Evening star., 1902-05-07

at home this foul blot. Then let us turn
next to the far-off islands"
president Mckinley, the most humane of
all rulers; Secretary Root, sagacious. re-
sourceful, and one of the ablest- war minis
ters in our history, have guided and direct
ed our armies in war and our civil COM
mission in peace
president Roosevelt has zealously Joined
in this great work. The result is destined
to be one of the proudest chapters in our
history. President, Secretary and commits
sion go on with their great work conscious
that they hold trust for a liberty-loving
nation, and that they hold a mandate from
humanity. Blind partisans abuse them
here, pessimsts decry their work. cynics
sneer, fmpracticable idealists revile, and
timid souls denounce them as untrue to
liberty. l say these forceful. masterful
men are the statesmen of whom our coun-
try should be most proud. Their great work
shows that the descendants of the fathers
have not lost their cunning In building free
states.
Policy of the Minority.
"All this the minority on this floor would
abandon. Theirs is a policy of scuttle.
They would steal away leaving the archi-
pelago to anarchism or Imperialism. The
motto of the senator from Utah, who intro
duced this substitute for the pending meas
use, is, Let the Ishmaelite goa policy
made more specific by the senator from
Mississippi, who adds: Let him go to the
devil Is this American craftsmanship?
Men who in the Senate voted to ratify
the treaty and in the House sanctioned it
by a large appropriation ought not to
shrink from their duty to go forward and
assume the consequences of their act We
made war; we won it, We made a treaty:
we must keep it. We took the sovereignty;
we cannot pass it over to eighty-four tribes
In the islands. We cannot surrender 1t to
Japan or Germany. How, then, by the
passage of this substitute can we declare
the archipelago shall be foreign terrtory?'
The substitute would have US relinquish
ali claim of sovereignty. How could we
rellnquish sovereignty over the islands and
still compel them to secure free trade be-
tween our ports and theirs? If we could,
as Governor Taft has testified under our
treaty with Spain, all the trade of the
Worid would go into their ports in Spanish
or American ship bottoms, and there would
be no customs revenue in the Philippines to
support any government there.
The senator from South Carolina and
the senator from Mississippi with fearful
voices cry out against the small percentage
of voters We begin with in the early cleo
tions in the Philippines. We will extend
the suffrage gradually until we finally de-
velop self-governing people in the archi-
peiaSo.- After one hundred and eleven wears
under the Constitution, what a r1ockery of
government of the people. by the people,
are the governments in those two states.
IN the presidential election of 1900 South
carolina cast only 3.S per cent votes out of
her total population: Mississippi cast only
IS per cent votes out of her total popula-
ton.
Will Follow in McKinley's Path.
Meantime this administration will follow
the path wherein President Mckinley
walked. Ii will not ignore the differences
which make orientals unfit for many of the
institutions which are essential to the ener-
getic races of the west. A commercial CIV
nization and the Christian faith will stead