The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-09-26

IF It has abused the power conferred up
| on II, II should be repudiated at the first
and at every election In which the voters
Of the United States are called upon TO ex-
press their views l may go still further.
| III honestly intended to serve humanity and
preserve the interest and welfare of the
citizens Of the United States, its policies
tend to direct the nation into unsafe, I'M
just and Improbable paths, your confidence
should be withdrawn, and you should com
mission some other organization to take up
| the work. With the extinction of Span
ish power came the necessity for an Immedi-
ate government of some character. Pend.
ing the construction of the Cuban Consti-
tuition, the United States put into execution
temporary provisional government, in
tended solely to protect life, liberty and
property, until the Cubans could act
have never heard the plan censured. 1t Is
not possible to examine it in detail, but
assert without fear of opposition that 1t
has administered more Justice, preserved
more liberty, secured more safety and in
duced more prosperity in the island Of
/ Cuba than the Cubans ever before knew.
| In this government there has been, 1t is
true, one or two unfalthful Americans, but
| retribution has been swift and sure, as
the penalty that will be inflicted for the
want of integrity will probably be as sur
! prlsing as it certainly will be instructive
to the government about to be installed.
l firmly believe that when the impartial
historian shall come to prepare the annals
OF America, he will exhaust the vocabulary
of praise in describing the conduct of the
United States toward the Island of Cuba.
On behalf of the republican party bring
1t forward as the most conclusive evidence
that honor inspires its action and intelli-
gence directs its course.
"As to the Philippines. The Islands be-
came ours by the fortunes of war. The
Spanish title, overcome by the powers of
our army and navy, was again transferred
to us through the purchase Of the treaty of
Paris. make no prediction with respect
to the future Of the Philippines We are
treading a new path but it is with courage
intelligence and conscience. What our
duty towards the inhabitants Of the Phil
ippines may be three, five, ten, or twenty
five years hence, no sane man will attempt
to define. In the rapid evolution of races
and nations, industry and commerce, he
would be indeed a yenturesOme man who
would attempt to declare the future relation
Of the Malays of the Pacific with the Amer
leans Of the United States. Whether the
inhabitants Of the PhilipplneIslands will be
come an Independent nation, whether they
will become citizens of the American repub
lie, or whether they will remain a colony of
the republic, with some supervision on our
part and local self government upon their
part, l do not know nor do l believe it is
material to know. OF one thing we may be
absolutely certain, that 50 long as the poole
Of the United States continue to love lib
erty, so long as they have faith in free in
stitutions, and sou long as they are moved
by virtuous impulses, whatever the relation
between us and the races of the Philip
pines group ought to be, that it will be-"
Turning to the commercial phase of the
Philippine question, and speaking of the
Importance of the islands in connection with
ouraffairs in China Mr. Cummins said in
part:
Il cannot conceive Of a man whose view
Of the rlghtful powers of government is so
narrow as to question the ACCESSIBILITY of
the United States taking a hand in affairs
so vital to the growth and prosperity Of
his own country. If there are such men,
their voices will be drowned in the mighty
demand of the American farmer, merchant,
manufacturer and Iaborer to preserve fair
field and no favor in the ports Of China.
With the Philippines we have the power to
enforce our reasonable demands.
with them we hold the key to the prob
lem. Without the Philippines we are
driven to barren negotiations or impossible
war. l look upon the coincidence Of New
China and our acquisition Of the Philip
pines as one of the provdences Of the Al
mighty, interposed for the maintenance o:
our pre-eminence among the nations of the
earth. l repeat that l know not what tie
shall eventually bind us TO these islands
in the far-on Pacific sea, but 1 do know
that 50 long as we are struggling with Eu-
rope for place In the commerce Of China,
there will be American territory in the
Philippine Islands, and American harbors
along their shores
After quoting the plank in the repu6li-
can platform which demands revision Of
the tariff, Mr.. Cummins said:
This declaration is worthy of more than
a casual though 1t Is another evidence
that the republican party does not blindly
close its eyes to the progress Of events and
that 1t is always watchful for the interests
Of the people Protection to the American
manufacturer, the American faremr and to
the American workingman has always been,
and is now, the fundamental principle Of
our organization. It must not be assumed
that because the Iowa platform Of 1901
suggests a modification of the duties upon
imports, that we yield a hairs breadth In
our adherence to the principle which has In
spired the tariff laws Of which the repub-
Ican party is the author. The central
thought of all tariff legislation enacted by
republican congresses, and approred by re
publican Presidents, has been to preserve
the American manufacturer, farmer and ar
tisan from destructive and prohibitive com
petition that is to say, to enable to Amer
lean producers to open up and develop the
bOuntiful resources Of his own country, to
pay his employees good wages, and to sell
his product at a fair profit in our own
markets. My faith in the principle and
my enthusiasm for its results rather in
creased than diminished with the process
of time, for / firmly believe that the United
States, without the benefclent protection
which has been thrown around her by the
patriotic wisdom of WING, and afterwards
republican, craftsmanship would be Ian
gushing in obscurity instead Of sitting in
proud distinction at the very head Of the
table around which gathers the council Of
nations. 1t must be remembered, however,
that the spirit Of those laws was to build
up the peopel Of our own country, and
whenever they can be modified OF abrogat-
oh IN the ADVANTAGE of nur own citizens
you may well expect the republican party