The National tribune., 1902-06-05

ougarchy.
WE PREPARE THE FILIPINO FOR sELT-aov-
ERNMENT.
The slowly learned and difficult art OF
self-goyernment, an art which our people
have taught themselves by the labor of
thousand years, cannot be graSped in a
day by people only just emerging from
conditions of life which our ancestors left
behind them in the dim years before his
tory dawned. We believe that we can
rapidly teach the people of the Philippine
Islands not only how to enjoy but how
TO make good use of their freedom; and
with their growing knowledge their growth
in sclf-government shall keep steady pace.
When they have thus shown their capa-
city for real freedom by their power of
self government, then. and not till then,
will it be possible to decide whether they
are to exist independently of us or be
knit to us by ties of common friendship
and interest When that day will come
it is not in human wisdom now to fore
tell. All that we can say with certainty
is that it would be put back an immeas-
urablc distance if we should yield to the
counsels of unmanly weakness and turn
loose the islands. to see our victorious foes
butcher with revolving cruelty our be-
trayed friends, and shed the blood of the
most humane. the most enlightened, the
most peaceful, the wisest and the best of
their own number-for these are the
classes who have already learned to wei
come our rule.
Ncr while fully acknowledging our du-
ties to others. need we forget our duty to
our own country The Pacific seaboard
is rs much to us as the Atlantic; as we
grow in power and prosperity SO our in
terests will grow in that farthest west
which is the immemOrial east. The
shadow of our destiny has already reached
to the shores of Asia. The might Of our
people already looms large against the
world-horizon: and it will loom ever larger
as the years go by. No statesman has Il
right to neglect the interests of our peo
pie in the Pacific: interests which are i'm
portant to all our people, but which arc
of most Importance to those of our peO.
pie who have built populous and thriving
States on the Western Slope of our con
tinent
This should no more be a party ques-
ton than the war for the Union should
have been a party question. At this mo,
ippine Islands is the Nice-GOvernor. Gen.
Luke Wright. of Tennessee, who gallant
ly wore the gray in the civil war and who
is now working hand in hand with the
head of our army in the Philippines, Adna
Chaffee. who in the civil war calamity
wore the blue. Those two. and the men
under them. from the North and from the
South, in civil life and in military life.
as teachers, as administrators. rs soldiers
are laboring nightly for MS who live at
home. Here and there black sheep are
to be found among them: but taken as n
whole they represent as high standard
Of public service as this country has ever
seen. They are doing a great work for
the honor and the interest of this Nation.
and above all for the welfare of the in.
habitants of the Philippine Islands. All
honor 10 them; and shame. thrice shame.
to us if we fail to uphold their hands!
THE coMMANpER-1N-CH CHIEFS ADDRESS.
The address of COMMUNICATIVE Chief Ell
Torrance was briefer than that of Pres-
dent Roosevelt. and while he referred in
TO the present operations in the
Philippines, defnding the American sol
dier, his speech was principally devoted to
the veterans of the civil war. His speech,
in full, is as follows:
This is the soldiers coronation day
a day when all men speak his praise
when elo1uence, poetry, and song attain
their widest compass and lOftiest strain,
and the program of the patriots memory
reaches the skies. This ever-increasing
defenders is ample compensation for the
soldiers sacrifices and sufferings. 1t
makes his wounds honorable. the graves
of his comrades sacred, and their memory
immortal. Today the alabaster box of the
peoples love is broken and the land is
filed with its perfume: but tomorrow the
tongues Of detraction, palsied today, will
again be heard feebIy assailing. not the
illustrious heroes who sleep in this beautl-
lit, ~ fl.a hut hat,
and those who by the supreme
mandates of the American people are
maintaining the honor Of the flag and up
holding the yightful authority of this
Government in the distant islands of the
sea. How incOngruOus to honor the mem
Dry of the soldier dead and dishonOr the
character of the soldier living. Who is
the American soldier? He is the elector
of the Republic. \ sovereign citizen. He
comes from the home Of the people at the
first call Of duty, volunteer in his coun-
try's cause and the defense of her flag
in the hour of peril. He is first citizen,
but first and last and always patriot;
better soldier for having been Il citizen,
and better citizen for having been sol
der.
THE WORK OF THE SOLDIER.
"He has given validity to declarations
of independence and made emancipation
possible. Brave and pa
triotic men have first written them with
ink, but the soldier has rewritten and
given them force and effect with his lifes
blood. He has been a leader in the worlds
progress and since the day the Minute Men
stood guard at Concord Bridge and fell
dead at their doOrsteps on Lexington
green he has ever been on the firing line
OF civilization. The flag he loved may
never encircle the globe, but it is his pur-
pose that the principles it represents shah
be the heritage of all people who dwell
upon the face Of the earth. Liberty is ex-
pansive, and the defender Of liberty is an
expansionist. Honor, peace, prosperity
and liberty, civil and religious, have fol-
lowed in the path Of the soldier for more
than six score years. On land and sea his
deeds have been glorious and his achieve
ments are the Nations richest possessions
and her most enduring inheritance. 1t is
said that when there is no vision the peo-
I'le perish Today, my comrades, our WIS.,
ion Is unObstructed. Our eyes have again
caught the futter of the old flags as they
led the painful and costly road to victory
Our feet have again kept time to the
noiselessness Of phantom regiments as
they march by, and our hearts have again
been quickened by the distant echo of
bugles and the faint sound Of far-away
drums.
THE SACRIFICES OF HOME.
1.-The thoughts of some have been clus-
tered around the old home in the peace.
full valley, with its sparkling spring and
fragrant flowers and luscious fruits. Once
more you stood at its open door and bid a
fan far oil 70 vnvit,