The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-08-05


which during the last few years the
country has attained height Of ma
| terial well-being never before reached.
! That whenever the need arises there
should be REIMBURSEMENT of the tar
| if schedules is undoubted: but such
changes can with safety be made only
| by those whose devotion to the prin-
| ciple of a protective tariff Is beyond
! question; for otherwise the changes
would amount not to readjustment
! but to repeal The REIMBURSEMENT
when made must maintain and not
destroy the protective principle. To
the farmer, the merchant, the manu-
! facturer this is vital; but perhaps no
other man is so much interested as
| the wage-worker in the maintenance
| of our present economic system, both
| as regards the finances and the tariff.
| The standard of living of our wage.
workers is higher than that of any
other country. and it cannot so re-
| main unless we have a protective tar
| itf which shall always keep as mini
mum rate Of duty sufficient to cover
| the difference between the labor cost
| here and abroad
I'VE believe in reciprocity with for
cign nations on the terms outlined in
President McKinley's last speech,
which urged the extension of our for
eign markets by reciprocal agreements
| whenever they could be made with
out injury to American industry and
| labor.
1--WE 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.
"Ir inaugurating the great wore
| irrigation in the west the rdmtEifla
ton has been enabled ~ eoasg9sp
| 10 luke one VI IIC lOHSSSI .HLiNNt7
taken under our government towaNa
utilizing our vast national 20 nAln i-%
the settler, the actual hor e .aAe
Ever since this contine1 was dis-
| covered the need of an isthmihn
canal to connect the Pacific (hd me
| Atlantic has been recognigetA ara
ever since the birth of our ne tioh sVcil
q canal has been planned. Phd is'h1
milan canal is now being buiis TX ihg
government of the United StatesNg9
| conducted the negotiation for It's nF5
struction with the incest and lGq9
I scrupulous' honor, and in spirit Of
the largest generosity towafd those
through whose territory it was to run.
Our foreign policy has been so
conducted that, while not one OF our
just claims has been sacrificed, our
relations with all foreign nations are
now of the most peaceful kind there
is not a cloud on the horizon. The
last cause of irritation between us
and any other nation was removed by
the settlement of the Alaskan bound
airy.
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
ACKNOWLEDGMENT; and thereby no less
than by our action in Venezuela and
Panama we have shown that the Mon
roe doctrine is a living reality, design
ed 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
cover 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 inter
rational justice and good will. -.
Our foothold in the Philippines
greatly strengthens our position in
the competition for the trade of the
east; but we are governing the Philip
pines in the interest of the Philippine
people themselves. We have already
given them a large share in their
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crease this share as rapidly as they
give evidence of increasing fitness for
the task. To have gone faster than
we have already gone in giving the
islanders a constantly increasing
measure of self-government would
have been disastrous. We have estab-
Eshed in the islands a government by
Americans assisted by Filipinos. We
are steadily striving to transform this
self-government by the. Filipinos as
sisted by Americans.
During the seven years that have
inst passed there is no duty, domestic
or foreign, which we have shirked;
no necessary task which we have fear
ed to undertake, or which we have
not performed with reasonable effici-
ency. We face the future with our
mast and our present as guarantors Oh
our promises, and we are content to
stand or to fall by the record which
we have made and are making"