Milford chronicle., 1902-07-11


t be few disgruntled politicians
whose dire predictions have been
Iisproved and whose attempts to
make political capital out Of the
Efforts of the administration to es-
ablish peace in the islands have
proved a boomerang. By the pro-
visions of the amnesty prOclama-
lion of the President all political
prisoners in the Philippines were
and the way paved for
the liberation even of thOs,. who
had offended against society in
some minor form.
Advices received at the State De-
partment indicate that the negotia-
tions now being conducted at Rome
by Governor Taft are progressing
at satisfactory pace. Confronted
by the difficult problem of supply
ing priests to minister to the large
number of members of his church,
when the friars shall have left the
islands, the Pope desired to retain
there all Of those against whom no
charge of malfeasance in Office had
been brought, but Governor Taft,
believing it to be necessary as a
proof to the Filipinos that there
will be no further connection be-
tween church and state, and as a
further evidence that the present
government is in no way in SYM
pathy with the hated Spanish dom
ination with which the fria,,s were
associated, has advised the Pope
that it will be necessary that all
those friars who have left their par
ishes and all those in the city Of
Manila shall be removed from the
islands. The entire reasonableness
with which the Vatican has re
ceived the representations hereto
fore made by Governor Taft war
rants the assumption that ultimately
the negotiations will end in man
ner satisfactory to all concerned
and the purchase of the friars' land
and their being opened up to set
Element will mark the beginning o
an era of small land holdings ii
the Philippines which will it is SAT
to presume, result as benefcially a
did the passage of the Homestea,
law in the United States.
On Thursday evening tie Presi
dent left Washington for Pittsbur
where he delivered two addresses
= In his public Grafton Mr.. Roose
e velt for the first time put in praC
p tice the policy which l outlined i
these letters a week ago, and tn
announcement of which was ser
out by no other Washington col
E respondent until July end. 1 refe
4 to his ardent advocacy Of Cuba
. reciprocity with a view to so edU
eating the public sentiment as
y remove all serious obstacle to til
e ratification of the reciprocal treat
K with Cuba which he will submit
c Congress as soon as the Snort Sc
y sion convenes. 1t was on Jur
18th, that Judge Long, of Kansa
: explained to me the Presidents il
e tentions and I understand that
:. every public speech which the Pre-
IS ident will make between now al
the time Congress converes me-
December, Cuban reciprocity, whiC
, in the President S mind IS 50 close
} allied with national honor, will r
y ceive marked attention and explc
re tation. In Minnesota, where Il
- Republican platform is sOmewh
indefinite in its handling of ii
> subject, Mr.. Roosevelt will DIV,
as on it with especial emphasis.
E. On the day before the Preside
" left Washington, Secretary Cort,
l. yeu asked me to make it clear
- your readers that the President W
le going to Oyster Bay to secure
ne much needed rest, and that he W
IS. sincerely appreciate the consider
st ton of those public and privs
- citizens who permit him 10 spe
" his short vacation in con parati
o. retirement with his family. ST
at retaries COrtelyeu and Loeb, W
o. have accompanied the President
an Oyster Bay have taken cottages
;; the village and offices have be
secured i'll the town for the trai
d. action of such business as may
t imperative, so that, in so far as p,
re sible, Mr.. Roosevelt may rems
n undisturbed in his summer hon
j. A long distance telephone has be
installed in the temporary VIII
ey House so that Secretary Barn
g, who remains in charge in NVashil
hit ton, will be able to commune
iot with the offices at Oyster Bay
:, any time, and all routine busin
" will be transacted here. On 4
10 gust I4th, the President will lie;
Oyster Bay for the New Engla
mt States where he will pay & mum
err of visits, and he will then 20 We
= not returning to Washington III
- October 8th, the date on which
Ks Grand Army encampmen. in t