Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-19

due our fei1ow-Americans who wear the
uniform of the United States, for all that
they have done In the tropic Islands during
the past four years.
We said Cuba should become a free re-
public and we have kept our word. To have
turned Cuba over to the hands OF It's own
people Immediately after the withdrawal OF
the Spanish flag would have meant ruin ana
chaos. We established government IN
the islands, we established peace and or.
der; we began to provide for the payment OF
the Cuban troops, who had 1ougnt asalntsIe
the misrule of their oppressors; we 1nstl-
tuted a publcschool system, modelled upon
that which has been so potent a factor IN
our own national progress. We cleaned the
cities in Cuba for the first time In their
history. We changed them from being the
most unhealthy to being among the health
lest cities of the civilized world. We intro
duced a system Of orderly justice TO sue
coed one of irresponsible and arbitratiVe
despotsm SO that any man, rich or poor,
weak or strong, could appeal to courts and
know that he would receive his rights And
then when in the fullness of time we felt
they could walk alone we turned over the
government to them and now the beautiful
queen Of the Antilles has started on her
course as a free republic among the ma
tions of the earth.
Reciprocity for Cuba.
But there Is one thing-our policy toward
Cuba has not yet met with its entire frui-
ton. It will meet with 1t. The course OF the
last few years has made more evident than
to come have pecuniary interests on the
isthmus connecting the two Americas, and
In the waters and among the Islands ada
cent thereto. Nationally we cannot occupy
the position toward these regions that we
did toward others, where our interests are
far less, and this is doubly true, now that
Congress, with great wisdom, has provided
for the building of an interoceanic canal.
Cuba must occupy q peculiar relation to us
in the field of international politics. She
must in the larger sense be part OF the
general political system In international az
fairs in which this republic stands as the
head. She has assented to that view and In
return this nation is bound to give her spe-
cial economic privileges not given to other
nations. | regret that measure OF recl-
procity with Cuba Is not already embodied
in statute or In treaty, but 1t Will be, just
as sure as fate.
And now a word as to the Philippines.
There are yet troubles in the Moro country,
the country Of the Mohammedan tribes, but
in the Philippines among the Filipinos,
among the people who have 9een IN l ms
think, unlikely, but 1t Is possible, that here
and there some seeming dead coal or IN
surrection may be for the moment famed
into live piece of ember, and burst into
a ftful fame. If SO, that flame will be
stamped out.
Reward for the Army.
But, speaking broadly and generally, peace
has come. Our army has received it's re-
ward. And what the reward of our
army? The reward of the consciousness of
duty we'll done. Our soldiers have fought,
have toiled, have struggled, so that when
victory came they might turn over the gov
eminent to the civil authorities. Victory
came.
To-day the proclamation of peace and am
nesty has been promulgated, and at the
same time our generals have been notified
that the civil government is supreme in the
Islands. Does not that speak well, ., my
brethren, for our army. for our troops, that
the troops of this people should war hoping
q rin wi
the hands Of the civil authorities.
By law we are allowed an army at max
imum Of 100000 men, at minimum of co.
900 men. While this war has gone on we
have steadily reduced that army until now
by orders promulgated it's limit Is 66,0OO
and as q matter of fact we have two or
three thousand fewer actually under arms.
That speaks we'll for our institutions. 1t
speaks well for the triumphs of the poll
Giles with which a nation we have been
Identified during the last four years, and,
men and women Of the United States, it
shows how slight was the warrant for the
fears expressed by those Of little faith
to what would follow authorizing even the
small army that was authorized.
No body of our citizens deserves franker
and more generous recognition at the hands
of the country than the officers and enlisted
men who wear Uncle Sans uniform. For
there is no body Of our citizens which gives
more disinterested services with less thought
Of a material reward proportionately in any
way to them.
Other Problems to Face.
And now, my fellow citizens, 1 spoke Of
the past which has confronted those in Cuba
and the Philippines as being one Of the tasks
which this generation had to face. 1t Is
only one. We have great problems at home
to face. I am speaking in one Of the great
Industrial centers, not merely of America,
but of the world. million people stand
grouped in a small radius around the spot
cities within this radius has been one of the
most striking phenomena of this day, and
here, therefore, you are brought face to face
with those problems which affected our en-
century. The tremendous rush of our in
dustrial development which has brought In
its train so much that is good has also of
necessity brought some that was evil
The progress that has been made has
meant that new and infinitely difficult prob
lens have arisen which we must strive to
solve as best we may. Under our form Of
government, with it's great decentralization
Of power, some of those problems must be
solved through the work of private indi-
viduals working by themselves; others by
the association into organized bodies Of
groups Of private citizens, and others yet
through the various governmental agencies
of municipal, state, and nation.
Especially great, especially difficult are
the problems caused by the growth and con-
centratiOn Of great individual, and above all,
great corporate fortunes. 1t is immensely
for the interests of the country that there
should be such individual and corporate
wealth as long as it is used right, and when
not used right then it becomes a serious
menace and danger. The instruments and
methods with which we are to meet these
new problems must in many cases, them
selves, be new, but the purpose lying behind
the use Of these methods of those instru-
ments must, if we are to succeed, be now as
in the past, simply in accord with the i'm
mutable laws of order, Of justice, and Of
right. We may need, and, In my belief will
need, new legislation conceived in no radi-
cal or revolutionary spirit, but in spirit Of
common sense common honesty
olute desire to face facts as they are We
will need then new legislation, but while
laws are important 1t is infinitely more i'm
portant that they should be administered in
accordance with the principles that have
marked honest administration from the be-
ginning Of recorded history. In the last
analysis the most important department of
civilized government is the department of
justice. Think what it means
Praise for Attorney General.
The department OF justice, Justice that
means that each man, rich or poor, strong or
weak, shall have his rights and shall not
be q allowed To yUr fO falJ Nd