The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-06-19
Senator BeOeridge
On American achievements
in the Phiti ppi ne

The opposition denies that a repub-
lie can govern dependencies. But we
are governing them. Parallel, if you
can, the progress we have made Eng
lands brilliant administration in India
and Egypt pales before our work al
ready accomplished in the Philippines.
American civil administration was in
augurated less than ten months ago.
and yet American schools have fol-
lowed the American flag in every pac-
flied province. Nearly 100000 Filipino
| children are learning the American
language. More than this, AS Amer
lean factories are working night and
day in the republic, American schools
are working night and day in the Phil
ippines; and nearly 10000 natives are
now being taught in American night
schools. Almost thousand Ameri-
can school teachers already have fol-
lowed the flag across the seas. Still
more. Almost 1900 Filipino teachers
are being trained by American instruc-
tors, and are even now at work. More
still! Even before our civil govern
ment began that tremendous task of
schools for Filipino children, and they
were taught by American soldiers de-
tailed from the ranks. The American
flag. The American soldier. The
American teacher! Together they
march forward Cheer their progress!
Hold aloft their hands! Rally around
them American voters,-they are the
emblems and agencies of civilizations
noblest creation, the American repub-
lie.
The Fruits of Government.
The United States cannot govern?
In every province where we have sup
pressed insurrection and shot brig
andage to death, civil administration
is operating, and for the first time in
Philippine history, an unterrorized
people are at peaceful work Is not
that government? Already roads are
building, and all over the islands high
ways are being planned and surveyed.
Within five years railways will con-
meet Philippine valleys, mines and for
ests with sea-ports, and these in turn
with every trade center of the globe
Are these not fruits of government?
In Manila a model municipal admins
tration has been built, and the Ameri-
can police of this ocean capital is IN
surpassed in Europe or America.
Municipal ownership has begun, and a
modern EGGPLANT built and owned by
the government furnishes ice to Ma
Mia at half the former price. Are
these not results of government? A
perfect public land system is being
devised; and soon no native need be
homeless. The best forestry laws of
the world are those of Germany; the
forests of Saxony pay much of her ex.
penses. In the Philippines, forestry
laws are being established perfect as
those of Saxony's. Mining laws made
up of the best features of every nation
and admitted by the opposition to be
far superior to our own system; the
grant of public franchises safeguarded
as the franchises of only few of the
advanced cities of this country are
safeguarded; courts In every pacified
province, with appeals to supreme
courts at Manila; for the first time
in all the dark and bloody history Of
the archipelago justice to the mean
est, poorest native freely and with
out price, speedily and without delay"
is not all this government? | chal-
lenge an instance of small fraction
of these results during a like brief
period in any land or at any time.
And yet the opposition say that we
cannot govern.
Democratic Prophecies Discounted.
But has the opposition's word any
weight as to what the American peo-
pie can or cannot do? Even in the
Democratic party's sanest days they
said that Americans could not sue
cessfully manufacture steel rails; to-
day we sell steel rails to England.
The youngest man now old enough to
vote remembers the opposition's scorn
when Mckinley said that America
must manufacture tin; today America
is the worlds principal producer of
that universal convenience. you
cannot; you will fair'-has ever
been the opposition's wall to the Amer
lean people. 1.-The American people
can, the American people will" has
ever been the Republican partys word
of faith.