Woodruff County news., 1902-12-11
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pdIucuIdf interests anected and the con- whole. The machinery for providing such careful investigation can readily be sup piled. The executive department has al- ready at its disposal methods of collect ing facts. and figures; and if the con- gress desires additional consioera tion to its own. committees, then a commission or business experts can be appointed whose duty, it should be to recommend action by the congress after a deliberate and scientific examination of the various schedules as they are affected by the changed and changing conditions. The unhurried and unbiased report of >this commission would show what changes should be made in the various schedules, out also changing the great prosperity which this country is now enjoying, or up- setting it's fixed economic policy.
 The cases in which the tariff can pro- duce monopoly are so few as 70 constitute an inconsiderable factor in the question:; put ot course if in any case it be found that a gwen rate of duty does promote a mo- nopoly which works i'll, no protectionist would object to such reduction of the duty as would equalze competition.
 In my judgment, the tariff on anthracite coal shoulG be removed, and anthracite put actually, where 1t now is nominally, oR the free list. This would have no effect at of service to the people"
 The president says there is much that IS good in both associations of capital and of labor, that the one is made necessary because of the existence of the other. He refers at some length to the good accom- Ipp.bl pnbSlhed by the labor unions; and says that While they, have accomplished this good, and though the general tendency of such organizations is for the betterment of plish evil. He says both organized capital and organized labor must remember that the interest of each must be brought into harmony with the interest of the general public, and says that so far as the consti- tutlonal powers of the government touch upon these subjects they should be along these lines.
 :, In connection with the subject of Cuba the president says he hopes soon to lay be- lore the senate a reciprocity treaty with that republic, and urges that some relief De given the island. On this topic he says: Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever af- Iects her for good or for i'll affects us also. the Platt amendment we definitely took the ground that Cuba must hereafter have closer political relations with us than with any other power. Thus in a sense Cuba nas become part of our international po- ntlcal system. This makes it necessary that in return she should be given some of the benents of becoming part of our eco homie system. It is, from our own stand point, short-sighted and mischievous pol over, it is unworthy of a mighty and gen erous nation, itself the greatest and most successful republic. in history, to refuse to stretch out helping hand to a young and weak sister republic just entering upon its career of independence. We should all ways fearlessly insist upon our rights In tAiC le1SS Ol tue SlTOHS, ana we SnOulC WlI0 ungrudging hand do our generous duty by the weak. urge the adoption of reciprocity With Cuba not only because it is eminently for our own interests to control the Cuban market and by every means to foster our supremacy in the tropical lands and waters south south of us, but also because, we, of the giant republic of the north should make all our sister nations of the American con- tlnent feel that whenever they will permit It we desire to show ourselves disinterest- edly and effectively their friend"
 Congress is informed that the attorney general has examined into the title of the Panama company, and has decided that title that will be above contention in every way. The president says he hopes sGo9 sfda to x see ta i treaty with Golombia con right to construct the canal, anGto exercise such Jurisdiction over the territory through which it will extend as will be necessary for our every legitimate purpose.
 Of the conditions in the Philippines he says in part:
 "On July last. on the one hundred and tion of our independence, peace and ann nesty were promulgated in the Philip pine islands. Some trouble has since the NMohammedan Moros, but with the late insurrectionary Filipinos the war has entirely ceased. Civil government each Filipino enjoy such rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as ne has never before known during the
 
 people taken as a whole now enjoy a measure meas of self-government greater than any foreign power and greater than that enjoyed by any other orientals under their own governments, save the Japan granting these rights of liberty and self government; but we have certainly gone to the limit that in the interests of the or just to go To hurry matters, to go faster than we are now going would en- tail calamity on the people of the is lands. No policy ever entered into by the American people has vinoicated it. self in more signal manner than the pol icy of holding the Philippines, The tri- umph of our laws and principles has come sooner than We had any right to given to the army for what 1t has done in the Philippines, both in warfare and from an administrative standpoint in and similar credit belongs to the civil authorities for the way in which they have planted the seeds of self-govern- ment in the ground thus made ready for them. The courage, the unfiinching en- durance, the high. solaierly efficiency, ngly manifested. There now remain only some l9,oOO troops in the islands. All told, course, there have been individual in- stances of wrongdoing among them They warred under fearful difficulties of strain of 3e terrible provocations which they continually receive from their foes occasional instances of cruel retalia ton occurred, EvelE effort has been made to prevent such eruelties, and finally these efforts have Jeen completely sue eessful Every effort has also been made to detect and punish the wrongdoers After making all allowance for these misdeeds. it remains true that few in deed have been the instances in which war has been waged by civilized power against semi-civilized ard barbarous forces where there has been so little wrongGoing by the victors as in the Phil ippine islands, On the other hand, the amount of difficult, important, and bene- fcent work which has been done is we'll nigh incalculable.
 "Taking the work of the army and the civil authorities together, it may be ques- toned whether anywhere else in modern times the world has seen a better exam pie of real constructive statesmanship than our people have given in the Philip pine islands. High praise should also be given those Filipinos. in the aggregate very numerous, who have accepted the new conditions and joined with our repre- sentatives to work with hearty good will