Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-09

ures with the governor general, which
council would be the germ for future legis-
latureS, a school in practical government;
an American lieutenant governor in each
province, with a like council about him; If
possible an American resident in each dis
trlct. and like council grouped about him;
frequent and unannounced visits of pro-
Nlncla! governors to the districts of their
provinces; periodical reports to the gov
ernor general: an American board of WISH
tatlon to make semi-annual trips to the
archipelago without power of suggestion
or interference to officials or people, but
only to report and recommend to the Phil
ippine office of our State Department; a
Phlllppne civil service, with promotion for
efficiency; the abolition of duties on OK
ports from the Philippines; the establish
ment of import duties on a revenue basis
with such discrimination in favor of Amer
ican imports as will prevent the cheaper
goods of other nations from destroying
American trade; complete reform of local
taxation on a just and scientific basis, be-
ginning with the establishment of a tax
on land according to its assessed value;
the mining of abundant money for Philip
pine and oriental use; the granting of
franchises and concessions upon the theory
OF developing the resources of the archi-
upon participation in the profits of the
enterprise; the fOrma ton of a system of
public schools everywhere with compul-
sorry attendance rigidly enforced; the es-
throughout the islands, teaching it eXclu-
siveiy iii the schools and using it. through
interpreters, exclusively in the courts: a
simple civil code, and still simpler crimi-
MAJ code, and both common to all the is
lands except Sulu, Mindanao and Paluan:
American judges for all but smallest Of
lenses; gradual, slow and careful introduce
ton of the best Filipinos into the working
machinery of the government: no promise
whatever of the franchise until the peonle
have been prepared for it; all this backed
by the necessary force to execute it; this
outline of government the Situat ton de-
mandS as soon as tranquility is established
Untii then military government is advis-
able
This country could not adopt the Dutch
method in Java nor the English method in
the Malay states, because both of these
systems rest on and operate through the
existing governments of hereditary princes
with Dutch or English residents as ad-
vfsers. In the Philippines there are no
such hereditary rulers, no such established
governments. a protecto-ate IS not prac-
ucable. The most important necessity for
the government of the island would be
men of sterling character not theorists nor
dreamers The government and admins
traitors must be examples
Speaking of the true Interpretation of the
Declaration of Independence he said that
mans 'inalienable rights are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness Consent of
the governed is one Of the means TO those
ends. These people, he said are not capa-
ment, and must be governed.
No Barrier to Extension.
The ocean could be no barrier to prevent
extension of the limits of the United
States. The Constitution placed no limit
on the boundaries of the republic. The ma
tons power to make rules and regulations
for the government of its possessions is not
confined to any set of rules or regulations.
The Constitution does not prescribe any
special kind of government in territory
belonging 10 the United States"
God has not been preparing the English
speaking and Teutonic peoples for thouS-
and years for nothing but vain and idle
self-contemplation and standardization he
said. No! He has made us the master
organizers of the world to establish sys-
TEN where chaos reigns. He has given US
the spirit of progress to overwhelm the
forces of reaction throughout the earth.
He has made us adopts in government that
we may administer government among
savage and senle peoples. Were it not for
such a force this the world would re-
lapse into barbarsm and night. And of all
our race He has marked the American peo-
pie as His chosen nation to finally lead in
the regeneration of the world.
In the cause of civilization. in the
vice of the republic anywhere on earth.
Americans consider wounds the noblest dec
orations man can win and count the giving
of their lives q glad and precious duty. Pray
God that spirit never fails. Pray God the
time may never come when Mammon and
that We will fear TO shed it for the flag
and its imperial destiny. Pray God the
time may never come when American he
roism is but a legend, like the story of
the Cid, American faith in mission
and our might dream dissolved and the
glory of our mighty race departed.
And that time will never come. We will
renew our youth at the fountain of new
and glorious deeds. We will exalt our rev.
erence for the flag by carrying it to a
noble future well as by remembering its
ineTable past. Its Immortality will not
pass, because everywhere and always we
will acknowledge and discharge the solemn
responsibilities our sacred flag, in its deep
est meaning, puts upon us. And so, sena-
tors, with reverent hearts. where dwels
the fear of God, the American people move
forward to the future of their hope and
the doing of His work.
Mr.. President and Senator'S adopt the
resolution offered that peace may quickly
come and that We may begin our saving, re-
generating and uplifting work Adopt it
and this bloodshed will cease when these
deluded children of our islands learn that
this is the final action CT the representa-
tives of the American people In Congress
assembled. Reject it and the world, his
tory and the American people will know
where to forever fix the awful responsible
1ty for the consequences that will surely
follow such failure to do our manifest duty.
How dare We delay when our soldiers
blood is flowing