the great conference
of nations at The Hague we reaff1rmed
before the world the Monroe Doctrine and
our adherence to it and our determina-
ton not to participate in the complica-
lions of Europe. We have happily end
ed the European alliance in Samoa, Sc
curing to ourselves one of the most val
liable harbors in the Pacific Ocean, while
the ooen door in China gives to us fair
equal competition in the vast trade
Of the Orient. Some things have happen
ed which were not promised, nor ever
foreseen, and our purposes in relation
to them must not be left in doubt. A
just war has been waged for humanity
with it have come new problems and
Responsibilities spain mas Doou CJCCIou
from the Western hemisphere and our
flag floats over her former territory.
has been liberated and our guaran-
tees to her people will be sacredly exc
cuted. A beneficent government has been
provided for Porto Rico. The 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, no aban-
donment of our duty. There must be
no Scuttle policy. We will fulfill in the
Philippines the obligations imposed by
the triumphs of our armies and by the
treaty of peace; by international law, by
the nations sense Of honor and, more
than all, by the rights, interests and
conditions Of the Philippine people them
selves. No outside interference blocks
the way to peace and a stable govern
ment. 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 islands and to establish a just
and generous government, in which the
inhabitants shall have the largest par
ticipation for which they are capable.
The organized forces which nave been
misled into rebellion have been dispersed
by our faithful soldiers and sailors, and
the people of the islands, delivered from
anarchy. pillage and oppression, recog-
nize American sovereignty as the SYM
Dol, and pledge of peace, justice, law. re-
ligious freedom, education, the security
of life and property and the welfare and
prosperity Of their several communities.
FEW WORDS ABOUT CHINA.
Eve re-assert the early principle of
the Republican party, sustained by I'M
judicial p~recedents, that the rep
resentatives of the people in Congress
assembled, have full legislative power
over territory belonging to the United
States subject to the safe
guards Of liberty, justice and personal
rights, and are vested with ample au-
thority to act for the highest interests of
our nation and the principle intrusted to
it's 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 ap-
prevail of the country. The sudden and
terrible crisis in China calls for the
gravest consideration, and you will not
expect from me now any further express
sion than to say that my best efforts