Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-19

than the Tagals, disputed our possession.
We sent Andrew Jaok4on down to light
them, and it took us 81 years to subdue
them and send what was left of them
west of the Mississippi. II the "anti-
everythings" had lived then, they would.
| suppose have urged us to turn over
Florida to Osceola the Aguinaldo of the
Semionles! Would you. after the war
with Mexico and the Gadsden purchase,
have given the great area south and west
of the Arkansas to the red Apache? Not
so did our fathers construe their duty,
and as they built, so shall we, their sons.
The insurrection against our legitimate
authority, which, for the time ,impedes
our efforts to establish a government for
the F%ilipinos, involves us In a sacrifice of
lives and of treasure. The obstacles we
encounte in the island Of Luzon are
many, but the chief inspiration and en-
enlargement of the Tagal insurrection
come from the democratic headquarters
in the United States. Partisanship has
proved stronger than patriotism. even
while our soldiers are being murdered by
~marauding bandits, and if it were not for
the hope held out to Aguinaldo by Amer
lean sympathizers, the insurrection in
the Philippines would long ago have
ended.
The obstacles to the establishment of a
civil government in the islands are
many but we shall overcome them. Mis-
takes will ~ndoubtedly be made, but we
shall remedy them. We shall in time ex-
tend over that archipelago the aegis of
our protection and or free government,
and we shall gradually, but surely, lift
up these alien and savage races into the
light of civilization and Christianity.
Meanwhile American enterprise and in
genuitL and push may be depended upon
to develop the resources Of the island
and make them an added source Of wealth
to our country. The wise craftsmanship
OF the president and our able secretary
of state has already brought from the
countries of Europe a recognition of our
right to share in the vast coTnnl~4cial adj
vantages which will follow the opening Of
the Chinese empire to foreign trade; the
NicaragEan canal will soon be construct
ed: Hawaii, with it's valuable harbor. Is
ours: we possess the best Of the Samoan
islands,, with it's magnificent roadway:
the Philippines are almost at the -Oor of
China, and if counsels Of fear do not
prevail. this generation will see the
American nation girdling half the globe
with it's flax, extending its foreign com
merce to the uttermost parts of the earth.
and taking its place among the great
W~orld-nations a power for good, for
peace. and for righteousness.
OUR CREDIT AND HONOR.
Never since ga. when the voters Of the
country We're called upon to determine
whether the efforts of Abraham Lincoln
to preserve the union should be contin-
ued, or whether they should be aban-
dOned and other measures attempted.
have questions so vital been presented to
the American people for settlement. Their
decision must determine the maintenance
or the degradation of both our national
credit and our national honor. A demo-
cratic president could paralyze the oper-
alton OF the new currency law as effect
lively as if it were wiped from our statute
books. A democratic victory would in
fuse new life INTO the Tagal Instruction,
cost us the lives Of thousands of our gall
liant army in the Philippines, impair or
destroy our prestige, If not our power.
in the islands, make us a byWOrd among
the her great nations of the world, and
obliterate our influence in the settlement
of the vital question certain to arise
when China shall be opened to foreign
commerce.
There is little room for fear. The
farmer and the artisan in their way OF
prosperity still remember the impover-
ishment and blight of democracy, and the
Chicago platform has no allurements for
them.
Our national honor is equally secure.
The American people are neither pol
troonS nor pessimists and they will not
signalize the dawn OF the new century
by the surrender of either convictions or
territory. Every soldier back from the
islands, and they are in almost every
hamlet in the land, returns an advocate
OF their retention. Our dead are buried
along the sands of Luzon, and on it's soil
40 foreign flag shall ever salute the
dawn.
Whatever may be in store for us in the
new and unbeaten track upon which we
are entering, We shall not be found "witn
the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin." Cur
way is new, but it is not dark. In the
readjustmenr of wo~rld-conditions, where
we must take our place with the other
great nations of the earth, we shall move
with caution, but not with fear. We
seek only to lift up men to better things.
to bless and not to destroy. The fathers
of the republic accepted with courage
such responsibilities as evolved upon
them. The same heavens bend over us,
and the same power that shielded them
will guard and protect us. for wha we
seek is to build still more firmly, always
upon foundations of probity and of vir-
tue, the glorious edifice of the republic.
Before the next Inauguration day the
old century will have passed away. When
its marvellous history shall be %recounted,
the dominant and impressive event in tine
record of this country shall be, that
never in the history of these United
States was the republic as united for the
common welfare as now. All other events
of the past, our growth in wealth. until
from poverty we LAY come to be the
richest n most prosperous nation in the
world. our vast increase in population
and strength and influence, our widening
houndaries-all these count as nothing in
the promise for the future. as compared
with this. Even in the earlierest days of
the colonies, now dim with the mist of
years, there We're deep sectional jealous
les and animosities out of the institution
of human slavery. 1t took a great civil
war to wipe out the blot. It took a for
eign war to forever obliterate the last
trace of sectional differences. We have
had them both. The cost in blood and
suffering and treasure cannot be COM
puted, but the result was worth the awful
price. And today. in every section of the
land. among all it's people, there is an
equal and unquestioned devotion to the
welfare and perpetuity ~ the republic.