Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-28

to achieve those purposes. Judging nv
| the history of the last twelve years. down
to this very month, Is there justification
| for believing that under similar ctrcum
stances and with similar initial differ
ences of opinion, our opponents would
| have achieved any practical result?
We have already shown in actual fact
| that our policy is to do fair and equal ms
| tice to all men, paying no heed to whether
| a man is rich or poor; paying no heed to
his race. his creed. or his birthplace
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 favor
ed SO long as it acts in 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 he
held to q strict obedience to the law.
| for no man is above it and no man below
it. The humblest individual is to have
his rights safeguarded as scrupulousIy as
| those of the strongest organization. for
each is to receive justice, no more and no
| less. The problems with which We hav,
| to deal in our modern industrial and So
cial life are manifold; but the Spi,it in
| which it is necessary to approach their
solution is simply the spirit OF honesty. OF
courage and of common sense.
In inaugurating the great work of jrri-
CATION in the West the Administration
| has been enabled by Congress 10 take one
| of the longest strides ever taken under
| our Government toward utilizing our
| vast national domain for the setter. thu
| actual home maker.
l Ever Cipna thiS continent &C
| the need of an Isthmian Canal to connec,
the Pacific and the Atlantic has been
| recognized; and ever since the birth OF
| our nation such a canal has been planned
At last the dream has: become reality.
| The Isthmian Canal is now beng built
! by the Government of the United States.
| We conducted the negotiation for it's con-
| Struction with the incest and most
| :crupulous honor, and in spirit of the
largest generosity toward those through
| whose territory it was to run. Every
| sinister effort which could be devised by
| the spirit of faction or the spirit of self
| interest was made in order to defeat the
| Treaty with Panama and thereby pre-
vent the contamination of this work The
| construction of the canal is now an as
| sured fact; but most certainly it is I'M
| vie to entrust the carrying out of so
| nomentous a policy to those who have
| end, avored to defeat the whole undertake
| ING.
! Our foreign policy has been so con-
| Quoted 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
| o:l the horizon. The last cause OF irri-
| tation between us and any other nation
| WAS removed by the settlement of the
Alaskan boundary.
In the Caribbean Sea we have made
good our promises of independence to
| Cuba, and have proved our asser-
lions that our mission in the island
was enc of justice and not of self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: and thereby no less than
by our action in Venezuela and Panama
we have shown that the Monroe Doctrine
is a living reality, designed 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 power has gone hand in hand
with strengthening disposition to use
| this power with strict regard tor the
| rights of others. and for the cause of in
| terna,ional justice and goodwill
| We earnestly desire friendship with all
| the nations of the New and Old Worlds;
and we endeavor to place our relations
| with them upon basis of reciprocal add
vantage instead of hostility. We hold
| that the prosperity of each nation is an
| aid and not a hindrance to the prosperity
| of other nations We seek international
amity for the same reasons that make
l nc baliova In wit hin Dhr-
ders: and we seek this peace not because
| we are afraid or unready. but because we
| think that peace is right as well as ad-
| vantageous.
American interests in the Pacific have
| rapidly grown. American enterprise has
| laid a cable across this. the greatest of
| oceans. We have proved in effective
| fashion that we wish the Chinese En-
pire well and desire its integrity and in
dependence.
| Onr foothold in the Philippines greatly
| strengthens our position in the COMPETE
ton for the trade Of the East; but We are
governing the Philippines in The interest
of the Philippine people themselves.
We have already given them n large
share in their government. and our pur-
I
as they give evidence of Increasing fit
ness for the task. The great majority of
the officials of the islands. whether cleo
| tive or appointive, already native
FilipinOs. We are now providing for a
| legislative assembly. This is the first
step to be taken I'm the future; and it
would be eminently unWise to declare
what our next step will be until this first
step has been taken and the results are
manifest. To have gone faster than We
have already gone In giving the islanders
a constantly increasing measure OF self
government would have been disastrous
At the present moment to give political
independence to the islands would result
in the immediate loss of civil rights per
sonal liberty and public order, as regards
the mass of the Filipinos. for the ma
iority of the islanders have been given
| these great boOns by u.s. and only keep
| them because we vigilantly safeguard
| and guarantee them. To.withdraw our
government from the ISLANDS at this time
| would mean to the average native the
loss of his barely-won civil freedom. We
have established In the islands a gov
eminent by Americans assisted by Fill