The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-11

ing the people Of the burdenslof friar ana
Church lands, the act referred to makes
.cond emnati ion these lands and the disposal
sof them in forty-acr farms at cost prics"
70 the natives who ccupy them: The .acl
secure from the publ lands without cost,
title in fee to the extent of forty acrss
In each case, Of the lands they occupied
the country, and forty acres1of that soil
in that climate and with their productions
makes#a good and ample farm. In this
way "; every family can secure q, home Of
=. This tree distribution Of land, in fee,
among the natives "a thing unknown un-
thing else to make the mass of the people
happy, contented and law abiding: a. The
sense Of ownership begets; a love Of peace
ownership. a good system 4 Of public
schools. and improved means OF commune
cation, the people will be in a position to
n %, me prosperous and fitted for local
Such, in brief, is what we have done,
and In the immediate future aim to do,
f foa the ape people who came to VI as legacy
! In our efforts to pacify, to civilize and
TO .uplift them, and especially in our re-
we have, as you all know, encountered
the bitter, prolonged and most unreason-
able OPPOSITION of the Democratic party In
They; would have US lay down our task
Of justice. and duty and would have lis
abandon the islands and their people to a
hard and hopeless fate, while they are
and political childhood. = n r.
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 and
vslccouS acnay and navy have occupied
an; ana been engaged in pacifying for, the
> 0Tu0RerV wi
law and order, has been restored and the
people are about to be, ,regenerated and
when az this great and necessary pre-
lim1nary work has been done, they.
preach the gospel of scuttle and ABANDON
ment louder: and tiercer than ever, thus
results that have been accomplished and
declaring it all fruitless and a failure,
as they declared the war for the pres
After acquiring the islands by as valid
and just method as we ever acquired
any Of our territorial acquisitions, after
pouring out, our blood and our treasure
TOR them without stint, voluntarily and
with well-nigh one accord, we are to
treat them as stranded wreck, as
though we ourselves had been wrecked in
abandoned 'derelict at sea. This his is s. the he
latest gospel of the militant Democracy.
What the American people have, in be-
valor, their treasure and their blood, &C;
CURED and held, they will never permit
to be wrecked, scuttled or abandoned. :
The task which under high sense of
justice and duty they assumeN in 1898
they will, faithfully carry out for the
good OF our entire country, and for the
good Of helpless and downtrodden .l1u-
mainly the world over. @ 10 = -.
IN IN. adyoc4ting their scheme Of abandon
ment the Democracy have taken special
o RaathE foe ana aasaleing
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Isolated cases and instances where some
.Of our officers and soldiers, goaded by the
cruelty and savagery of the enemy, have
fare. The fact that a few Of our officers
and soldiers have transgressed on the
ruleg Of war can have no Valid bearing.
retaining the islands. Such transgres-
sions occur and are liable to occur in any
war, IN fact occurred in the Civil war.
the justice Of that war by Isolated la ee cases
of cruelty on the. part Of a few men in our
great army. Neither has it appeared or
been shown that the president or the war
Ing before military courts, for inVestiga-
ton, trial and punishment, all cases OF
cruelty and: uncivilized. warfare brought
These Democratic efforts to besmarch
our army: to exploit a rev Of the short
comtngs without giving it credit for it's
Of generosity and H@dn ss a ma3ifes acta
spirit Of sheer partisan .wantonness. u.-
provoked and unpatriotic. ssor they have
are they: justified by any negligence Of
the president, or the war department in
the premises. ~. -, - :
President Mckinley had himself partici-
pated in war, was familiar with ali i'll,
hardships and drawbacks, and was q
most humane and kind-hearted man. The
neither, of them would for a moment toll
crate or permit to go UNPUBLISHED any acts
Of cruelty contrary to, the%rules and GUS
toms of civilized warfare. 81 ~, m. -
own people, -of the same race, training
and blood. The rank and file are a fair
representative of the average of our Gull
Of the American people, and as a whole
superior in these, respects to the rank and
file of any other army. They are all, in a
censcription enforced military seryi ice
in this country as they have in the old
world: They are as humane and as kind
hearted as any troops ever marshaled in
in China bear 5undisputed witness to this
fact; and IN the Philippine islands, bar
re, ring ia, Few instances an Of cruelty provoked
the enemy. their conduct has been on
the whole, brave, patient, kind and for
enemy often
want Of courage, and they have often en-
ing and slaughter because Of their kind
The Democrats have shifted their spleen
aEainst our little army the slan sRlee
our shortcomings or finds delight therein,
but is ever ready to see and proclaim our;
good qualities. No Democratic orator in
laud or5make known. any7of the good and
tered no Kind q sympathstic word din in It's It's