Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-24

work of endeavor The campaign Of 1900
had to be fought largely upon the new is
sue thus raised. President Mckinley met
1t squarely. TwQ.yeaw and eight months
ago. before his second domination, he spoke
we believe thai the century of free gov
eminent which the American people have
enjoyed has not rendered them irresolute
and faithless, but has fitted them for the
better conditions and larger liberty those
distant peoples wRo through the issue Of
battle have become our wards. Let us fear
not. There is no~sccasfen for faint hearts,
grow In strength. Ahe cause of liberty and
law is not advan&kd by the doing of easy
things.
Harder the Task, Greater the Honor.
1.-THE harder the. task the greater will be
the result, the benefit and the honor. To
doubt our power to accomplish 1t is to lose
faith in the soundness and strength Of our
popular institutions . We have the
new care and cannot shift 1t. And, break
ing up the camp of ease and isolation, let
us bravely and hopefully and soberly con-
tinue the march of faithful service. and
falter not until the work is done.
The burden is our opportunity. The oppor-
tun1ty Is greater than the burden
Ihere spoke the man who preached the
gospel OF hope as well as the gospel of
duty, and on the issue thus fairly drawn
between those who said we would do our
new work well and triumphantly and those
who said we would fail lamentably in the
enort, the contest was Joined. We won.
And now / ask you two years after the
victory, to look across the seas and judge
for yourselves whether OF not the promise
has been kept. The prophets of disaster
nave seen their predictions SO completely
faisified by the event that 1t Is actually 6if
NCult TO arouse naSSinQ interest in
their FAILURE. To answer them now, to re-
view their attack on our army, is of merely
academic interest. They played their brief
part or obstruction and camor; they said
their say; and the current of our life went
over them and they sank under it did
their predecessors who, thirty-six years be-
FORE, had declared that another and greater
war was failure, that another and greater
struggle Tor true liberty was only contest
for subjugation in which the United States
coulo never succeed. The insurrection
among the Filipinos has been absolutely
quelled. The war has been brought to an
end sooner than even the most sanguine of
us dared to hope. The world has not In re-
cent years seen any military task done with
moreover, in spirit Of great humanity.
Terrible Strain on Army.
The strain on the army was terrible, for
the conditions Of climate and soil made
their work harassing to an extraordinary
oSSASSs ohN thC 1OtS III lie ASiO "eTc
treacherous and cruel, not merely toward
our men, but toward the great multitude Of
peaceful islanders who welcomed our rule
Under the strain Of well-nigh intolerable
proVocafion there were shameful instances
as must happen in all wars, where the SOL
dlers forgot themselves, and retaliated evil
for evil. Every effort has been made to de-
tect such cases, to punish the offenders,
and to prevent any recurrence Of the deed
Il is cruel injustice to the gallant men
to recognize that these instances were ex-
ceptional, and that the American troops
who served in the far-off tropic islands de-
serve praise the same in kind that has al
ways been given to those who have we'll
and valiantly fought for the honor of our
common flag and common country. The
work OF civil administration has kept pace
with the work Of military administration
and when on July last amnesty and peace
were declared throughout the islands the
CIVIL government assumed the complete
control Peace and order now prevail and
a greater measure Of prosperity and of hap
piness than the Fflpinos have ever hither-
to known in all their dark and checkered
history; and each one OF them has great
er 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 con-
fronted US during the past six years Thus
we nave Kept every promise made in 1896
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 triumphs achieved in
the past Is of use chiefly IL it spurs us to
fresh effort In the present No nation has
ever prospered as we are prospecting now
ana we must see to it that by our own folly
we 90 not mar this prosperity. Yet we
must see to 1t also that wherever wrong
hourishes 1t be repressed. 1t is not the
habit Of our people to shirk issues, but
squarely to face them. 1t is not the bit
OF our people to treat good record in the
past as anything but a reason for exnect-
ing an even better record in the present:
and no administration, gentlemen, should
ask 10 be judged save on those lines.
Growth of Industrialism.
Ihe tremendous growth of our industri-
allsm has brought to the front many prob
lens 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 fear
less public servant who represents Penn
sylVania In the cabinet-Attorney General
Knox. The question of the so-cailed trusts
Is but one of the questions we must meet
In connection with our industrial system.
There are many of them and they are Sc
r1ous; but they can and will be met Time
may be needed for making the solution per-
feet: but 1t Is idle to tell this people that
we have not the power to solve such q
problem as that of exercising adequate
supervision over the great Industrial com
binations Of today. We have the power
and we shall find out the way. We shall
not act hastily or recklessly; but we have
firmly made up our minds that solution.
and right solution Shall be found and
found it will be-
No nation as great as ours can expect to
escape the penalty of greatness, for great
ness does not come without trouble and
labor. There are problems ahead of us at
home and problems abroad, because such
problems are incident to the working out of
a great national career We do not shrink
from them. Scant is our patience with
those who preach the gospel OF craven
weakness. No nation under the sun ever
yet played part worth playing If 1t feared
its fate overmuch-if 1t did not have the
courage to be great. We Of America. we
the sons Of a nation yet in the pride Of its
lusty youth, spurn the teachings of dis
trust. spurn the creed OF failure and des-
pair We know that the future is ours If
we have in the manhood to grasp II
and we enter the new century pirdjnp orr