Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-16

application of new inventions 10 universal |
use. The result has been an increasing in |
terdependence of agriculture ana manu- |
factures."
Republican Reciprocity.
on the subject of reciprocity the pres
ident says:
"our opponents assert that they believe
in reciprocity. Their action on the most
gotiated-that with Cuba-does not bear
out this assertion. Moreover, there can be
no reciprocity unless there Is substantial
tariff; free trade and reciprocity are not
compatible. We are on record as favoring
arrangements for reciprocal trade rela-
tions with other countries, these arrange
ments to be on an equitable basis of benefit
| to both the contracting parties, The re-
! publican party stands pledged to every
| wise and consistent method of increasing
| the foreign commerce of the country; That
! 1t has kept its pledge is proven by the fact
| that while the domestic trade of this coun-
| try exceeds in volume the entire export
| and import trade of all the nations OF the
world, the United States has In addition
secured more than an eighth of the export
| trade of the world, standing first among
| the nations in this respect"
OF the proposition to reduce the size of
the army the president says:
'If our opponents should come into pow
er they could not reduce our army below
| its present size without greatly impairing
it's efficiency and abandoning part of the
national duty In short, in this matter, IL
| our opponents should come into power they
would either have to treat this particular
the promises they made in 1886 and 1910,
that is, as possessing no binding force; or
else they would have to embark on a pollcS
which would be ludicrous at the moment,
and fraught with grave danger to the ma
tional honor in the future"
He reviews the administration of the gov
ernment finances and refutes the charge
that the government is administered eX-
travagantly with facts and figures, and
says:
"Do our opponents grudge the $5O,OOO,oOO
paid for the Panama canal? DO they in
tend to cut down on the pensions to the
veterans of the civil war? Do they intend
to put u stop to the irrigation policy? or
to the permanent census bureau? or TO
immigration inspection? Do they intend TO
abolish rural free delivery? Do they in
tend to cut down the navy? or the Alaskan
telegraph system? Do they intend to dis
mantle our coast fortitcations? If there
is to be a real and substantial cutting down
in national expenditures 1t must be IN such
matters as these. The department of agri-
culture has done service of incalculable
value to the farmers of this country in
many different lines. Do our opponents
wish to cut down the money for this serv-
ice? They can do it only by destroying the
usefulness of the service Itself"
: Philippine Independence.
He refers TO the promise in the demo-
cratic platform to give independence TO the
Philippine islands, and after speaking OF
the folly of such a promise says:
at may well be that our opponents have
: no real intention of putting their promise
:: into effect. If this is the case, if, in other
) words they are insincere in the promise
they make, II is only necessary to say again
:. that IL Is unwise to trust men who are false
+. | in one thing to deal with anything. The
! mere consciousness of broken faith would
u hamper them in continuing our policy in
y the Islands; and only by continuing un-
n changed this policy can the honor of the
= | country be maintained, or the interests OF
II the islands subserved. IT, on the other
:, hand, our opponents came into power and
y attempted to carry out their promises to the
= Fiipinos by giving them independence and
: withdrawing American control from ne me
= islands. the result would be II frightful
i calamity to the Filipinos themselves, and
: in its larger aspect would amount to an
: international crime. Anarchy would fol-
- low; and the most violent anarchic forces
:, would be directed partly against the civi
u government partly against all forms OF
+ religious and educational civilization
- Bloody conflicts would inevitably ersue II
% the archipelago and just as inevitably the
,I islands would become the prey OF the frs
: took up the task we had cravenly aban
, doned
During the last five years more has beer
81 done for the material and moral we!l-beint
a. A. of the Filipinos than ever before since tn,
~ islands first came within the ken of civil
,e lied man. We have opened before them
~ :, interest and not a policy of exploitation
~ Every effort is being made 10 fit the island
o. crs for .self-government. and they hay
already in large measure received 1t, Will
20 for the first time in their history their per
"a sonal rights and civil liberties have Zee
70 guaranteed. They are being educated
30 they have been given schools; they hav
- been given Libraries; roads are being hui
as for their use; their health is being care
10 for; they have been given courts in whic
&C they receive justice as absolute as 1t is Il
nd our power to guarantee Their indivldua
iiVT rights to life. liberty and the. pursuit o
~ happiness are now by act of congres
as jealousy safeguar6ed under the America
TS M flag; and if the protection of the flag wei
~; withdrawn their rights would be lost, an
y. the islands would be plunged back unde
e es some form of vicious tyranny. We hnv
Of given them more self,government tha
az | they have ever before had: we are takin
no | steps TO increase 1t still further by pre-
Nv viding them with an elected legislativ
the result of this Experimentation it is
. wholly new experiment in Asia-before "
n n make promises which as nation we mief
us be forced to break or which they migf
Interpret ore way and we in another.
I!e may be asserted without fear OF success
,,iaa full contradiction that nowhere else in r.
m ,mie cent years has there been as fire an exam
hs pie of constructive StatesmanShip and WI:
IA and upright administration as has bee
given BY y the ne Gi edSS eT S5i n
SSoot administered them in the Interest of tie
,pl ,ot own people; and the Filipinos themselv,
10 islands; but they have also been of vel
ne great ADVANTAGE to us as nation
M Conclusion.
ed In conclusion the president says:
ry; "Our appeal is made to all coed citizel
by who hold the honor and the interest OF q
of nation close to their hearts. The great !
de- sues which are at stake and upon which
he have touched, are more thah mere partlS;
ac- issues, for they involve much that com
er, home to the individual pride and indiyidu
va well-being of our people. Under conGlto
as they actually are, good America
ro- should refuse, for the sake of the welfa
The of the nation, to change the national pt
the icy. We who are responsible for the a
ac- ministration and legislation under whi
ely this country, during the last seven yeal
sed has grown so greatly in well-being at hor
sht and in honorable repute among the n
vo- tions of the earth abroad do not sta
ted inertly upon this record do not use II
ac record as an excuse for failure of effC
we'd to meet new conditions. On the contraI
ice. we treat the record of what we have 60
ost in the past as Indictment TO do even bett
yer in the future. We believe that the progrt
any that we have made may be taken as
es- measure of the progress we shall contin
me to make If the people again entrust I
sed government of the nation to our ham
ess We do not stand still. We press stead
re- forward toward the goal of moral and n
rnn fnrlnl Wnll-hninR for nnnnln