Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-04

under similar circumstances and with
SIMILAR initial differences of opinion, our
opponents would have achieved any
practical result?
I'VE have already shown n actual
| fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men, paying no
heed to his race, his creed, or his birth
place.
Trusts Natural.
I'VE recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomes of our Industrial
system. Each kind of organization is
to be favored so long as it acts in a
spirit of justice and of regard for the
rights of others. Each is to be
granted the full protection of the law,
and each in turn is to be held to a
strict obedience to the law; for no man
is above it and no man below it. The
humblest individual is to have his
rights safeguarded as scrupulously as
those of the strongest organization,
for each is to receive justice, no more
and no less. The problems with
which we have to deal in our modern
industrial and social life are manifold;
but the spirit in which it is necessary
to approach their resolution is simply
the spirit of honesty, of courage, and
OF common sense
Irrigation.
I'm inaugurating the great work Of
irrigation in the west the administra-
ton has been enabled by congress to
take one of the longest strides ever
utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
The Canal.
Ever since this continent was dis
covered the need of an isthmian canal
to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic
has been recognized; and ever since
the birth of our nation such a canal
has been planned. At last the dream
has become a reality The isthmian
canal is now being built by the gov
eminent of the United States. We
conducted the negotiation for it's con-
struction with the incest and most
scrupulous honor, and in spirit of the
largest generosity toward those
through whose territory it was to run.
Every sinister effort which could be de.
vised by the spirit of faction or the
spirit of self-interest was made in or
Ger to defeat the treaty with Panama
and thereby prevent the consummation
of this work. The cons .ruction of the
canal is7now an assured fact; but most
certainly it is unwise to entrust the
carrying out of so momentous policy
to those who have endeavored to de-
feat the whole undertaking.
Foreign Policy.
Our foreign policy has been so con-
Quoted that, while not one of our just
claims has been sacrificed, our rela-
tions with all foreign nations are now
of the most peaceful kind; there is not
cloud on the horizon. The last cause
of irritation between us and any other
nation was removed by the settlement
OF the Alaskan boundary.
'In the Caribbean sea we have
made good our promises of independ-
ence to Cuba, and have proved our as
sertion that our mission in the island
was one of justice and not of self-ag-
grandizement; and thereby no less
than by our action in Venezuela and
Panama we have shown that the Mon
roe doctrine is a living reality, de-
signed for the hurt of no nation, but
for the protection of civilization on the
western continent, and for the peace of
the world. Our steady growth in
power has gone hand in hand with
strengthening disposition to use this
power with strict regard for the rights
of others, and for the cause of interna-
tional Justice and good will
Filipino Lawmakers.
American interests in the Pacific
have rapidly grown. American enter
prise has laid cable across this, the
greatest of oceans. We have proved
in effective fashion that we wish the
Chinese empire well and desire its in
tegrity and independence. Our foothold
in the Philippines greatly strengthens
our position in the competition for the
trdQe Oh Cne east, but we are govern
ing the Philippines in the interest of
the Philippine people themselves. We
have already given them large share
in their government, and our purpose
| is to increase this share as rapidly as
they give evidence of increasing fit
ness for the task. The great ma
jority of the officials of the islands,
whether elective or appointive, are al
ready native Filipinos. We are now
providing for a legislative assembly.
This is the first step to be taken in the
future; and it would be eminently I'M
wise to declare what our next step will
be until this first step has been taken
and the results are manifest. To have
gone faster than we have already gone
in giving the islanders a constantly
increasing measure of self-government
would have been disastrous. At the
present moment to give political in
dependence to the islands would result
| in the immediate loss of civil rights,
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