, 1908-07-28

Tree trade in the respective products
OF the two countries, with such limi
~tations as to sugar aud tobacco import
ed into. the United States as will pro
tee. domestic interests.
No Effect Upon Domestic Sugar.
The admission of $50, 900 tons Of
sugar from the Philippine islands In
a foreign Importation of 1900, 00C
tors. will have no effect whatever up
on the domestic sugar interests OF the
United States, and yet such an impor
tation from the Philippine islands, not
likely to be reached in ten years, will
bring about the normal state OF pros
perity In these islands In reference to
sugar culture.
No Farming or Middle Class.
The same thing Ia true of a similar
limitation on the importation OF to-
bacco. 1t Is not we'll for the Philip
pines to develop the sugar industry
20 such a point that the business OF
the islands shall be absorbed In 1t, be,
cause it makes a society in which there
are wealthy landowners, holding very
large estates, with valuable and ex'
pensivep plants. and a LARGE population
ofsunslElied labor. In sxoh=a commun-
ity tberesis nosfarming or middle class
tending to build up = conservative,
self-respecting community, capable of
self-government. There are many 9TH
err products, notably that of Manila
hemp. to which the energy of the isl
ands can be, and is being, directed,
the cultivation of which develops the
class of small and intelligent farmers.
Miseonception as to Cost.
One misconception of fact with re-
spect' to our Philippine policy is that
it is costing the people of the United
States q vast annual sum. The X
penses of the war in the Philippines
from 1898 to 1902 involved the gov
eminent In an expenditure Of less than
$175, 600, 900. This was incident to
war. The fact is that since the close
of the war in 1902 and the restoration
of order in the islands, the extra cost
of the American troops of the regular
army in the islands, together with
that of maintaining about 1000 Phillip
pine scouts as a part of the regular
army, does not exceed $4,000, 900 In
nually. This is all the expense to
which the United States has been put
for five or six years last past.
Taxes Collected in Islands.
The expenses of the civil govern
ment in the islands since its estab
lishment have been met entirely from
the proceeds of taxes collected in the
islands, with but one notably generous
and commendable exception when the
congress of the United States appro-
priated $4,000, 900 in 1902 to relieve the
inhabitants of the islands from the
dangers Of famine and distress caused
by the death from rinderpest Of three
fourths of the cattle of the islands.
Veterans Of Country,s Warn.
Both platforms declare, as they
should, in favor of generous pensions
for the veterans of the Civil and Span
ish wars. / 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. l am
lacking in one qualification of all re-
publican presidents since Lincoln, that
of having been exposed TO danger and
death on the field of battle in defense
of our country.
Glory Of, the States.
I hope that this lack will not make
the veterans think / am any less deep
ly thrilled by the memory of their
great comrades gone before-Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKin-
ley, adj SOM OF Ohio, who left records
rejecting glory upon their state and
or that my sympathies with
the valor and courage and patriotism