Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-03

| our steadily maintained expenditures Tor
the navy have created an opportunity 10
place the United States In the first rank
! of commercial maritime powers.
| satisfied the judgment Of the coun-
try fayors the policy Of aid to our mer-
chant marine, which win broaden our COM
merce and markets and up-build our sea
carrying capacity for the products 81 agri-
culture and manufacture, when, with the
| increase OF 1';r navy, mean more woik and
| wages to our countrymen. as well as a safe
guard 70 American interests in every part
| of The world.
! The Trusts.
| IN my last annual message to the CON
greas | called attention to the necessity
for early action to remedy such evils
might be found to exist IN connection With
combinations Of capital organized into
trusts, aud again einvitc attention to my
I discussion 81 tho subject al that time
The whole question Is so important and
| far.reaching thai ! am sure no part Of It
will he lightly considered, but every phase
Of It will have the studied deliberation
of the congress. resulting in wise and judi
cioBs action
Restraint upon such combinations as are
| Injurious and which are within federal
| Jurisdiction should he promptly applied by
| the congress-
The Philippines.
In my last ANIMAL message I dwelt at
some length upon the condition OF affairs
In the Philippines While seeking to i'm
| press upon y0Ii that the grave responsible
| ity OF the future government Of those Is
lands rests With tho congress Of the United
/ States | abstained from recommending at
! that time specific and final form of gov
eminent for the territory actually held by
the United States forces, and in which as
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tary arm must necessarily be supreme. l
stated my purpose, until the congress shall
! have made known the formal expression
| of Its Will, to the authority vested in
me by the constitution and the statutes
| TO uphold the sovereignty OF the United
States In these distant islands as in all
other places where our flag rightfuliy
| fonts, placing, to that end, at the disposal
OF the army and navy all the means which
the liberality OF congress and the people
have provided Ne contrary expression OF
the will Of the congress having been made,
I have steadfastly pursued the purpose so
| declared, employing the civil arm well
| toward the accomplishment of pachcation
and the institution of local governments
within the lines of authority and law.
! Progress in the hoped-for direction has
/ been favorable. Our forces have success
fully controlled the greater part of the
|
the Insurgents and carrying order and ad
ministratiye regularity to all quarters.
| What opposition remains Is for the most
| part scattered, obeying no concerted plan
OF strategic action. operating only by the
| methods common to the traditions of guer-
| lila warfare, which. while Ineffective to
| alter the general control now established,
| are still sufficient to beget insecurity
among the populations that have felt the
| rnGn n ts IF O1tr ptrol md %
the eonferment upon them of the fuller
measures of local self government. of ed
| ucation and Of industrial and agricultural
! development which we stand ready to give
! to them
BY the spring of this year the effective
| opposition of the dissatisfied Tagals to the
authority of the United States was vir-
| tually ended. thus opening the door for
| the extension OF stable administration
over much OF the territory of the arehi-
| pelago. Desiring to bring this about, /
| appointed in March last a civil commission
composed of the Hon. William II. Taft of
Ohio, Professor Dean c. Worcester of
! Michigan, Hon Luke e. Wright of Ten
nessee, Hon. Henry G. Ide of Vermont and
| Professor Bernard Moses of California.
| The aims of their mission and the scope OF
their authority clearly set forth in my
Instructions of April L 1900. addressed to
the secretary of war, TO be transmitted to
| them (Which quoted in fulD
The work of the commission is reviewed
and It's reports laid before congress, show
| ing encouraging advancement toward pro-
vidng liberty and good government for the
| Filipinos. The message then says: The
| fortune of war has thrown upon this
nation an unsought trust, which should
be unselhshly discharged and devolved
upon this government a moral we'll
| material responsibility toward these mil
| lions whom have freed from an oppres-
| sive yoke.
| l have upon another occasion called the
| Filipinos THE wards of the nation" Our
| obligation guardian was not lightly as
sumed; II must not be otherwise than
honestly fulfilled, aiming first of all to
benefit those who have come under our
| fostering care. 1t is our duty so to treat
| them that flag may be no less beloved
| in the mountains of Luzon and the fertile
| zones of Mindanao and Negros than 1t is
| at home, that there as here it shall be
the reyered symbol OF liberty enlighten-
ment and progress in every avenue of de-
velopment.
The Filipinos are a race quick to learn
and to profit by knowledge. He would be
rash who, with the teachings of eontem-
| porneous history in view would fix limit
| to the degree of culture and advancement
yet within the reach of those people If our
duty toward them be faithfully performed
| Porto Rico.
The civil government of Porto Rice pro-
vided for by the act of congress approved
| April u, 1900 is in successful operation.
The courts have been established The
governor and his associates, working intel
llgently and tremendously, are meeting
| with eommendable success.
! recommend that legislation be enacted
by the congress comforting upon the secre-
/ tary of the interior supervision over the
/ public lands in Porto Rico, and that lie be
directed to ascertain the location and guam
| tity of lands the title to which remained
| in the crown of Spain at the date of ees-
sion of Porto Rico TO the United States.
and that appropriations necessary for sur
| veys be made, and that the methods of the
disposition of such lands be prescribed by
! law.
| Cuba.
On the 25th day of July, 1900, / directed
that a call be issued for an election in
/ Cuba for members of constitutional con-
| vention to frame a constitution on a basis
! for a stable and indenendent government