Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-06-28

even as he was true, to the rights of man
and to human freedom, whether within
the borders of the United States or in the
Islands which have come beneath our
flag. The liberators may be trusted to
watch over the liberated. We who freed
Cuba will keep the pledge we made to
her and will guide her along the road
to Independence and stable government
until she is ready to settle her own fu-
ture by the free expression of her peo-
pies will. We will be faithful to the
trust imposed upon u.s. and if among
fided in Cuba, or elsewhere, wrongdoers
shall be found-men not only bad in
morals but dead to their duty as Amer
leans and false to the honor of our name
we will punish these basest of criminals
to the extent of the law.
For the islands of Hawaii and Porto
Rico the political problem has been
solved, and by republican legislation they
have been given self-government, and are
peaceful and prosperous under the rule of
In the Philippines we We're met by re-
bellion. fomented by a self-seeking ad-
venturer and usurper. The duty of the
president was to repress that rebellion,
to see to it that the authority of the
United States; as rightful and as right
acknowledged and obeyed. That harsh
and painful duty President Mckinley has
performed firmly and justly, eager to re-
sort to gentle measures wherever possi-
BILE, unyielding when treachery and Vio-
lence made force necessary. Unlike the
opponents of expansion, we do not regard
they are the soldiers of the United
States, they are our army, and we believe
in them and will sustain them
The restoration of peace and order now
SO nearly reached in the Philippines shall
be completed. Civil government shall be
established, and the people advanced as
rapidly as possible along the road to en-
tire freedom and to self-government under
our flag. We do not mean that the Phil
ippines shall come without our tariff sys-
tenn or become part of our body polite.
We do mean that they shall, under our
teaching. learn to govern themselves and
remain under flag with the largest
possible measure of home rule. We make
no hypocritical pretense of being inter
count of others. While we regard the
welfare of these people as a sacred trust,
we regard the welfare of the American
people first. We see our duty to our
selves ,as we'll as to others.
We believe in trade expansion. By every
legitimate means within the province of
stimulate the expansion of our trade and
to open new markets. Greatest of all
growing by leaps and bounds. Manila,
the prize of war, gives us inestimable
advantages in developing that trade: 1t
is the cornerstone of our eastern policy,
and the brilliant diplomacy of John Hay
in securing from all nations a guarantee
of our treaty rights and of the open door
in China rests upon it. We ask the Amer
lean people whether they will throw away
these new markets and widening oppor-
tunitieS for trade and commerce by put
ting in power the democratic party, who
seek under cover of a newly discovered
affection for the rights of man to give up
these islands in the east and make
Dewey's victory frutless.
1t is on these facts that we shall ask for
the support of the American people.
What we have done is known, and about
what we intend to do there is neither Sc
crecy nor deception. What we promise
we will perform. Our old policies are
here alive successful and full of vigor.
our new policies have been begun and
for them we ask support. When the
clouds of impending civil war hung dark
over the country in 1861 we took up the
great task then laid upon us and never
fiinched until we had carried it through