Connecticut western news., 1900-09-20
MIR. ROOsEvELT's REPLY.
Formally Accepts Vice Presidential
 Nomination.


 says:
 I accept the nomination as vice president of the United States rendered me by the Republican national convention with very deep of the honor conferred upon and with infinitely deeper of the vital importance to the whole country of securing the reelection of President Mckinley. The nations welfare is at stake. We must continue the work which has been well begun during the present administration. We must show in fashion incapable of being msun. derstood that the American people, at the begin- ming of the twentieth century face their duties in calm and serious spirit; that they have in- tention of permitting folly lawessness to the extraordinary material well being which they have attained at home, nor yet of permitting their flag to be dshonored abroad.
 Fundamentally and primarily the present test Is a contest for the continuance of the con. dtions which have told in favor of our material welfare and of our civil and political integrity this nation is to retain either its well being its self respect it cannot afford 10 plunge into nnsn. cial and economic chaos; 1t cannot afford to in. dorse governmental theories which would unssttls 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 le 10 is policy iraught with destruction to every home in the land. lt means untold misery to the head of every household and. above all. to the women and children of every home.
 One of the serious problems with which we confronted under the conditions of our modern in.
 
 business combinations which are generally known under the name of trusts
 The problem Is sxcesdnly difheult one, and | the difnculty is immensely aggravated both by | honest but wrong headed attacks whole industrial system in the effort to remove some of the evils connected with 1t and by the mischiev. | ous advice of men who either think erookedly or who advance remedies knowing them to be in- effective, but deeming that they may, by darksn- ing counsel, achieve for themselves spurious rep N.sfl fx. s.4.A M ~k.N. km k served by indiscriminate denuncistion of corpor. tons generally and of all forms of industrial com bination in particular, and when this public de- nunciation is accompanied by private membership in the great corporations denounced the effect is of course to give an air of inxincerity to the whole movement. Nevertheless, there real | abuses and there s ample reason for striving 10 remedy thsss abuseA crude or i'll considered | effort to remedy them would either be absolutely | without effect CT else would simply do damage. The first thing to do Is to find out the facts and for this purpose publicity to capitalEat tion profits and all else of importance to the public Is the most useful measure. The fact of this publicity would in itself remedy certain evils, and | as to the others it would in some point out | the remedies and would at least enable us to tell | whether or not Certain proposed remedies would | 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 unspsring excision of all unhealthy, destructive and antisocial clements The separate state gov | ernments can do a great deal, and where they de- | cline to cooperate the national government must | step in.
 | While paying heed to the necessity of keeping | our house in ordeS at home the American people | cannot, if 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 IS original states declared them | selves a nation, the westward limit of the | try marked by the Alleghany mountains | Even during the Revolutionary the work of | expansion went Kentucky, Tennessee and the | great northwest, then known as the Illinois | try, conquered from white and Indian | foes during the Revolutionary struggle and were | confirmed to us by the treaty of peace in 17S3 | Yet the land thus confirmed not then given | to us. It was held by alien foe until the | army under General Anthony Wayne freed Ohio | from the red man, while the treaties of Jay and Pinekney secured from the Spanish and British | Watcher and Detroit
 In 1903, under President Jefferson, the greatest | single stride in expansion that took was taken by the purchase of the Louisiana territory. | This called Louisiana. which included what | the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Louisi- | ana, Iowa, Minnesota Kansas. Nebraska. North and South Dakota, Idaho, Montana and large | part of Colorado and Utah, acquired by treaty | and purchased under President Jefferson exactly | and precisely as the Phiilppines have been ac- | Quirsd by treaty and purchase under President | Mckinley The doctrine of 'the consent of the | governed" the doctrine previously enunciated by | Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, was l not held by him or by any other to ap- ply to the Indian tribes in the Louisiana territory | which he thus acquired, and there was no vote 1 taken even of the white inhabitants not to speak | of the negroes and Indians, as to whether they willing that their territory should be annex ed. The great majority of the inhabitants. white l aItf transfer.
 An armed force of United States soldiers had to be hastily sent Into the territory to prevent in- | surrection, President Jefferson sending these troops to Louisiana for exactly the same reasons | and with exactly the same purpose that Prssi- | dent Mckinley has sent troops Co the Philippines.
 Jefferson distinctly stated that the Louisianans | were mot ht or ready for self government" and | years elapsed before they given self govern. 1 ment, Jefferson appointing the governor and oth. CT officials without any consultation with the in. | habitsnts of the newly acquired territory. The
 doctrine that the 'constitution follows the flag | not then even considered either by Jefferson or by any other serious party leader for it never | entered their heads that a 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 theory known by this utterly false and
 misleading phrase only struck out in DO.
 litical controversy at a much later date for the
 sole purpose of justifying the extension of slsy.
 cry into the territories.
 The parallel between what Jefferson did with
 Louisiana and what is being done in the
 Philippines is exact. Jefferson, the author of the
 Declaration of Independence and of the consent | of the goyerned' doctrine, 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, | nd TIo lEanfnu fn fha tS-
 tory of the annexation of the Philippines | and closes as follows:
 | Properly speaking the question is now not | whether we shall expand-for have already | expanded-but whether shall contract. The | Philippines part of American territory. | To surrender them would be to surrender Amer | lean territory. They must, of course, he gov | erned 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 a a result of the most righteous foreign
 that has been waged within the memory oi | the present generation They must be adininis l terei in the interests of their inhabitants, and
 that necessarily means that any question of per | sonal or partisan politics in their administra | tion must be entirely eliminated. We must con | tinuc to put at the head of affairs in the differ | ent islands such General Wood, Governor | Allen and Judge Taft and it Is most fortunate | thing that we are able to illustrate what ought | to be done in the way of sending officers thither | by pointing out what actually has been done. | The minor places in their administration, where | it is impossible to hll them by natives, must bS | filled by the strictcst application of the merit
 system. It is very important that in owr | home administration the merely ministerial and | administrative offices, where the duties en | tirely nonpolitical. shall be filled absolutely with
 out reference to partisan affiliations. but this |,
 many times more important in the newly acquir
 cd islands. The merit systptm Is in its essence
 as democratic common school system, fol | it fafF pl f1i
 all.
 Lad Manners.
 An old gentleman. walking up Cork
 Hill. Dublin, overlook a coal cart heav.
 fly loaded and drawn by wretched