The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-05
PRESIDENT ROOSEVy T
 DEFENDS F((y$ .fIGN POLICIES

nations. When the thunder of the guns called the nations children, they sprang forward to do the mighty deeds which, if left undonc, would have meant that the words to which we have listened today would have rung as meaningless piati- tudes. Geud applause).
 Those were two great epochs in the nations history, the epoch of the found ing of the Union and the epoch Of it's preservation; the epoch of Washington I and the epoch of Abraham Lincoln Loud 1 applause ard cheers). These two genera tions had the greatest tasks to do, but 1 each generation has it's tasks and woe to the nations that regards the deeds of the mighty mel of the past as an excuse for this failing to do in Its turn the work l that it finds ready at hand. (Applause).
 "The great deeds of those who have gone before us must ever serve not as reason for inaction on our part. but as the keenest of spurs to drive us forward on the path of national greatness and justice, tApplause)
 We have had our tasks to do in the last four years. or, have had as every generation must have. many tasks to do, tasks affecting us abroad and one or those tasks being done as 1t has been, | has signaliZed its entry into larger world (Applause). And it is most ap- propriate that on this Fourth of July. this anniversary of the birth of the na- l ton. 1t should be our good fortune to :Iave promulgated the Declaration estab- | fishing peace in the Philippines and &C., knowIedgment to the army of praise so | richly due, our fellow Americans who wear the uniforms of the United States for all that they have done in the tropic islands during the past four years. (Ap- plause and cheers).
 "Have Kept Our Word"
 "we said Cuba should become free republic and we have kept our word. | (Applause). To have turned Cuba into the hands of It's own people immediately after the close of the Spanish war meant ruin and chaos; we established govern ment in the island and we established | peace and order; we began to provide | payment of the Cuban troops who had fought against the misrule of their op- pressors; we instituted a public school | system, modelled upon that which has | been so potent a factor in our own na- tional progress. We cleaned the cities in Cuba for the first time in their history. (Applause). We changed them from be- ing the most unhealthy to being among the healthiest cities of the civilized world. We introduced a system of orderly jus tice to replace disorderly and irrespon- sibie and arbitrative government, so that any man, rich or poor. weak or strong. could appeal to courts and know he would receive his rights. And then. when in the fulness of time. we felt they could walk alone, we turned over the government to them, and now the beau- tiful queen of the Antilles has started on her course as a free republic among the nations of the earth. (Applause.)
 But there is one thing-our policy to- ward Cuba has not yet met with it's en- tire fruition. It will meet with it. (Ap- plause.l. The colrser of the last-few- years has made more evident than ever before that the nation must in time to come have pecuniary interests on the isthmus connecting the two Americas and in the waters and among the islands adjacent thereto. (Applause) Nationally, we can not occupy the position toward these re- gions that we did toward others where our interests are far less and this Is doubly true now that Congress has pro- vided for the building of an inter-oceanic canal.
 Cuba must occupy a peculiar relation | to us in the field of international poll tics She must in the larger sense, be a part of the general political system in international affairs than which this re- public stands as the head She has as- sented to that view and in return this na- ton is bound to give her special economic privileges not given to other nations Loud applause).
 'I regret that a measure of reciprocity with Cuba is not already embodied in a statute or in treaty. but it will be just as sure as fate Loud applause) | As to Philippines.
 And now a word as to the Philippines -there are yet troubles in the Moro coun- try-the country of the Mohammedan tribes but in the Philippines among the | Philipinos-among the people who have been in insurrection peace now reigns (Applause)
 Tt may he, I think. unlikely, but it is possible that here and there some seem ing dead coal of insurrection may for the moment be famed into a live ember and burst into full flame. If so that flame will be stamped out. Loud applause.)
 But speaking broadly and generally. peace has come. Our army has received its reward; (applause). And what was the reward of our army? The reward of the consciousness of duty we'll done. Loud applause) Our soldiers have fought. have toiled. have struggled and so that when victory came they might turn over the Government to the authori- ties Applause) Victory came.
 Today the proclamation of peace and amnesty has been promulgated and at the same time our generals have been notified that the civil government is su- preme in the islands. (Applause.)
 Does not that speak well. O! my breth- ren for our army. for our troops that the troops of this people should war hoping for a triumph which is to put the power into the hands of the civil authorities?
 By this law we are allowed an army at a maximum of 100000. at a minimum of 6O.000 men, While this war has gone on we have steadily reduced that army until now by order. it's limit Is 660OO. and a matter of fact, we have 2.0O0 or 5000 who are actually under arms. That speaks well for our institutions. It speaks well for the triumphs of the policies with which as a nation we have been identi- fled during the past four years and men and women of the United States, it shows how slight was the warrant for the fears expressed by those of little faith as to what would follow authorizing even the plause)
 Nobody of our citizens deserve frank CT or more generous recognition at the hands of the country than the officers and enlisted men who wear uniforms (Applause) For there is no body of our citizens which gives more disinterestedly | services with less thought of a material reward proportionately in any way to them.
 Great Problems at Home.
 And now, my fellow citizens. I spoke of the past which has eliminated there in Cuba and the Philippines as being one u sN.E- tor. bod