The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-28
SPEECH by THE INDIANIAN
ON THE SITUATION II CUBA. THE
PHILIPPINES AND ELSEWHERE.
FOrcible Address on Problem Raised
Trusts and Foreign Trade.

1870 - R0ANe VI dANs
members of the Grant Club and driven to
the residence of his half-brother, Charles
Doyle. This afternoon at l o'clock Senator
Beveridge dined at the Savoy Hotel with
Governor Shaw, Senator Deliver and 9TH
crs, and was afterward shown about the
city, meeting the state officers at the Cap
itol. This evening Senator Beverage de-
livered the principal address at the annua!
meeting of the Grant Club. the leading
social and political club of the State, on the
subject, 1.-The American Situation: We
VIII Fight 1t Out on This Line He said
in part:
There are two points of acute American
interest and activity at present; and it is a
fact so suggestive that it is almost dra-
matte. that these two points are on oppo-
site sides of the globe. When it is midnight
In the Philippines it is sunrise in Cuba.
and thus IL is that. even as stands the
world to-day. American authority never
sleeps.
THE Philippine situation is that our
business there is inextricable and perma-
nent. What is the nature of that business
III Is neither obscure nor difficult. 1t is to
grauuaIly establish such government as fits
this particular situation and not some other
SITUATION. III IS TO apply appropriate meth
DDS to actual facts and not try to make
those facts tit maxims never intenued for
them. Government by manuscript is futile.
administrator by catch-words is absurd.
results are the only tests. SchOOlhOuSeS
are better than declarations: good roads
than proclamatiOns; impartial justice than
oratlons; stable currency than resolutions;
commerce natures method of civilization
Is better than platforms. The way to ac-
complish all this is to do it: and we are
about that business now. We are building
roads. dredging harbors. erecting quays,
surveying ocean channels, systematizing
education, administering justice, setting up
and defending order. We are doing those
things which alone can make the Malay
DlGe0. 11TRr RGnRrafInnG # nnfinnr effort a
better race.
H CUBAN PROBLEM.
I'm Cuba, as in the Philippines, the
American people will take no counsel from
doubts and fears. No people ever chose
their leaders from among their faint of
heart. Those who complain of broken faith
in Cuba, impugn our purpose in Cuba and
deny our power to provide for Cuba's
safety and our own will never be commits
stoned by the American people to devise
ways and means for this practical, imme-
date and propinquitous problem. What OF
this problem? The purpose of all Ameri-
can craftsmanship with, reference to Cuba
has been and is the welfare of the Cuban
people as related to the welfare Of the
American people. The welfare Of the Gu
ban people is not inconsistent with the in
terests and safety OF the American people.
Cuban intereAs and American interests,
Cuban safety and American safety. Cuban
prosperity and American prosperity are
Identical in the nature of things. And
when we provide safeguards against Cuban
9ndeotedness We are not consplrlng against
the welfare of the Cuban people; we are
providing for the welfare of the Cuban peO-
pie. When We provide that Cuba shall
never become entangled in foreign rela-
tions we are not destroying Cuban indie
pendence: We are establishing il and set
ting metes and pounds where all interfer-
ence shall meet the sentinel of American
authority. When we provide that Ameri-
can guns from Cuban ports shall command
the entrance TO the gulf we are not i'm
pairing the safety Of the Cuban people;
we are guaranteeing it by the blood of
every American soldier who mans our Gu
ban garrisons pledged TO be shed to the
last drop If need be in defense of the Gu
ban people. And when We Ordain that at
any time American authority may re-enter
Cuba to protect rights. property, liberty
itself we do not demOlish Cuban liberty
we preserve and defend Cuban liberty be-
cause we preserve and defend order, law
and justice, and order, justice and law are
the methods of liberty. If IL be said that
the Cuban people will conduct a govern
is that in such a case our Intervention new
er can occur, but If they do not conduct a
| government of order, justice and law then
our Intervention Is necessary. For the
United States are answerable for the Gu
ban people. .
Our Cuban legislation is the most i'm
4 DNl <sl V'N0lRlLANht VI ~ ~
| since the Constitution was adopted. Upon
the future use of that power i'm other stu
ations and In other quarters of the globe
may depend not only the preservation of
the interests Of the American people but
the peace of the whole world. Within the
present century international complications
will occur where territory may be assigned
to the keeping of the Republic by the other
great powers of the world. We may not
want TO annex such territory. thus max
ing its Inhabitants citizens of the Republic;
and yet. up to our Philippine period, an
nexation was the only method we had en-
ployed. IL may be also that we shall not
want TO own IL as property and govern 1t as
a possessions; and yet, up TO the hour OF
| our Cuban legislation, annexation and own
| ership were the only methods we had en-
| ployed. tBut our Cuban legislation creates
q new method OF practical guardianship of
| any territory which may fall to us. No
| man can now deny that the Republic may
be suzerain wherever the interests of the
American people or the peace Of the world
| NAV make that form OF control convenient.
| Heretofore we could only annex acquired
| territory or govern IL as a possession. But
letion any territory falling into our keeping
may be given its separate government by
its own people, but assisted In its foreign
| relations. restrained I'm its finances and
helped in its internal workings by the gov
| eminent of the United States. The value
of such n development of national power
as we have exercised in our Cuban legisla-
ton thus becomes plain 20 the simplest
mind. 1t is n power which concerns not
Cuba only n the present hour. but the
entire future and all the world"
ECONOMIC CHANGES.
The senator next spoke of the economic
changes taking place in the world. saying:
''The developments OF business are bring
ing 10 pass as actual realities those things
which 10 the mere man of words have been
nothing but hoped for impossibilities. One
OF the most prosperous railroad companies
OF America is making stockholders OF its
employees and finds that the experiment
pays. More than a hundred business houses
In the United States are making partners
OF their employees and find that the expert
ment pays. He is indeed a daring pessimist
who denies that the stock of the mighty
modern combinations OF production which
/ control the necessities of the people will
finally be held by the people themselves
small quantities in the hands OF each of a
vast number of individuals instead of vast
quantities ia the hands of each of a small
number OF individuals. The idea OF CO.
operation is working out its own realization.
But this evolution will proceed as fast as
il ought and not as fast as Greamers think
il should. Business conditions will bring
II about and not the appeals Of ~demagogues
who do not understand the great forces
with which they trile. And who can deny
that this very evolution is to-day the chief
problem In the minds of the worlds master
financial and industrial organizers them
| selves?
American Industrial evolution and Amer
lean International relations are interviewer