The Saint Paul globe., 1902-07-05

The Philippine Islands.
And now word as to the Philippines.
There are yet troubles In the Moro coun--
tIiE trK the country Of the Mohammedan
the F!llpinos, among the people who have
peen IN lnsurrection, peace now reigns
norsiha IL may tbt bbet think, unlikely, but it is
ing dead coal of insurrection NAV be for
the moment famed into live niece of
en- empeT ta1 and burst into fitful flame. If
SO, that flame will be stamped out
But, speaking broadly and generally
peace has come. Our army has received
It's It's reward And And what was the reward of
ness of duty we'll done. Our soldiers have
Iought, have toiled have struggled. SO
that when victory came they might turn
ties Victory came.
Today the proclamation Of peace and
amnesty has been promulgated, and at
notified that the civil government is SUI
preme in the islands. Does not that
speak well, oh. my brethren, for our
army, for our troops, that the troops of
the people should war hoping for tri-
umph which is to put the power into the
hands of the civil authorities.
By law we are allowed an army at a
at a. minimum of $4,000 men. While this
war mas gone on, we have steadily re-
duced that army, until now by orders
a matter of fact we have two or three
thousand fewer actually under arms.
Ihat speaks well for our institutions 1t
speaks well for the triumphs of the pol
1cies with which, as a nation, we have
been identified during the past four years
ana, men and women of the United
states, 1T 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. Nobody of our citizens loves
frankneSS and generouSness on the part
OF the country than the men who wear
Uncle Sans uniform. For there is no
interested services with less thought of a
them.
'u4 Problems at Home.
Now, my fellow citizens. I speak Of
the task which has confronted those in
Cuba and the Philippines as being one
OF the tasks which this generation had
to face It is only, one We have great
problems at home to face. 1t am speak
ing in one of the great Industrial centers
not only of America. but of the world
A million people stand grouped in a
small radius around the spot where we
now are. The growth of your cities with
In this radius has been one of the most
striking phenomena of this day, and here
therefore, you are brought face to face
with problems which affected our entire
civilization at the opening of this new
century The tremendous rush of our in
dustrial expansion which has brought in
It's traln so much of it's goodness and
also brought so much of its evil. the yery
intensity OF the progress that has been
made has meant that new and infinitely
dlfferent problems 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 will of private individuals working by
themselves, others by the association into
citizens and others yet through the vari-
Gus governmental agencies, of municipal,
state and nation. Specifically great, es-
peclally different are the problems caused
by the growth and concentration of great
Individual, and, above all, great corpor-
ate fortunes, 1t is immensely for the
be such individual and corporate wealth
as long as 1t is used right, and when
not used right then it becomes a serious
and methods with which we are to meet
these new problems must in many cases
themselves be new, but the purpose lying
| those Instruments, must, If we are to
succeed, be now as in the past, simply
in accord with the immutable laws Of
| order, OF Justice and of right
New Legislation Needed.
We may need and in my belief will
| radical or revolutionary spirit, but in
! spirit. OF common sense common honesty
and resolute desire to face facts as
they are. We, will need then new leg
| islation but while laws are important
it is infinitely more important that they
should be administered in accordance
| with the principles that have marked
! honest administration from the begin
ming of recorded history. In the last
analysis the most important department
| of civilized government is the department
| OF justice. Think what it means The
! department of justice, justice that means
| that each man, rich or poor, strong or
weak, shall have rights ana shall not be
allowed to do wrong to his fellows. And
| you, here of this city, have a right to
| feel proud of your representative In the
| cabinet, the man under whom we can
| guarantee that the department Of Justice
| Will be such in fact as well as in name.
| When it comes to practice the ounce
| OF performance outweighs the ton of
promise. And, Mr. Knox, there has been
| much more than an ounce of perform
ance.
Gentlemen, we have great problems.
| We can only solve them by degrees; we
can only solve them by doing well each
| particular bit of work as it comes up
| for solution; Much can be done along
| the lines of regulation of the industrial
marked a feature in our civilization, but
| il we recklessly try without proper
| thought, without proper caution to do
| too much we shall do nothing, or else
we shall work a ruin that will be felt
most acutely among those of our citizens
! task to deal with great Industrial ten
dencies. To deal with them in spirit of
presumptions and rash folly, and above
all to deal with them in a spirit of envy
and hatred and malice would be to in
vite disaster, disaster that would be
so widespread that this country would
| rock to its foundations Mississippi
sometimes causes immense damage by
floods. If you cannot dam 1t and stop