The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-20
Held for Higgins i'm Madison
Square Garden.
NAME OF ROOSEVELT
Starts Cheering Which Lasted
Seventeen Minutes.
Fairbanks Talks Reassnringly
to the Moneysd Interests.


New York, oct. Ex-senator Fair
banks and Lieut.. Governor Frank w
Higgins, Republican candidate for
governor of New York, addressed a
Republican mass meeting here in
Madison Square garden last night.
Former Secretary of War Root pre-
sided. A large delegation of under
graduates of Yale and Princeton were
present and took part in a parade
which preceded the meeting Several
DELEGATIONS from other cities, includ-
ing the Pittsburg marching club of
Pittsburg attended and a number of
''Fremonters'' occupied places on the
platform and the audience filled every
part of the auditorium.
Mr. Root in opening the meeting
spoke chiefly of national issues. He
said in part:
ut has been a campaign of personal
attack. but at last an issue has been
projected into the canvass. l see that
my friend Judge Parker says that we
have had a bad government in the
Philippines.
IN his recent speech to the anti
1mperialists Judge Parker says that
he has been informed by some one,
whom he describes as a student OF
conditions that the government of the
Philippines is very bad. Judge Parker
has been deceived. doubtless by some
anti-imperialist who led him to over
state the cost of American occupation
in the Philippines by some four hum
dred and fifty million dollars.
THE judge says: ask of the
Republican party whether. if the ad-
Ininistration of the United States
should continue in its hands. it pro
poses to undertake to supply any rem
edy? VIII it enact proper statutes
regulating the affairs with some view
to their interests? p Has the judge
a Sfa w
been enacted for the Philippines?
There are two printed volumes of
them enacted by the commission, of
when three out of the seven mem
berS other than the governor were
distinguished Filipinos. They have be-
come public documents of the United
States. undertake to say that if the
judge will examine those statutes he
wisdom for due regard to the inter
ests of any people for whom they are
enacted and for constructive ability,
challenge comparison with the stat
utes of any state of the American
union
Mr.. Root continued with a detailed
defense of the Philippine government
as against the charges made in the
speech referred to. Said he:
THE judge asks, Are the Philip
pine Islands today self supporting
community Why should not these
islands, asserted by all and conceded
by all to have great natural resources,
be self supporting
Let me tell the Judge that they are
self supporting The revenues far
exceed the expenditures in the Phil
tppine government. From the time of
occupation until The close of the fiscal
year 1903, the revenues of the Phil
ippines exceeded s4S,OOO,O0O Ameri-
can, and the expenditures are but lit
tie over S37,0OO.00O of American rev.
enue.
The Philippines stand upon their own
bottom and they ask no aid from this
government or any other. That $4S 0OO,-
900 of revenue was raised by lower and
more equitable taxes than were ever
imposed by the people of the islands
The Judge has been deceived, most
cruelty deceived, upon facts. The Judge
asks. Where are the Philippine mar
kets? Where are developments of their
natural resources?'
Let me tell him that he is deceived
again, that the trade of the islands is
nearly double what it was in the last
i've years of peaceful conditions before
the American occupation, the years of
greatest prosperity. Before our flag
hoated over the island the average inn
ports of the Philippines were $4,000 600
and the average exports SIS, 0O0, 900 and
In the fiscal year of 1903 the imports
were $4,000 900 and the exports $35, 0OO,-
The judge need not go far to seek for
markets for over $50 600 900 worth of
goods were exported in that year of
1890 " AlC OIileQ SIalSS. II Is not safe |
to trust an anti-imperialistic witness.
Now against this unknown student
OF conditions. against this Islander on the
good name and credit of our country in |
the orient, with which this student of
conditions has imposed upon Judge
Parker, let me cite as a witness Arch
bishop J. ]. Harty of Manila who. it
happens. has just returned from a tour
of personal inspection throughout the
islands.
of all men living he has had the best
means OF learning the true situation
from his own people and in this month
OF October, within a week before this
Islander was palmed off on Judge Par
ker, the archbishop states the results of
what he had seen upon his tour of in
spection. He said:
was impressed during my journey
with the progress of American institu-
tons among the masses of the people |
The general happiness. the security of
person and property and the supren-
acy or order and Justice and this is the
man who has the responsibility for the
welfare OF the American people as close
TO his heart under the sanction of his
sacred office as any man alive I be- |
heve. he says, that under divine !
guidance the beneficial results of |
American occupation is destined ulti-
mately to place the Christian and
Malay races on a political plane that
never yet has been attained by an orr
entail people
This task America has assumed !
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