Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-03

was removed by the settlement NJ the
Alaskan boundary
I'm the Caribbean Sea we have made
good our promises OF independence to
Cuba and have proved our assertion that
our mission in the island was one of JUS
tice and not of ACKNOWLEDGMENT; and
| thereby, no less than by our action in
Venezuela and Panama, we have shown
that the Monroe doctrine is a living real.
ity, designed for the hurt of no nation,
but for the protection OF civilization on
the western continent and for the peacs
of the world. Our steady gro WITH in
power has gone hand in hand With a
Strengthening disposition to use this
power with strict regard for the rights
of others and for the cause OF interna-
tional justice and good will.
I'VE earnestly desire friendship with
all the nations Of the new and old worlds,
and we endeavor to place our relations
with them upon a basis Of reciprocal adj
vantage instead of hostility. We hold
that the prosperity of each nation is an
aid and not a hindrance to the prosperity
Of ether nations. We seek international
alnity for the same reasons that make
ders. ard we seek this peace not because
we are afraid or unreadv, but because
we think that peace is right as well as
advantageous.
American interests in the Pacific have
grown rapidly. American enterprise has
laid a cable across this, the greatest OF
oceans. We have proved in effective fash
ion that we wish the Chinese Empire
wei and desire its integrity and indie
pendence,
In Interest of Fi1ipinos.
"Our foothold in the Philippines great
~ strengthens our position in the c0mpe
tition for the trade of the East, but
we are governing the Philippines in the
interest of the Philippine people them
selves. We have already given them a
large share in their government, ami
our purpose is to increase this sha' e
as rapidly as they give evidence of in
creasing fitness for the task. The great
majority of the officials OF the islands,
whether elective or appointiye, are al
ready native Filipinos. We are now
providing for legislative assembly. This
is the first step to be taken in the future,
and it would be eminently unwise to de-
clare what our next step will be until
this first step has been taken and the re-
suits are manifest. To have gone faster
than we have already gone in giving the
islanders constantly increasing meas
ure OF self-gOyernment would have been
disastrous. At the rres ent moment to
give political independence TO the islands
would result in the immediate loss of
civil rights. personal liberty and public
order, as regards the mass of the Fill
pinos. for the majority of the islanders
have been given these great boOns by US,
and keep item only because we vigilant-
ly safeguard and guarantee them. To
withdraw our government from the is
lands Mt this time would mean to the
average native the loss of his barely won
civil freedom. We have established in
the islands a government by Americans,
assisted by Filipinos. We are steadily
striving to transform this in-o self-gov-
eminent by the Filipinos, assisted by
Americans.
The principles which we uphold
should appeal to all our countrymen. in
all parts of our country. Above all. they
should give us strength with the men
and women who are the spiritual heirs
of those who upheld the hands of Abra-
ham Lincoln, for we are striving TO do
our work in the spirit with watch Lin
coin approached his. During the seven
years that have just passed there is no
duty, domestic or foreign, which we have
shirked. and no necessary task which we
have feared to undertake or which we
have not performed with reas enable ELI
cheney We have never pleaded impo
tenre. We have never sought refuge in
criticism and cOmplaint instead of action
We face the future with our past and
our present as guarantors Of our prom
ises. and we are content 10 stand or to
fail by the record which we have made
and are making"