Arizona republican., 1908-06-17

doubtedly be the possession -Of,. some other power which there is every reaz son to believe would not have. done as we have done-that is, would not have striven to teach them how to govern
 themselves or to have developed them. as we have developed them, primarily in their own interests. Save only our attitude toward Cuba, I question whether there is brighter page in the
 annals of international dealing between the strong and the weak than the page which tells of our doings in the Phil
 ippines.' t
 Peace prevails throughout the is
 lands today in greater degree than
 ever in the history of the islands, eith-
 er under spanish Jor American rule. land agriculture is nowhere now i'm peded by the fear on the part of the farmer of the incursion of predatory bands. Under the policy already stat
 ed, inaugurated by the instructions of
 President Mckinley to Secretary Root,
 in reference to the establishment of a temporary government in the Philip pines, a community consisting of 7, 000,000 people, inhabiting 300 different islands. many of whom were in open rebellion against the government of the United States for four years, with all the disturbances following from rObber and predatory bands, which
 broke out from time to time, due to local causes has been brought to a state of profound peace and tranquility in which the people as a whole are loyally supporting the government in the maintenance of order
 The resignation of President Palma of the Republic of Cuba and the fail- ure of the Cuban congress to elect a successor left that island without a government at a time when great dis
 order prevailed. and the president deemed it his duty to establish a pro- visiQnal government, restore order, ad- minister law and justice. but coupled
 with the announcement that this action was preliminary to the establish ment of orderly government in the is land. The threatened instructions were averted, peace and good order re- stored, and the development of produc- tion, transportation, and commerce re- sumed. Public order has been per- | fectly kept, and at no time for a cen- tury has the island been so free from
 marauding bands as. under American provisional administration. Local and
 national elections are to be held and
 the government again turned over to 1 the Cuban people," r7 . After reviewing the railroad rate l Legislation and finding an improved re- lation between carrier and shipper. MT Burrows thus took up the subject of
 the tariff:
 | The republican party stands for a lrevision and readjustment of our cus- | toms laws as changed industrial con- | ditions~at home and abroad may have
 made necessary, keeping steadily in view the cardinal principles of pro- lection to American industries and American labor As evidence of its good faith in this regard, the national house of representatives, clothed under the constitution with exclusive juris- diction to originate all bills for raising
 revenue, on the 20th of April just past i by formal resolution, authorized and directed it's committee on ways and means, the organ of the house having 1 Jurisdiction of the question, to sit dur | ing the recess of congress and tc gather such information, through gov lernmentat agents and otherwise, as il
 may see fit, looking toward the prepar-
 ation of bill for the revision of the tariff.
 'Suplementing this action on the
 part of the house of representatives and cooperating with it, the state, ir
 the exercise of its constitutional pre- rogative to propose or concur with
 amendments as on other bills, on the
 18th of May passed the following res. olution:
 Resolved, That the committee or finance are authorized, in connection
 with Investigations heretofore ordered ! by the senate, with the view of prompt. 1 ly securing the information necessary | for an intelligent revision of the cus- toms laws of the United States. to cal
 to their assistance experts in the exc cutive departments of the government and to employ such other assistants as they shall require; and they are espec- tally directed to report what further Legislation is necessary to secure equit- able treatment for the agricultural and other products of the United States ir | foreign countries. and they shall also III tAt Ol OE TdIGs secure proof of the relative cost oi production in this and in prime pal
 cOmpeting foreign countries of the va
 rious articles affected by the tariff up-
 on which changes in rates of duty are tdesirable'
 These public declarations by con Igress, upon the eve of the election give the most solemn assurance possi- ble that the work will be speedily un- | ldertaken and pressed to an early con summation.
 'In this connection Il can be sereiy promised that whatever revision or re- adjustment takes place under the con- trol of. the republican party, it will give just and adequate protection to American industries and American la
 bor and defend the American market against the unjust and unequal aggres- sion from whatever quarter they may come
 Our recent financial disturba nee challenged the soundness of our mon- etary condition and brought to the fore the question of our banking and cur rency system, the consideration of which became and continues to be a subject of pressing and commanding importance In the midst of unusual prosperity, with 6,69S national ba3ks under direct supervision and control of the national government. with a ! T