The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-30

Labor-Our Flag In the Philippines
70 Stay
Cleveland, o., May 2S.-The republI-
can state convention assembled today
and heard reports
The report making General Charles
II. Gresvenor permanent chairman and
sontinuing the rest of the temporary
organization was adopted. When Gov
ernor Nash presented General Grnsve-
nor the latter received quite an ovation.
General Dick, chairman of the com
Aittee on resolutions, then read the
platform which was adopted.
After paying tribute to the memory
Of President Mckinley the platf 1im
approves the high aims and chara.sTer
ef President Roosevelt's administration.
State affairs are then referred to and
the present prosperity of the country
under the protective transfer il COM
Hented on thus:
~All labor is now employed and at
wages higher than ever before known.
Farm products have doubled in vslue
and earnings and savings have largely
increased. The products Of the farm
The forests, the mines, the shops. ani
euslv increased home demand. but have
permanently placed the United States
at the head of the worlds exporting ma
tiens. So great is the country's pros
perity and so ample the revenues under
the DIngley tariff law. that the present
republican congress has Deeu able TO
redeem party pledges by repealing war
revenue aggrega ting S110.090, 600 annual
", thus reducing taxation to a peace
basis"
The trust and labor planEs follow
"We recognize the necessity Of co-or-
eratisn in order to meet new conditions
IA the Industrial world, and to compete
successfully for the worlds markets,
but all combinations that S.Ina co>npe-
tition. control prices, limit production,
or anduly increase profits Or values, ana
especially when they raise the prices or
the necessities of life, are opposed TO
public policy and should H. reDreS sed
with q strong hand.
'-Te secure for labor the consideration
Il deserves to uphold the dignity OF
tell: to create a healthy public opiniCa
on the subject of labor and Jna just ce
of its receiving full share of the val
uea il creates; to bring LABOR ana CGp!-
tal together on common ground III the
adjustment of such questions a. may
duction, it is necessary that Iatt
should be intelligently organized We
believe In fewer hours and larger re-
wards for labor, and favor such laws is
will harmonize the Interests OF labor
and capital; and tend 20 lishtcn :he
burden of toll"
On Cuban reciprocity the platform
says.
1--WE believe it Is due alike to Cuba
and to ourselves. that i'll acCo".lanca
with the republican prtnciple Of reci-
procity. proper and reasonable traSe
concessions shall be male by our gov
eminent to Cuba, in return II h-r con-
eessions upon American p-o3ucrs. SO a.
to benefit the trade of both countrl s.
and to fully and generousIJ carry ont
every obligation Of our national honor.
whether expressed or implied"
Other blanks are:
"ASeitions to our territory since 1897
have been fully justified. both b. i'm
proved conditions in the islands them
selves and the improved commercial re-
latien between them and United states
These islands will not be cXploite for
the gain of adventurers, but will be de-
yeloped for the mutual benefit Of their
own people and honest investors, and
will, in time, make the United states a
complete commercial entity, caps Bile o
producing within it's own area practi-
eally all the articles required for tho
daily life and comfort Of man.
1--WE congratulate the president ani
the army on the satisfactory nrogresS
made ia the Philippines In SunpIeSSl'i|
insurrection and establishing order ana
we unoualifiedly endorse the pohcy or
ear government in those Islands.
"The war with Spain was forced with
Us against our will and the PhiltppinC 5
came to US as one of the results OF the
conflict. We are responsible tor peace
and order in the islands and our soVer-
eighty must be as absolute as oEr re-
spensibility. We will give ,hAsa pcop'e
better government, better schools, more
civil and political rights. AMI higher
e1yilizs ton and broader free 10m than
is possible for them in any other way.
Our flag is in the Philippines and there
It viii remain.
"The American army .as taken up a
work of establishing or6e- and main
tafning authority in the distant Philip
pines aad while we deplore aE't con-
denim any cruelty which may nave oc-
eurrei. we remember that our soldiers
ara fiehtine a barbarous and treacher-
Gus foe, who have often inflicted mos
fnhurnan and revolving atrocities upon
their prisoners. We resent with inr1e
nation recent democratic efforts to drag
it's honor in the dust and to cast
proaeh on its fair nome"
The platform declares against an
archy. denounces lynching and all forms
Of mob violence. commends, the re-en-
acted Chinese exclusion law, recon-
nends a substantial and uninterrupte
iHcrease in the strength of the navy,
and urges LEGISLATION that will expedite
the construction Of the isthnian canal
1.ua Panncefote.s funeral was held