Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-12-07

the vital need, OF providing for a substan.
tial reduction in the tariff duties on Gu.
ban imports into the United States.
In the Philippines our problem is
larger. Our earnest effort is to help the
people upward along the stony and diff.
cult path that leads to se,fgovernment.
We hope to make our administration OF
the islands honorable to our nation by
making it of the highest benefit to the
Filipinos themselves, and as an earnest OF
what we intend to do, we point to what
we have done. Already a greater measure
OF material prosperity and OF government.
al honesty and efficiency has been attained
in the Philippines than ever before III their
history.
There are still troubles ahead in the
islands. The insurrection has become an
affair of local banditti and marauders,
who deserve no higher regard than the
brigands of portions OF the Old World.
Encouragement, direct or indirect, to
these insurrectos stands on the same foot.
ing AS encouragement to hostile Indians
in the days when we still had Indian
wars.
The time has come wnen there should
be additional legislation for the Philip.
pines. Nothing better can be done for the
islands than to introduce industrial enter.
prises. Nothing would benefit them SO
much as throwing them open to industrial
development.
After calling attention to the crying
need of either a Governmental or a pri.
vately owned cable to Hawaii and the
Philippines to be continued to points in
Asia, the message declares that not a
single great material work which remains
to be undertaken on this continent is OF
such consequence to the American people
as the building OF canal across the 18th.
mus connecting North and South Amer.
lea. Its importance to the nation is by
no means limited merely to its material
effects upon our business prosperity, and
yet with view to these effects upon our
business prosperity alone it would be to
the last degree important for us immedi.
ately to begin it. While its beneficial ef.
fects would perhaps lie most marked upon
the Pacific coast and the Gulf and South
Atlantic States. it would also greatly bene-
fit other sections. 1t is emphaticauy q
work which it is for the interest of the
entire country to begin, and complete as
soon as possible. The President then tells
of the new treaty with Great Britain and
If aprppoved says the Congress can then
proceed to give effect to the advantages it
secures us by providing for the building
OF the canal.
Continuing the President says:
'iue inu VI eNEiy sle"e anu Tree
poJJp'th pnJ ~; s"Uu!G NC sei'lespec.lhs ~ peace
''inao unu ah's nation most ea|nestly desires
Others. Over the entire world, of recent
years, wars between the great clvliized
quent. Wars with barbarous or semi
barbarous peoples come in an entirely diff
ferent category, being merely most re-.
;a J,,t'. I'LL ~ "eeess"ly International po,
nee auly whlch must De performed. feace
lan Laa, oH.y pe kept wl.n certaihty where
@ no.n sues ,T Wisn 10 keep IL, Dut more ana
,,.ole ,;,.o5 ~. r,.in|en peop,es are .eaHne .ne
mnhtu ioi's Vi war atd are mn!tallihg tliai
f', .i'a T.. 1uss' aiu iitcLsenIu :estiu
lpr cnd 'ne r,s"Is n oi o,heLs t," Mch VIII IN the
;, ~, a. w. nope a'iu oeiitse, l,ahe Motiu'
s;me s;nn az t;n ne maeue ehaG eellnite express
stU" stn;d W .mis ilopt anu oeirei anu iarkeo
Ii'; i'nt 'omaau @ .mear a..all.llienl' ta
,S' S n"nio pee'e tJlietnee ~ acEulesGeu
~ ~ oui stauehent a;te, VI .ne .honroe Doctiine
~ .t php".iD.e WIN 'he PURPOSES anu AIMS
'i G .ne e eonierence. ,:,. A. ,,
our ptople lht9hu TO aDlue py tne Mon
. oe iDoe' M me anu 20 lhslsc up1il IL DIS 'ne
the Western Hemisnhere The pavv Of.
fers us the only means of making our in.
sistence upon the Monroe Doctrine any.
thing but subject of derision to whatever
nation chooses to disregard it. We desire
he peace which comes as of right to the
lust man armed, not the peace granted on
terms of ignominy to the craven and the
weakling.
1t is not possible to improve navy af-
ter war breaks out. The ships must be
built and the men trained long in advance
The work OF upbuildi the navy must
be steadily continued No one point Of
our policy, foreign or domestic, is more
than this to the honor and ma
terial welfare, and above all to the peace,
Of our nation in the future. Unless our
is always to be carried in for
alGn bottoms, we must have war craft to
protect it. So far from being in any way
! provocaton to war, an adequate and
highly trained navy is the best guaranty
against war, the cheapest and most effec-
tive peace insurance. The cost of build
ng and maintaining such navy repre-
'cnts the very ighteit premium for insur.
ing peace which this nation can possibly
pay. The President thinks the Naval Mil
tia forces and the National Naval Re-
serve should receive hearty encourage
nent.
1t is not necessary to increase our army
beyond it's present size at this time MT
it is necessary to keep it at the highest
who as officers and enlisted men comnose
his army are, we have good reason TO he.
ieve, at least as efficient as those of anv
other army in the entire world. It is our
luty to see that their training is of kind
% insure the highest possible expression
If power. to these units when acting in
No other citizen deserves so we'll of the
Republic as the veterans. the survivors Of
hose who saved the Union. We are now
indeed one nation, one in fact as well as
II name; we are united in our devotion to
he flag which is the symbol of national
greatness and unity. and the yery com.
,!eteness of our union enables ia ali. in
very nart of the country. to glory in the
,alor shown alike by the sons Of the North
md the sons of the South in the times
hat tried mems souls.
The President states that tho mor;t svs.
EN- of making annointment ;s no Amer;.
an as the common school svsten and
hen recommends The reorganization Of The
service.
Cordial sunnort for the ST. Jou;s and
,harleston exnositions is besnoken and
hen nosto1 affairs are treated The m.
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