The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-28
PRESIDENT M'illNlEY
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pressed at the election in the pre-.
ceding November, law which al
4 once stimulated our industries, op.
ened the idle factories and mines,
and gave to the laborers and to the
farmer fair returns for their toll and
investment. Shall we go back to a
tariff which brings deficiency in
our revenues and destruction to our
industrial enterprises?
Faithful to its pledges in these
internal affairs, how has the gov.
eminent discharged its internal du-
ties9 Our platform of 1896 dec1ar-
ed: The Hawaiian Islands should
be controlled by the United States,
and no foreign power should be
permitted to interfere with them.
"This purpose has been fully ac-
complished by annexation, and del
egates from these beautiful islands
participated in the convention for
which you speak today.
In the great conference of ma
tons at The Hague, we reaffirmed
before the world the Monroe Doc
trine and our adherence to it, and
Our determination not to partici-
pate in the complications of Europe.
We have happily ended the Euro
pean alliance i'll Samoa, securing to
ourselves one of the most valuable
harbors in the Pacific Ocean, while
the open door in China gives to us
fair and equal competition in the
vast trade of the Orient.
Some things have happened
which were not promised, nor even
foreseen, and our purposes in rela-
ton 10 them must not be left in
doubt. A just war has been wag-
ed for humanity, and with it have
come new problems and response
bilities. Spain has been elected
from the Western Hemisphere, and
our flag floats over her former ter
ritory. Cuba has been liberated
and Our guarantees to her people
will be sacredly executed. A ben
eficent government has been pro-
vided for Porto Rico. The Philip
pines are ours, and American au-
thority must be supreme through
out the archipelago. There will be
amnesty broad and liberal, but no
abatement of our rights, no aban-
donment of our duty There must
be no scuttle policy. We will fulfill
inthe Philippines the obligations i'm
posed by the triumphs of Our army
and by the treaty of peace; by in
ternational law; by the nation
sense of honor; and more than all,
by the rights, interests and condi-
tons of the Philippine people them
selves.
mo outside interference blocks
the way to peace and a stable gov
eminent. The obstructionists are
here, not elsewhere. They may
postpone, but they cannot defeat
the realization of the high purpose
of this nation to restore order to
the islands and establish Just and
generous government, in which the
inhabitants shall have the largest
participation for which they are ca
pable, The organized forces which
have been misled into rebellion
have been dispersed by our faithful
soldiers and sailors, and the people
of the islands, delivered from an
archy, pillage, and oppression, rec
ognize American sovereignty as the
symbol and pledge of peace, justice,
law, religious freedom, education,
the security of life and property
and the welfare and prosperity of
their several communities.
1--WE reassert the early principle
of the Republican party, sustained
by unbroken judicial precedent,
that the representatives of the peo-
pie in Congress assembled have full
legislative power over territory be-
longing to the United States, sub
ject to the fundamental safeguards
of liberty, justice and personal