Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-22

any time after the ratification Of the
peace treaty by the senate Of the Unit
ed States?
II Is our purpose to establish In the
Philippines a government suitable to
the wants and conditions OF the inhabl-
tants and to prepare them for self
government and to give them self-gov-
eminent when they are ready for Il,
and as rapidly as they are ready for
1t. That am aiming to do under my
constitutional authority and will con-
tinue to do until congress shall deter
mine the political status Of the inhabi-
tants of the archipelago
Would our opponents surrender to
the insurgents, abandon our sovereign
ity or cede 1t to them?
The effect Of belief in the minds
of the insurgents that this will be dore
has already prolonged their rebellion
and Increases the necessity for the con-
tinuance of large army, is now de-
laying the establishment OF peace and
civil government in the islands and has
Influenced many of the insurgents
against accepting the liberal terms 4
amnesty offered by Gerenal Macarthur
under my direction. But for these
false hopes considerable reduction
could have been had In our military
establishment In the Philippines and
realization Of a stable government
would be already at hand.
The American people will not make
the murderers of our soldiers the
agents of the republic to convey the
blessings of liberty and order In the
Philippines. They will not make them
the builders OF the new common
wealth. Such course would be be.
trayal OF our sacred obligations to the
peaceful Filipinos and would place a.
the mercy Of dangerous Adventures
the lives and property of the natives
and foreigners.
No government can so certainly pre-
serve the peace, restore the public or
der and establish law, justice and
stable conditions as ours.
We will not give up our own 20
guarantee another sovereignty. Our
title Is good.
There were those who two years ago
were rushing on us to war with Spain
who are now unwilling to accept its
clear consequences, as there are those
among us who advocated the ratifica-
ton of the treaty of peace, butnow pro-
test against its obligations. Nations
which go to war must be prepared to
accept its resultant obligations. and
when they make treaties must keep
them.
There. Is strain OF ill-concealed hy-
pocrisy in the anxiety to extend the
constitutional guarantee to the people
of the Philippines while their nullfl-
cation Is openly advocated at home.
Our opponents may distrust them
selves, but they have no right to dis
credit the good faith and patriotism "
the majority Of the people who are op-
posed to them. They may fear tho
worst form Of Imperialism with the
helpless Filipinos in their hands, hut
II they do, 1t Is because they have
parted with the spirit and faith OF tho
fathers and have lost the virility Of the
founders of the party which they pro-
fess to represent.
II our opponents would only prac-
tice as well as preach the doctrines OF
Abraham Lincoln there would be NO
fear for the safety of our institutions
at home or their rightful influence in
any territory over which our flag
floats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen. The flag OF the republic now
floats over these islands as an emblem
of rightful sovereignty. VIII the re,
public stay and dispense to their in.
habitants the blessings OF liberty, ed,.
cation and free institutions, or stca
away, leaving them to anarchy or i'm,
perialism?
The American question Is between
duty and desertion-the American yer
dict will be for duty and against de
sertion; for the republic against bot.
anarchy and Imperialism.
The country has been fully advise,
OF the purposes Of the United States II
China and they will be faithfully ad
hered to as already defined.
The nation faces the new centur,
, gratefully and hopefully, with increas
ing love Of country, with firm faith II
: Its free institutions, and with high re
I solve that they shall not perish iron
the earth"
Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,