The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-13

have been so funded with gain. to the
Government of many millions of dollars
Instead of 16 to 1 for which our oppon-
ents contended four years ago, legislation
has been enacted which. while utilizing
all forms of our money, secures one fixed
value for every dollar, and that the best
known to the civilized world
"A tariff which protects American la
Dor and industry and provides ample
revenues has been written in public law
We have lower interest and higher wages;
more money and fewer mortgages. The
worlds markets have been opened to
American products which go now where
thew have never gone before. We have
passed from bond-issuing to a bond
paying nation; from a nation of borrow
ers to a nation of lenders; from de-
ficiency in revenue to a surplus; from fear
to confidence; from enforced idleness to
profitable employment. The public fa4kh
has been upheld; public order has been
maintained. We have prosperity at home
and prestige abroad.
SAYS OUR HONOR IS THREATENED.
Unfortunately the threat of 1896 has
lust been renewed by the allied parties
WITHOUT dUdbclHSHI VI AuOulhCoIlOhs ne
gold bill has been denounced and it's re-
peal demanded. The menace of 16 to /,
therefore still hangs over us with all it's
dire consequences to credit and conf
dence, to business and industry. The
enemies of sound currency are rallying
their scattered forces. The people must
once more unite and overcome the adj
vocates of reputation and must not re-
lax their energy until the battle for pub
lie honor and honeA money shall again
triumph.
"a Congress waSaAh 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
rency and credit of the Government, our
political adversaries condemn the tariff
law enacted at the extra session of Con-
gress in 1897, known as the Dingley act
passed in obedience to the will of the
people expressed at the election in the
preceding November. a law which at once
stimulates our industries, opened the idle
factories and mines and gave to the la
borer and to the farmer fair returns
tOI lutlI lOll anu investment. oman VIC
go back to a tariff which brings de-
ficiency 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
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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 par
ticipated in the convention for which
you speak today. In the great conference
Of nations at The Hague we reafftirmed
before the world the Monroe Doctrine and
our adherence to it and our determine
ton not to participate in the complica-
tions 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 open door in China gives to us fair
and equal competition in the vast trade
of the Orient. Some things have happen
ed which were not promised, nor even
foreseen, and our purposes in relation
to them must not be left in doubt A
Just war has been waged for humanity
and with it have 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 guaran-
tees to her people will be sacredly exc
cuted. 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 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 just
and generous government. in which the
inhabitants shall have the largest par
ticipation for which they are capable.
The organized forces which have 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
boil, 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 un-
broken judicial presidents, that the rep
resentatives of the people in Congress
assembled have full legislative power
over territory belonging to the United
States subject to the fundamental safe
guards of liberty, justice and personal
lights. 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-