Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28

condemn your forefathers and mine for
ever having settled In these United
states
PLAY YOUR PART WELL.
Englauds rule In India and Egypt has
been Of great benefit TO England, Tor II
has trained up generations Of men ac-
customed to look at the larger and loft
Ter side Of public life. 1t has been Of
even greater benefit 10 India and
Egypt And finally, and most Of all. It
has advanced the cause OF civilization.
So, II We do our duty Alright Ia the
Philippines, we will add to that nation
al renown which is the highest and fin
est part OF national life, VIII greatly
benefit the people OF the Philippine Isl
ands, and, above all, we win play our
part Well in the great work Of uplifting
mankind. But TO do this work, keep
ever In mind that we must show In a
very high degree the qualities Of cour-
age Of honesty, and Of good judgment.
Resistance must be stamped out, The
first and all-important work TO be
done is TO establish the supremacy
OF our flag. We must put down armed
resistance before we can accomplish
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pareying, no falterlng In dealing with
our foe As for those In our own coun-
try who encourage the foe, We can af-
ford contemptuously to disregard them;
but Il must be remembered that their
utterances are not saved from being
reasonable merely by the fact that
they are despicable,
When once we have put down armed
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knowledged, then an even more difficult
task viii begin, for then we must see
to II that the islands are administered
with absolute honesty and with good
Judgment II we let the public service
Of the islands be turned into the prey
Of the spells politician, We shall have
begun TO tread the path which Spain
trod to her own destruction. We must
send out there only good and able men,
chosen for their fitness and not because
Of their partizan service, and these men
must not only administer impartial JUS
tice TO the natives and serve their own
government with honesty and fidelity.
but must show the utmost tact and
frmness. remembering that, with such
people as those with whom we are TO
deal, weakness IL the creates Of crimes,
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OF consideration for their principles and
prejudces.
FATE OF MANY NATIONS.
] preach to you, then my country
men, that our country calls not for the
life Of ease, but for the life Of strenu-
Gus endeayor, The twentieth century
looms before us big with the fate Of
many nations. II we stand idly by, II
we seek merely swollen, slothful ease
and gnoble peace, II we shrink from
the hard contests where men must win
at hazard OF their lives and at the risk
Of all they hold dear, then the holder
and stronger peoples will pass us BY,
and will win for themselves the DOM
ination Of the world. Let us therefore
boldly face the life Of strife, resolute
10 do our duty well and manfully, res
dilute to uphold righteousness by deed
and by word resolute 20 be both honest
and brave, to serve high ideals, yet 10
Use practical methods. Above all, let
as shrink from no strife, moral or ply
steal within or without the nation, pro-
vided We are certain that the strife Is
justified. for II is only through strife.
through hard and dangerous endeayor.
that we shall ultimately win the goal Of
true national greatness,