Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-05


for the Filipino who is peaceful we will
take the sternest measures with the Fill
Pine who follows the path of the insurrec-
to and the ladrone.
The heartiest praise is due to large
numbers of the natives of the islands for
their steadfast loyalty. The Macabebes
have been conspicuous for their courage
and devotion to the flag. 1 recommend
that the secretary of war be empowered
to take some systematic action in the
way of aiding those of these men who
are crippled in the service and the farni-
lies of those who are killed.
Philippine Legislation.
The time has come when 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 indus
trial development The connection be-
tween idleness and mischief is proverbial.
and the opportunity to do remunerative
work is one of the surest preventives of
war. OF course no business man will go
into the Philippines unless it is to his in
terest to do SO. and it is immensely to the
interest of the islands that he should go
in. 1t Is therefore necessary that the
congress should pass laws by which the
resources of the islands can be developed,
SO that franchises flor limited terms of
years. can be granted to companies doing
business in them and every encourage
ment be given to the incoming of business
men of every kind.
Not to permit this is to do a wrong to
the Philippines The franchises must be
granted and the business permitted only
under regulations which will guarantee
the islands against any kind of improper
exploitation But the vast natural wealth
of the islands must be developed, and the
capital willing to develop it must be given
the opportunity. The field must be thrown
open to individual enterprise which has
been the real factor in the development of
every region over which our flag has
| flown. 1t is urgently necessary to enact
suitable laws dealing with general trans
portation mining, banking currency,
homesteads and the use and ownership of
the lands and timber. These laws will give
| free play to industrial enterprise, and the
commercial development which will surely
| follow will afford to the people of the
islands the best proofs of the sincerity of
| our desire to aid them.
/ call your attention most earnestly to
| the crying need of cable to Hawaii and
| the Philippines. to be continued from the
| Philippines to points in Asia We should
not defer day longer than necessary the
| construction of such a cable. 1t is de-
manded not merely for commercial but
| for political and military considerations
| Either the congress should Immediately
| provide for the construction of a govern
| ment cable or else an arrangement should
| be made by which like advantages to
| those accruing from a government cable
| may be secured to the government by
| contract with private cable company.
The Isthmian Canal.
| No single great material work which re-
| mains to be undertaken on this continent
| is of such consequence to the American
| people as the building of a canal across
| the isthmus connecting North and South
| America. It's Importance to the nation Is
| by no means limited merely to its mate
rial effects upon our business prosperity,
| and yet with a view to these effects alone 1t
would be to the last degree important for
US Immediately to begin it. While its ben
efcial effects would perhaps be most
marked upon the Pacific coast and the
| gulf and south Atlantic states, 1t would
/ also greatly benefit other sections. 1t is
emphatically a work which it is for the
interest of the entire country to begin and
complete as soon as possible; it is one of
those great works which only great ma
ton can undertake with prospects of sue
cess and which when done are not only
permanent assets in the nations material
interests but standing monuments to its
! constructive ability.
1 am glad to be able to announce to you
that our negotiations on this subject with
Great Britain, conducted on both sides in
a spirit of friendliness and mutual good
will and respect, have resulted in my
being able to lay before the senate a
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
in connection with the canal. In this
treaty the old Clayton-Bulwer treaty, so
long recognized as inadequate to supply
the base for the construction and mainte-
nance of a necessarily American ship ca
nal, is abrogated. 1t specifically provides
that the United States alone shall do the
work of building and assume the respon-
sibility of safeguarding the canal and
shall regulate it's neutral use by all ma
lions on terms of equality without the
guarantee or interference OF any outside
nation from any quarter The signed
treaty will at once be laid before the SEN
ate, and if approved the congress can then
proceed to give effect to the advantages it
secures us by providing for the building of
the canal.
The true end of every great and free
people should be self respecting peace,
and this nation most earnestly desires
sincere and cordial friendship with all
others. Over the entire world of recent
years wars between the great civilized
powers have become less and less fire.
Quent Wars with barbarous or semibar-
barous peoples come in an entirely differ
ent category, being merely a most regret
table but necessary international police
duty which must be performed for the
sake of the welfare of mankind. Peace
can only be kept with certainty where
both sides wish to keep it, but more and
more the civilized peoples are realizing
the wicked folly of war and are attaining
| that condition of just and intelligent re-
gard for the rights Of others which will in
the end, as we hope and believe, make
worldwide peace possible The peace con-
or ba 10 definite X
preston to this hope and belief and mark
! ed stride toward their attainment
The Monroe Doctrine.
This same peace conference acquiesced
in our statement of the Monroe doctrine
| as compatible with the purposes and aims
of the conference
The Monroe doctrine should be the car
dinal feature of the foreign policy of all
the nations of the two Americas as 1t is OF
| the United States. Just seventy-e1ght
years have passed since President Mon
roe in his annual message announced that
"the American continents are henceforth
| not to be considered as subjects for future
colonization by any European power In
other words, the Monroe doctrine is dec
laration that there must be no territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT by any non-American
power at the expense of any American
! power on American soil. 1t Is in noW1Se
! intended as hostile to any nation in the
old world Still less is it intended to give
cover to any aggression by one new world
power at the expense of any other. 1t is
simply step, and a long step, toward as
surfing the universal peace OF the world by
securing the possibility of permanent
peace on this hemisphere.
| During the past century other influences
| have established the permanence and IN
| dependence of the smaller states of Eu-
| rope Through the Monroe doctrine we
hope to be able to safeguard like indie
| pendence and secure like permanence for
| the lesser among the new world nations.
This doctrine has nothing to do with the
| commercial relations of any American
| power save that it in truth allows each of
| them to form such as it desires. In other
words it is really a guarantee of the COM
mercial independence of the Americas.
| We do not ask under this doctrine for any
! exclusive commercial dealings with any
| other American state. We do not guaran-
| tee any state against punishment If 1t
misconducts itself provided that punish
ment does not take the form of the acqui-
| sition of territory by any non-American
| power.
| Our attitude in Cuba is sufficient guar
antee of our own good faith. We have
| not the slightest desire to secure any ter
ritory at the expense of any of our neigh
! bors. We wish to work with them hand
in hand, so that all of US may be uplifted
, together and we rejoice over the good
fortune of any of them. we gladly hail
their material prosperity and political sta
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