Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20

VIC IaSC II SOAlkl0CuSS 1A oui eiho
. still deeper confidence in the American
people, who will deal justly and rightly
with h islands which rave come into
their charge. The outcry against our
new possessions is as empty as the can't
about "militarism' and imperialism" is
devoid Of sense and meaning.
Regard for a those who are
loudest in s%hrieking that the American
people are about to enter upon a career
of depression and that the republic is in
danger. Have they been in the past the
guards for freedom? Is safety for liber-
ty now to be found most surely in the
party which was the defender of domes
tic slavery? Is true freedom to be secur-
ed by the ascendency of the party which
beneath our very eyes seeks to establish
through infamous laws, the despotic rule
of a smal and INSCRIPTIONS band of
usurpers in Kentucky who trampled
there, not upon the rights of the black
men only, but of the whites, and which
seeks to extend the same system to
North Carolina and Missouri? Has it
suddenly come to pass la the demo-
cratic party which today aims whenever
1T acquires power to continue in office by
crushing out honest elections and popu-
lar rule: has it indeed, come to pass.
say that that party is the chosen pro-
tector of liberty. If it were so the out
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party of Lincoln may be the best 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
islands 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 va to
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til she is ready to settle her own future
by the free expression of her peoples
will. We will be faithful to the trust
imposed upon us, and if among those to
whom this great work is confined in Cuba
or elsewhere, wrong-doers 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 the
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 have been given
self-government and are peaceful and
prosperous under the rule of the United
States.
REBELLION AND DEMOCRACY.
In the Philippines we were met by re-
bellion, fomented by a self-seeking ad-
venturer and usurper. The duty of the
oAo vas ~ ICplSSS lNdl IeU6lllOIl,
to see that the authority of the United
States as rightfully and righteous in Ma
Mia as in Philadelphia, was acknowl-
edged and obeyed. That harsh and pain
ful duty President Mckinley has per-
firmly and justly, eager to resort
to gentle measures, whenever possible,
unyielding when treachery and violence
made force necessary. Unlike the op-
ponents of expansion, we do not regard
tho Cn11iapc nf H+;~ o-. .- NJ
Arthur as IAN enemy's camp" In our
eyes they are the soldiers of the United
States; they are our army and we be-
in them and will sustain them.
Even now the democrats are planning, il
they get control of the House, to cut off
appropriations for the army and thus
compel the withdrawal of our troops
from the Philippines. The result would
be to force the retirement of such SOL
diers as would remain in Manila, and
their retreat would be the signal for the
massacre and plumber of the great body
of peaceful inhabitants of the islands
who have trusted to is to protect and
guard them. Such an event would b. an
Is the government, is the House,
to be given over to a party capable of
such a policy.
Shall they not rather be instructed to
the party which will sustain the army
and suppres the brigands and guerillas
who, under pretense of war, are now
so freely to the list of crimes
committed in the name of liberty by
D surpers and pretenders and who,
buoyed up by democratic promises keep
up a highWayman's warfare in hope of
democratic success in November. 1t is
for the American people to decide this
question. Our position is plain. The
restoration of peace and order now SO
nearly reached in the Philippines shall
be completed. Civil government shall be
established and the people advanced as
rapidly as possible along the road to en-
tire freedom and self-government under
our flag. We will not abandon our task,
we will neither surrender nor retreat,
we Will not write failure across this
page of our history. We will do our
duty, our full duty to the people of the
Philippines, and strive by every means
10 give them freedom, contentment and
prosperity. We have no belief in the old
slave holders doctrine that the constitu-
ton or It's own force marches into every
w acquired territory and this doc
tflne, which we cast out in 1860. we still
respect. we do not mean that the Philip-
pines snail come without tariff system or
become a part Of our body republic. We
DO mean that they shall, under o,,r
teachlng, learn to govern themselves and
remain under our flag with the largest
possible measure of home rule. We make
no nypocrltlcal pretenses of being inter-
ested in the Philippines solely on account
OF others. While we regard the welfar e
OF those people as a sacred trust, we re-
gard the welfare of the American neo-
pie first. We see our duty to ourselves
Wen as to others. We believe in trade
expansion.
EXPANSION OF TRADE,
BY every legitimate means within the
province of government and legislation.
We mean to stimulate the expansion of
trade and to open new markets. Great
est of all markets is China Our ira la
there is growing by leaps and bounds.
Manila. the prize of the war, gives us in
estimable advantages in developing that