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of the Island itself. This has been the
/ standpoint adhered to in selecting the
men who represent our government to
! Porto Rico. In consequence, all
/ Americans should feel real pride in
the way in which their compatriots
| VINO are responsible for the govern
ment OF the island, have administered
| II. We have not been frightened or
/ mlsied into giving the people of the
ISLANDS form Of government insult
| able to them; and while providing
that they should govern themselves SO
far as possible, we have not hesitated
IN their own interest to keep the power
] Of shaping their destiny.
1t is worth noting" he continued
/ that already the Philippine people
nave received a greater share of self
| government that they have more to
| say as to how they shall be governed
! than ls.atheis case with any people in
the Orient Which is under European
rule. We are governing the Filipinos
primarily in their interest and for
| their very great benefit And we have
| acted IN practical fashion-not trying
to lay down rules as to what should
be done in the remote and uncertain
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| the Instant heed of things and meet
| ing that need in the fullest and
amplest way. In the Philippines, as in
! Cuba, the Instances of wrongdoing
among either our civil or military rep
| resentatives have been astonishingly
! few; and punishment has been melted
! with even handed justice to all Of
| tenders
Helped Our Own People.
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! while we have thus acted in the in
/ terest Of the islanders themselves, we
| nave also helped our own people. Our
| interests are as great in the Pacific as
| in the Atlantic. The welfare of Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington is as
| vital to the nation as the welfare of
New England, New York and the
| South Atlantic states.
| The awakening of the Orient means
very much to all the nations of Chris
| tendon, commercially no less than
/ politically; and it would be short
sighted craftsmanship on our part to
/ refuse to take the necessary steps for
/ securing proper share to our people
4 of this commercial future. The pos
session of the Philippines has helped
US, as the securing Of the open door
| in China has helped us. Already the
/ government has taken the necessary
steps to provide for the laying of q
Pacific cable under conditions which
1 safeguard absolutely the interests of
| the American public. Our commerce
with the East is growing rapidly.
1 Events have abundantly justified,
| alike from the moral and material
| standpoint, all that we have done in
| the far East as a sequel to our war
with SPAIN"
A Word for Cuban Reciprocity.
| TN Cuba the problem was larger.
| more complicated and more difficult.
| Here again We kept our promise alb
solutely. It is a republic with which
our own great republic must ever be
| closely knit by the ties of common
interests and common aspirations.
Cuba must always be peculiarly relat-
ed to us in international politics She
| must in International affairs be to a
degree part of our political system.
| In return she must have peculiar rela-
| tons with us economically. She must
| be, in a. sense, part of our economic
| system. We expect her to accept a
political attitude toward us which we
| think wiSest both for her and U.s.
In return we must be prepared to
/ put her in an economic position as re-
| CARDS our tariff system which will give
| her some measure of the prosperity
which we enjoy. We cannot, in my
| judgment. avoid taking this attitude if
we are. to persevere in the course
which we have outlined for ourselves
as nation during the past four years;
and, therefore. I believe that it is only
a matter of time-and, I trust, only a
matter OF a very short time-before
we enter into reciprocal trade rela-
tons with Cuba.
Canal Across the Isthmus.
"The isthnnian canal represents
what is probab bly, to be the greatest
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twentieth century. Before we start
| upon the construction OF the canal
certain questions of detail and of our
| relations with the people owning the
| soil have to be settled. When this has
been done, the first question will come
upon choosing the commission which
| is to supervise the building OF the
canal. Herr. again we have to deal
with an enterprise so vast and so far
| reaching in its effects that but one
1 thought is parmissible-how to get the
very best men in the nation, the men
of the highest engineering and bust
ness administrative skill, who will
consent to undertake the work.
| Normally, the nation that achieves
! greatness, like the individual who
achieves greatness, can do so only at
| the cost of anxiety and bewilderment
! and heart wearing effort Tinid peo-
/ pie, people scant of faith and hope. and
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4 to the roughness of the life of effort
are almost sure to be disheartened and
| dismayed by the work and the worry,
and overmuch cast down by the short
| Comings. actual or seeming, which in
1 real life always accompany the first
| stages even of what eventually turn
out to be the most brilliant victories.
Turnsoto the Philippines.
| "All this is true of what has hap
| pened during the last four years in the
Philippine islands. The easy thing to
do-the thing which appealed not only
| to lazy and selfish men, but to very
| many good men whose thought did not
4 drive them down to the root of things
was to leave the islands. Had we
| done this, a period of wild chaos would
| have superyened and then some
stronger power would have stepped in
and seized the islands. A less easy
! but Infinitely more absurd course
would have been to leave the islands
| ourselves and at the same time to as
sert that we would not permit anyone
else to interfere with them.
This course would have combined
| all the possible disadvantages of every
I other course which was advocated. II
| would have placed us In a faumiliatine
position, because when the actual test
came 1T would have been quite out of
the question for us, after some strik-
4 ing deed of savagery had occurred In
the Islands, to stand by and prevent
the re-entry of civilization into them:
while the mere fact of our having
threatened thus to guarantee the local
tyrantS and wrong doors again outside
/ interferences by ourselves or others,
would have put premium upon every