The Ely miner., 1902-07-11


us the Philippine islands and Porto Rico.
The people Of these islands were for
ever relieved of Spanish bondage, tyran-
ny and oppression.
RULE IN PORTO RICO.
More than two years ago we estab-
lished a free and stable legislative gov
pie of the island the blessings of a free
government akin to our own and such
as they had never enjoyed or dreamed
of before. Courts untrammeled and open
to all bringing speedy justice within the
easy reach Of all have been established
and are in operation A system OF free
tent teachers has been organized and es-
tablished all over the island. Roads have
been graded and built in the interior and
remote portions of the island, where only
precarious bride paths existed before.
The people have recovered from the eff
devastated their island in 1899. and un-
der a good government, and free trade
with the states, have entered upon an
encouraging for both them and ourselves.
A million of people oppressed and in
state of tutelage, have been regenerated
and stripes. The very thought of it fills
every patriotic American heart with
thankfulness and pride.
bleeding Cuba. The ten-year .insurrec-
tion had been suppressed with treachery
and blood, A calm, born of despair. had
ed beyond all endurance, the poor people
had again taken up arms for their in
dependence and 3 had ,+b brayely ave y,sh1 struggled @
poets of success. And it was then that
our nation came to their relief and smote
decisive. which forever extinguished the
rule Of Spain in the Western hemisphere.
NEEDED ASSISTANCE.
But the people of Cuba stood in great
If CjCfa
they could fairly come to their own, be-
fore they could secure a stable govern
ment and all the blessings which flow
from it. And this assistance we have
given them with most intelligent and
generous hand. They had no means, no
sta stable government, no :, law or order order.
tated. dismantled and a waste, and their
cities We're reeking with poverty, hlth
and pestilence. The mass OF the people
many of them mourners for the dead OF
their war. First of all we had to clothe
and feed them, then establish law and
order, then aid them to embark in self
sustaining existence, then cleanse, purify
and render immune from pestilence their
cities and towns, and then, last OF all,
aid them to establish a safe and stable
republican form of government.
Ill An this we have done and accom- com
in full measure and we have launched
among the republics of the world a sister
republic, hopeful, buoyant and full of
1--WE entered upon the Spanish war to
free Cuba, but when it was over we
found ourselves in occupation OF Porto
Rico and the Philippine islands, our sense
of duty and our sense of justice forbade
us to return them to the clutches or
Spanish tyranny and oppression.
and unavoidable in the case of the Phil
ippine islands than Porto Rico.
I'VE owed it to ourselves, to the people
of the Philippine islands, and to the en-
NiUi1jZQd world n what
did do. To have done otherwise would
have rendered our nation a moral i'm
becile among the enlightened of the
"At the time Dewey entered Manila
bay, Spain was in undIsputed possession
and control of the islands. The insurrec-
ton which Aguinaldo and some of his as
sociates had started in 1896 they had
compromised and abandoned for money
selves to China where they were; living
when Dewey steamed into the bay Of
Manila. There was at that time no Phil
ippine insurrection and no semblance Of
a Philippine army or Philippine govern
ment OF any kind. Under the promise,
which turned out to be mere pretense,
iards, Aguinaldo and some of his asso-
ciates, with the permission of Dewey,
returned to Luzon and We're furnished
with arms and ammunition. But no
sooner had they landed and secured arms
than they proceeded to organize an army
and set up military government, all in
Spain. They We're even ready at one
time to join and cooperate with the
Spaniards. This insurrection, thus start
ed, and fed by the ignorant and savage
lawlessness of the people, we have sup
pressed.
SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED.
I'm thirty-five of the provinces a sys-
tenn of public schools has been eStab-
lished, with nearly LOO American and
1900 native teachers, thus affording the
n or n6r ion,
such as they have never enjoyed before.
They are eager to attend the schools
and to learn ne English and they learn with
American teachers in 200 towns and viii
lagos where there is not single Ameri-
can soldier. With the exception of few
isolated and barbarous tribes and bands,
and the ladrones, the islands are today
pacified, and law, and order and civil
government prevail. A civil government
more just and liberal than ever enjoyed
under Spanish rule.
Under a liberal tariff law, enacted by
the Philippine commission and ratified
at this. session. which. eliminates the
harsh features of Spanish taxation, am
expenses of the government of the is
lands, including the maintenance of a
liberal system of public schools, the i'm
provement of the highways and harbors
and the necessary sanitation Of the coun-
try; :.
I'm our, efforts to pacify, to civilize
recent efforts of legislation in their be-
half, we have, as you all know, encoun-
tered the bitter, prolonged and most un-
reasonable opposition of the Democratic
party in congress.
after acquiring the islands by as valid
and just a method as we ever acquired
any of our territorial acquisitions, after
pouring out our blood and our treasure
for 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 them, and are to cast them adrift as
an abandoned derelicy at sea- This is the
latest gospel of the militant Democracy.
What the American people have, in
behalf of humanity and justice, by their
valor, their treasure and their blood, ac-
quired and held, they will never permit
to be wrecked, scuttled or abandoned.
The task, which under a high sense of
justice and duty, they assumed in 1898,
they will faithfully carry out for the
good of the people of the Philippine is
lands, for the good of our entire coun-
try, and for the good of helpless and
down-trodden humanity the world over.
TRADUCING THE ARMY.
I'm advocating their scheme of aban-
donment the Democracy have taken spe-
cial delight, and found a luxury in ira
ducing our army by hunting for and
proclaiming, with intense zeal and Satis-
faction, isolated cases and instances