The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-16

| application or new inventions to universal
i use. The result has been an Increasing in
terdependence of agriculture and manu-
| features"
Republican Reciprocity.
On the subject of reciprocity the pres
| ident says:
Our opponents assert that they believe
in reciprocity. Their action on the most
| important reciprocity treaty recently ne
| gotiateo-that with Cuba-does not bear
out this assertion. Moreover, there can be
| no reciprocity unless there is a substantial
| tariff; free trade and reciprocity are not
| compatible. We are on record as favoring
| arrangements for reciprocal trade rela-
| tons 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
it has kept it's 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, II
! our opponents should come into power they
would either have to treat this particular
promise of the year 1904 as they now treat
! the promises they made in 1896 and 1900,
| that is, as possessing no binding force; or
else they would have to embark on policy
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
eminent finances and refutes the charge
! that the government is administered ex-
| travagantly with facts and figures, and
says:
do our opponents grudge the $4,000, 900
| 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 a 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
mantle our coast Notifications? If there
is to be real and substantial cutting down
in national expenditures it 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
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 promise says:
1T 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, it is only necessary to say again
that it is unwise to trust men who are false
in one thing to deal with anything The
| mere consciousness of broken faith would
hamper them in continuing our policy in
the Islands; and only by continuing I'M
changed this policy can the honor of the
country be maintained, or the interests of
the islands subserved. IT.. on the other
hand, our opponents came into power and
+ attempted to carry out their promises to the
Filipinos by giving them independence and
withdrawing American control from the
islands, the result would be a frightful
calamity to the FilipinoS themselves, and
in it's larger aspect would amount to an
international crime. Anarchy would fol-
low; and the most violent anarchic forces
would be directed partly against the civil
government, partly against all forms of
religious and educational civilization.
Bloody conflicts would inevitably enSue in
the archipelago, and just as inevitably the
islands would become the prey of the first
power which in its own selfish interest
took up the task we had cravenly aban-
doned.
During the last five years more has been
done for the material and moral well-being
Of the Filipinos than ever before since the
islands first came within the ken of civil
lied man. We have opened before them a
vista of orderly development in their own
interest, and not policy of exploitation.
ers for self-government, and they have
already in large measure received it, while
for the first time in their history their per-
sonal rights and civil liberties have been
guaranteed They are being educated;
they have been given schools; they have
been given libraries; roads are being built
for their use; their health is being cared
for; they have been given courts in which
they receive justice as absolute as it is in
our power to guarantee. Their individual
rights to life liberty and the pursuit of
ha nv of
jealousy safeguar6ed under the American
flag; and if the protection of the flag We're
withdrawn their rights would be lost, and
the islands would be plunged back under
some form Of vicious tyranny. We have
given them more self-government than
they have ever before had; we are taking
viding them with an elected legislative
assembly; and surely we had better await
the result Of this experimentation it is a
wholly new experiment in Asia-before we
make promises which as a nation we might
be forced to break. or which they might
interpret one way and we in another. 1t
full contradiction that nowhere else in re-
cent years has there been as fine an exam
pie of constructive craftsmanship and wise
and upright administration as has been
army, in the Philippine islands. We have
administered them in the interest of their
own people; and the Filipinos themselves
have profted most by our presence in the
islands; but they have also been of very
great advantage to us as nation"
Conclusion.
In conclusion the president says:
Our appeal is made to all good citizens
who hold the honor and the interest of the
nation close to their hearts. The great is
sues which are at stake, and upon which
have touched, are more than mere partisan
issues, for they involve much that comes
home to the individual pride and Individual
well-being of our people. Under conditions
as they actually are, good Americans
of the nation, to change the national pol
icy. We, who are responsible for the ad-
ministration and legislation under which
this country, during the last seven wears
has grown so greatly in well-being at home
and in honorable repute among the ma
tions of the earth abroad do not stand
inertly upon this record, do not use this
to meet new conditions. On the contrary.
we treat the record of what we have done
In the past as Indictment to do even better
in the future. We believe that the progress
that we have made may be taken as a
measure of the progress we shall continue
to make If the people again entrust the
government of the nation to our hands.
We do not stand still. We press steadiIv
forward toward the goal of moral and ma
terlal well-being for our own people of
just and fearless dealing toward ali other
peoples, In the interest not merely of this
country, but of mankind. There is not a
policy, foreign or domestic, which we are
now carrying out, which it would not be
disastrous to reverse or abandon If our
opponents should come in and should not
reverse. our policies, then they would be
branded with the brand of broken faith.
of false promise, of insincerity in word and
deed; and no man can work to the advan-