The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-07

E1eree, to provide sewers, to light the
streets, and supply pure water, to send
the lePers 10 a chosen island, to build
great ice plants, and care Tor the sick
and diseased in hospitals; these commits
sloneTs who are scattering public schools
throughout the archipelago. where
throngs CT children are learning the Ian
guage of their IfberatorsI repeat. these
men are statesmen whom American Sen
GtoFs ought to be ashamed to decry:
statesmen whom the world already ad-
mires.'
Minority Policy Of ScuttIe.
OF the Democratic policy. he said:
The achievements ard progress CT our
civil government IS the most striking ad-
vance CT liberty the wcrId has yet made
IN the tropics, and the civil government
which This Congress Will extend to those
inhabitants VIII carry with II the bless
ings Of liberty, education, and free insti-
tutions-
AN this the minority on this floor
would abandon. Theirs Is a policy Of
scuttle. They would steal away leaving
the archipelago to anarchism or impe-
Tialism. The substitute would have US
Telinduish all claim Of sovereignty How
! could we reIinquish sovereignty. over the
Islands and still compel them to secure
1 free trade between our ports and theirs2
We would never be justified IN throwing
these people back into anarchy. dictator
snip, and revolution without hope CT
civil liberty
Never to Haul Down the Flag.
Mr.. gicComas concluded:
IN this century We viii submit TO no
secession. to no surrender Of our terri
tory The Administration Of President
Roosevelt viii not haul down our flag in
the Philippines. There the Federal party.
several hundred thousand strong. is
teaching the Filipino PEOPLE that to grant
independence 10 the Philippines would be
70 hand over the islands to disorder and
TO anarchy, 10 destruction and to chaos
Meantime this Administration will fol-
low the path wherein President Mckinley
walked. It viii not ignore the differences
which make OTientals unfit for many Of
the institutions which are essential TO the
! energetic races Of the West A COM
mereial civilization and the Christian
! faith VIII steadily help US lift up the lazy
and supeTstITious Inhabitants of these
tropical islands. This Administration will
not be goaded by unthfnking demagogues
to introduce modes and maxims OF gov
eminent borrowed from our Institutions
the long result Of time but utterly IN
suited TO OTieltals- We will advance
steadily but cautiously. surely. TO fit these
people for and fit them to the free in
stitutions Of the Western world
''ModeTniZed Japan has just erected a
monument to Commodore Perry for open
ing that Oriental nation to the Western
world In the Philippines q grateful peo-
pie viii yet rear monuments to Mckinley
and his coadjutoTs in the coming time fop
carrying liberty 10 our antipodes-
Our flag over this roof comes down
in Washington in the evening twilight
At the same hour our flag rises over
MalacanaH in Manila and saIutes the
/ dawn In the stately procession Of the
hours somewhere over our territory our
ensign forever flies in the light Of day
And forever. all around the globe, as it
/ floats over cur soil, it will continue the
symbol Of light and hope. the symbol Of
liberty and law"