Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-28

we believe it is due alike to Cuba and To
ourselves that. in accordance with the re-
publican principle of reciprocity, proper ana
reasonable trade concessions shall be MADE
by our government to Cuba in return for
her concessions upon American products,
so as to benefit the trade of both coun-
tries and to fully and generously carry out
every obligation of our national honor,
whether expressed or implied.
Additions to our territory since 1897 have
been fully justified, both by improved con-
ditions in the islands themselves and the
improved commercial relations between
them and the United States. These islands
will not be exploited for the gain of adj
venturers, but will be developed for the
mutual benefit of their own people and
honest investors and will in time make the
tity, capable of producing within its own
area practically all the articles required
for the daily life and comfort of man.
The Philippines.
We congratulate the President and the
army on the satisfactory progress made in
the Philippines in suppressing instruction
and establishing order, and We unqualifedly
indorse the policy of our gov9nment in
those islands.
The war with Spain was forced on US
against our will and the Philippines came
to us as one of the results of that conflict.
We are responsible for peace and order In
the islands, and our sovereignty must be
as absolute our responsibility. our title
to the islands is as perfect was that of
Spain after nearly four hundred years of
undsputed possession. We will give their
people better government, better schools,
more civil and political rights, and a higher
civilization and broader freedom than Is
possible for them in any other way. Our
flag is in the Philippines, and there 1t VIII
, remain.
The American army has taken up a work
of establishing order and maintaining au-
thority in the distant Philippines, and,
while we deplore and severely condemn any
instances of cruelty which may have &C.
CURED, we remember that our soldiers are
fighting a barbarous and treacherous foe,
who have often inflicted most inhuman and
revolving atrocities upon their prisoners.
1t is the nations army, drawn from every
section of the country, knowing no politics
OF creed, but fighting the nations battles
under the nations flag, and we resent with
Indignation recent democratic efforts to
drag its honor in the dust and to cast re-
proach on it's fair name
We proudly reaffirm our faith in all the
great cardinal principles of the republican
party, and our allegiance to the declara-
ton adopted by the last republican national
convention, and to the candidates nomi-
mated by this convention we pledge our
loyal support
No Place for Anarchy.
In government like ours there is no
place for anarchy, and we demand that
Congress enact stringent laws against at
tempts on the life of the chief magistrate
or OF any person in the line of succession
A murderous attack on the President Is a
blow struck at the government itself and
should be punished as treason is punished.
Our laws guarantee liberty of speech and
of the press, but afford no license for the
teachings or practice of anarchy. We also
denounce lynching and all forms of mob
violence. -