The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-12

the canal payment already referred toy,
while the year previous showed relatively
small decrease,
The expenditures OF the nation have
been managed In a spirit Of economy as
| far removed from waste as from niggardli-
ness and in the future every effort Will be
continued to secure an economy as strict
as b consistent with efficiency. Once
, more our opponents have promised what
they cannot or should not perform. The
Government have Increased Of recent
years Is to be found in the fact that the
people, after mature thought, have deemed
II wise to have certain new forms OF work
for the public undertaken by the public.
This necessitates such expenditures, for
instance, as those for rural free delivery,
or for the inspection Of meats under the
Department OF Agriculture, or for irriga-
ton. But these new expenditures are
to abandon them; and yet it Is Idle to de-
claim against the increased expense Of
the Government unless it Is intended to
cut down the very expenditures which
cause the increase. The pensions to the
BY every sentiment. Of regard and gratitude.
The rural free delivery Is Of the greatest
use and convenience to the farmers, a
body. OF men who live under conditions
which make them ordinarily receive little
the support OF the Government. The
irrigation policy In the arid and semi
arid regions OF the West is one fraught
with the most benehoent and far-reach-
ing good to the actual settlers. the home
dttional feature In Americas national
policy. Do our opponents grudge tho
nifty millions paid for the Panama Canal?
DO they intend to cut down on the pen
sions to the veterans Of the civil wary Do
they intend 10 put stop to the irrigation
policyP or to the permanent census bureau9
or to immigration inspeotion2 Do they
intend to abolish rural free delivery? Do
they, intend to cut down the navy, or the
Alaskan telegraph systemi Do they. in.
II there is to be a real and substantial cut
ting down in national expenditures it must
be In such matters as these. The Depart
ment Of Agriculture has done service OF
inoaloulable value to the farmers OF this
country In many different lines. Do our
opponents wish TO cut down the money
for this service9 They can do it only by
itself
The public work Of the United States
degree of honesty and eficiency than at
the present tine; and special need OF
PRAISE belongs to those officials responsible
for the Philippines, and Porto Rico, where
the administrations have been models OF
sionaliy occurred, but II has been rclent-
lessly stamped out. We have known no
party In dealing with offenders, and have
hunted down without mercy every wrong
doer In the service Of the nation whom
detect; for the public servant who betrays
his trust and the private individual who
debauches him stand as the worst OF crimi.
nails, because their crimes are crimes against
the entire community. and not only against
this generation, but against the genera
tons that are yet to be-
Will.o-the-wisp Promises to FiIiplnos.
Our opponents promise Independence
are confronted by the fact that their irreo-
oncilable differences Of opinion among
their proved inability to create
a constructive policy when In power, and
their readiness: for the sake Of momentary
ctples upon which they have insist ted as
essential, conspire to puzzle US as to whether
they do or do not intend in good faith 10
carry out this promise II they are given
control OF the Government; In their plat
their language is little
qualification as to time;
and indeed qualifc alton as to time Is an
absurdity, for we have neither right nor
power TO bind our successors when u IS
may confront them; while, II there rs any
principle involved in the matter, II Is just
as wrong to deny independence for fey
years as to deny It for an indefinite period
But In later and equally official 9tteranccs
by our opponents the term self-Rovern-
ment was substituted for independencn
the words used being 80 chosen that n
their natural construction they descIioea
precisely the policy now being carried on.
The language Of the platform indicated
radical change Of policy; the later utter.
anoes indicated a continuance OF the present
policy. But this caused trouble in their
own ranks; and In a still later. although
lees formal, utterance the self.govern-
ment promise was recanted, and indepen;,
denoe at some future time was promised
In It's place. They have occupied three
entirely different positions within hity
days. Which 10 the promise they really
intend to keep
They do not know their own minds and
DO one can tell how long they would keep
q the same mind, should they by any
among themselves. II such ambiguity,
Adeoted only the American people II wouia