Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-14

eral acts under executive commission,
together with the very complete gen.
eral information they have submitted.
These reports fully set forth the con-
ditions in the islands, and the instruc-
tions clearly show the principles
which will guide the executive until
congress shall, as it is required to do
by the treaty, determine "the civil
rights and policital status of the ma
tive inhabitants.
Congress having added the sanction
of its authority to the powers al
ready possessed and exercised by the
executive under the constitution,
thereby leaving with the executive
the responsibility for the government
of the Philippines, / shall continue
the efforts already begun until order
shall be restored throughout the
islands, and as fast as conditions per-
nit will establish local governments,
in the formation of which the full CO.
operation of the people has beer al
ready invited and when established
will encourage the people to admin
lister them. The policy, long ago
proclaimed, to afford the people of
the islands self-government as fast as
they were ready for it will be pur-
sued with earnestness and fidelity.
Already something has been accom-
plished in this direction.
The governments representatives
are doing faithful and noble work in
their mission of emancipation and
merit the approval of their country
men. The most liberal terms of
amnesty have already been commune
tn in Ia
is still open for those who have raised
their arms against the government
for honorable submission to its au-
thority. Our countrymen should rot
be deceived. We are not waging war
against the inhabitants of the Philip
pine islands. A portion of them are
making war against the United
States. By far the greater part of
the inhabitants recognize American
sovereignty and welcome it as a guar
anty of order and security for life,
property, liberty, freedom of con-
science, and the pursuit of happiness.
To them full protection will be Civ
en-. They shall not be abandoned.
We will not leave the destiny of the
loyal millions in the islands to the
disloyal thousands who are in rebel
der under civil instructions will come
as soon as those who now break the
peace shall keep it. Force will not
be needed or used when those who
make war against us shall make it
no more. May it end without fur
ther bloodshed, and there be ushered
in the reign of peace to be made per-
manent by government of liberty
under law.
When the president and vice presi-
dent had quilted the scene to take
their places at the head of the pro-
cession, the soldiers stretched across
the place where the multitude had
been. The procession wound down
the hill and up the avenue through
lane of people. The regulars, in
fantry, cavalry and artillery, the jack
tars and marines, the cowboys, the
dark-skinned Porto Ricans in the
American uniform, the militia of %
states and the political clubs of the
civic division swelled the great pro-
cession which escorted the president
and vice president back to the White
House.
The eye and mind were alike dis
tracted by the bursts of music, the
clatter of horses hoofs, the flashing
of sabres, the nodding plumes, the
rumble of artillery and the blare of
bands. From one end of the avenue
to the other the troops, keeping step
to the martial music, rolled on like
pillows of the sea, their banners and
guidons and shining steel completely
filling the vision.
In advance rode a platoon of
mounted police, followed by the fa-
nous Governors Island band playing
Hail to the Chief" Behind these
were Gen. Greene and his staff.
Then Troop A, of Cleveland, in
grenadier uniform, the presidents
personal escort, rode by,their plurnes
rising and falling to the movement of
their coal black chargers. But their
| claims to admiration were slighted in
a measure. The crowd had eyes only
for the open barouche drawn by four
horses in which the president and
Senator Hanna sat. The applause
which greeted the chief magistrate
was redoubled as Vice President
Roosevelt in another carriage drawn
by two horses came into view.
A detachment of the Twenty-third
Ohio, the presidents regiment during
the rebellion, trudging along on foot
in the wake of the carriages testified
to the loyalty of the presidents old
comrades of the civil war. The mill
tary as a whole attracted unbounded
admiration. The regulars got an
ovation from one end of the line to
the other. The crowds fairly rose
at the jack tars rolling along with
their sword bayonets. Admiral
Dewey, Gen. Miles, Gen. Joe" Whee-
Ter and many other officers who came
into prominence during the Spanish
war were lionized. The crowds we're
cheering all the time for the Annap-
oils and West Point cadets and the
Rough Riders.
The national guards of the several
states made a brilliant showing and
many of the governors riding with
their stats were overwhelmed with
enthusiasm. Darkness fell as the
last of the procession tramped by the
reviewing stand.
The eliminating event of the inau-
onraI faStivitipc was the ina nUllral