Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-06-07


Laws we are now endeavoring to enact Tor
the government of the Philippines are 10
increase the power and domain OF the civh
at the expense of the military authorllies,
and to render even more difficult than IN
the past the chance or oppression. Inc
military power Is used 10 secure pence,
I'm order that It may itself be supplante1
by the civil government. n progress ol
the American arms means the abolition
OF cruelty, the bringing Of peace, ana the
| rule OF law and order under the civil gov,
eminent. Other nations have conquer i
TO create irresponsible military RUE. We
conquer to bring just and responsible civil
government to the conquered.
Work OF Our Arms.
But our armies do more than bring
peace, DO more than bring order. Iney
bring freedom. Remember always that
the Independence OF a tribe or a coIninu-
nifty may, and often does, nave nothlnS
whatever 10 DO with the freedom or the
individual IN that tribe or community.
There are now in Asia and Africa scores
OF despotiC monarchies, each OF when ~
independent. and in no one OF which Is
there the slightest vesuse of freedom lot
the individual man. Scant indeed Is tEe
gain 10 mankind from the independence
OF n bloCd-staincd tyrant who rules over
AFFECT and brutallzed slaves. But great
steady though slow Introduction of the
orderly liberty, the law-abiding freedom oil
the individual, which Is the only sure
foundation upOn which national indie
| INEllltffN idl4 I1 III v ~ Nh@
PHILIPPINES the instruction has been dell
nitely and finally put down, there the In
dividual Filipino already enjoys such free
dom. such personal liberty, under our rule,
as be could never even dream OF under
the rule OF an independent ASuinaldian
obliEarchy.
The slowly-learned and difficult art Of
self-government, an art which our people
have taught themselves by the labor OF
n thousand years, cannot be grasped in "A
day by a people only just emerging from
conditions of life which our ancestors left
behind them I'm the dim years before his
tory dawned. We believe that we can
rapidly teach the people Of the Philippine
islands not only how To enjoy but how .
make good use of their freedom; and with
their growing knowledge their growth In
self-government shall keep steady pace
When they have thus shown their capacity
for real freedom by their power OF self
government then, ana not ill then, will
II be possible TO decide whether they are
TO exist independently Of us or be knit to
us by tics Of common friendship and IN
tercst. When that day viii come 1t Is
not I'm human wisdom now 10 f%oretell. Al
that we can say with certainty is that II
would be put back ~ immcasurable dis
tance if We should yield TO the counse!s
OF unmanly weakness and turn loose The
islands. 10 see our victorious foes butcher
with revolving cruelty our betrayed
friends. and shed the blood Of the mos
humane. the most enlightened. the most
peaceful, the wiSest and the best OF theil
own number-fOT these are the classes
who have already learned 70 welcome oul
rulc.
Tho Duty at Home.
Nor. while fully acknowledging our du
ties 10 others. need we forget our dutl
to our own country. The Pacific seaboart
81 as much to US es the Atlantic; rs W.
grow In power and prosperity so our in
tercsts will grow I'm that farthest ives
which is the immemorial east. The SHADOW
of our destiny has already reached TO tn
shores Of Asia. The might Of our peopl
already looms large against the worlG
horizon; md II Will loom ever larger "a
the Years 20 by. No statesman has Il righ
10 neglect the interests Of our people II
the Pacific; interests which are imporlal
10 al our people, but which are of mos
have built populous and thriving state
ON the western slope Of our continent.
This should no more hc a party quSs
tion thar the war for the union shoul
have been a party question, AZ TINS mo
mcnt the man in highest office I'm tn
phIipuinr islands Is the vice governor
General Luke Wright of Tennessee, VIII
calamity wore the gray in the civil wa
and who Is now working hand In han
with the head of our army IN the Philit
/ mines. Adua ChatfCC, who in the civil WI
S calamity wore the blue. Those two, an
the men under them, from the north an
= from the south, in civil life and IN mlIl
) tary life. as teachers, as admins traitors
t as soldiers. are laboTing nightly for u
+, who live at home. Here and there blaC
/ taken as ii whole they represent as high
? standard Of public SrVice as his countr
! has ever seen. lnCy are doing a grca
work for civilization, "a great work ft
] the honor and the interest of this natiol
and above all for the welfare Of the II
l habitants Of the Philippine islands. a
I honor to them; and shame, thrice shanl'
to us If we fail 10 uphold their hands.