The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-06

pCllCy ana tlaI we VIII lOilOW 1T 50
long as authority is ours, administer
| ing justice, governing by equal laws.
| giving the rising generations Ameri
can education, instructing the people
in liberty by giving them the fruits of
liberty; all in the faith that when we
who today are at work upon this
problem shall have passed away, our
children, beholding the result of our
toll, will do that which the future
shows to be best for the Philippines,
best for the Republic, best for civili-
zation and righteous for all. AS for
us in our day, we will keep the flag
right where Mckinley placed fright
where our soldiers and sailors de-
Tended it, Our children may do what
they will in their day. For them a
clear future and a free hand But as
for us in our day, no American re-
treat will be sounded, no American
advantage yielded to a rival, no Amer
lean duty surrendered.
Philippines Cost Us Nothing.
Do they tell us that to govern the
Philippines is expensive? The answer
is that the Philippines do not cost
the American people single dollar
today; and the total cost, including
| the expenses of our army, were less
than one-third the amount the Opposi-
tion say they cost us. The few Amer
ican soldiers remaining there are a
part of our little army of $4,000 men,
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keep them here just as we keep them
there; and a regiment costs no more
stationed in the Philippines than sta
toned in Indiana Republicans know
how to govern, and they have made
the government of the Philippines
self-supporting. No taxpayer Of the
United States contributes the frac-
ton of a mill Every dollar of the
Philippine expense is paid from Phil
ippine revenues. At the same time in.
dustry is more active, commerce
greater and human conditions better
than ever before in the history of that
or any other Malay people. When
the period of expense has passed and
the expense been paid, why throw
away the investment just when it is
beginning to yield returns?
No Withdrawal from the Philippines.
Withdrawal from the Philippines
nct only means abandonment OF our
| principles and desertion of our duty;
but it means that one of Americas
great rivals in Oriental trade would
occupy the Philippines within year;
that Germany and England would
struggle for them with Japan. With
draw today and you deliver them to
Americas present and strongest an
| tagonist in Orient waters, or else you
fling them a torch of war into the
magazine of international jealousies
and ambitions On the other hand re-
main there, continue the Republican
policy of fitting them for self-govern-
ment and, yet promise them today
separate flag and you give them ex-
| cuse for a permanent and increasing
discomfort which would flame into in
surrection when their first demand Is
| not needed. Yet this is what the Op-
position candidate proposes. How
/ uuuCn WlSSi, SdnCl, USIIOi W IOiiOW
the plans of Republican statesman
ship and let our course be shaped by
the wisdom of events. How much bet
ter to trust the conscience and good
sense of the American people tomor
| row. How much nobler to say to all
the world with reference to the Phil
| ippines: Here we are, here we stay
until we have finished the work God
has given us to do" Why doubt the
good sense, the patriotism, the high
purpose of our children? Why mort
gage the future which belongs to our
| posterity? All wisdom, all patriotism,
| all righteousness will not die with us.
The coming generation will have
minds as able, hearts as brave, ideals
| as lofty as our own. And they will
have more knowledge than we have.
Why not trust them to deal with the
| situation that will in their day con-
front them. Is not this the common
sense Of this great business.
Panama canaI-American leadership.
We stand by the gold standard; we
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we stand by enforcement of law: we
stand by the flag in the Philippines;
! and we stana by an American canal
across the Isthmus. The Opposition
| tried to defeat that canal. They said
that recognition of the Republic of
Panama was dishonorable; every
| Christian nation on earth answered
that charge by following the example
of the United States Every objection
which genius for opposition could de-
wise was offered; and yet when it
came to a vote the very men who had
opposed the canal supported it That
waterway will be the greatest work
ever undertaken by the genius and
enterprise of men. 1t Will make the
two great oceans of the globe one
| mighty highway of commerce. It
will give the Republic a continuous
coastline-one vast maritime semi
circle of safety. 1t will make the ma
tions neighbors, drawing them nearer
together byth magic power Of mutual
trade. 1t will be the greatest avenue
of international communication ever
constructed, and communication is an
other name for civilization. It means
that the markets OF the Far East's
hundreds Of Millions of people will be
brought to the door of the farmers of
the Mississippi Valley. It means the
permanent leadership of America In
the commerce of the Orient 1t means