Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-09

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proved very diifiie C secure rom
Russia the right Tor our Jewish FELLOW
citizen % receive passports and travel
through Russian territory 30 81 q a.
wrong against which we IRE ent tiled to
protest to II refuse him his passport,
without regard to his conduct and. char
acter, merely on racial and religious
grounds.
a The Navy.
The strong arm @of the government
In enforcing respect for its just rights
IN internation matters is the navy Of
the United States. i most earnestly
recommend that there lie no halt in the
work Of upbni!ding the American navy.
We have undertaken to build the 18th
milan canal. We have undertaken to
secure for ourselves our just share in
the trade Of the orient. We have un-
dertaken to protect our citizens from
improper treatment in foreign lands.
We continue steadily to insist on the
applic Of the Monroe doctrine to
the western hemisphere. Unless our
attitude in these and all similar mat
tiers is to be mere boastful sham we
cannot afford to abandon our naval
programme. Our voice is now potent
for peace and is so potent because we
are not afraid Of war; But our prot.
estations upon behalf of peace would
neither receive nor deserve the slight;
est attention if we were impotent to
make them good
The Army.
Within the last three years the Unit
ed States has set an example in dis
armament where disarmament was
proper. By law our army is fixed at
q maximum Of 100000 and a minimum
Of 10000 men. When there was insur-
rection in the Philippines we kept the
army at the maximum. Peace came in
the Philippines, and now our army
has been reduced to the minimum at
which it is possible to keep it with due
regard to it's efficiency. We should be
able. in the event of some sudden
emergency, to put into the field one
first class army corps which should be,
as whole, at least the equal of any
body Of troops Of like number belong
Ing to any other nation.
Great progress has been made in pro-
tecting our coasts by adequate fortifl
cations with sufficient guns. We
should, however, pay much more heed
than at present to the development of
an extensive system Of floating mines
for use in all our more important har-
bors. These mines have been proved
to be a most formidable safeguard
against hostile fleets.
The Philippines.
In the Philippine Islands there has
been during the past year continual
ton of the steady progress which has
obtained ever since our troops definite
~ got the upper hand Of the insur-
gents. The Philippine people, or, to
speak more accurately, the many
tribes and even races sundered from
one another more or less sharply who
go to make up the people of the Philip
pine Islands, contain many elements
of good, and some elements which we
have a right to hope stand for prog
ress. At present they are utterly in
capable Of existing in independence at
all or Of building up civilization Of
their own. I firmly believe that we
can help them to rise higher and high
er in the scale Of civilization and Of
capacity for self government, and l
most earnestly hope that in the end
they will be able to stand, if not en-
t1rely alone, yet in some such relation
to the United States as Cuba now
stands. This end is not yet in sight,
and it may be indefinitely postponed
if our people are foolish enough to turn
the attention Of the Filipinos away
from the problems Of achieving moral
and material prosperity, Of working
for stable, orderly and just govern
ment, and toward foolish and danger
GUS intrigues for complete independ-
ence, for y : they are as yet totally
unfit.
On the other hand, our people musi
keep steadily before their minds the
fact that the justification for our stay
in the Philippines must ultimately rest
chiefly upon the good we are able to
do in the islands. do not overlook
the fact that in the development Of cul
interests in the Pacific ocean and
along its coasts the Philippines hare
played and will play an import pact
and that our interests have been sc..'y-
ed in more than one way by the pos
session of the Islands. Eut OUT chief
reason for continuing to hold them
must be that we ouc!:t. in good faith
to try to do our share Of the worlds
work, and this particular piece of work
has been imposed upon us by the re-
suits Of the war with Spain. We are
endeavoring to develop the natives
themselves so that they shall take an
ever increasing share in their own gov.
eminent, and, as far as is prudent, we
are already admitting their representa-
tives to governmental equality with
our own. There are commissioners
judges and governors in the islands
who are Filipinos and who have exact
~ the same share in the government
Of the islands as have their colleagues
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