The Elbert County tribune., 1902-12-04

tween employers and employed. Above
all. we need to remember that any
kind OF class animosity in the politi-
cal world is. II possible. even more
wicked. even more destructive to ma.
tional welfare than sectional. race or
religious animosity.
Secretary Of Commerce. -
II is earnestly hoped that secre-
tary OF commerce may be created, with
a seat in the Cabinet The rapid null
tiplication OF questions affecting labor
and capital. the growth and complexity
Of the organizations through which
both labor and capital now find ex-
preston. the steady tendency toward
the employment OF capital in huge cor
porations. and the wonderful strides OF
this country toward leadership in the
international business world justify an
urgent demand for the creation OF such
a position. Substantially all the lead
ing commercial bodies in this country
have united in requesting its creation
II is desirable that some such measure
as that which has already passed the
Senate be enacted into law.
Cuban Reciprocity.
hope soon to submit TO the Senate
a reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On
May goth last the United States kept
ito promise to the island by formally
vacating Cuban soil and turning Cuba
over to those whom her own people
had chosen as the first officials OF the
new republic.
We should always fearlessly Insist
upon our rights in the face of the
strong. and we should with ungrudg-
ing hand do our generous duty by the
weak. urge the adoption OF reciproc-
ity with Cuba not only because II is
eminently for our own interests to CON
troll the Cuban market and by every
means to foster our supremacy In the
tropical lands and waters south of u.s.
but also because we. OF the giant re
public of the North, should make all
our sister nations of the American
continent feel that whenever they will
permit 1t we desire TO show ourselves
disinterestedly and effectively their
friend.
The lsthmian Canal.
The Congress has wisely provided
that we shall build at once an 18TH
mian canal. II possible at Panama. The
attorney general reports that we can
undoubtedly acquire good title from
the French Panama Canal Company
Negotiations are now pending with
Colombia to secure her assent to our
building the canal.
The Pacific Cable.
During the fall of 1901 commun
cation was addressed to the secretary
of state, asking whether permission
would be granted by the President to
a corporation to lay cable from a
point on the California coast to the
Philippine islands by way of Hawaii
A statement of conditions or terms
upon which such corporation would
undertake TO lay and operate d raoie
was volunteered. t1t
The representatives of the cable
company kept these conditions long
under consideration. continuing. in the
meantime. to prepare for laying the
cable. They have. however. at length
acceded to them, and an all-American
line between our Pacific coast and the
Chinese empire. by way of Honolulu
and the Philippine islands, is thus pro-
vided for, and is expected within few
months to be ready for business.
Conditions in the Philippines.
On July 4th last, on the one hundred
and twenty-sixth anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence, peace
and amnesty we're promulgated in the
Philippine islands. Some trouble has
since from time to time threatened
with the Mohammedan Moors. but
with the late insurrectionary Filipinos
the war has entirely ceased. Civil
government has now been introduced.
Not only does each Filipino enjoy
such rights to life. liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness as he has never be-
fore known during the recorded his
tory of the islands. but the people, TAX
en- as a while. now enjoy a measure of
cal . pf,x arf,r mo INF rra ha tad
to sny other Orientals by any foreign
power, and greater than that enjoyed
by any other Orientals under their
own governments, save the Japanese
| alone. We have not gone too far in
| granting these rights of liberty and
self-government; but we have certain
ly gone to the limit that in the inter-
ests of the Philippine people them
selves 1t was wise or Just to go. To
hurry matters, to go faster than We are
now going. would entail calamity on
the people of the islands. No policy
ever entered into by the American
people has vindicated itself in more
signal manner than the policy of hold
ing the Philippines. The triumph of
our arms. above all the triumph OF our
laws and principles. has come sooner
| than we had any right to expect
Too much praise cannot be given to
the army for what it has done in the
Philippines beth in warfare and from
an administrative standpoint in pre-
pairing the way for civil government:
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.
Army and Navy.
The army has been reduced to the
minimum allowed by law. 1t is very
small for the size of the Nation, and
most certainly should be kept at the
highest point of efficiency. The senior