New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-13
DIR. CARROLL ON PUERTO RICO
ADDRESS AT METHODIST UNION DINNER
PREFERENCE TO CLEVELAND BRINGS
AN INTERRUPTION.

AN INTERRUPTION.
DR. Henry K. Carroll recently the Special Com
missioner of the United States to Puerto Rico
spoke last evening before the Methodist Social
Union at a Lincoln birthday dinner given in the
AIdine Association rooms, Fifth-ave- and Eigh-
teentH-st.. our National Responsibilities in
Puerto Rico" In part DR.. Carroll said:
The island soil Is almost inexhaustble They
mch uI b6nrb fV ." nrieb3G and All the Puerto
Ricans need to develop their great agricultural
resources and establish their economic welfare IS
proper relations with the United States. They are
understood people-and. l confidently believe.
qnderfed Never before going amTng them a nave
dren run about without clothes; they themseIye s
in one room With no stove This poverty is not
natural condition; it is enforced They can easily
that now our workingmen are enjoying. Tney are
seven days in the week. But there is little for
tGem TO DO since the hurricane Of Apg 16 sHe
be prosperous until capital goes there ana not
capital feel safe In undertaking enterprises there
Seventy or eighty per cent of the inha biants can
they have knowiedge abo3t their island and
especially about the United states which astoniShes
sRear5 ne laws cas'iiiaa told me- and that's
These people supposed that when the United
would be , an end to their o22ression that no
thought first Of themseives TeTr u Spain and il
anything remained to induce 40 ut then, perhaps
evacuation of the country by the Spanish the
states Territorial laws LAWYERS and business men
were studying them. and everybody was discussing
them; The natives felt sure they should become
Now, what should we do toward giving, these PEG;
pie what they are pleading for? It would be cruel
to treat them worse than inhqman Spain has done.
The nation we drove out of Puerto Rice, for, her
barbarity gave it open markets 10 buy and sell in
She a fo manhood suffrage sixteen fq deputies
blies. Yet we are considering letting them have
that it is now proposed to take away from them.
free commerce, which means life. Otherwise 1t is
death Grant them free government. &c.
Puerto Rico whom I introduced to him that the
a9m ome s nave a s9d e2&oT
viii soon seek TO advance to State | do not be
Many years she has knocked the door of State
hood, but never has she been admitted.
necessary to raise enough revenue to take care Of
from us When our iag was raised over it there
was a cent of island or bonded municipal debt:
once it gave her 81 OO6o Long have the Puerto
Ricans loved this country. LOngingly have they
turned their, faces toward the northern Republic
their own that they too, might get with it all the
some day Puerto Rico will be peopIed by Ameri-
cans f9r 1t Is cl t 10 our shores ana our money
do not for you have not seen these poor people
ton to try to persuade Congress to be mercifuI
President Mckinley told me not more than two
weeks ago that he would not back down one inch
from his Puerto Rico policy outlined in his Message
General James T. Rushing made an address on
Abraham Lincoln and His Religious Faith" In
specializing upon what Lincoln would do to-day on
the policy Of expansion, the speaker said that he
would do exactly what President Mckinley has
from the time of the blowing up Of the Maine to the
present. When he went on "the Philippines I'M
expectedly dropped into our lap as a gift from the
gods-not so much by the act OF man as by the
hand OF Observation-Disclosures Lincoln would not
have brutaly handed them back SPAIN nor fool
| ishly turned them to France and GERMANY
nor weakly and wickedly abandoned them to their
own will of anarchy and msrule as our Little
Americans say. But, rather he would have man
fully accepted the Philippines as a grave National
responsibility, and then resolved that by Gods
grace he would take them all, and trust God and
the American people for the consequences"
General Rushing made a suggestion which was
applauded. that President Mckinley could do no
better than to make DR.. Carroll the first Governor
OF Puerto Rico
General Rushing said in part:
Lincoln was not man of books, but a man OF
literature he had of human nature. He was
ton and JEFFERSON; not "a Southern swash61ckisr
Ike Andrew Jackson; not a sturdy New-Yorker
Jersey and is now professor at Princeton.
You may keep him." some one said in the
audience.
We Will keep him and elevate him and purify
him in our New-Jersey air." replied the speaker
He had previously made several humorous re-
marks relative to New-Jersey and her men and
historic places.
AT THE BROOKLYN REPUBLICAN CLUB
Fifty members of the Brooklyn Republican Club
gathered last evening at the clubhouse No l46
Pierrepont-st, despite the inclemency of the
weather, tender reception to the newly elected
officers of the club Several speeches were made
The present officers President Walter s
Brewster; vice-presdent, Thomas H. Wagstafr;
recording secretary William A. Wildwood; CORE
spending secretary. c. c. Henry: treasurer William
w Simpson, assistant treasurer, Homer E Rams
dell William II. Gerish, chairman OF the Execu-
tive Committee OF the club, made an address OF
made by the Vice-presldent ex-Assemhlyman
Thomas II. Wagstan. in the absence of the presl-
dent-elect
The Rev S. d. Mcconnell. the rector OF Trinity
Church on the Heights, made speech, in which
he took occasion remark that he was i'm a
rather peculiar position being a Democrat to speak
TO the members OF a Republican organization He
said, however, with the life of Abraham Lincoln
as a subject there could be no partisanship. Dr.
Mcconnell declared that Lincoln was a typical
American citizen. He delivered tribute to the
martyr President and loudly applauded
Mahlon Chance gave an address on Lincoln and
His Participation In Politics" The meeting closed
with light refreshments in the dining room.
LINCOLN DINNER AT YONKERs
Al the Lincoln dinner given the Getty House
Yonkers. by the Loyal League last night Dc