The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-12-04

foreigners. When this is done, they can
rest assured that, be they strong or weak,
interference More and more the increas-
ing lnterdependence and completely of
International political and economic rela-
tons render it incumbent on all civilized
policing of the world,
During the fall of 1901 communication
was addressed to the secretary of state
asking whether permission would be
granted by the president to a corporation
to lay cable from a point on the Cali
fornia coast to the Philippine Islands by
tons or terms upon which such corpora
ton would undertake to lay and operate
cable was volunteered.
dnasmuch as the congress was shortly to
been the subject of consideration by the
congress for several years, it seemed to
me wise to defer action upon the applica-
tunity to act. The congress adjourned
without taking any action, leaving the
matter in exactly the same condition in
vened.
Meanwhile it appears that the CONNER
clal Pacific Gable company had promptly
proceeded with preparations for laying its
president for access to and use Of sound
ings taken by the United States steamship
nero Tor the purpose of discovering a
practicable route for transpaciic cable,
these soundings It could complete it's cable
much sooner than If 1t were required to
take soundings upon its own account
Pending. consideration Of this subject it
appeared important and desirable to at
tach certain conditions to the permission
to examine and use the soundings If it
should be granted. -st
In consequence of this solicitation of the
Gable company certain conditions were
formulated, upon which the president was
willing to allow access to these sound
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laying Of the cable, subject to any altera-
lions or additions thereto imposed by the
congress. This was deemed proper, espe-
nection of some kind with China a i for-
eiSn country. was part Of the company's
plan. This course was, moreover, in &C
cordance with line of presidents, includ-
OF the first French cable. explained to the
congress in his annual message Of De-
cembsr. 1875. and the instance occurring
IN 1879 OF the second French cable from
Brest to st. Pierre. with a branch to
Cape Cod.
These conditions prescribed, among 9TH
er things maximum rate for CONNER
should construct line from the Philip
pine Islands to China, there being at pres
ent, as is well known, British line from
Manila to Hongkong.
ny kept these conditions long under con-
continuing in the meantime to
prepare for laying the cable. They have,
however. at length aceeded to them. and
coast and the Chinese empire by way Of
Honolulu and the Philippine Islands is
thus provided for and is expected within
Among the conditions is one reserving
the power of the congress to modify or re-
peal any or all of them. A copy Of the
conditions is herewith transmitted,
that the prosperity Of the island and the
wisdom with which it has been governed
have been such as to make it serve as an
On July last. on the one hundred and
twenty sixth anniversary of the declara-
ton of our independence, peace and am
Islands. Some trouble has since from
time to time threatened with the Moham-
medan Moros, but with the late insurrec-
ceased, Civil government has now been
introduced. Not only does each Filipino
enjoy such rights to life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness as he has never be-
fore known during the recorded history of
the islands, but the people, taken as
whole, now enjoy a measure of self gov
eminent greater than that granted to any
greater than that enjoyed by any other
orientals under their own governments
save the Japanese alone. We have not
liberty "a and self government, but we have
certainly gone to the limit that in the in
terests of the Philippine people themselves
it was wise or just to go. To hurry mat
tiers. to go faster than we are now going,
would entail calamity on the people Of
by the American people has INDICATED it.
cy Of holding the Philippines. The tr-
umph of our arms, above all the triumph
of our laws and principles, has come soon
er than we had any right to expect. Too
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for what it has done in the Philippines.
both in warfare and from an administra-
tive standpoint, in preparing the way for
longs to the civil authorities for the way
in which they have planted the seeds of
self government in the ground thus made
ready for them The courage er the the IN
cheney and the general kind heartedness
and humanity of our troops have been
manifested. There now remain
told. over 100000 have been sent there. OF
course there have been individual in
stances of wrongdoing, among them. They
warred under fearful difficulties OF eli
strain of the terrible provocations which
they continually received from their foes
occasional instances of cruel retaliation
occurred. Every effort has been made to
prevent such cruelties, and finally these
efforts have been completely successful.
Every effort has also been made to de-
tect and punish the Wrongdoers: After
it remains true that few indeed have been
the instances in which war has been
waged by civilized power against semi
has been so little wrongdoing by the vic
tors as in the Philippine Islands. On the
other hand, the amount of difficult, impor-
tant and beneficent work which has been
done is we'll nigh incalculable.
Taking the work of the army and the
civil authorities together, it may be Ques-
toned whether anywhere else In modern
times the world has seen a better exam
than our people have given in the Philip
pine Islands. High praise should also be
given those Filipinos - in the aggregate
very numerous-who have accepted the
sentativeS to work with hearty good will
for the welfare of the islands
The army has been reduced to the mini
mum allowed by law. 1t is very small for
the size of the nation and most certainly
should be kept at the highest point of eff
cheney. The senior officers are given scant
chance under ordinary conditions to ex-
ercise commands commensurate with their
"a nix under circumstances which would fit
them to do their duty in time of actual
war. A system of maneuyering our army
gun and should be steadily continued.
such maneuvers 1t is folly to ex-
pect that in the event of hostilities with
any serious foe even small army corps
officers and enlisted men are such that
we can take Iearty pride in them. No
better material can be found. But they
must be thoroughly trained, both as indi-
ship Of the men must receive special at
tention. In the circumstances Of modern
warfare the man must act far more on
his own individual respo;n visibility. than s
cheney Of the unit is Of the utmost i'm
portance. Formerly this unit was the