The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-24

American people reject party Wnlcn
administered the business of the ma
ton with such results even under con-
ditions of peace? Well. This is the
Republican record under conditions of
war.
Indiana Republican Achievements.
Always and everywhere the Repub
lican party in power means prosperity
of the people, reduction of debt, COM
nonsense handling of revenues. In
the nation good times are always Re-
publican times. In the state, Repub
lican administration always means re-
duction of debt, wise legislation. In
four years of Democratic rule they
have reduced our state debt S1,310,000.
of which s723,000 was received from
the federal government in payment of
the direct war-tax. Since the Republi-
can party came into power we have
reduced the state debt more than So
government Republican financial ad-
ministration has saved the people of
Indiana more than $4,000 in interest
every year. This is Indiana's Repub
lican financial record in spite of more
than s1,500,000 paid for engagements
and improvements of reformatory in
stitutions and the soldiers home, in
spite of $1,060,000 paid to our state
institutions every year for mainten-
ance. No more scandals through pur-
chases for state institutions from ia
vorites, competitive bids alone deter
mining contracts; state inspection of
factories; state labor commission; In
diana workingmen cared for and
guarded as never before; county and
state officials deprived of exorbitant
fees and placed on salaries exactly as
a business firm would do; and hun
dreds of thousands of dollars turne d
back into the peoples treasuries-this
is Republican work. 1t is the same
practical ability in our state admins
tration that The country halls in our
national administration, and that the
world applauds in our administration
of dependencies. We govern our state
well in spite of the opposition. We
govern the nation we'll in spite of the
opposition. We govern dependencies
well in spite of the opposition. For
the Republican party knows how to
govern.
We are told that administration of
dependencies is necessarily corrupt.
Show me a business in the United
States more accurately, honestly con-
Quoted than the American adnlinistra-
tion of Philippine firGnces. Do they
cite the frauds in Cuba? Nicely in
prison, every conspi~"+or punished
when, think you. with that example.
another fraud will occur in our depen-
dencies? What of our own states? ?
Kentucky's embezzling treasurer, Da-
kota's Golfers robbed, Nebraska's mon
ey stolen-are state governments
therefore necessarily corrupt? Five
selected men administering govern
ment in the Philippines; the most ex-
pert system of accounting yet devised
in public affairs searching every ex-
penditure, this system presided over
by Abe Lawshe, of whom Indiana is So
proud; review of every detail by the
specialists of war and treasury depart
ments in Washington; and finally ev-
cry item subjected to the scrutiny of
keen men in congress looking for the
smallest defect-American honesty
and system in Philippine administra-
tion compels the worlds applause.
Their distance does not mean cor
ruption In administration, difficulty IN
government. They are not distant.
1t is less than four weeks by slow
transport to Manila; by swiftest
ocean vessels, less than three weeks.
When we took the territory where
Omaha now stands that point was
nearly two months distant from the
seat of government. When we took
California, San Francisco was four
months distant. Is it answered that
they were on the same soil? Deserts
are harder to cross than oceans. The
seas no longer separate us from the
world-they connect us. We have a
greater coast line than the five great
est maritime nations of the world
combined. Our situation compels us
to be the first sea power of the world
within the not distant future. No spot
on the globe is now remote. CONNER
cial orders are given every day from
New York and London to Manila and
reach there before the day is done i;
and now a direct cable will soon be
laid from San Francisco to the Philip
pines. Their situation Is no argument
against but for American administra-
tion there. 1t forces us out on the
worlds high seas; and thither we must
go or be crushed with the great weight
of our own enormous productivity.
Do they tell us of the brutality of
American soldiers? War has no record
of mercy, tenderness and care that
compares with the American treat
ment of prisoners in the Philippines.
Generals Otis, Hughes and Macarthur
have testified to the kindness of Amer
lean officers and men to Filipino pris-
oners. They are cared for even as
our own. I have seen wards of our
own hospitals turned over to Filipino
sick and wounded. American physi-
clans attend them, American nurses
minister to them. We are told of
RECOMMENDATION camps. And what are
they? Great tracts of fertile land, not
surrounded by fences and stockades,
where the people may live and work in
perfect liberty protected from murder
Gus despeladoes' demands. The Re
publican party stands by the American
soldier In the Philippines today as 1t