Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-20
IA[ ROOSEVELT LETTER | {.
Formal Acceptance Of the Nomina-
ton for Vice President by q
Governor of New York. #@
ACKNOWLEDGES THE HONOR DONE HIM.
Declares That the Paramount Issue
Is That of Securing Good Govern
ment-Expreases His Views on the
Subject of Trusts, Imperialism and
Militariam. %-fE+ .''.

OuACdSO3 OCpt. 1o.--UOF. hOOScVclt,
of New York, has given out for pub
LEGATION his letter accepting the repub-
lican nomination for vice presidency.
The letter is dated Oyster Bay, N. Y,
September IS, and is addressed to
Hon. Edward O. Wolcott, chairman of
the committee on notification of vice
president. Gov. Roosevelt's first SEN
tence is an acceptance Of the nomi-
nation. and an expression of thanks
for the honor conferred. -
The Paramount Issue. F.
He declares that the most impor-
tant of all problems is that of Sc
curing good government and moral
and material well-being within our
own borders. The need that our ma
ton should do it's work we'll abroad
is second to the thorough perform
ance of duty at home. The present
contest, he declares, is for a con
tinuance of conditions which have
told in favor: of our material welfare
and of our civil and. political integ-
rity. He says the policy of the free
coinage of silver at ration of 16 to
is a policy fraught with destruction
to every home in the land. 1t means
untold misery to the head of every
household, and, above all, the women
and children of every home. No issue
can be paramount to the issue thus
made, for the paramountcy of such is
sue is to be determined, not by the
dictum of any man or of any body
of men, but by the fact that it vi
tally affects the well-being of every
home in the land. ~
The Trusts.
On the question of trusts, Gov.
Roosevelt says the first thing to do
in determining whether there are real
abuses in existing forms of industrial
combination is to secure publicity as
to capitalization, profits and all else
of Importance to the public. The
mere fact of this publicity would in
itself remedy certain evils, and in other
cases point out the remedies. The
state, acting in. it's collective capacity,
would thus first find out the facts, and
then be able to take such action as
wisdom should dictate. Much can be
done by taxation, and even more by
regulation, by close supervision and
the unsparing excision of all unheal-
thy, destructive and anti-social, ele-
ments. The separate state govern
ments can do a great deal, but when
they decline to cooperate the national
government must step in.
Imperialism and Militarism.
Gov. Roosevelt enters into lengthy
exposition of the past history of our
government in the acquisition of new
territory, thus leading up to an ex-
preston of his views on the questions
of imperialism and militarism. He
says that in the pursuit of our pres
ent policy in the Philippines we are
making no new departure, and are not
taking a single step which in any way
affects our institutions or our tradi-
tional policies. He says the only GER
tain way of rendering it necessary for
our republic to enter on a career of
militarism would be to abandon the
Philippines to their own tribes, and
at the same time either to guarantee
tribes or to guarantee them against
outside interference. A far larger
army would be required to carry out
such a policy than will be required to
secure order under the American flag,
while the presence of this flag on the
islands is really the only possible Sc
curity against outside interference.
If the Filipinos are now entitled to
independence, they are, also entitled to
decide for themselves whether their
government shall be stable or unstable,
civilized or savage, or whether they
shall have any government at all. If
this be true, then the whole argument
against President McKinley's policy
becomes absurd when it is conceded
that we should, to quote the language
of the Kansas City platform, "give to
the Philippines first stable form of
government" IT,,
To surrender. the Philippines, the
governor says, would be to surrender
American territory. They must, Of
course, be governed primarily in the
interest of theirrown citizens. Govern
ing these islands in the interest Of the
iniha bitants may not necessarily be to
govern them as the inhabitants at the
moment prefer. To grant self-govern-
ment to Luzon under Aguinald,o would
be Like granting self-government to
an Apache reservation under some To-
cal chief. To turn over the islands to
Aguinaldo and his followers would not
be to give self7government to the is
Ianders. Under no circumstances
would the majority thus gain self-gov-
eminent. They would simply be put
at the mercy Of a syndicate Of Chinese
half-breeds, under whom corruption
would flourish far more freely than
it ever fourished under Tweed, while
tyrannical oppression would obtain to
2 degree only possible under such an
oligarchy.
Congress Of Social Democrat. Open..
Mainz, Germany, Sept 1s.. he con
gress Of social democrats opened here
in the town hall. Herr Singer, the
well-known socialist leader and s q
member Of the reichstag, was elected
president, and Herr Ulrich, also q