Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-19


turns for their toll and Investment Shall
we go back to a tariff which brings de-
nciency in our revenues and destruction
to our industrial enterprises?
Our platform of 1896 declared, 1.-THE Ha-
waiian 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-
complfshed by annexation. and delegates
from those beautiful islands participated
IN the convention for which you speak
to-day In the great conference of ma
lions at The Hague we reaffrmed before
the world the Monroe doctrine and our
adherence to it and determination
not to participate in the complications
OF Europe. We have happily ended the
European alliance in Samoa, securing to
ourselves one OF the most valuable har-
bors 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 fore
seen, and our purposes in relation to
them must not be left in doubt. A just
war has been waged for humanity and
with 1t have come new problems and re-
sponSibilities. Spain has been elected
from the western hemisphere and our
haS floats over her former territory.
Cuba has been liberated and our guaran-
tees to her people will be Sacredly exc
cuted. A benificent government has been
provided for Porto Rico. The Philip
pines are ours and American authority
1nrOUShOut
peiaSo. There will be amnesty broad and
liberal but no abatement of our rights,
no abandonment of duty. There
must be no scuttle policy. We will full
fill in the Philippines the obligations i'm
posed by the triumphs of our arms and
by the treaty of peace, by international
law; by the nations sense of honor; and,
more than. all, by the rights, interests
and conditions of the Philippine people
themselves. No outside interference
blocks the way to peace and a stable
government 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 to establish a
just and generous government, in which
the inhabitants shall have the largest
participation for which they are cap
able. The organized forces which have
been misIed into rebellion have ben dis
persed by our faithful soldiers and sail
ors, and the people of the islands, deliv-
cred from anarchy, pillage and oppres-
sion, recognize American sovereignty
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
We reassert the early principle of the
republican party, sustained by unbroken
judicial precedents, that the representa-
tives of the people in congress assembled
have full legislative power over territory
belonging to the United States subject
to the fundamental safeguards of liberty,
justice and personal rights, and are vested
with ample authority to act ''for the
highest interests of our nation and the
people entrusted to its care This doc
trine, first proclaimed in the cause of
freedom, will never be used as a weapon
for oppression. I am glad to be assured
by you that what we have done in the
far east has the approval Of the country.
The sudden and terrible crisis in China
calls for the gravest consideration and
from
further expression than to say that my
best efforts shall be given to the imme-
date purpose of protecting the lives OF
citizens who are in peril, with the
ultimate object of the peace and welfare
of China, the safeguarding of all our
treaty rights and the maintenance of
those principles of impartial intercourse
to which the civilized world is pledged.
Icannot conclude without congra tuIating
my countrymen upon the strong national
sentiment which finds expression in ev-
cry part of our common country and the
increased respect with which the Ameri-
can name is greeted throughout the
world. We have been moving in untried
paths but steps have been guided
by honor and duty. There will be no
turning aside, waVering, retreat
No blow has been struck except for
liberty and humanity and none will be.
We will perform without fear every ma
tionaI and international obligation. The
republican party was dedicated to free
dom A years ago. 1t has been the party
OF liberty and emancipation from that
hour not of profession, but of perform
ance 1t broke the shackles of 1000, 900
slaves and made them free and to the
party of Lincoln has come another SUI
preme opportunity which it has bravely
met in the liberation OF 10000, 900 of the
human family from the yoke of i'm
perialism. In it's solution of great prob
lens, in its performance of high duties,
it has the support of members of all
parties In the past and confidently in
hR
Gov. Roo<eveIt's Notification.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 13.-Gov.
Roosevelt was yesterday officially no
titled of his nomination for the vice
presidency at his country home, Sag
amore,n near Oyster Bay. Senator
Wolcott made the notification speech.
In reply Gov. Roosevelt said:
Mr. Chairman: I accept the honor
conferred upon me with the keenest and
deepest appreciation of what it means
and above all, of the responsibility that
goes with it. Everything that it is in my
power to do will be done to secure the
reelection of President Mckinley, to
whom it has been given in this crisis of
the national history to stand for and
embody the principles which lie closest
to the heart of every American worthy
the name.
This is very much more than mere
party contest. We stand at the parting
of the ways and the people have now
to decide whether they shall go forward
along the path of prosperity and high
honor abroad or whether they will turn
their backs upon what has been done
during the past three years; whether
they will plunge this country into an
abyss of misery and disaster, what is
worse than even misery and disaster.
shame feel that we have a right to
appeal not merely to the republicans, but
to all good citizens, matter what may
have been their party affiliations in the
past and to ask them, on the strength of
the threat implied on what was done in
Kansas City few days ago, to stand
shoulder to shoulder with US in perpetu-