The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-07-10

act aiyinr a n am p and broader power
to the ,mnission for the establishment
Of the the isIalsds This act tue among other
things, provides for the survey, settlement
and entry of the public lands and the
spd fares aad Tbere afe in round nn
most of it rich and arabic with an
900, 900 acres are public lands, and only s.
100000 are private property, mostly
Church and frfaroland. farmed by natives,
as Iaborers. or as. tenants, at low wages
Or high and exorbitant rents. This sys-
tenn Of church and friar ownership and
farming is and has been most burden
one of their greatest sources of COM
plant against the Spaniards
$ Besides under Spanish rule, few of the
natives had secured titles to the lands
they occupied Most of them were mere
naked sauatters. With a view Of reliev-
ing the people of the burdens of friar and
provision for securing by purchase or
condemnation these lands and the disposal
of them in forty-acre farms at cost price
further provides that the natives may
secure from the public lands without cost,
title in fee, to the extent of forty acres
and titled before we became possessed #
the country, and forty acres of that soil
in that climate and with their productions
makes a good and ample farm. In this
it's own.
This free distribution of land, IN zee
am dmosg the nativesmn thing unk NOW ann nn
tnlng else TO make the mass OF the pe0Rie
happy. contented and law ABIDING; Inc
sense or ownership begets love OF peace
ana taste Tor law and order. with lano
ownership, good system OF pubic
scnoois. ana improved means or communi-
SS s, the people win 9e an positf0n "
D pee prospstous ana ntteo Ior iocai
seI-goVernment. =. -, a
SuGn' IN pileI, Is What we nave ooie'
en- Gnu IN IN .ne ~ auture am. 70 w,
IRON fa spain fror+. - ,o,fv 70 o,v,,,va and
70 n,,ift tho,o 80 asnSSo,;s II. ~, Nv ra-
cent EFFORTS Of 1soisls ton in their heh ale
we have az yn,,' ai1 know ancnnntered
able opnosition Of the Democratic narty in
CONGRESS-. -
They would have US lay down our task
of iustice and duty and would have us
abandon the islands and their people to
hard and hopeless fate, while they are
still helpless and in a. state of economic
and political childhood.
Those islands, which some of the Dem
ocracy, by their votes, for both treaty
and compensation, helped us in secur-
ing, those Islands, which our brave ana
yaior2us army and navy have occupied
and been engaged IN paci1ylng Tor tne
last three years, now that the nara
drudgery has been done and peace, with
peUpie na are about to oe be and
born to a newer and better life, now,
when all this great and necessary pre-
liminary work has been done, they
preach the gospel of scuttle and abandon
ment louder and flercer than ever, thus
belittling, as far as they can, the great
results that have been accomplished and
declaring it all frutless and a failure,
as they declared the war for the pres
ervation of the Union a failure in 1864.
After acquiring the islands by as valid
and just a method as we ever acquired
any of our territorial acquisitions, after
pouring out our blood and our treasure
for them without stint, voluntarily and
with well-nigh one accord we are to
treat them as a stranded wreck, as
though We ourselves had been wrecked in
them and are to cast them adrift as an
abandoned derelict at sea. This is the
latest gospel of the militant Democracy
What the American people have in be-
half of humanity and Justice, by their
valor, their treasure and their blood, ac-
uuired and held they will never permit
to be wrecked scuttled or abandoned
The task which under high sense of
Justice and duty they assumed in 1898
they will faithfully carry out for the
good of our entire countrv and for the
GOOD Of HELPLESS and dowyntro rod Di hue hue
manity the world over.
In a5,,oco+in the;, .o,o,,, 30 ,a,,,
roan+ az 6a,,eS omeot SSvie " aoa.ooL I
daIierht n 80 Sf,s aeS maVe lahen speCIaI
onr armv I by LYNN pnu+in 1ux for IA Iraa9eiing
49, IT. ;+o.o @ Aoi aiiu p ioolaliii
seT,+sd ns,5 Ieat ana saLlsIactlon,
Of OR otficers and snia;arS So"ded h SUI th
cruelty and sayagery of the enemy have
transcribed the methods of civiliZsd war
fare. The fact that a few of orr officers
and soldiers have transgressed on the
rules of war can have no valid bearing
on the Justice or wisdom of the pOlicv Of
retaining the islands. Such transgres-
sions occur and are liable to occur in anv
war, in fact occurred in the Civil war
and vet no one ever undertook to measure
the Justice of that war by isolated cases
of cruelty on the mart of a few men in orr
great army. Neither has if anneared or
been shown that the nresident or the war
department has heen Negligent in bring
ing before miIitarv courfs for investig5-
ton. trial and punishment all cases of
cruelty and unciviiized warfare broi,ebt
TO their attention o
our army. to exploit a Few of the short
conninps without oivine II cradit for its
natience its vaIor and ito manifold acts
IF generosity ana Kindness manifest a
shirt Of sheer nartisar wantonness NJ.
nprnvolxed and ,,pnatrintic rnr tbev have
M hoo riro ON the nolic,r Of L.a+anti9n nor
are thew instified Nv Sny raoIieence Of
the nresident or the war denarfment in
the nremises f,''- - 49,
President MCKINLEY had himself nartici
mated in war. was familiar with all ii;
most hnmane and kinu.nearted man The
same is true of President RooseveIt and
neither of them would for a moment fol.
arate or hermit to 90 Ilnnunished anV a CTS
Of crneltv cnntrar1 ro The rnies aud c,Iss
toms Of Civilized warfare. - -
The American army is a part of our
own people, of the same race. training
and blood The rank and file are fair
Representatives of the average of our Gull