The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1902-01-15
Probably the old residents OF Min.
.nesota would have a much better
Judgment than 1 have.
THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902.
Nep York Sun

ditions that seem to promise
the maintenance of peace IN all
parts of the world, with the ex-
ception of South Africa. The
prospect of tranquility, how
ever, may be at any hour over
cast by such contingencies as
the collision of Russia and
Japan in the Far East, as the
death of the Hapsburg Kaiser,
or that of the Ottoman Sultan,
events likely to have results
which it may prove difficult to
localize. Meanwhile the COM
ing twelvemonth may be ex-
pected to throw a good deal of
light on some interesting ques-
tons in the economic sphere,
the questions, namely, wheth-
er industrial crises have the
periodicity which is ascribed
to them, and whether, even if
we admit their periodical oc-
currence one country may not
suffer far less acutely than
another from the suspension
of credit and the disturbance
of the normal relations of sup
ply and demand.
Our own country may enter
upon the new year without
nisgiving, either from an in
ternational or an economic
point of view. We have no
quarrel with any foreign Pow
er, and there is no ground for
supposing that any serious
friction will result from our
dispute with Canada toucing
the Alaska boundary, or from
our demand that the conflict
ing claims Of two American as.
phalt companies in Venezuela
shall be justly dealt with by the
Caracas Government. The in
surrection in the Phil ppines
has dwindled to ftful and fee
bic demonstrations of rancor in
a few sections of Luzon and in
some of the smaller islands of
the Visaya group, and it may
truthfully be said that the al
chipelago as a whole is we'll
nigh as tranquil to-day as it
ever was under Spanish rule.
1t by no means follows that the
presence of large garrison
will not be needed for some
years to convince the Fillpinos
that we have come to stay, and
that, if they desire to enjoy a
large measure of self-govern-
ment, they must. first prove
their willingness to enforce in
ternal order and their fitness
for free institutions. tits their
misfortune that false hopes of
independence should have been
held out by American anti-im-
perialists, hopes that have been
delayed by frank acceptance of
the duties and the opportuni-
ties inseparable from the fixed
relation OF the islands to the
United States. There is no
doubt that the productive ca
pacity OF the archipelago will
be lmpressively Increased so
soon as American enterprise
and capital are permitted to de-
velop it's natural resources, and,
meanwhile, the cost of an eff
cient and stimulative admins
tration can be betrayed by the
institution of a separate tariff
for the Philippines, a measure
rendered indispensable by re-
cent decisions of the United
States Supreme Court.
Within the first half of the
coming twelvemonth we shall
have honorably fulfilled the
promise made by us in 1898,
and an independent govern
ment will have been inagura-
ted in Cuba. We shall thus
have given much-needed ex-
ample of good faith to the
world. The credit of national
pledges has been of late i'm
paired by the persistent occu-
patton of Egypt, a country
which is strategically of far
less importance to Great Brit
ain than is Cuba to the United
States.
As to our relation with China
during the year now begun we
can reflect with satisfaction
that our part in the punitive.
expedition was so discreetly
performed as to place us rela-
lively high In the esteem of the
Chinese, and their good will
/ will be intensified when they
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