Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-11

cessity of maintaining those relations.
The benefits of protection recipro-
city are made s~elf-evident by the results
as outlined in the presidents letter.
Upon the trust problem, Mr.. McKin-
ley's expression is in accord with the
party platform. He declares that mon
opolistic combinations are obnoxious to
the common law and the public welfare
and that they should be made the sub
ject of prohibitory and penal legislation.
He effectually removes any reason for
the trusts TO be made an issue between
the parties.
In the treatmen of our insular prob
lens he supports his own actions and the
party declarations in regard to them. by
record rather than by argument, and
shows corclusively that every move OF
the administration has been in strictest
accord with the nations promises. with
generosity, with the dictates of humanity
and with dignity and honor. He makes no
attacks upon the disloyal attitude of the
opposition, though to be sure, he points
out wherein their position has lent en-
enlargement to the rebellious savages in
the Philippines. And in the discussion
of the ADMINISTRATIONS present policy in
the islands, he asks: What would you
do ga question that the opposition will
find difficult to answer. AS to Porto
Rico, he shows that the Is per cent tar
if, collected both here and at the island,
has been and will be turned over to the
Porto Rican government for it's support
and for public improvement. He shows
that Porto Rico has been benefited; that
business and industry are reviving; that
schools are being established; hat pros
perity and progress are at hand. In Cuoa
the fulfllment of this nations promise or
an independent government is near at
hand, and along with it go a stimula-
ton Of industry and education, a restora-
! ito OF order and charity to the needy.
These are records to be proud of.
The history of the Philippine situation
! is given from the day of Dewey's victory
!! to the present and by force OF
! yertible facts, the specious arguments OF
! the Bryan party are laid in the dust.
Mr., McKinley's statement of the pur-
!! pose of the administration is clear and
sufficient. He says:
1t is our purpose to establish in the
| Philippines a government suitable 70 the
wants and conditions of the lnhaoltants
| and to prepare them for self-government
and to give them Self-gOvernment When
they are ready for it, and as rapidly as
they are ready for it. nat I am aiming
To do under my constitutional authority
and will continue to do until congress
shall determine the political status OF tnt
inhabitants of the archipelago.
OF our rights and duties, he makes the
following vigorous summary:
Our rights in the Philippines are now
free from outside interference n VII
continue so in our present relatioh
They would not thus be free IN any othel
relation. We will not give up our owl
to guarantee another so'ere,gmiy s;oner'
title is good. Our peace commissioner
believed they were receiving a goou tltt
when they concluded the treaty. I'M
executive believed it was a good IT'LL
when he submitted 1t to the senate o
the United States for it's r~atlhcation
me senate GU / q 6ooo A'S 'H~
it gave it their constitutional assent, ant
the congress seems not to have doubte
its completeness when they approprlat
, $40, O0O, 900, provided by the treaty. |
any who favored it's ratification believes
: it gave us a bad title, they were not sin
cere. Our title is practically identica
;. with that under which we hold our ter
= ritory acquired since he beginning of tn
government, and under which we hav
= exercised full sovereignty and estab
lished government for the Inhabitants.
It is worthy of note that no one out
;. side of the United States disputes tn
fullness and integrity of the cessior
What, then, is the real issue on this sub
: ject? Whether it is paramount to an
other or not, it is whether We shall b
responsible for the government of tn
Philippines with the sovereignty and au
thority which enables us to guide ther
to regulated liberty, law, safety an
iprogress, or whether we shall be respOn
sible for the forcible and arbitrary gov
e of a minority without sover
eighty authority on our part an
" with only the embarrassment of a pre-
Electorate which draws us into their trou
:. bles without the power of preventin
them.
There were those who two years ag
q We're rushing us on to war with SPAR
who are unwilling now to accept it's clea
consequences, and there are those anon
g us who advocated the ratification, tn
treaty of peace, but now protest agains
it's obligations. Nations which go to wa
e must be prepared to accept it's resultar
obligations, and when they make treatie
d must keep them.
REPUBLICANIsM IN MONTANA