The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-24
CAN GOVERN DEPENDENCIES.
What the United states Is Doing for
the FiIfpinos.


But the opposition denies that republic
can govern dependencies. But we are gov
erning them. Parallel, if you can, the pro-
gress we have made. England's brilliant
administration in India and Egypt pales
before our work already accomplished in
the Philippines. American civil admins
tratiOn was inaugurated less than ten
months ago, and yet American schools
have followed the American flag in every
pacified province As speak. nearly 100000
Filipino children are learning the Ameri-
can language. More than thisl AS Ameri-
can factories are working night and day in
the Republic, American schools work
ing night and day in the Philippines; and
nearly 10000 natives are being taught
in American night schools. Almost thou
sand American school teachers already
have followed the flag across the seas.
Still morel Almost 1900 Filipino teachers
are being trained by American instructors,
and are even now at work. More still!
Even before our civil government began
that tremendous task of education, Ameri-
can officers organized schools for Filipino
children. and they were taught by Ameri-
can soldiers detailed from the ranks. The
American flag, The American soIdieri The
American teacher! Together they march
forward! Cheer their progressl Hold aloft
their hands. Rally around them American
voters. They are the emblem and agencies
of civilizations noblest creation, the Amer
| lean Republic.
| The United States cannot govern? In ev-
| cry province where we have suppressed in
surrection and shot brigandage to death
! civil administration is operating, and, for
! the first time in Philippine history an un-
terrorized people are at peaceful work Is
/ QOVprnmpnt2 Already
| building, and all over the islands highways
| are being planned and surveyed. Within
/ five years railways will connect Philippine
valleys, mines and forests with sea ports,
/ and these. in turn, with every trade CEN
| ter of the globe Are these not fruits of
/ government In Manila model muncipal
! administration has been built and the
| American police of this ocean capital is un-
surpassed in Europe or America. Municipal
! ownership has begun, and modern ice
plant built and owned by the government
| furnishes ice to Manila at half the former
| price. Are these not results of government?
/ A perfect public land system is being de-
/ vised; and native need be home
/ less. The best forestry laws of the world
/ are those of Germany; the forests of Sax
Ony pay much of her expenses. In the Phil
| fppines, forestry laws are being estab-
/ lished perfect as those of Saxonys. Mining
| laws made up OF the best features of every
/ nation and admitted by the opposition to
/ be far superior to our own system: the
/ grant of public franchises safeguarded as
1 the franchises of only a few of the ad-
| NdnCSO CllleS Oh lIllS country are safe
! guarded; courts in every pacified province.
with appeals to Supreme Courts at Manila;
| for the first time in all the dark and bloody
history of the archipelago justice to the
meanest, poorest native freely and with
/ out price, speedily and without delay'-is
| not all this government?
! I challenge an instance of a small frac-
/ tiOn of these results during a like brief
period in any land or at any time And vet
! the opposition say that we cannot govern
/ But has the Opposition's word any weight
] a a milo
cannot do? Even In the Democratic party's
/ sanest days they said that Americans
could not successfully manufacture steel
rails; to-day We sell steel rails TO England
! The youngest man in this convention re-
members the opposition's scorn when Nc
Kinley said that America must manufacture
tin; to-day America is the worlds princi-
pal producer of that universal convenience
You cannot, you Will fail'-has ever
been the opposition's wall to the American
people. THE American people can, the
American people Will has ever been the
Republican partys word of faith.
LITTLE CORRUPTION.
We are told that administration of de-
Tendencies is necessarily corrupt. Show me
a business in the United States more ac-
curately. honestly conducted than the
American admnist ration of Philippine
finances. Do they cite the frauds in Cuba?
Nicely in prison. every consprator pun
ished-when, think you, with that example,
another fraud will occIr in our dependen-
| cies? What of our own States? Kentucky's
embezzng treasurer, Dakotas Golfers
robbed Nebraska's money stolen-are state
| governments therefore necessarily corrupt?
| Five selected men administering govern
ment in the Philippines: the most expert
| system of accounting yet devised in public
| affairs searching every expenditure this
system presided over by Abe Lawshe of
/ whom Indiana is so proud; review of every
/ detail by the specialists of War and Treas
ury Departments in Washington; and final
\ ly every item subjected to the scrutiny of
smallest defect-American honesty and
system in Philippine administration com
! pels the worlds applause
/ Their distance does not mean corrl1ptfon
/ in administration. difficulty in government
/ They are not distant II Is less than four
l weeks by slow transport 10 Manila: by
/ swiftest ocean vessel less than three weeks
/ When we took the territory where Omaha
/ now stands that point was nearly two
| months distant from the seat of govern
/ ment. When We took California San Fran
| cisco was four months distant. Is IL an
/ swered that they were on the same soiI9
I Deserts are harder to cross than ocea ms
The no longer separate US from the
/ world-they connect US. We have a greater
/ coast line than the five grea test maritime
nations of the world combined. Our situa-
ton compels US 20 be the first sea power
| Of the world within the not distant future
| No spot OH the globe Is now remote Com
/ New York and London 10 Manila, and
| reach there before the day Is done and
I row direct cable will soon be laid from
| san Francisco To the Philippines. Their
/ situation is no argument against but for
American administration there. 1t forces