The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-04

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the path of national greatness and Justice
(Applause.) 81.
Praise for the Soldiers.
We have had our tasks to do in the last
four years, or rather. we have had what
every generation must have many tasks to
do, tasks affecting us abroad. and one Of
those tasks. being done as it has been, has
signaled our entry into larger world. ZAP
plauseo And it is most appropriate that on
this Fourth Of July, this anniversary of the
birth Of the nation, 1t should be our good for
| tune to have promulgated the declaration es-
tablishing, peace In the Philippines and the
ackr owledgment to the army of the praise so
richly due our fellow Americans who wear
the uniform of the United States, for all that
they have done In the tropic islands during
the past four years. CONTINUED applause and
cheers) bel. ~ --
Our Work in Cuba.
| We said Cuba should become free repub-
| lie, and we have kept our word cloud ap
| plause) To have turned Cuba over to the
hands of its own people Immediately after
| the withdrawal of the Spanish flag would
| have meant ruin and chaos. We established
| government in the islands: we established
peace and order; we began to provide for the
payment Of the Cuban troops who had fought
against the m!srule of their oDpressors: we
Instituted a public school system, modelled
upon that which has been potent a factor
in our own national progress. (Applause)
We cleaned the cities dn Cuba for the first
time in their history. (Applause.) We changed
| them from beiug the most unhealthy to being
among the healthiest cities of the civilized
world. We introduced system Of orderly
justice to succeed one Of irresponsible and ar
bitrative despotisnl. SO that any man, rich
or poor, weak or strong, could appeal to the
courts and know that he would receive his
rights s,.7 ~ e.. -
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 free republic among the nations
of the earth. But there is one thing-our pol
icy towards Cuba has not yet met with its
ontire frution. It will meet with it. Zap
plause.) --1 .> '....&
The Isthmian Canal. = -, .
The course Of the last few years has made
more evident than ever before that this ma
ton must in time to come have pecuniaryt In
terests on the isthmus connecting the. two
Americas and in the waters and among tho
islands adjacent thereto Nationally we can
not occupy the position toward these regions
that we did towards others where our inter-
ests are far less and this is doubly true now
| that congress, with great wisdom, has pro-
vided for the building of an inter-oceanic
canal. (Applause)
Cuban Reciprocity Will Come.
Cuba must occupy a. peculiar relation to US
in the field Of international politics. She
must in the larger sense be a part of the
general political system in international
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| head. She has assented to that view and in
return this nation is bound to give her special
economic privileges not given to other ma
| tions. Cloud applause.)
| I regret that q measure Of reciprocity with
| Cuba is not already embodied in statute or in
treaty, but it will be just as sure as fate.
| cloud applause)
Peace in the Philippines.
And now 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 been in insurrection.
peace now reigns.s It may be, i think un-
likely, but it is possible, that here and there
some seeming dead coal Of insurrection may
be for the moment famed into live piece Of
enber, and burst into a f1tful flame. If so,
that fame will be stamped out. (Applause) }
| But, speaking broadly and generally, peace
has come. Our army has received Its re-
ward. And what was the reward of our
army? The reward of the consciousness of
duty we'll done. loud applause.) Our soldiers
| have fought, have toiled, have struggled, 80
that when victory came they might turn over
the government to the civil authorities. ZAP
plause.) Victory came. To-day the proclama-
tion Of peace and amnesty has been promul-
gated and at the same time our generals have
been notified that the civil government is
supreme in the islands. (Applause)
Does not that speak well, Oh, my brethren,
for our army, for our troops, that the troops
of this people who we were hoping for a
triumph which is to put the power into the
| hands Of the civil authorities.
The Standing Army.
BY law we are allowed an army at a
l maximum of a hundred thousand men at a
minimum of $4,000 men,. While this war
has gone on we have steadily reduced that
army until now by orders promulgated its
4 limit is $4,000, and, as a mater of fact, we
have two or three thousand fewer actually
| under arms That speaks we'll for our in
stitutions. It speaks we'll for the triumphs
of the policies with which, a nation: we
have been identified during the past 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 as to what would follow authorizing
even the small army that was authorized
(Applause.) No body of our citizens deserves
franker and moro generous recognition. at
the hands of the country than the officers and
j men who wear Uncle Sans uniform. Gap
plause.) For there is no body Of our citi-
!. zeus which gives more disinterested services
with less thought Of material reward pro-
portionately in any way to them.
Problems at Home.
| And now, my fellow citizens, I spoke o1
, the task which has eliminated in the results
, in Cuba and the Philippines as being one
{ OF 4the tasks which this generation had tc
, face tits only one. We have great prob
lens at home to face. / am speaking in one
81 the great industrial centers, not merely
LOT America, but of the world. (Applause.)
A million people stand grouped in a small
| radius around the spot where we now are
The growth of your cities within this radius
has been one of the most striking phenon.
enon of this day, and here, therefore, you
are brought face to face with those problems
which affected our entire civilization at the
Z opening Of this new century. The tremen-
. dous rush of our industrial development
which has brought in its train so much that
is good and also of necessity brought some
what that is evil, the very intensity of the
progress that has been made has much that
is new and infinitely. difficult problems have
| arisen which we must strive to solve as best
as we may. =: q. s.-A n. .e. . s... ~
| After the address the German singers
| sang America the vast audience join
i ing in the words Of the final verse. Fol
Il lowing this. out of compliment. to the
4 holland ancestry Of the distinguished