New-York tribune., 1902-07-05

that have gone before us must ever serve not as
a a reason for inaction on our part, but as the
keenest of spurs TO drive forward the path
OF national greatness and justice. (Applause)
We have had our tasks TO do in the last four
years. or. rather. we have had. every gen
GRAFTON must have, many tasks TO do tasks af-
tecting US abroad; and one Of those tasks, being
oohe as IL mas been, has signalled our entry 10
larger world. lApplause.) And IL is most ap-
propriate that on this Fourth Of July. this ami
Versary OF the birth Of the nation. it should be
our good fortune to have promulgated the dec
laration establishing peace in the Philippines
and the acknowledgment TO the army of the
praise so richly due our fellow Americans who
wear the uniform Of the United States. for all
that they have done in tropic Islands during the
last four years. Continued applause and
cheers.)
We said Cuba should become a free republic.
and We have kept our word loud applause) To
have turned Cuba over TO the hands of it's own
people Immediately after the withdrawal of the
Spanish flag would have meant ruin and chaos.
We established a government in the islands;
we esta ablished peace and order began to
provide for the payment of the Cuban troops
who had fought against the misrue of their op-
pressors; we instituted a public school system,
modelled upon that which has been potent
factor in cur own national progress. Applause)
We cleaned the cities in Cuba, for the first time
In their history. (Applause) We changed them
from being the most unhealthy to being among
the healthiest cities of the civilized world We
introduced system of orderly justice TO
ceed one Of irresponsible and arbitrative despot-
lsTn' so that any man, rich or poor. weak or
would receive his rights. And then, when in the
fulness OF time we felt they could walk alone,
now the beautiful Queen of the Antilles has
started on her course as a free republic among
the nations Of the earth. Applause@
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA TO COME.
But there is one thing-our policy toward
Cuba has not YET met with its entire fruition.
IL viii meet with it, Applause) The course of
the last few years has made more evident than
ever before that this nation must in time to
come have pecuniary interests the isthmus
Connecting the two Americas and in the waters
and among the islands adjacent thereto. Gap
ia; tS Nat.3haIy 1y we cannot occupy 1he posi-
non toward these regions that We did toward
others where our interests far less. and this
is doubiy true now that Congress, with great
wisdom, has provided for the building of an
interocean canal. LAr-lause) Cuba must oc-
cupy a peculiar relation to US in the field of
international politics. She must in the larger
sense be part of the general political system in
international affairs, of which this republic
stands as the head She has assented TO that
view, and in return this nation is bound to give
her special economic privileges not given to
other nations. cloud applause)
Cuba is not already embodied in statute in
treaty; but it Will be, just as as fate.
cloud applause)
PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES
And now word as to the Philippines. There
are yet troubles in the Moro country, the coun-
try Of the Mahometan tribes; but in the Philip
pines, among the FIpnos among the people
who have been in iEsuTreetion, peace
reigns. (Applause) 1t may bel think un-
likely, but il is possible-that here and there
some seemingly dead coal of insurrection may
for the moment be famed into live piece of
ember and burst into fitful flame. If so. that
flame will be stamped out. loud applause9
But, speaking broadly and generally, peace has
come. Our army has received its reward. ZAP
plauseD And what was the reward of our
army? The reward OF the consciousness of
duty we'll done. loud applause) Our soldiers
have fought, have toled, have struggled,
that when victory came they might turn over
the government to the civil authorities (Ap-
plause)
peace and amnesty has been promulgated, and
at the same time our generals have been notified
that the civil government is supreme in the
islands (Appause) Does not thai speak WELL
Oh. my brethren, for army, for our troops
that the troops Of this people should war, hoping
for triumph which is to put the power into the
hands of the civil authorities?
BY law we are allowed army at maximum
of one hundred thousand men, at a minimum Of
sixty thousand men. While this has gone
on we have steadily reduced that army, until
now, by orders promulgated, its limit is sixty
six thousand; and, matter Of fact have
two thousand or three thousand fewer actually
under arms. That speaks We'll for our institu-
tions: 1t speaks well for the triumphs of the
policies with which nation have been
Identified during the last four years, and men
and women of the United States. it shows how
slight was the warrant for the fears expressed
by those of little faith as 10 what would follow
authorizing even the small army that
thorized lApplause.) No body of citizens
deserves franker and more generous recognition
at the hands of the country than the officers and
enlisted men who wear Uncle Sans uniform.
(Applause) For there is body of our citizens
which gives more disinterestsd service with less
thought of a material reward proportionately In
GREAT PROBLEMS AT HOME TO FACE.
And now, my fellow citizens. 1 spoke Of the
task which has confronted those in Cuba and
the Philippines as being one of the tasks which
this generation had TO face. It is only one We
have great problems at home TO face | am
speaking in one of the great industrial centres
not merely of America, but of the world. Gap
piause) A million people stand grouped in a
small radius around the spot where
are. The growth Of your cities within this
radius has been one Of the most striking phe-
nomena Of this day, and here, therefore you
are brought face 10 face with those problems
which affected our entire civilization the
opening of this new century. The tremendous
rush Of our industrial department, which has
brought in its train much that is good and
also Of necessity brought somewhat Of evel,
the very intensity of the progress that has been
made, has meant that new and infinitely difficult
problems have arisen, which must strive to
solve as best may
Under cur form of government with its great
decentralization Of power. some Of those prob
lens must be solved through the work of pri-
vate individuals working by themselves: others.
by the association into organized bodies Of
groups OF priv.te citizens; and others yet.
through the various governmental agencies of
municipality, State and nation. Especially
great, especially difficult are the problems
caused by the growth and concentration of
great individual. and above all great corporate,
fortunes. IL is immensely for the interests of
the country that there should be such individual
and corporate wealth long as IL is used
right; and when not used right, then it be-
comes a serious menace and danger. (Ap-
plause)
The instruments and methods with which we
10 meet these problems must in many
cases themselves be new. but the purpose ly
ing behind the use Of these methods, of those
Instruments, must If We are 10 succeed, be
now, as in the past. simply in accord with the
immutable laws OF order. Of justice and right.
tApplause) We may need. and, in my belief,
will need, new legisla tion conceived in no
radical revolutionary spirit. but in a spirit of
common sense common honesty and a resolute
desire TO face facts as they are CAppiause)
\ will hen TeoiS Slafi hut while