The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28

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this regard by increasing the trade be-
Tween 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-
bacco imported into the United States
as will protect domestic interests. The
admission of $4,000 tons of sugar
from the Philippine islands in a for
eign Importation of 100000 tons,
will have no effect whatever upon the
domestic sugar interests of the United
States and yet such an importation
from the Philippine islands, not likely
to be reached in ten years. will bring
about the normal state of prosperity
In these islands in reference to sugar
culture.
The same thing is true of similar
limitation on the importation of to-
bacco. 1t is not well for the Philip
pines to develop the sugar industry to
such point that the business of the
cause II makes a society in which
there are wealthy landowners, hold
ing very large estates, with valuable
and expensive plants and a large
population Of unskilled labor. In
such community there is no farming
conservative, self-respecting COM
munity, capable of self-government.
There are many other products,
notably that of Manila hemp, to which
the energy of the islands can be, and
is being. directed, the cultivation of
which develops the class of small and
Intelligent farmers.
Misconception as to Cost of Philip
pines.
One misconception of fact with re-
spect to our Philippine policy is that
1t is costing the people Of the United
States a vast annual sum. The ex-
penses Of the war in the Philippines
from 1898 to 1902 involved the gov
eminent in an expenditure of less
than 100000. This was incident
to war. The fact is that since the
close of the war in 1902 and the res
toration of order in the islands, the
extra cost of the American troops OF
the regular army in the islands. to-
gether with that Of maintaining about
1000 Philippine scouts as part of
the regular army, does not exceed &c.
100000 annually. This is all the ex-
penses to which the United States has
been put for five or six years last past.
The expenses of the civil government
in the Islands since it's establishm ent
have been met entirely from the pro-
ceeds of taxes collected in the islands.
with but one notably generous and
commendable exception when the
congress of the United States appro-
priated 100000 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 Wars.
Both platforms declare, as they
, should, in favor of generous pensions
for the veterans of the civil and Span
ish wars. 1 stop to note the presence
here of a body of veterans of Ohio,
and express my thanks for the honor
they do me in coming. 1 am lacking
in one qualification of all Republican
presidents since Lincoln, that of hav-
ing been exposed to danger and death
on the field of battle in defense of our
country. hope that this lack will not
make the veterans think am any less
deeply thrilled by the memory of their
great comrades gone before-Grant
Hayes, Garfield. Harrison and McKin-
ley, all sons of Ohio, who left records
rejecting glory upon their state and
station, or that my sympathies with
the valor and courage and patriotism
of those who faced death in the