Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04

has wrought it's progress and furnished
| it, defenders. They are obstructionists
who despair and who would destroy con-
| fdence in the ability of our people to
solve wisely and for civilization the
mighty problems resting upon them.
The Americans. intrenched in freedom at
home, take their love force with them
wherever they go and they reject as
| mistaken and unworthy the doctrine
| that We lose our own liberties by secur-
ing the enduring foundation of liber-
ties to others. Our institutions will not
| deterorate by evasion and our sense of
justice will not abate under tropic suns
in distant seas. AS heretofore, so here
after will the nation demonstrate it's fit
| ness to administer any new estate which
! events devolve upon it and in the fear
of God will take occasion by the hand
| and make the bounds of freedom wider
yet" If there are those among us who
would make our way more difficult we
must not be disheartened but the more
| earnestly dedicate ourselves to the task
which we have rightly entered. The path
| of progress is seldom smooth. New
| things are often found hard to do. Our
fathers found them so. We find them so
They are inconvehient. They cost us
something. But are we not made better
| for the effort and sacrifice. and are not
| those we serve lifted up and blessed?
All Progress Has Been Opposed.
We will be consoled too, with the fact
| that opposition has confronted every on
| ward movement of the republic from it's
| opening hour until now, but without
| success. The republic has marched on
| and on and it's every step has exalted
| freedom and humanity. We are under
| going the same ordeal as did our pre-
decessors nearly a century ago. We are
following the course they blazed. They
| t;iumphed. Will their successors falter
| and plead organic impotency in the ma
| tion? Surely after 125 years Of achieve
| ment for mankind we will not now sur
| render our equality with other powers
il, matters fundamental and essential to
nationality. With no such purpose was
| the nation created. In no such spirit
has it developed its full and independent
sovereignty. We adhere to the prin-
| ciple of equality among ourselves ana
| by no act of ours will we assign to our
| selves a subordinate rank in the family
of nations.
My fellow citizens, the public events
of the past four years have gone into
, history. They are too near to justify
recital. Some Of them We're unforeseen;
many of them momentous and far
reaching in their consequences to our
| selves and our relations with the rest of
| the world. The part which the United
| States bore SO honorably in the thrill
ing scenes in China. while new to Amer
can life, has been in harmony with it's
true spirit and best traditions. and in
dealing with the results it's policy will
be that of moderation and fairness.
Cuban Relations.
We face at this moment a most i'm
portant question-that of the future re-
| latons of the United States and Cuba.
With our near neighbors we must re-
main close friends. The declaration of
the purpose of this government in the
re solution of April 20, 1885, must be made
good. Ever since the evacuation of the
island by the army of Spain, the execu-
tive with all practicable speed has been
assisting its people by successive steps
necessary to the establishment of free
and independent government prepared
to assume and perform the obligations
OF international law which now rests
upon the United States under the treaty
/ OF Paris. The convention elected by the
people to frame a constitution is ap-
coaching the completion of it's labors
new government is of such great i'm
portance, involving an obligat tion result
ing from our intervention and the treaty
of peace and am glad to be advised by
the recent act of congress of the policy
which the executive branch of the gov
erinment deems essential to the best in
terests of Cuba and the United States.
The principles which led to our inter-
vsntion require that the fundamental
law upon which the new government
rests should be adapted to secure gov
ernment capable of performing the du-
ties and discharging the functions of a
separate nation, of observing its inter-
| national obligations. of protecting life
and property. insuring order, safety and
liberty and conforming to the establish
ed and historical policy of the United
States in it's relation to Cuba. The peace
| which we are pledged to leave to the
Cuban people must carry with 1t tho
guarantees Of permanence. We became
sponsors for the pacification of the isl.
and. and we remain accountable to the
Cubans. no less than to our own coun-
try and people, for the Reconstruction
of Cuba as free commonwealth on
abiding foundations of right, justice. lib-
erty and assured order. Our enfran-
chisement of the people will not be COM
pleted until free Cuba shall ''be a real
ity, not a name; a perfect entity, not
hasty experiment bearing within itself
the elements Of failure.'
Peace First in the Philippines.
While the treaty of peace with Spain
was ratified on the 9Th of February
1899, and ratifications We're exchanged
nearly two years ago, the congress has
indicated no form of government of the