Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-07-19

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therefore, still hangs over us with all its
dire consequences to credit and confidence
to business and industry. The enemies of
sound currency are rallying their scattered
forces. The people must once more unite
and overcome the advocates of repudia-
ton, and must not relax their energy un-
til the battle for public honor and honest
money shall again triumph. A Congress
which will sustain, and if need be strength
ed, the present law, prevent a financial
catastrophe which every lover of the re-
public is interested to avoid should be
elected
Not satisfied with assaulting the curren-
cy and credit Of the government, our
political adversaries condemn the tariff law
enacted at the extra session Of Congress in
1897. known as the Dingley act, passed in
obedience to the will of the people express
ed at the election in the preceding Novem'
Der, law which at once stimulated indus
tries, opened the idle factories and mines
and gave to the laborer and farmer fair re-
turns for their toll and investment. Shall
we go back to a tariff which brings def
cheney in our revenues and destruction to
our industrial enterprises?
"Faithful to its pledges in these internal
affairs, how has the government discharg-
ed its international duties? Our platform
of 1896 declared that the Hawaiian Islands
should he controlled by the United States,
and no foreign power should be permitted
to interfere with them.
"This purpose has been fully accom-
plished by annexation, and delegates from
those beautiful islands have been partici-
pants in the convention for which you
speak today. In the great conference of
nations at The Hague we reaftirm before
the world the Monroe doctrine and our
ajherance to it, and our determination not
to participate in the complications of
Europe. We have happily 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 compe'
tition in the vast trade of the Orient.
THE WAR AND ITs RESULTS.
"Sone things have happened which
were not promised, but were unforeseen
and our purposes in relation to them
must not be left in doubt. A just war has
been waged for humanity, and with 1t
have come new problems and new respOn-
sioilities. Spain has been elected from the
Western Hemisphere, and our flag floats
over the territory, Cuba has been liberat-
ed, and our guarantees to her people will
be sacredly executed. A benificent gov
eminent has been provided for Porto Rico
The Philippines are ours, and America
must be supreme throughout the islands;
therefore amnesty broad and liberal, but
no abatement Of our right, no abandon
ment of our duty. There must be no
scuttle policy We will fulfill in the Philip
pines the obligations imposed by the
triumphs of our armies and by the treaty
of peace, international law, by the nations
sense Of honor, and more than all, by the
rights of these conditions in the Philip
pines themselves.
"No outside interference blocks the way
to peace and a stable government. The
obstructlonists are here, not elsewhere
They postpone, but they cannot defeat
the realization of the high purpose Of thi'
nation to restore order to these islands
and to establish just and generous gov
ernment 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
ders and sailors, and the people of the
islands, delivered from anarchy, pillagt
and oppression, recognize the American
sovereignty as the symbol and pledge o.
peace, justice and law, religious freedom
education, the security of life and proper
ty, and the welfare and prosperity of theil
several communities.
eve reassert the early principle of the
Republican party, sustained by unbroker
judicial presidents, that the representa-
tives of the people in Congress assembled
have full legislative power over territory
belonging to the United States, subject
to the fundamental safeguards of liberty,
justice and personal rights; ample au'
thority to act for the highest interests OF
our nation and the people entrusted to
its care This doctrine, first proclaimed
in the cause Of freedom, will never be used
as weapon for oppression.
81 am glad to be assured by you that
what we have done in the Far East has
the approval of the country. The sudden
and terrible crisis in China calls for the
gravest consideration, and you Will not
expect from me any further expression
than to say that my best efforts shall be
given to the immediate purpose of pro-
tecting the lives Of our citizens who are
in peril, with the ultimate object of the
peace and welfare of China, the safeguard
ing of all our treaty rights, and the main
tenance of those principles of impartial
intercourse to which the civilized world
is pledged.
81 cannot conclude without congratula-
ting my countrymen on the strong nation
al sentiment which finds expression in
every part of our common country, and
the increased respect with which the
American name is greeted throughout
the world. We have been moving in un-
tried paths, but our steps have been
guided by honor and duty, and there
will be no turning aside, no wavering, no
retreat. No blow has been struck except
for liberty and humanity. We will per
fory, fhout foor ovorv national and in.