The Minneapolis journal., 1902-11-24
The PROBLEMS now BEFORE Us
THE PRESIDENT THE NATIONS WORK IN LAST
DECADE AND POINTS TO THE GREATER THINGS
THAT REMAIN TO BE DONE.

complaint is made that some people have
gained more than their share or the
worlds goods. There was no such COM
plaint eight years ago, in the summer of
1894. The complaint was not then that
any one had prospered too much. 1t was
not that any one had prospered enough.
Rarely, indeed. have our greatest men
made issues. They have shown their
greatness by meeting them as they arose.
President Mckinley faced the problems Of
the Spanish war and those that followed
it exactly as he faced the problems Of
our economic and financial needs. AS q
sequel to the war with Spain we found
ourselves in possession Of the Philippines
under circumstances which rendered it
necessary to subdue a formidable insur-
rection which made it impossible for US
with honor or with regard to the welfare
of the island to withdraw therefrom.
1.-The occasion was seized by the op
ponents Of the president for trying to
raise a new issue. on which they hoped
they might be more successful than on
the old. The clamor raised against him
was joined in, not only by many honest
men who were led astray by mistaken
view or imperfect knowledge Of the facts,
but by all who feared the effort, who
shrank from the rough work Of endeaVOr
The campaign of 1900 had to be fought
largely upon the new issue thus raised.
President Mckinley met it squarely.
The prophets Of disaster have seen
their predictions so completely falsified
by the evidence that it is actually difficult
to arouse even passing interest in the
failure To answer them now, to review
their attack on our army, IS Of merely
academic interest, They played their
brief part of obstructions and clamor;
they said their say; and the current Of
our life went over them and they sank
under it as did their predecessors who,
thirty-siX years before had declared that
another and greater war was a failure.
Peace and order now prevail and a
greater measure of prosperity and Of hap
piness than the Filipinos have ever hith-
erto known in all their dark and checkered
history, and each one Of them has a
greater measure Of liberty, greater
chance Of happiness and greater safety
for his life and property than he or his
forefathers have ever before known.
"Thus we have met each task that has
confronted us during the past six years.
Thus we have kept every promise made
in 1896 and 1900. We have a right to
be proud of the memories Of the last six
years. But we must remember that each
victory only opens the chance for a new
struggle; that the remembrance of tri-
umphs achieved in the past is Of use
chiefly as it spurs us to fresh effort in
the present. No nation has ever pros
pered as we are prospering now, and we
must see to it that by our own folly we
do not mar this prosperity.
1.-The tremendous growth Of our indus
triaism has brought to the front many
problems with which we must deal; and
I trust that we shall deal with them along
the lines indicated in speech and in action
by that profound jurist and upright and
fearless public servant who represents
Pennsylvania in the cabinet-Attorney
General Knox. The question Of the So
called trusts is but one Of the questions
we must meet in connection with our In
dustrial system. There are many Of them
and they are serious; but they can and
will be met. Time may be needed for
making the solution perfect; but it is idle
to tell this people that we have not the
power to solve such problem as that Of
exercising adequate supervision over the
great industrial combinations Of to-day.
We have the power and we shall
find ont the way, we shall not act hastily
or recklessly but we have firmly made up
our minds that solution, and a right SOL
ution, shall be found, and found it will be.
1--WE, of America, we the sons of a ma
ton. yet in the pride Of its lusty youth,
spurn the teachings Of distrust, spurn the
creed Of failure and despair We know
that the future is ours if we have in our
manhood to grasp it and we enter the new
century girdling our loins for the contest
before us, rejoicing in the struggle, and
resoute so to bear ourselves that the ma
tons great future shall even surpass her
glorious past