The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12


the sternest measures with the Fill
pino who follows the path of the in
surrectc and the ladrone.
The heartiest praise is due to large
numbers of the natives of the islands
for their steadfast loyalty. The Maca-
bebes have been conspicuous for
their courage and devotion to the flag
The time has come when there
should be additional legislation for
the Philippines. Nothing better can
be done for the islands than to intro
duce industrial enterprises. Nothing
would benefit them so much as throw
ing them open to industrial development.
| call your attention most earnestly
to the crying need of a cable to
Hawaii and the Philippines, to be con-
tinued from the Philippines to points
in Asia. We should not defer a day
longer than necessary the construc-
ton of such a cable. 1t is demanded
not merely for commercial, but for
political and military considerations.
Either the Congress should imme-
dately provide for the construction
of a government cable, or else an ar
rangement should be made by which
like advantages to those accruing from
government cable may be secured to
the government by contract with a pri-
vate cable company
No single great material work which
remains to be undertaken on this con-
tinent is of such consequence to the
American people as the building of
canal across the Isthmus connecting
North and South America. Its import
ance to the Nation is by no means linz
10 al
our business prosperity: alone it would
be to the last degree important for us
Immediately to begin it,
| am glad TO be able to announce to
you that our negotiations on this subject
with Great Britain, conducted on both
sides in spirit of friendlness and mu-
tual good will and respect, have resulted
in my being able to lay before the SEN
ate treaty which if ratified, will enable
us to begin preparations for an Isthmian
canal at any time, and which guarantees
to this Nation every right that it has
ever asked III connection with the canal
The signed treaty will at once be laid
before the Senate, and if approved, the
Congress can then proceed to give effect
to the advantages it secures us by pro-
viding for the building of the canal.
The Monroe Doctrine.
Our people intends to abide by the
Monroe Doctrine and to insist upon it
as the one sure means of securing the
peace of the Western Hemisphere. The
Navy offers us the only means of max
ing Our insistance upon the Monroe
Doctrine anything but a subject of de-
rision to whatever nation chooses to dis
regard it. We desire the peace which
comes as of right to the just man arm
ed; not the peace granted on terms of
lgnominy to the craven and the weak
ling
Army and Navy.
The work of ujbuilding the Navy
must be steadily continued No one
point OF our policy, foreign or domestic.
is more important than this to the honor
and material welfare, and above all to
'the peace, of our Nation in the future
Whether we desire it or not, we must
henceforth recognize that we have inter-
national duties no less than information
al rights. Even il Our flag were hauled
down in the Philippines and Porto Rico,
even if we decided not to build the 18th
mian Canal, we should need thorough
ly trained Navy of adequate size, or else
be perpared definitely and for all time to
abandon the idea that our Nation is
among those whose sons go down to the
sea in ships. Unless our commerce is
always to be carried in foreign bottoms,
we must have war crafts to protect it.
A great debt is owing from the pub
lie to the men of the Army and Navy.
They should be so treated as to enable
them to~reach the highest point of eff
hciency, so that they may be able to re-
spond instantly to any demand made up
on them to sustain the interests of the
Nation and the honor OF the flag. The
individual American enlisted man is pro-
badly on the whole a more formidable
fighting man than the regular cf any
other army Every consideration should
be shown him, and in return the highest
standard Of usefulness should be eXacted
from him. 1t is we'll worth while for the
Congress to consider whether the pay of
enlisted men upon second and subsequent
enlstments should not be increased to
correspond with the increased value OF
the veteran soldier
Uprising in China.
The general terms of the settlement
of the questions growing out of the an
ti-foreign uprising in China of 1000,
having been formulated in a Joint note
addressed to China by the representa-
tives of the injured powers in Decem-
ber last, were promptly accepted by the
Chinese Government. After protracted
conferences the plenipotentiaries of the
several powers were able to sign final
protocol with the Chinese plenipoten-
tiaries on the 9TH of last September
setting forth the measures taken by
China in compliance with the demands
of the joint note, and expressing their
satisfaction Herewith. 1t will be laid
before the Congress, with a report of
the plenipotentiary on behalf of the
United States, Mr. William Woodville
Rockhill.
ST. Louis Exposition.
/ bespeak the most cordial support
from the Congress and the people for
the St Louis Exposition to commemo-
rate the One Hundredth Anniversary
of the Louisiana purchase This pur-
chase was the greatest instance of ex-
pansion in our history. 1t definitely
decided that we were to become a great
continental republic, by far the fore
most power in the Western Hcmis-
phere. 1t is one of three or four great
landmarks in our history-the great
turning points in our development.
The Charleston Exposition.
The people of Charleston, with great