The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-17
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY
SOUNDS THE KEY NOTE.

just been renewed by the allied parties
without abatement or modification.
The gold bill has been denounced and
its repeal demanded. The menace Of
16 to 1, therefore, still hangs over us
with all it's dire consequences to credit !
and confidence, to business and indus
| try. The enemies of sound currency |
are rallying their scattered forces. The |
people must once more unite and over |
| come the advocates of reputation and |
| must not relax their energy until the |
| battle for public honor and honest |
money shall again triumph. A con-
gress which will sustain and If need be |
strengthen the present law can prevent
financial catastrophe which every |
lover of the republic is anxious to |
| avert.
Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
rency and credit of the government,
| our political adyersaries condemn the |
| tariff law enacted at an extra session |
| of Congress in 1897, known as the
| Dingley act, passed in obedience to the
will of the people expressed at the
| election of the preceding November, |
| law which ut once stimulated our in
dustries, opened idle factories and
mines and gave to the laborer and to
| the farmer fair returns for their toll
and investment. Shall we go back to
n tariff which brings deficiency in our
revenues and destruction to our indus
| trial enterprises? Faithful to its
| pledges in these internal affairs, how
has the government discharged its in
ternational duties?
Our platform of 1896 declared: 1.-The
Hawaiian islands should be controlled
| by the United States and no foreign
| power shall be permitted to interfere
| with them"
This purpose has been fully accom-
plished by annexation, and delegates
from those beautiful islands partici-
pated in the convention for which you
speak to-day. In the great conference
of nations ut The Hague we reaffirmed
before the world the Monroe doctrine
and our adherence to it and our deter
mination not to participate in the com
plications of Europe. We have happily
| ended the European alliance in Samoa,
| secured 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 or even foreseen,
and our purpose 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 eject
ed from the western hemisphere and
our flag floats over her former terri
tory. Cuba has been liberated and our
guarantees TO her people will be sacred
| 1y executed. a beneficent government
has been provided for Porto Rico. Tie
Philippines are ours, and American au-
thority must be supreme throughout
the archipelago. There will be amnes-
ty broad and liberal, but no abate-
mont of nnr rights. no abandonment
of our duty. There must be no scuttle
policy. We will fulfill in the Philip
pines the obligations imposed by the
triumphs of our arms and by the treaty
of peace; by internatioIa nj law; by the
nations sense of honor, and more than
all. by the rights. interests and condi-
tions of the Philippine people them
selves. No outside Interference blocks
the way to peace and n stable govern
ment The obstructionsts are here
not elsewhere. They may postpone
but they cannot defeat the realization
OF the purpose of the nation to restore
order to the islands and 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 dis
persed by our faithful soldiers and
sailors. and the people of the islands,
delivered from anarchy, pillage and op-
preston. recognize American sover-
eighty as the symbol and pledge of
peace, justice, law, religious freedom,
education, the security of life and
property, and the welfare and prosper
ity of their several communities.
we reassert the early principle of the
| Repubhcan party. sustained by un-
broken judicial precedents, that the rep
sesentatives of the people in Congress
assembled have full Legislative pow
er over territory belonging to the Unit
ed States. subject to the fundamental
safeguards of liberty, justice and per-
sonal rights and are vested with ample |
authority to act "for the highest inter-
ests of our nation and the people en-
| trusted to its care-' The declaration, |
the first proclamation in the cause of |
| freedom, will never be used as weap- |
| on of oppression. l am glad to be as
| sured 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 consider |
alton and you will not expect from me
now any further expression than to say |
that my best efforts shall be given to |
the immediate purpose of protecting |
the lives of our citizens who are in
peril, with the ultimate object of peace
and the welfare of China, the safe
guarding of all our treaty rights and
the maintenance of those principles of
impartial intercourse to which the civ
ilized world is pledged.
l cannot conclude without congratu-
lating my countrymen upon the strong
national sentiment which firds express
sion in every part of our common coun-
try and the increased respect with
which the American name is greeted
throughout the world. We have been
moving in untried paths, but our steps
l,asro dad Ixr nd duty