Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-07
CLEAR AND
BRACING WEATHER
PROGRAM of President Roosevelt's Reception al
Fargo Was Carried Out in Spite of the Severe
Blizzard of Yesterday.
CHILDREN WERE MASSED
TO WELCOME HIM


Gent merely to provide against the re-
currence of trouble. In Governor Taft
and his associates we sent to the Filipi-
nos as upright, as conscientious, and as
abb, a group Of administrators as ever
any country has been blessed with hav-
ini'. With them and under them we
have associated the best men among
the Filipinos, so that the great major
ity of the officials, including many of
the highest rank, are themselves ma
tives of the islands. The administra-
ton is incorruptibly honest; justice is
as jealously safeguarded as here at
home. The government is conducted
purely in the interest of the people of
the islands; they are protected in their
religious and civil rights; they have
been given an excellent and we'll ad-
ministered school system, and each OF
them now enjoys rights to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness such as
were never before known in all the his
tory of the islands.
''The congress which has just ad-
journed has passed legislation of high
Importance and great wisdom in the in
terests of the Filipino people. First and
foremost, they conferred upon them by
law the present admirable civil govern
ment; in addition they gave them an
excellent currency; they passed meas
ure allowing the organization of 'a-
tive constabulary; and they provided,
in the interests of the Islands, for re-
duction Of o5 per cent in the tariff on
Filipino articles brought to this coun-
try. Moreover, congress appropriated
SO, 100000, following the precedent it set
when the people of Porto Rico We're af-
ficted by sudden disaster; this money
to be used by the Philippine govern
ment in order to meet the distress oc-
casioned primarily by the terrible cat
tie disease which almost annihilated
the carabao or water-buffalo, the chief
and most important domestic animal in
the islands. Coming as tt is disaster
did upon the heels of the havoc wrought
by the insurrectionary war great suf-
fering has been caused; and this mis-
cry for which this government is in no
way responsible will doubtless in turn
increase the difficulties of the Philip
pine government for the next year or
so. In consequence there will doubtless
here and there occur sporadic increase
of the armed brigandage to which the
islands have been habituated from time
and here and there for
their own purposes the bandits may
choose to style themselves patriots or
but these local diff
culties will be of little consequence save
as they give occasion to few men
here at, home again to try to mislead
our people. Not only has the military
problem in the Philippines been work.
ed out quicker and better than we had
dared to expect, but the progress So
cially and in civil government has
likewise exceeded our fondest hopes.
while we have been doing these
great and beneficent works in the IS
lands, we have yet been steadily reduc-
ing the cost at which they are done.
The last congress repealed the law for
war taxes, and the war department has
reduced the army from the maximum
number of 100000 allowed under the
law to very nearly the minimum of
6O,OOO
Moreover, the last congress enacted
some admirable legislation affecting
the army, passing first of all the mill
tia bill and then the bill to create
general staff. The militia bill repre-
sents the realization of a reform which
had been championed ineffectively by
Washington, and had been fruitlessly
agitated ever since. At last we have
taken from the statute books the obso-
lete militia law of the Revolutionary
days and have provided for efficient AID
to the national guard of the states. The
general staff law is of immense import
ance and benefit to the regular army
We do not need a large regular army
but we do need to have our small reg
ular army the very best that can pos
sibly be produced. Under the worm
out and ineffective organization "nich
has hitherto existed, sudden strain Is
absolutely certain to produce the dislo-
cation and confusion we saw at the
outbreak of the war with Spain; ana
when such dislocation and CONFUSION
occurs it is easy and natural, but en-
tirely improper, to blame the men VINO
happen to be in Office, instead OF the
system which is really responsible. Un-
der the law just enacted by congress
this system will be changed immensely
for the better, and every patriotic Am
erican ought to rejoice; for when we
come to the army and the navy we
deal with the honor and interests Of all
our people; and when such Is the case
party lines are as nothing, and we all
stand shoulder to shoulder as Ameri.
cans, moved only by pride in and love
| for our common country"
A 0RHAT HuMTDR
| Is now supplying the Bon-Ton Restau
rant with Bob-white Quail, Mountain
/ Grouse, Prairie Chickens, Teal ant
Mallard Ducks. snipe and venison
| Call and se uS.