Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-23
remedy-do not administer med

a remedy--do not administer a med
icine of death.
What. then, does common sense sug-
gest as the first step toward a reason
able remedy? 1t is to test the appnc-
ability of any existing law on the sub
ject, is it not? And this is the method
that the president of the United States
has pursued.
What is the next step which prac-
tcial thought suggests for preventing
the evils of modern combination OF
capital and labor? 1t is clear that we
can not destroy them. But we must
prevent their frauds, chain their vio-
lence and, as the president of the
United States has said 'muzzle their
greed" just as we do with evil men.
A method must be found to supervise
their operation to give the people In
formation of their purposes and con-
dition. President Roosevelt has rec
commended and congress is construct
ing a department of commerce which
will finally supervise every trust that
does business thruout the nation. Is 1t
not better to search out with reasons
light the weak places and the dark
than to apply the torch of destruction
to the whole fabric of our industry :?
Conservative progress or annihilating
reaction-this is the alternative before
the American people.
"All over the world, therefore, we
seek new markets seek to increase eN
listing markets One market for part
Of our surplus is at our door; and to
seize that market the republican party
will establish reciprocity with ou1
wards in Cuba
If it is said that our reciprocity with
Cuba is not broad enough, we answer
that there must be u beginning and
from it's results we can extend the poll
icy If ccessful-rnodify 1t where de-
fcctive; abandon it If advisable. The
problem of reciprocity with the world
is as delicate as the problem of super
vising the commercial and industrial
developments within the republic it,
self. All business is adjusted to our
system of protection. But protection
exists for business, not business for
protection. And, as it ceases to aid and
begins TO fetter the nations industry,
our tariff must be modified; but the
change must be made with knowledge,
caution. Judgment. The republican
party proposes to re-arrange our pro-
tective tariff only where changes will
continue to increase American pros
perity, and not otherwise. But the op-
position would annihilate protection
with one single, sudden. violent act.
And business does not thrive on vio-
lence.
"We have expended tens of millions
of American gold to plant the begin
nings of civilization in the Philippines.
We have poured out American blood
to establish modern systems, modern
methods modern progress there. They
command the commerce of the east.
Why should we, then, in the very hour
when commercial expansion is swiftly
becoming our mortal need. abandon
this possession; throw away the multi
piled millions Of dollars they have In
vested; denounce our soldiers as pi-
rates; give up the mastery of the Pa
cific and the control of the orient? It
is a policy of decrepitude, PROPOSE
tion OF disgrace.
"If Filipinos should be found capa-
BILE of self government, the republican
party will give it to them. But the re-
publican party proceeds on facts, not
on imagination. And, therefore, the
senate proposes census of the Philip
pine islands for the purpose of inform
ing congress to what extent and In
what places Filipinos can govern them
selves. Is this not the method OF rea-
son? First find the facts and then fit
our action to those facts. And while
these facts are being gathered Ameri-
can administration in the Philippines is
extending self government in town and
village as rapidly as the Filipinos can
manage It.. We are teaching them by
practice; we are training them by edu-
cation.
'The republican party is the organ
lied spirit of American progress. We
dare not stoop to demagogic devices.
that is the role OF the opposition to the
government. We dare not trick up fic-
titious issues to catch temporary ap-
plause. We dare not be insincere to
capture this or that coterie of voters.
We dare not counsel with Fear or COM
promise with Reaction. Our success
our very life-is in harmony with the
progress of the American people
toward their natural supremacy.
Aye, American supremacy. All our
present powers justify 1t. All our past
development has been but the prepara-
ton for 1t. How gloriously our fathers
wrought for the fulfillment of that
dream-wrought, perhaps, as uncon-
scious workmen of Gods great pur-
poses. Their work was not for their
own lives alone-it was for the centu-
ries they wrought. And that work thus
nobly begun and appearing even now.
In history's perspective as harmonious
parts of an infinite plan, we, their sons,
will carry forward till our day, too, is
ended, and our children, in their turn.
shall take it up. Onward, ever onward.
let that grand work move. Retreat
never a single step. Yield not VIC.
tory we have won Forward to day
still better and to achievements still
more glorious. And when we young
men of this convention are bent and
gray. may our failing eyes be cheered
with the vision true of the old flag,
master of the seas; and our dull ears
be gladdened with the music of the old
fife and drum which never has sounded
except in righteousness, calling to
council the nations of the world where
III justice, power and glory the great
republic shall preside"
Considerable Importance was at
ta ched to Beveridge's speech, as it is
understood he voiced the sentiments of
Roosevelt at Washington.