The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-13

islands of barbarous character. and
We are now engaged with a school
system in teaching their children, at
thu rate of five hundred thousand a
year, common medium of communi
cation, the business language of the
orient and the language of free insti-
tutiOns-Our own English. Would
Abraham Lincoln have disapprOved
that policy?
1--WE have brought about in the ISL
ands a system of sanitation which has
greatly reduced the death rate, and we
are gradually teaching those tropical
people TO live in such a way that they
may become stronger and better and
far ADLER to resist disease. Would
Abraham Lincoln have dissented from
this policy?
System of Taxation.
I'VE have introduced a system of
taxation from which the burdens of
government are borne by wealthy and
the humble in the proportion of their
ability to pay, and abolished the old
Spanish system from which the taxes
We're chiefly exacted from the poor and
humble people. We have introduced
and carried on system of improve
ment of harbOrs, roads, railroads and
interisland communication by steam
navigation. We have united the ISL
ands by improving the means of inter-
communication and stimulating the
spread of common medium in language
as they never have been united before
Would Lincoln have objected to this
policy?
I'VE have organized autonomy in the
municipalities, autonomy in the prOvin-
cial governments; we have introduced
into the central government, as one
branch of the legislature, national as
sembly selected by the eligible voters
of the Christian provinces, and we
have now a government that is largely
a government of Philippine people un-
der the final guidance, however, of an
American executive and one American
branch of the legislature. Would
Abraham Lincoln have dissented from
this policy, of step by step leading
these people on to an understanding of
the responsibilities of self-government
and familiarity with its difficulties?
Rights" Granted Filipinos.
we have introduced into the islands
all the constitutional guarantees under
the federal constitution except the
right to bear arms and the right to
serve on juries. for both of which as
yet the civilization of the people is en-
tirely unfit, but we have given them,
and they are now enjoying, the right to
life, liberty and property, and the pur-
suit of happiness and freedom from de-
privatiOn of any of these rights except
by due process of law. We have given
them a judicial system, in the impair
TALLY and efficiency of which they
have every confidence. Would Lincoln
have dissented from this?
THE truth is when the altruiStic lib
and carried on under Roosevelt. with
respect to the Philippines is fully I'M
derstood, and the life of Lincoln, his
ideals and his political methods are
considered, it may be affirmed without
hesitation that he would have approved
the Philippine policy from the begin
ming to the end. not as d departure
from, but as vindication of the princi-
pies of the Declaration of Indepen-
'uence.
Influence of Roosevelt.
During the administration of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, our influence as
world power has exceeded anything be-
fore i'm our history. We have done
more toward bringing about the peace
of the world than any power in this
century. Under these circumstances,
is there room for doubt that Abraham
Lincoln would have approved the pol
icy of Mckinley and Roosevelt in
maintaining our position as a world
power, in increasing the size of our
navy so that when we do intervene in