Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-08-28
ssausls to the War.


Hartford speech that it would be hard
% find in modern times better OK.
implies Of successful constructive
'tatesmanship than are afforded in
he sequsls to our war with Spain.
This remark has special application
rays the Inter Ocean, to our work In
Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philip.
pines. and includes what has been
done in Hawaii, Guam, and Samoa.
On the lst Of January, 1898, de-
vastating war was raging IN Cuba.
involving Porto Rico. In both islands
government was impotent and trade
paralyzsd. In Hawaii there we're unr
certainty and confusion and possible
ity Of foreign Intervention. In So
moa joint government by three pow.
ers had proved = failure. In the
Philippines there was a condition
bordering on anarchy, with no pre-
tense Of government in many Of the
islands, and with no form Of repre-
sentative government in any.
We took possession Of Cuba Jan. l,
1899, when the island was in the
worst possible condition. The PEG.
pie were impoverished, plantations
and towns we're in ruins, business was
PROSTATE, and warning factions were
suspicious and resentful.
Cuba is today at peace, with govern
ment reorganized, with the peoples
rights better protected and the people
themselves better contented than ever
before and with the island in better
sanitary and political condition than
ever before.
Porto Rico was almost as low in the
scale Of government and prosperity
as Cuba. 1t is now an American ter.
ritory, as we'll governed and as pros
porous as New Mexico or Arizona.
The Philippines came to us in a
state Of war and practically without
organized government. They are
now at peace and have for the first
time in their history a representative
government, with orderly conditions
prevailing in every civilized province.
In the other provinces conditions are
no worse than those in our Western
territories thirty years ago. We have
accomplished as much in the fhllip'
pines in three years as we did in New
Mexico from 1850 to 1890.
Hawaii became a territory Of the
United States Aug. 70, 1898, the day
after peace protocols were signed with
Spain, and as territory has been SO
free from disorder, 80 increasingly
prosperous, and so dominated by
American ideas Of government that
its peaceful progress has been taken
as a matter Of course.
The island Of Guam, neglected
point Of land in the mid-Pacifc under
Spain, has become under American
rule animportant commercial station
with the natives living in peace undel
a well organized, self-sustaining gov
eminent.
Tutuila, in the Samoan islands
scarcely to be found on the maps foul
years ago, and then under savage
misrule, is today, under American
control, one Of the most importan,
naval stations in the South Pacific
with an orderly and contented popu
lation.
The sequels to our war with SPAR
are all constructive. We build W
the Philippines even in the midst o
war. We gave Cuba good govern
ment despite the opposition Of many
Cubans. Wehave accomplished more
in a civilizing, constructive way IL
three years than any other nation evel
did, and the people ought to be 81
proud Of our success as the president
Clean Up, Clean Up.
The doctors say this is a fever year
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