Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-07

the GOOD will Of all the thr4d2 Their advice
has been constantly soffht nd sparingly
By constant iteratio1 Tho policy has
been made plain. We Do notl kovet the ter
ritory nor the control Of any other people
We hold ourselves absolutely apart from
any combinations or groups of powers. We
favor no national intereFs b9t our own.
For Peace and concfiiation.
In controversies among ourIneighbors we
take no part, not even rendering good Of
fees unless at the request Of both parties
concerned. When our advice is given 1t Is
always on the side Of seace> and concilia-
ton. We have made. It is tue. great ac-
QUESTIONS but never OF set purpose nor
from greed of land.
In the case of Hawaii the viii of the peo-
pie of those islands conceded with the i'm
portant interests we have to guard In the
Pacific.
In the Samoan treaty we freed ourselves
from a useless and dangerous entangle-
ment, and in place Of an undesirable con-
dominium we gained possession of the best
harbor in the south seas. retaining at the
same time all our commercial rights in the
archipelago.
The diplomacy of Mckinley and Roose-
welt has been directed principally to our
present and future interests in the Pacific,
On whose wide shores so much of the
worlds work is to be done. They have
constantly kept in view the vast import
ance of that opening field Of our activi-
ties.
All the foreign policy of Mckinley and
Roosevelt has been marked with the same
stamp of honesty and fair dealing, con-
fessediy in American interests. but treating
our friends with equity and consideration.
They have made more treaties than any
two preceding Presidents; and the conclu-
sion of the whole matter is that we stand
today in Independent though AMIGA BILE re-
lations to all the rest of the world-with-
out ally and without an enemy
The republic never is in default of men
to serve it worthily when the chief of the
eye and the will to choose the best men
and will be satisfied with no less So in
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines we
got the best we had.
The Philippines.
AS to the Philippines. the work done there
by Judge Taft and his associates will rank
among the highest achievements of colonial
administration recorded in history. Never
since their discovery has there been such
general peace and order; SO thorough a
protection Of the peaceable and restraint of
evil doors: so wide diffusion of education;
so complete guaranty to industry of the
fruk Of its labors. And when they see this
energetic and efficient government carried
on free from the venaity and bribery
which formerly seemed to them necessity
of existence. then, indeed, they are like
them that dream.
The principle evil from which they still
suffer has its origin here. Some well-mean-
Ing people-and others not so well mean
ing-are constantly persuading them that
they are oppressed and that they will be
given their liberty, as they choose to call
1t, soon the republican party Is over
thrown in this country. These are the true
enemies Of the Fflipinos, and not the
men who are striving with whole-hearted
energy and with consummate success to
ameliorate their condition and to make
them fit for self-government and all it's at
tendant advantages.
The so-calle1 anti-imperialists confound
in their daily speeches and writings two abb
solutely unrelated ideas-the liberty, the
civil rights. the enlightenment which we
have given the Filipinoss and the independ-
er ce which the best of them do not want
and know they are una BILE to maintain
To abandon them nows to cast them adrift
at the mercy of accident, would be an act
of cowardice and treaeherr which would
gain us the scorn and reproach of civiliza-
ton. ~
No Monopoly on Virtue Of Patriotism.
Even in so lofty and restricted an arena
as our Senate, we have seen the abest
and most adroit organizer of his party
fail in the most energetic effort of his life
to induce his party to. reject a great ma
tional benefit because 1t was offered by
hands Half the democratic
senator's said this was no question for pet
tifogging politics and voted for an Ameri-
can canal across the isthna6s
We not claiming that we monopolize
the virtue or the Patriotism of the country.
There are good men In all parties. 1
know far better men than an who are
a love feast like this, to talk of what has
been done by the family and at least to
brag a little of the democrats who have
helped us.
thafr fo,.
because we started right and in the main
have kept right. We invite accessions from
the ranks of our patriotic opponents, and
we shall get them In the future. as we
have In the past, whenever we deserve
them. We shall get them this year, be-
cause this year we do deserve them. We
come before the country in a position which
cannot be successfully attacked in front,
what we are doing. and what we intend
to doom all three we confidently chal-
lenge the verdict OF the American people.
Coeficients Of Safety.
What are the coefficients of safety in a
chief of state? He should have courage;
the wisest coward that ever lived is not
fit to rule And intelligence; we want no
hero in the White House.
And honesty; a clever thief would do in
finite mischief. These three are the iAds-
Densables. With them man is all the
more safe If he has a sense of proportion,
a sense of humor, wide knowledge of
men and affairs; If he seeks good coun-
sci; and, finally, If he is a patriot, If he
loves his country. believes in it, and seeks
in all things it's interest and its glory.
Any man may make mistakes: but such
a man as this will make few, and no grave
ones.
Such a man is our President and our
candidate. He is prompt and energetic,
but he takes infinite pains to get at the
facts before he acts. In all the crises in
which he has been accused of undue haste
his action has been the result of long medi-
tation and well-reasoned conviction. If he
thinks rapidly that is no fault; he thinks
thoroughly, and that is the essential.
When he made peace between the miners
and the operators, 1t was no sudden caprice
but the fruit of serious reflection, and this
act of mingled philanthropy and common
sense was justified by great practical re-
suit.
When he proclaimed anew the Monroe
doctrine in the Venezuelan case his action
was followed by the most explicit accept
ance of that saving policy which has ever
come to us from overseas. He acted very
swiftly, 1t is true, in Mississippi. when the
best citizens of town threatened the life
of postmistress for no fault but her color.
He simply said, VERY well, gentlemen:
you may get your letters somewhere else
for a while"
And as to the merger suits, now that peo-
pie have come to their senses they see that
his action In that case was as regular as