The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-05

PLEADS
FOR CUBA

changed them from being the most un-
healthy to be among the healtihest cities
of the civilized world. We introduced Il
system of orderly justice to succeed one
of irresponsible and arbitrative despot-
ism. So that any man, rich or poor, weak
or strong could appeal to the courts ana
know that he would have his rights.
And when I'm the fullness of time we felt
they could walk alone we turned over
the government to them ana now the
beautiful queen of the Antilles mas start
ed her course as n free republic among
the nations of the earth. (Applause).
One Duty Neglected.
But there is one thing-our policy to-
ward Cuba has not yet met with It's en-
tire fruition. 1t will meet with 1t. Cap
plause) The course of the last few years
has made more evident than ever before
that this nation must In time to come
have pecuniary interests on the isthmus
connecting the two Americas and In the
waters and among the islands adjacent
thereto (Applause). Nationally we cam
not occupy the position toward these re-
gions 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 or
an inter-ocean canal. (Applause).
Cuba must occupy peculiar rela lioh
to,us in the field of international pontics
She must in the larger sense be part OIL
the general political system IN lnterna- :
tionaI affairs of which this republic stands
as the head. She has assented to that
view and in return this nation Is bound
to give her special economic privileges
not given to other nations. cloud ap-
plause).
I regret that measure of reciprocity
with Cuba is not already embodied in
statute or in treaty. but 1t will he just as
sure as fate loud applause)
And now word as to the Philippines.
there are vet troubles in the Moro coun-
try. the country of the Mohammedan
tribes, but in the Philippines among the
Filipinos, among the people who nave
been in insurrecton, peace now reigns.
(Applause).
It may be- think, unlikely, but it is
possible. that here and there some SEEM
ing dead coal of insurrection may be for
the moment famed into a live piece Of
ember, and burst into fitful flame. If
so that fame will be stamped out. cloud
applause). /,
!. Peace in the Philippines.
But speaking broadly and generally,
peace has come. Our army has received
its reward. (Applause). And what was
the reward of our army? The reward of
the consciousness of duty well done.
Cloud applause). Our soldiers. have
fbught, have toiled, have struggled, have
'hled, so that when victory came they
Anight turn over the government to the
civil authorities. (Applause)
Today the proclamation of peace and
amnesty has been promulgated, and at
the same time our generals have been
notified that the civil government is su-
preme in the islands. (Applause).
Does that not speak we'll. oh my breth-
rem, for our army for our troops, that
IT 1o e,1, ~
hoping for a triumph which is to put the
power into the hands of the civil authori-
ties.
By law we are allowed an army at a
maximum of hundred thousand men, at
minimum of sixty thousand men. While
this war has gone on We have steadily
reduced that army until now by orders
promulgated it's strength is $4,000, and as
matter of fact we have two or three
thousand fewer actually under arms.
That speaks well for our institutions. 1t
speaks we'll for the triumphs of the poll
cies with which. as nation. we have
? been identi1ed during the past four
years and. men and women of the United
States, it shows how slight was the war
rant for the fears expressed by those of
little faith as to what would follow au-
thorizing even the small army that was
authorized. (Applause).
Praise for the Army.
No body of our citizens deserves frank
er and more generous recognition at the
hands of the country than the officers
and enlisted men who wear Uncle Sam S
uniform. (Appause). For there is no
body of our citizens which gives more dis
interested service with less thought of a
material reward proportionately in any
way to them. And now, my fellow citi-
zens, / spoke of the past which has culm-
tnt taH n III hn ninnS.
as being one of the tasks which this gen.
Grafton had to face. 1t is only one. We
have great problems at home to face,
] am speaking In one of the great indus
trial centers not merely. of America. but
of the world. (Appause). A million peo-
pie 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 phe-
nomena of tbis day and here therefore,
you are brought face to face with those
problems which affected our entire civ
ilization at the opening of this new CEN
tury. The tremendous rush of our indus
trial department which has brought in
Its train so much that Is good and also
OF necessity brought somewhat its evil,
the very intensity of the progress that
has been made has meant that new and
Infinitely difficult problems has arisen
which We must strive to solve as best
we may. Under cur forms of government
with its great decentralization of power.
some of those problems must be solved
through the work of private individuals
working by themselves; others by the as
ISOLATION into organized bodies of groups
of private citizens and others yet
through the various governmental agen-
cfes of municipal, state and nation. Es-
pecially great, especially difficult are the
problems caused by the growth and con-
centration of great individual, and above
all, great corporate fortunes. 1t Is i'm
mensely for the interests of the country
that there. should be such individual and
corporate wealth as long as II Is used
right, and when not used right then it be-
comes Il serious menace and danger Cap
plause). The instruments and methods
with which we are to meet these new
problems uust in many cases themselves,
be new, bit 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
tmmutable laws of order, of justice and
right. Applause)
New Legislation Needed.
We may need. and in my belief, will
need. new legislation conceived in no
radical or revolutionary spirit, but In a
spirit OF common sense. common honesty
and resolute desire to face facts as they
are. (Applause). We will need then new
legislation but while laws are important,
It is infinitely more that they should be
administered in'accordance with the prln-
ciples that have marked honest admin
tstration from the beginning of recorded
history, tApplause).
In the last analysis. the most important
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