New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27

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! Now, our Democratic friends say it only our
get nSo the Phppnes WE did not 5oW Start out
with the Philippines In view We were thinking OF
men in all Washington at the time who knew there
know did not And you ought to have seen. when
he news came that our feet had been ordered from
| hong Kong TO Manila, the members of the House
| and the members of the Senate hocking out into
geography, to calculate how long it would take
! Why, my fellow citizens we had only Cuba in
view. but when our resolution, adopted by Con
! by Spain with declaration of war, we could only
meet 1t with counter declaration of war; and
all the positions of each open to attack by
Phppncs New % Gon We paid S5ehon Toto to 6ns
all familiar with the fact-I know most OF you
pardon for Stating hGS it. It IS according EHp to
International law that when two nations declare
out of the neutral ports Of other powers where they
arst declaration of war. For years we had been
building up a trade In the Orient; many of
Japan. to the other Islands we had been building
sun strengthen and increase it, but that we might
be able to protect interests there and the lives
fleet in these waters-not a very big one, but It
happened I TO be big enough.
Kong, and IN command of man you did not know
Whole wod has n9 beco 61t ama with whom ta
Dewey SINCE. War was declared. Within twenty
Of nnd eon 1% Of that
3 fo or Ehhslands ports where he has urisdic-
aSe Where he could stop and let down anc99r
d!d not even have coang station in the East
Il is not that way now, And the President
declared, Find the Spanish fleet and capture
him an optopcantI-s oT detr rp9 % b ssS
did not want TO be bothered hauling them around
sent the last one of them to the bottom of the
Wei now there we were at Manila. That is
now nc we got theTe We had our interests there
fleets in those waters, but there was no place in
those waters where fleets could remain, ex-
ended the war As Governor Rooseveit said the
other day; IN seconding the nomination of Pres-
was only because it didn't have to be. But events
Our fleet was stln there and then We were con-
Ironted with the question of what should be done
was a unanimous opinion throughout the country
to the on Of 58 s sf %5ch r oTeT bTee
centuries had been ruling that people tyranncally
in Cuba. and we had driven her out OF Porto Rico
and we were driving her out of the Philippines
s Now; IL we drove spain out who was 70 take
those nations-would have been glad to have taken
the Philippines off our hands, but we had not any
ppos themseves through 'f their duly ncor s9
fnra rep So both At Washington and be
ed AGAINST our leaving them to be despoied by
And so II seemed TO be a matter of necessity that
we should take title TO them ourselves for we knew
fornances as those of Dewey and Sampson and
schley and others, no other Power would question
our right SO we thought we would take the title
and We would adjust all differences that might
what differences anticipated? We did
important proportions We took the people of the
Philippine Islands for the purpose Of doing them
our sovereignty them and under cur protection
ing them authority to govern themselves as quickly
as they were shown capable to do so:
gramme the difficulty that has been referred 10
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opposed to the for the Union rose up and said
Preserve pres the Conet9tion So People rose up and
said to William Mckin Is You cannot suppress
said the President I'VE have taken title; We have
jouTned Congress has left me here as the Gus
t2dan OF all the property met of1nEs to 5Re
BODY get away with any OF it until Congress comes
81 'f7' THE FILIPTNOs' HOPE.
And So with malice toward none with charity
for an put with deteFmnetiom % de
wherever it floats we proceeded to suppress that
belion Our Democratic friends say it is not en-
sorry If it Is so I cannot help, when | hear that
after assertion and indication after indication that
the last man. long ago except for the hope they
have that Mhm j. r{ha van WI" 9e n3oS5d m
their programme ard so it is asserted in many
Now. my fellow citizens. we have been studying
the Philippine Islands a good deal since We came
conclusion that we have nigh duty with respect
people there are in those islands? They aggregate
some hing like eight or ten millions, but they are
broken into something like eighty tribes peoples,
each having different language having differ
ent literature and having different ordinances of
a great problem to determine how, 10 govern them.
The President las sent some of the ablest men In
distinguished president of Cornell University and
he labored with heart and soul and with great in
the head of which IS Judge William II. Taft, of
Cincinnati, an able, capable, honest and patriotic
any way, but whose heart and soul are filled with
the desire to give them an opportunity to take
But that is going 10 be troublesome They are
a people at the head OF whom is Aguinaldo a very
most important In all the islands but as you pass
from tribe to tribe they get down pretty low, some
We have this responsibility on us. We could not
any disposition to so If we could because it is a
matter Of duty and the highest duty that ever fails
going forward in this work conscentjousIy " TSe
President has been giving 1t his undivided atten-
ton. and he is going in that way with which
you are familiar.
Mr.. Foraker closed his address with laudatorv
remarks concerning Senator Depew. who fol-
lowed him.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Assemblyman Samuel S. Slater then proposed
the following resolutions which were adopted:
Be it resolved That we. the Republicans of the
Sounty or New-Nork in mass meeting assembled
Republican principles which were adopted and tSe
nonlnauons FOR the offices Of President and Vice
Liesiiuen6 OF tnese unised States which made
by the Republican National Convention at Phila-
Be it further resoIVed Tb ana tI 1 Ig and
maL i OF our National Government, which has
maEded respect for the flag and distinction for
AhfficAn cltzenshp abroad not only cOnclusvely