The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-21

the American people that we will not be
unworthy OF the great leaders who have
turn a pledge and a proof of what We
promise we perform, and that the people
who put faith In our declarations in 1876
were not deceived, and may place the same
trust in us in 1900. But our pathway has
never lain among dead issues, nor have VT
won our victories and made history by
delving in political g~raveyards. We are the
party of to-day. with cheerful yesterdays
ent is ours, the present of prosperity and
activity in business, of good wages and
quick payments. of labor employed and
capital invested, of sunshine in the market
place and the stir of Astounding life In the
workshop and on the farm. 1t Is with this
that we have replaced the depression, tbs
doubts. the dull business, the low wages.
the idle labor, the frightened capital, the
dark clouds which ~overhung industry and
agriculture in 1896 This is what we would
preserve, so far as sound government and
wise legislation can do it, This is what We
brought to the country four years ago. This
is what we offer now.
Again we promise that the protective sys-
TEN shall be maintained and that our great
industrial interests shall go on their way,
mistaken by the dire fear of tariff agita-
ton and of changing duties. Again We de-
clare that we will guard the national credit,
uphold a sound currency based on gold. and
keep the wages of the w-orkingman and the
enterprise of the man of business, free from
that most deadly of all evils, a fuctuating
standard of value. The deficit which made
this great country in a time of profound
peace a borrower OF money to meet It's
current expenditures has been replaced by
abundant revenue. bringing a surplus, due
alike to prosperity and TO wise legisla-
ton. so ample that we can now safely
promise a large reduction of taxation with
out imperiling our credit or risking a re-
sort TO loans.
We are prepared to take steps to revive
and build up our merchant marine and
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paid for carrying American freights. Out
of the abundant resources, which our finan-
cial legislation has brought us. we will
build the Isthmian canal and lay the cables
which viii help TO turn the current Of East
ern trade to the Golden Gate. We are on
good terms with all nations. and mean to
remain so. while we promise TO insure our
peace and safety by maintaining the Mon
roe doctrine, by ample coast defences, and
by building up a nav which no one can
challenge with impunity.
NEW PROBLEMS.
The new problems brought by the war
we face with confidence in ourselves and a
still deeper confidence in the American peo-
PIE, who will deal justly and rightly with
the islands which have come into their
charge. The cutlery against our new pos
sessions is as empty as the cant about mill
tarism and imperialism is devoid of sense
oaiN hicuiihS. iNCSaiu W q iluflicu iilOSc
who are loudest in shrieking that the Amer
lean people are about to enter upon a career
of oppression and that the Republic is in
danger. Have they been in the past the
guards of freedom? Is safety for liberty
now to be found most surely in the party
which was the defender of domestic slav-
cry? Is true freedom to be secured by the
ascendency of the party which beneath
our very eyes seeks to establish through in
famous laws the despotic rule OF a small
and INSCRIPTIONS band of usurpers In Ken
lucky who trampled there, not on the rights
Of the black men only. but on the whites,
and which seeks to extend the same system
to North Carolina and Missouri? Has it
suddenly come TO pass that the Democratic
party, which to-day acts whenever 1T ac-
quires power TO continue in Office by crush
ing out honest elections and popular rule?
Has 1t indeed come TO pass, / say, that that
party is the chosen protector of liberty?
If IL were so the outlook would be black
indeed.
No: the party of Lincoln may best be
trusted now, as in the past, to be true even
as he was true to the rights of man and
ders 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 read TO independence and
stable government until she is ready to
settle her own future by the free express
sion of her peoples will. We will be faith
full TO the trust imposed on us, and if
among those to whom this great work is
confided In Cuba or elsewhere ~wrongdoers
shall be found: men not only bad in morals
hut dead to their duty as Americans and
false to the honor of our name. we will
punish these basest of criminals to The ex-
tent of law.
For the islands of Hawaii and Porto
Rico the political problem has been solved
and by Republican legislation they have
been given self-government and are peace
full and prosperous under the rule of the
United States.
In the Philippines we were met by re-
bellion fomented by a self-seeking adj
venturer and usurper. The duty of the
President was to repress that rebellion. to
see to IL that the authority of the United
States, as rightfully and as righteous in
Manila as in Philadelphia, was acxnowl-
edged and obeyed. That harsh and painful
duty President Mckinley has performed
firmly and justly, eager to resort to gentle
measures wherever possible. unyielding
when treachery and violence made force
necessary. Unlike the opponents of ex-
pansion we do not regard the soldiers of
Otis, Lawton and Macarthur as IAN
enemy's camp In our eyes they are the
soldiers CT the United States; they are our
army and we believe in them and will sus-
tain them
AN INFAMOUS SCHEME.
Even now the Democrats are planning, If
they get control of the House, to cut off
appropriations for the army and thus COM
pei the withdrawal of our troops from the
Philippines. The result would be to force
the retirement OF such soldiers 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 us to
protect and guard them. Such an event
would be an infamy. Is the government, is
the House. to be given over to a party
capable of such a policy? Shall they not
rather be intrusted TO the party which will
sustain the army and suppress the brigands
and guerrillas who, under pretense of war,
are now adding so freely to the list of
crimes committed in the name of liberty
by usurpers and pretenders and who,
buoyed up by Democratic promises, keep
up a highwayman's warfare in the hope of
Democratic success in November? 1t is for
the American people to decide the 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
along the road 10 entire freedom and TO
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 peo-
pie OF the Philippines and strive by every
means to give them freedom, contentment
and prosperity. We have no belief in the
old Shareholders doctrine that the Con-
stitution of its own force marches into
every newly acquired territory, and this
doctrine, which we cast out in 1860. we still