The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-13

$500, 100000 have been funded with {
gain to the government of many mil
lions of dollars. Instead of 16 to l, fol
which our opponents contended foul
years ago, legislation has been enacted
which, while utilizing all forms of oul
money, secures one fixed value for ev'
cry dollar and that the best known tC
the civilized world
The tariff which protects American Ia
Dor and industry and provides ample
revenues has been written in public law
We have lower interest and higher wa
ges; more money and fewer mortgages
The worlds markets have been opened
to American products, which go nov
where they have never gone before
We have passed from bond-issuing tc
a bond-paying nation; from nation OF
borrowers to a nation of lenders; from
a deficiency in revenue to a surplus;
from fear to confidence: from enforced
idleness to profitable employment. The
public faith has been upheld public or
der has been maintained. We have
prosperity at home and prestige abroad.
Unfortunately, the threat of 1896 has
been renewed by the allied parties with
our abatement or modification. The gold
bill has been denounced and it's repeal
demanded. The menace of 16 to 1,
therefore, still hangs over us with all
its dire consequences 70 credit and con-
fidence, to business and industry. The
enemies of sound currency are rallying
their scattered forces. The people must
at once unite and overcome the advo-
Gates of Reputation, and must not relax
| IAir Il Co. to
honor and honest money shall again
triumph.
A congress which will sustain and, if
need be, strengthen the present law,
| can prevent financial catastrophe
which every lover of the republic is in
terested to avert.
Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
| rency and credit Of the government, our
| political adversares 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 expressed at the election in
the preceding November, a law which
at once stimulated our Industries
opened the idle factories and mines,
and gave to the laborer and to the
farmers fair returns for their toll and
investment, Shall we go back to
tariff which brings deficiency in our
revenues and destruction to our indus
trial enterprises?
Faithful to its pledges in these in
ternal affairs, how has the government
discharged its international duties?
Our platform of 1896 declared, THE
Hawaiian Islands should be controlled
by the United States, and no foreign
power should be permitted to interfere
with them This purpose has been
fully accomplished by annexation and
delegates from those beautiful islands
have participated in the declaration for
which you speak to-day. In the great
conference of nations at The Hague we
reafrmed before the world the Monroe
doctrine and our adherence 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 competition
in the vast trade of the Orient,
Some things have happened which
We're not promised, nor even foresaen,
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 respon-
sibilities. Spain has been elected from
the western hemisphere, and our flag
floats over her former territory. Cuba |
has been liberated, and our guarantees I
to her people will be sacredly executed. I
A beneficent government has been pro- |
vided for Porto Rico.
The Philippines are ours and Ameri- /
can authority must be supreme
throughout the archipelago. There will I
be amnesty broad and liberal, but no /
abatement of our rights no abandon
ment of our duty. There must be no
scuttle policy We will fulfil in the
Philippines the obligations imposed by
the triumphs of our arms 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 pe1-
pie themselves. No outside interfer-
ence blocks the way to peace and a
stable government. The obstructionists
are here, not elsewhere. They may
postpone, but they cannot defeat the
IcdllHdllOll vi tilt l2lSi pulpoSe Oh tnlS
nation to restore order to the islands
and to establish a just and generous
government, in which the inhabitants
shall have the largest participation for
which they are capable. The organ
lied forces which have been misled into
rebellion have been dispersed by our
faithful soldiers and sailors, and the
people of the islands, delivered from
pillage, and oppression, recog-
inze American sovereignty as the sym
Dol and pledge of peace, justice, law,
religious freedom. education, the secur-
ty of life and property. and the well
fare and prosperity of their several
We reassert the early principle of the
republican party, sustained by I'M
broken, judicial presidents, that the
representatives 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-
hority to act ''for the highest interests
If our nation and the people intrusted
o it's care This doctrine, first pro-
claimed in the cause of freedom Will
never be used as a weapon for oppres-
ion.