The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-12


Nation. And the department of commerce,
which President Roosevelt urged Congress
TO create, is the seed from which will grow
perfect national consrol of national IN
dustry.a
MODERATION IS WISDOM.
But effective national supervision must
grow. Ironclad control of business meth
DDS which themselves are perpetually
changing and improving cannot be created
on the instant, and would not be effective
if it could National control which accom-
plishes anything must develop as the chang
ing methods of organized industry them
selves develop. Moderation is the word of
wisdom In all human legislation; and mod
Grafton is the word of necessity in all legis-
lation that attempts TO regulate the BUSH
ness activities Of nation of 100000 of
people. No rashness, no violence, no revo-
lutionary methods. Reform means progress,
not destruction. Ruin never yet remedied
an evil, yet humiliation is the only methoo
the opposition proposes. The admlnlsra-
ton and construction-the opposition ana
destruction-this is the situation.
But trusts are not the real question OF
this campaign. How shall the prosperity OF
the last five years be continued-that Is the
real question of this campaign. New mar
kets for American products-that is the
only answer to this great question All
American craftsmanship for the next decade
is summed up in these five wordS-new mar
kets for American products. How does the
opposition propose to get single new mar
ket for a single pound of American meat,
single barrel of American flour, single
carload Of American machinery?
Practical methods for getting new mar,
kets are Americas need. And praclcdi
methods the administration proposes Inc
administration proposes monopoly Oh the
markets OF Cuba which will buy from the
f1rst year reciprocity is established $lVVVO,-
coo worth of American products. And TINS
market will increase in proportion as we
give her the opportunity for development;
Inc residents Cuban policy Is 1hsplreo
by national honor; but national honor ana
national necessity walk hand In hand we
are responsible for Cuba to the world ana
TO history. That great statesman, Senator
Platt, of Connecticut, framed a law when
Congress adopted which forever binds that
Island TO the fortunes of the United states.
cuba can contract no foreign debt without
our consent, no treaty without our APPROX
al; and the moment her government fails
10 protect property and life, American
power may enter the island TO restore ana
maintain a government that can. The pray
ers of the American people are that CUBA,
under the protection of the United states
may care for herself: but whether she
walks erect with growing strength or
whether she totterS In weakness and turns
10 US asking again government by Amerl-
tiny and our aid is her right. And relief for
Cuba is relief for ourselves because she Will
take scores of millions of dollars worth of
the surplus products Of our factories and
farms.
FREE TRADE BANEFUL.
yet the opposition resists reciprocity
with Cuba. 1t demands free trade with
Cuba and the world. But will free trade
give US markets in foreign countries? No,
1t gives foreign countries our markets; it
surrenders all to our rivals and secures
nothing in return. Free trade does not
make the markets of other nations free to
US; 1t only makes our markets free to them.
The craftsmanship of Blaine, of Mckinley,
of Roosevelt is merely this: Do not lower
the American tariff an inch to foreign
countries till you have secured from them
a new market for American products in re-
turn.
Where else shall new markets for
| American products be secured? Our new
possessions answer that question; the ORR
| ent answers that question:; the geography
of the world answers that question:
| Senator Beverage then exhaustively dis
| cussed the question of markets in our pos
| sessions and in the Orient. From total
| purchases of less than S., 900 before Ha-
wall, Porto Rico and the Philippines be-
| came American, they have increased their
| purchases of American products to nearly
| $4O,OOOOOO every year. And the increase
mounts upward as the years advance.
Porto Rico formerly bought practically
everything she consumed from foreign
| countries; now she buys everything she
| consumes from u.s. Hawaii formerly bought
| practically everything she consumed from
| foreign countries; now she buys every
| thing she consumes from us. And just so
| the Philippines, whose purchases from
| other nations amount to S3OO0O,O00 will also
buy, in the course OF time, everything her
people consume from us. Our Oriental trade
/ is the only remaining outlet on the globe
/ where we may dispose of our surplus prod
| ucts. That trade which now consumes up
| wards of 500, 900, 900 worth of products of
| English factories alone every year must be
| captured for the American factory and
| farm. And to capture that trade is the
| policy of the administration. Since we ac-
| CURED these islands American exports to
| Asia and Oceania have risen from s43 $1,000
/ to $120,O00,O00; while our exports to Europe
| have fallen in the last six months, our ex-
| ports to the Orient at the same time have
/ rapidly increased. The surrender of the
| Philippines would mean the surrender of
/ our progressive commercial policy in the
| Orient. If any Englishman advocated the
/ abandonment of England'S commercial
| footholds in the far East you would brand
him traitor to English prosperity. And just
SO, surrender of the Philippines is treason
| TO the commercial supremacy of the Re-
| public in the countries that border on the
| Pacific ocean. And TO give them up would
| mean, not their abandonment, but their
| surrender to our commercial rivals. For
how could We prevent Germany. or Eng
land, or Japan from taking what we our
selves surrender? And with their policy of
| acquiring commercial foothold, who doubts
| that the flag of one of these great powers
1 WOulu rise over the fnlllpplneS the mo
! ment we left them. In the American die
| tionary there is no such word as surren-
| der; we have not yet learned how to sound
| retreat, in the conflict of arms or of trade.
1.-The argument of Philippine expenses
| has been answered by events. The day of
Philippine expense is past. The Philippine
government is supported exclusively by
Philippine revenues. The cost of suppress
| ing instruction has already been paid. The
period of outlay has ended; the period of
| profit has begun"
| LIBERTY FOR FILIPINOS.
Senator Beveridge then examined objec-
tons of anti-imperialists. 1--WE do not deny
| them liber9y," he said. 1--WE instruct them
| in liberty. Liberty is not a phrase; ii is a
reality. Savages left to themselves do not
know liberty. Liberty manifests Itself in
just institutions. Equal laws are liberty;
| we have given them 20 the Filipinos. I'm
partial courts are liberty; We have given
| them to the Filipinos. Free education is
| liberty; we are giving 1t to the Filipinos
more rapidly than we gave ii to ourselves.
We are instructing our Malay wards in
regulated methods of industry-their great
est need. Contact with the civilized world is
4 liberty; we are bringing the Fflipinos into
| human touch with the advanced people of
| the earth. Cultivated fields. happy homes,
/ highways of communication-these are
| manifestations of liberty. American laws
| have abolished serfdom and given to every
/ OF his own. We are weaving network OF
/ hiUbwavs fhroughOut the islands whioh