Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-22
Mr.. RoosEvELT's REPLY.
Formally Accepts Wee Presidential
Nomination.


ditions which have told in iayer Of our material
wesare and Of our civil and political integrity. II
this nation Is 70 retain either its wei being or its
self respect it cannot afford 70 plunge into insn-
oial and economic chaos IL cannot afford TO IN
doras governmental theories which would unsettie
the standard Of national honesty and destroy the
integrity Of our system Of Justice The policy Of
the free coinage Of silver at the ratio OF Is 20
Is a policy fraught with destruction 70 every home
in the land 1t means untold misery 20 the head
OF every household and, above ALL e the women
and children Of every home.
One of the serious problems with which we are
confronted under the conditions Of our modern in
dusrial civilization is that presented by the great
business combinations which are generally known
under The Of trusts.
The problem is an exceedinly difficult one. and
the difficulty is immensely aggravated both by
honest but wrong headed attacks on our whole
industrial system in the effort to remove some OF
the evils connected with il and by the mschiey-
Gus advice Of men who either think crookedly or
who advance remedies knowing them to be in
effective, but deerring that they may, by darken.
ing counsel achieve for themselves spurious rep
utation for wisdom. No good whatever IS sub
served by indscrimnate denuneiation Of corpora
lions generally and Of all forms of industrial com
bination in particular, and when this public de-
nuneiation is accompanied by private membership
in the great Corporations denounced the effect IS
OF course TO give air Of insincerity 20 the
] whole movement. Nevertheless, there are real
abuses and there is ample for striving 10
remedy these abuses A crude or i'll considered
/ effort to remedy them would either be absolutely
without effect else would simply do damage.
The first thing to do is to find out the facts,
and for this purpose publicity to capitalization,
profits and all else of importance to the public is
| the most useful measure. The mere fact OF this
publicity would in itself remedy certain evils, and
as TO the others it would in some cases point out
the remedies and would at least enable TO tell
1 ,,Ksf nat i'm
be useful The state acting in its collective
pacity would thus first find out the facts and then
! be able to take such measures wisdom dictated.
| Much can be done by taxation. Even more can be
done by regulation, by close supervision and the
| unsparing excelsior of all unhealthy, destructive
| and antisocial elements The separate state gov.
eruments do great deal, and where they de-
! cline to cooperate the national government must
| step in.
| While paying heed 10 the necessity OF keeping
| our house in order at home the American people
cannot, ii they wish to retain their self respect,
| refrain from doing their duty a great nation
| in the world The history OF the nation is in
large part the history OF the nations expansion.
! When the first Continental congress met in Lib
erty hall and the 10 original states declared them
| selves nation. the westward limit of the
] try was marked by the Allegheny mountains.
! Even during the Revolutionary the work OF
/ expansion went Kentucky, Tennessee and the
1 great northwest, then known as the Illinois coun-
1 try. were conquered from white and Indian
foes during the Revolutionary struggle and were
confirmed to us by the treaty OF peace in 1888.
| Yet the land thus confirmed not then given
| to us. 1t held by alien foe until the
army under General Anthony Wayne freed Ohio
| from the red man, while the treaties of Jay and
/ Pnckney secured from the Spanish and British
| Natchez and Detroit.
In 1903, under President jefferson, the greatest
/ single stride in expansion that we ever took
taken by the purchase Of the Louisiana territory.
| This so called Louisiana, which included what
are now the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Louisi.
| ana, Iowa, Minnesota. Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota Idaho, Montana and a large
part of Colorado and Utah. was acquired by treaty
| and purchased under President jefferson exactly
| and precisely as the Philippines have been
quired by treaty and purchase under President
! Mckinley. The doctrine of ''the consent OF the
! governed" the doctrine previously enuncated by
jefferson in the Declaration OF Independence,
not held by him or by any other sane man to APP
ply TO the Indian tribes in the Louisiana territory
/ which he thus acquired and there was no vote
taken even Of the white Inhabitants not to speak
| of tine negroes and Indians, TO whether they
were willing that their territory should be annex
7 ed The great majority OF the inhabitants, white
and colored alike, bitterly opposed to the
| transfer.
| An armed force Of United States soldiers had to
| be hastily sent into the territory to prevent in.
surrecton, President jefferson sending these
troops to Louisiana for exactly the same reasons
and with exactly the same purpose that Presi'
| dent Mckinley has sent troops to the Philippines.
jefferson distinctly stated that the Lousianans
were mot fit or ready for self government" and
years elapsed before they were given self govern.
| ment, jefferson appointing the governor and 9th.
| or officials without any consultation with the in
| habitants of the newly acquired territory. The
doctrine that the constitution follows the flag
| was not then qyeu considered either by Jefferson
or by any other serious party leader, for it never
| entered their heads that a new territory should
| be governed other than in the way in which the
| territories OF Ohio and Illinois had already been
governed under Washington and the elder Ad-
| ans.
The parallel between what jefferson did with
| Louisiana and what is being done in the
I Philippines is exact. jefferson, the author Of the
Declaration OF Independence and OF the consent
of the governed doctrine, saw no incongruity
between this and the establishment OF a govern
ment on common sense grounds in the new ter
ritory.
Governor Roosevelt then recites the
history of the acquisition of Florida,
| Alaska and Hawaii. likening it TO the his
/, tory of the annexation OF the Philippines,
and closes as follows:
Properly speaking the question is now not
whether we shah expand-for we have already
expanded-but whether we shall contract The
Philippines now part Of American territory.
To surrender them would be to surrender Amer
lean territory They must, OIL course pc gov
crned primarily in the interests Of their own
citizens Our first care must be for the people Of
the islands which have come under our guardian
ship as a result OF the most righteous foreign
war that has been waged within the memory OF
the present generation. They must be admins
tered in the interests of their Inhabitants, and
that necessarily means that any question Of per-
sonal partisan politics in their administra-
ton must be entirely eliminated. We must con-
tinue so put at the head OF affairs in the differ
ent islands such General Wood Governor
Allen and Judge Taft, and it is a most fortunate
thing that are able TO illustrate what ought
/ TO be done in the way OF sending officers thither
i by pointing out what actually has been done
! The minor places in their administration, where
/ 1t is impossible to All them .by natives must be
tiled by the strctest application Of the merit
system. 1t is very important that in our own
nome administration the merely ministerial and
administrative Offices, where the duties are en-
isly nonpoiitical. shall be filed absolutely with
put reference to partisan affiliations. but this Ia
] many times more important in the newly acquir
ff islands.