The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-04-29

II alton the bill II. K I2765) to pro-
vide reciprocal trade relations with
Cuba, Mr.. White said:
MR.. CHAIRMAN While regard the
pending measure as important in some OF
its bearings as affecting the revenues OF
Government not very materially, how
ever, and as extending some relief to the
people Of Cuba, the most interesting phase
Of the subject, to my mind, is that the
diecussion of the bill will tend to dispel
the delusion, which has so constantly
Been kept before the people of this coun-
t'Afor political effect and for special in
NJ Vsts and classes, that a high scale OF
tariff duties has brought all the happi-
ness and prosperity we have enjoyed IN
recent years, for we have now the admit
ted fact here brought forward and advo-
Gated by those who have so persistently
made This plea that this protective scale
may IS lowered upon one at least OF the
articles of daily use by the people-the
sugar they consume-without destroying
the domestic industries furnishing 1t,
thereby presenting an ultimate hope to
ths great toiling masses of consumers OF
the country that time may come when
the various manufacturing interests sup
plying their necessaries of life can reas-
onably be expected to pursue their bust
ness without being specially favored and
fostered by Government aid at the ex-
| pense of by far the more numerous class
es of the peopleof this country, except to
the extent the aid may be given in laying
a Just measure of tariff duties to raise
reynue for the Government.
,E8ut we can not help but note the de
NiEed character of the struggle here
4 .Eny made to continue this protection
persstently claimed now as right, by
the representatives of these favored in
dustries. They almost shed tears in theii
, pathetic appeals for the continuance o.
tti<favoritism to their particular sections
andDfostered industries, that accumulated
corporate wealth may flourish at the ex
pense of the people.
Thihking that these aspects of the cast
@are made sufficiently manifest already by
the discussion, will ask the indulgenc'
of ths HOUSE to present my views briefly
upon nRtter which, to my mind, is o
greater consequence to the American peo
ple than any other now asking solution a
their hands.
The policy pursued by the Government
and the course of events in the Philip
pine Islands since the treaty of Pari
mark an epoch in American history, no
to be noted so much for the relinquish
ment of sovereignty over the islands b,
Spain as for the influence and ultimat
effects upon our own country and its in
\ stitutions; not so much to be weighed b,
4 any changed condition of the unfortunat
4 Inhabitants of these remote and to II
p rse than useless islands if the chang
* done aught but bring deeper gloon
ilem as by the drift and tendency up
~ ur own political moorings and des
4 happy Fiipinos, borne down by age
b n misrule, deprived of the boon
n Il and and independence, seeming
n Jon after years of repeated toll an,
Y Iering, stricken by an unlooked-for
E,Tnrresistible hand, alluringly held out il
D apparant friendship and protection, whei
a all your hopes and struggles for freedom
4 appeared at successful termination, hoy
n doubly visited by fate of adversely, al
X endless gloom of oppression
h 1t is we'll remembered how the negoti
y atious of that treaty lingered how il wa
sooAknown that Spanish authority woul'
be wiAidrawn from Cuba, and Porto Ric
ceded to us-conditions justified by tn
Gin hmstances and approved by our peo
y show, when near the close of tn
4 treaty, the realization was first brought t.
"a our country that cession of these Asiati
Hhslands was to be forced upon Spain.
n = This result was not expected by tn
peosle of the United States, nor general
q norsved by them, but they awaited
4, Suretof events with feeling of un
&ty and apprehension But little die
!jknow the fateful consequences tha
fyyere to follow. The event was of far
reaching, momentus importance; not, in
deed that the political power of one o
~.
he removed, for Great Britain once befor
4 in 1862, wrested these possessions from
! Spain and after holding them two years
3and finding them worthless, restored
them by treaty; but the great and vita
importance was that Spanish dominion
|lover these distant territories was to be for
parted with at the mandate of the onl,