The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-01

the volunteer soldier of the republic, his widow and orphan, with a gener- osity unparalleled in the history of governments.
 It made the Monroe doctrine, safe guarding the affairs of this hemis- phere from European entanglements, an international rather than an Amer ican tenet; it drove France from the soil of Mexico; it drove Spain from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines; it bought Alaska; it peacefully settled questions of differences in our rela- tions with Canada; it made the dom- finance of the United States in the af- fairs of the new world unchallenged, and it's influence in the affairs of the whole world unquestioned.
 It forced reparation from England for the depredations of British built cruisers during the rebellion; it main tained everywhere and always throughout the world the dignity and security of American citizenship.
 In the Orient America gave the world, through it's Philippine policy, the example of a colonial program in spired by altruism, in a government which has given to the Philippine peo- pie more of progress and prosperity than they had known in all the cen vented the partition of China by the powers, and earned through it's dis interested conduct the confidence and admiration of people who have now established a republic in imitation of the United States, comprising within it's borders nearly one-third of the worlds population.
 It planned and pushed near to com pletion the construction of the Pan- anna canal, the greatest engineering feat of history. In Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines it exemplified the possibilities of modern sanitation in the suppression of plague spots.
 In Cuba it fulfilled a solemn pledge to the world by surrendering control when orderly government had been established, retaining only that degree of suzerainty, by treaty, essential to the permanence of republican govern ment in the island.
 It prohibited the immigration of Ori- ental cOOlies, maintaining standards of living hopelessly below the American level, and of the criminal, the insane or the pauperized from any land
 It created the department of agri- culture, and brought it to a high state of usefulness as factor in agricul- tural development; it established free delivery of mail in the smaller cities and towns and in rural districts; it created the parcel post and the postal savings banks; it vastly increased the scope and efficiency of the postal ser- vice of the United States.
 It created the department of com merce and labor; now two depart ments. Through it's naval construc- tion program, it brought the United States to the third place among the worlds naval powers, and sent the American fleet on a trip around the world which immeasurably increased American prestige abroad.
 It originated the conservation move ment, and inaugurated the irrigation projects on the arid lands of the West.
 It gave statehood to more than one fourth of the states of the Union West Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mex ico and Arizona
 It raised the American flag in the Hawaiian and Samoan islands, provid- ing naval bases essential to the pres ervation of American prestige in the Pacific.
 It passed the Sherman antitrust law, the most effective statute for the of monopolistic combina- tions in restraint of trade yet enacted in the United States, and enforced 1t in the dissolution of many such com binations; it passed the interstate commerce act, the railway rate bill, the pure food law; it created a com merce court and a tariff commission.
 It established the system of promo tions for efficiency in the diplomatic and consular service, improving great ly the character and broadening the usefulness of both.
 It brought about, through the media tion of Republican president, the