The age-herald., 1901-06-02
found of what the people want than has been made by those whom he addresses.
 Other Little Speeches.

found of what the people want than has been made by those whom he addresses.
 Other Little Speeches.
 The presidents little speeches were pos sibly framed with view to eliciting the opinions of the multitudes that he met. Assuming that such was the fact, what did he find? In the South the strong hold of the free trade theories in the old days, every utterance Of his in favor of his own protective tariff policy was ap- plauded heartily. vigorously. He pointed to the furnace and the factory--the flower and fruit of protection-and the visions of the new South rose up, the South that will yet compete with New England along all the lines of the manufacturing indus tries of which she holds the raw material. The president asked almost everywhere he spoke if the flag should be hauled down in the near and distant seas where fate has raised it, and swift and strong the answer came that it should not. Through the president, three-fourths of congress have received mandate from their con stituents what to do and what not to do. He has felt the pulse of the people on all the questions of the hour; he has discov- cred the basic facts on which to give 'in- formation of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expediert." And they will do well to take his advice, for when all Is said on one side and the other, the fact stands out clear and irrefutabie that, of all the statesmen of the period he Is pre-eminently the one whose foresight has been the keenest, whose wisdom has been the highest, and whose patriotic guidance has been the most safe.
 In the next annual message the main feature will be that part of 1t in which shall be defined and recommended a scheme of government for the foreign possessions we have acquired and may ac- quire. The situation Is unprecedented. There are. of course, certain great prin- ciples to be kept In view, and that will not be departed from, but the government machinery, to give them practical effect, must be provided.
 Subj sct for Study.
 This great question Is now. and will be for months to come, the subject of deep study and consideration. Jefferson's ao- tion in the case of Louisiana will probably furnish the groundwork, but the condi- tions are so different that what the third president then did cannot afford more than mere outline, and a vague one at that, of what must be done in the Philip pines. Ten millions of people In the Asiatic seas more. than three-fourths of them semi-civilized, present problem of infinite difficulty in the solution. 'The consent of the governed was a beautiful Jeffersonian theory, but he, as a practical statesman as ever lived, paid little or no attention to 1t in the early stages of the government of Louisiapa- Under bis ad- ministration It's inhabitants had far less to say In the management of their own affairs than had any British crown col ony of the period In all that affected 1t. But in the end, as the great Democratic president planned, 1t came out all right, and the promise of the Declaration was made good. And so will 1t be in the Phil ippines. This, at all events, is what the administration hopes for and what 1t Is planning, honestly and sincerely, to ac- complish.
 As to the republican nomination in 1904 is there an Odell Club around anywheref We'll, if not. the city of Washington can boast that 1t is the first in the field with an organization flying the standard of the Governor of the Empire State. It was formed this week by some enthusiastic New Workers and Western admirers of MT. Odell.