Arizona republican., 1908-07-29
SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
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 lcowardly to lay down the burden until our purpose is achieved.
 Many unfortunate circumstances beyond human control have delayed the coming of business prosperity to the, islands. Much may be done in this regard by increasing the trade between the islands and the
 United States under tariff laws permitting reciprocal free trade in the respective products of the two countries with such Limitations as to sugar and to- lbacco imported into the United States as to protect domestic interests. The admission of 35O,OO0 tons of sugar from the Philippines in a foreign i'm portation of 1,6OO,OO0 tons will have no effect whatever upon the domes- tic sugar interests of the United States and yet such an importation from the Philippines, not likely to be Ireached in ten years will bring about the normal state of prosperity in those islands in reference to su- gar culture.
 The same thing is true of a simi- lar limitation on the importation of tobacco. It is not well for the Phil ippines to develop the sugar indus try to such a point that the busi- ness of the islands shall be ab
 sorbed in it, because it makes a sO
 ciety in which there are wealthy land owners, holding very large es- tates, with valuable plants, and a large
 population of unskilled labor. In such a community, there is no farm
 ing or middle class tending to build a conservative. self-respecting com munity. capable of government. There are many other products. not abIy that of manila hemp, to which the energy of the islands can be, land is being directed, the cultivation of which develops the class of small and intelligent farmers.
 THE COST OF PHILIPPINES.
 One misconception of fact with re- respect to our Philippine policy is that it is costing the people of the United States a vast annual sum. The expenses of the war in the Philippines from 1898 to 1902 invol- wed the government in an eXpendi- ture of not less than S175,0O0,00 This was incident to the war. The fact is that since the the close of
 the war in 1902 and the restoration of order in the islands, the exact cost of the American troops in the regu- lar army in the Philippines, together with that of maintaining about A. 900 Filipino scouts as a part of the regular army, does not exceed &C., OOO. 900 annually This is all the eX- pense to which the United States has been put for five or six years past. The expense of the civil gov ernments in the islands since its es- tablishment, have been met entirely from the proceeds of taxes collected in the islands, with but one notable gen
 erous and commendable exception when the congress of the United States appropriated S3,0OO, ,O0O in 1902 to re- lieve the inhabitants of the islands from the dangers of famine and dis tress caused by the death of three fourths of the cattle of the island.
 VETERANS OF COUNTRY'S WARS
 Both platforms declare, as they should, in favor of generous pen sions for the veterans of the civil war, and Spanish war. I stop to note the presence here of a body of veterans of Ohio and to express my thanks for the honor they do me in coming I am lacking in one quail ffcation of all republican presidents since Lincoln, that of being exposed to danger and death on the field of battle in defense of our country. I hope this lack will not make the veterans think I am any less deeply