The Portland daily press., 1900-06-21

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mestic anarchy and the helpless spoil Of
some other nations Again the inevitable
negative. Again the President answered
as tho nation he represented would have
had him answer. He boldly took the
islands took them knowing well the
burden and responsibility, took them
from a deep sense Of duty TO ourselves
and others, guided by just foresight as
to our future In the East. and with an
entire faith in the ability Of the Ameri-
can people to grapple with the new task.
When future conventions point TO the
deeds by which the Republican party has
made history they will proclaim with es-
pecial pride that under a Republican adj
ininistratiop, the war OF 1898 was fought,
and that the peace with Spain was the
work OF William Mckinley. So much
for the past. We are proud OF It, but we
do not expect 10 live upon IL, for the Re
publican party Is pre-eminentiy the par
~ of action, and It's march Is ever for
ward. We are not 20 made that we can
be content to retreat or TO mark time.
The traditions of the early days OF our
party are sacred to us, and are hostages
given to the American people that we
viii not be unworthy Of the great leaders
who have gone. The deeds of yesterday
are In their turn pledge and proof
that we promise what we perform, and
that the people who put faith In our dec
larations In 1895 were not deceived, and
may place the same trust in us In 1900.
But our pathway has never lain among
dead issues, nor have we won our victo-
ries and made history by delving In po-
litical graveyards. We are the party oil
to-day, with cheerful yesterdays and con-
fident tomorrows. The living present Is
ours, the present of prosperity and activi-
ty in business, Of good wages and quick
payments, OF labor employed ana capital
invested, of sunshine In the market
place, and the stir Of Astounding life In
the workshop and on the farm. IL Is
with this that we have replaced the de-
preston, the doubts, the low wages, the
idle labor, the frightened capital, the
dark clouds which overhung industry
and agriculture in 1895. This Ia what
we would preserve, so far as sound gov
eminent and wiee legislation can do 1t.
This is what we brought to the country
four years ago. This Is what we offer
now. Again we pormise that the protec-
tive system shall be maintained, and that
our great industrial interests shall go ON
their way unshaken by the dire fear of
tariff agitation and of changing duties
Again we declare that we will guard the
national ere lit, uphold n sound currency
based on gold and keep the wages OF the
worlxingman, and the enterprise OF the
man of business, free from that most
deadly of all evils, n fluctuating standard
of value. The deficit which made this
great country in a time OF profound
peace borrower of money to meet Its
current expenditures has been replaced
by abundant revenue, bringing sur
plus, due alike 10 prosperity and to wise
legislation, so ample that We can safely
promise large reduction of taxation
without imperiling our credit or risking
| a resort to loans.
We are prepared to take steps to revive
and build up our merchant marine, and
thus put into American pockets the mon
. AWuN, fnNht rrfa =
Out of the abundant resources, which
our financia legislation has brought us,
we will build the Isthmian Canal, and
lay the cables which will help to turn the
current of Eastern trade TO the Golden
Gate. We arc on good terms with all ma
tions, and mean to remain SO, while we
promise TO insure our peace and safety by
maintaining the Monroe Doctrine, by
ample coast defences, and by building up
a navy which no one can challenge With
impunity. The new problems brought
by the war we face with confidence In
ourselves, and still deeper confidence
in the American people who Will deal
Justly and rightly with the islands which
have come into their charge. The outcry
against our new possessions Is an empty
as the can't about "mtlitarism and
imperialism is devoid of sense and
meaning. Regard for moment those
who are loudest in shrieking that the
a career of oppression, ana that the he
public Is in danger. Have they been In
the past the guardians of freedomS Is
safety for liberty now to be found most
surely in the party which was the de-
fender of domestic slavery Is true free
dom TO he secured by the ascendeny Oh
the party which beneath our very eyes
seeks to establish through infamous
laws the despotic rule of Il small and UNI
scrupulouss band of usurpers In Ken
lucky. who trample there not upon
the rights of the black men only,
but of the whites, and which seeks
TO extend the same system TO
suddenly come to pass that the
Democratic party which today aims
whenever 1t acquires power to continue
in office by crushing out honest elections
and popular rule; has it indeed come to
pass, l say, that that party is the chosen
outlook would be black indeed. No. The
party Of Lincoln may best be trusted
now, as in the past, to be true, 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 Is
lands 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 indie
pendence and stable government until she
is ready TO settle her own future by the
free expression of her peoples Will. We
will he faithful to the trust imposed upon
us, and IL among those to whom this
great work is confided in Cuba, or else
where, Wrongdoers shall be found, men
not only bad in morals, but dead to their
duty as Americans 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 the United States.
In the Philippines we We're met by re-
bellion, fomented bya self-seeking adven-
turer and usurper. The duty of the
President was to repress that rebellion,
to see to 1t that the authority of the
United States, as rightful and as right
eous in Manila as in Philadelphia, was
acknowledged and obeyed. That harsh
and painful duty President Mckinley
performed firmly and justly, eager to re
sort to gentle measures wherever possible,
unyielding when treaohery and violence