The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-30
SENATOR BEVERIDGE OPENS The REPUBLICAN, 7CAMPAIG

domestic affairs, better than. ever. be-.
fore in our history. No government.
was ever sofsuccessful in a similar un-
dertaking as we have been with the
Philippines. No man today asks that
our flag shall be lowered from this gate,
to the orient. No man, today complains
of the efficiency and purity Of our ad-.
ministration in those islands, The
American people today would vote al,
most.to man that there should be no
cowardly retreat from this position Of
power in the Pacific to which Provi-
denceN has assigned u.s. And the day.
people will abdicate their throne Il the.
Pacific, strike their colors; and come,
home again admitting themselves "a
failure: aAmerica an school teac h ersrare at:
work all over the Philippines; honest
industry is protected all over the Phil.
!!pplnes;: equal and Impoverished Justice
IS administered all over the Philippines
and we have given those islands larg-
er share in government than is enioyed
by any people in the east larger than
should have been given them for their
best and ultimate good. -. :.lsl.:,i
=. p The Crisis in Cuba. y.
The people of the Philippines are
better off than the people of Java or
Ceylon, better off than the people liv-,
ing IN the possessions of any power
infinitely better off than any similar
people who are not governed by any
power. They are better off than the
people Of San Domingo off than
said, let US treat the Philippines Philippines as % we
treated Cuba. What man says that
todays What man does not know that
all we have accomplished in the Philip-
pines we must soon begin to accom-
pllsh in Cuba. What man does not
know that all the work that we did in
Cuba must be done over again9 We
found Cuba "a fostering place of dis
ease; round it the home of brave, but
childish people who knew not the
the supreme art of orderly government:
found it the richest of islands with the
| poorest of revenues. We left it puri-
fed and cleansed, with Havana as SAM
tary as any American city; we left it
With an orderly government and an
efficient administration we left it with
tnancese untangled and treasury be-
ing filed. 49,
And now. in a time so brief that il
seems but yesterday, all these condi.
tions are demoralized The govern.
ment IS in panic, 5he people in arms
INDUSTRY IS parcallyzed! and all society in
these brief years because Of little things
which the Cubans themselves scarcely
understand. All these things have come
about because they were inevitable
because the character of the Uuban
people made them absolutely certain
Every student who understands the
cc9ompo ts OF the Cuban people knew
that this eruption would come and that
when ,13 Americas guiding hand is with
this was understood by that great
statesman who provided for such emer
gencies in the famous law which bore
his name. the Platt amendment-one OF
/ the three most important statutes since
the adoption of the American constitu
ton and the most vital part of, the Gu
ban constitution, for the Platt amend
me3t is part Of the fundamental Law
Senator Platt foresaw the future O,
Cuba; and SO in his famous law he CAV,
70 the American government the powe
to, intervene in Cuba when situation
like the present developed. And whe1
the representatives of the American
people in congress assembled passed tina
law, they not. only gave the America
goyernment this power, but they lai,
duty to send American soldiers to Cub
when property was being destroyed
life was in peril and Cuban govern
ment no longer effective. It is GU
duty. to do this, not only for the ma
terial welfare Of ourselves and tn
Cuban people, but for the cause of hu
man liberty, for which our own gov
which for the Cubans we gave the1
! the Independence Of their territory an
an opportunity to try self government.
-: Must Guarantee Liberty.
| But the liberty of the Cuban peopl
is more important than the independ
ence Of Cuban territory. Practical hi
, man happiness is the thing, and NO
SOM. theoretical independence whic
. ers. Cuban people must enjoy the sam
liberty which the American people e1
Joy, and i the Cuban government cal
!, not give it to them, the American COY
, eminent will give it to them.
Speaking for myself alone, I believ
: that in the end American administrs
, tion Of Cuban affairs is as certain a
,, any OF those great movements of tn
past, like our expansion toward the p
| cifc were certain before they were az
complished. t.'t-.~- -sj,sI 49,.
That Cuba should be American
the highest example of manifest dest
ny in history; Geography makes he
American-she is geographically pal
: of Florida. Her position in the gu]
) makes her American-she command
: its entrance and the approaches to til
: Mississippi IS mouth and all our soutl
=. ern harbors. The natural currents c
} trade make her American-she is tn
, natural market place Of our product
{ and we are the natural purchasers
her products Political gravitatio
makes her American-no island {
small ever maintained separate e:
r istence near a country so great an
a a government so powerful.
: American government Of Cuba is IL
). traditional policy Of the American PEI
i, pie. It began before the republic ":
: founded. The American colonists D
/ titioned the English king to let the
: take Cuba, and gave as their reason
= the very same causes that have il
j spired American statesmen to desi!
i the same thing ever since. the We,
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