Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-23

When this has been done the first question
which is to supervise the building or the
canal. Here again we have to deal with
in itsl eHeets that y Vs but S one n r pef.
missible-how to get the very best men In
the nation, the men Of the highest engineer
who will consent to undertake the WORK.
II possible / should like to see these men
represent different sections and different
But these questions are secondary. The
primary art must be to get men who.
possess the patriotism and the healthy am-
billion which will make them willing TO put
their talents at the governments service.
sanEuine Of Results in orient.
SO much for what has been done in the
Occident. In the Orient the labor was more
difficult. It Is rare indeed that a great
work, a work supremely worth doing, can
be done save at the cost not only Of labor
and toll, but OF much puEzling worry dur
ing the time Of the performance. Nor
mally the nation that achieves greatness,
like the Individual who achieves greatness,
can do so only at the cost Of anxiety and
bewilderment and heart-wearing effort
hope. and good people who are not aecus-
toned to the r~oughness Of the life of eff
fort, are almost sure to. be disheartened
and dismayed by the work and the worry,
and overmuch cast down by the shortcom-
ings, actual or seeming, which in real life
always accompany the first stages even OF
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brilliant victories.
All this is true. Of what has happened
pine islands. The Spanish war itself was
an easy task, but 1t left us certain other
tasks which were much more difficult.
One of these tasks was that of dealing with
the Philippines. The easy thing to do
the thing which appealed not only TO lazy
and selfish man, but 70. very many good
men whose thought did not drive them
down, to the root Of things, was to leave the
islands.
Some Nations Chance.
Had we done this a period OF wild chaos
would have supetvened and some stronger
power would have stepped in and seized
the islands and have taken up the task
which we In such a case would have
hinched from performing.
A less easy but Infinitely more absurd
course would have been to leave the islands
ourselves and at the same time to assert
that we would not permit anyone else to
would have combined all the possible dis
advantages of every other course which
Mes advocated. 1t would have placed US
Ia a humiliating position, because, when
the actual test came 1t would have been
cutie out Of the question because some
stT;klng Iced Of savaSery had been COM
mitted In the islands TO stand by and pre-
vent the re-entry of civilization into them.
while the mere fact of our having threat
and ~wrongdoers against outside interfer-
ence ny ourselves and others would have
put q premium upon every species of
ohA AidtNh WiNH the lSldnQS.
Success Crowns All.
Finally there was the course which we
fraught with danger and difhculty, as is
generally the case In this world when some
great feat Is TO be accomplished as an in
we made up our minds to stay in the
ISLANDS, 70 put down violence, to establish
peace ana order, and then to introduce A
just and wise civil rule accompanied by a
measure OF sell. government which should
Increase as rapidly as the Islands showed
themselves ready for 1t. Well, 1t was a
formidable task, but think of the marvel
ousIy suceessful way In which 1t has been
The first and vitality important feat was
the ESTABLISHMENT OF the supremacy of the
or the American flag and this had 10 he
gone by the effort of those gallant fellow
IIasE;SSss % CURE 10 whom so great a
debt Is due-the officers and enlisted mon
OF tne United States army, regulars and
paigns, carried on in unknown tropIc
lungles against an elusive and treacherous
roe, vastly outnumbering them. under the
most ADVERSE conditions of climate, weather
and country, our troops completely broke
the power Of the insurgents, smashed their
armies and harried the broken robber
May YeG7Ckastise Moros.
In It's latter stages the war against our
rule sank into mere brigandage and what
our troops had 70 do was to hunt down
the parties of lhdrones. Ii waA not a tasL
when 4 was h~unnanely possible 70 3ac-
eomplish in a menth,or a year, but month
py month"; year by. year, with unwearied
and patient resolution, our army In the
until tbs old the task which II found,
rection was stamped out. / do not refer
70 me Moros, with whom we have exer-
clsed the utmost forbearance, but who
may force us TO tchastise them II they per-
slst In attacking our troops.
Among the Fiiipinos proper, however,
peace mas come Doubtless here and there
sporadic outbreaks of brigandage viii occur
from u1ne 10 time. but organized warfare
against the American flag has ceased and
renee. Our army in the Phiiippines has
been reduced, until It is not a fourth Of
what II was at the time the outbreak was
Step by step as the army conquered the
rule OF the military was supplanted by the
rule or the civil authorities, the soldier
was succeeded by the civilian maRistrate
The utmost care has been exercised in
choosing the best type of Americans for
work OF administration has been done So,
far as possible by native Filipino o~ficials
serving under these Americans.
Praise for Taft ana stan.
The success OF the effort has been won
oeriuL Never has this country had a more
sentatiyes than Governor Taft, Vice doy-
srnor Wright and their s~ubordinates In the
p practpppan Stands; 1t Is a difficult matter
orderly free government to an Oriental
people STRUGGLING upward out Of barbarism
ana subsection. 1t Is a task recurring
Infinite hrmness, patience, tact, broad.
mlndedness.. All this and countless other
necessities have been found In the civil
and military officials who have been sent
over to administer the islands.
II was, OF course, inevitable that there
should be occasional failures, but AZ ia
astonishing how few these have been,
Here and there the civil government which
had been established in a given district had
to be temporarily withdrawn because 81
some outbreak. but at last, on July 4 lust
passed-on the one-hundered and twentv-
sixth anniversary OF our iHdependence-it
was possible at the same time to declare
amnesty throughout the islands and def
nitely TO establish civil rule over all of
them, excepting the country of the Mo-
hammedan Moros. where the conditions
were wholly different.
Already Freest of OFientaIs.
Each inhabitant of the Philippines Is now
guaranteed his civil and religious rights,
and his rights TO life, personal liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness, subject only to
not infringing on the rights OF others. II
Is worth noting that already the Phillip
pine people have received a greater share
Of self-government, that they have more
TO say as to how they shall be governed,
than is the case with any other people now
in the Orient, which Is under foreign rule,
Nor Is this all. Congress has. with far
has been done by the executive. Wise law
for the government OF the Philippines have
been placed upon the statute books and
under these laws provision Is made for the
introduction into the Philippines Of repre-
sentative government with only the DELAY