The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MOQNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1900. PRESIDENT T'cKINLEY’S ACCEPTANCE Maintains That the Chief Issue Is Still 16 to 1, as Shown by the Platiorms of the Bry - anite Parties. Special Dispatch to The Call. ASHINGTON, letter, acceptin, for the Preside night, will be th publicans in y issue first, the P 1 interests of ti by the election of isfaction the record of t 1T Vears 2 the Democrats have dec Democratic charge on and Congress re iing g wit . concluc T'he American question is American verdict will be for duty and a t »oth archy a owing is the full text ar M AN ety AMEea sun s ving t tagonists, vt s en ¢ Thuits of however, are They compel us to a second battle upon the same lines on which the first was fought and won. While re- gretting the reopening of this ques- tion, which can only disturb the pres- ent satisfactory financial condition of the Government and visit uncertainty upon our great business enterprise, we accept the issue and again invite the sound money forces to join in winning another, and, we hope, a permanent triumph for an honest financial system, which will continue inviola%ie in the public faith. es are united un sder who edintaly after the year tn an address to the bir The bimetalliem have not been vanquish have simply been overcome They be hat the gold standard is a con #piracy of the money changers against the welfare of the human race and they will con- Ginue the warfare against it Real Issue. The policy thus aimed has been accepted a tver We reiterate the and of made by the Amert which shall restore 1 immediate Festoration of sllver and 36 to 1 without of any other present the aid f ratio issue f& presented. Tt mme nage of silver at 1§ t this 18 im and wil will be iate restora- 1t Mate. euffer no other assoclated parties we latform, adopt- 6, 1900, the edge acy is & oln gre #nd all reatsine ration anew agitaty the People's party never n until this financial con- the statute book, the the bonds all patd forever retired. We reopening of the s for the free and r and gold at the to 1, the immediate ume of silver coins and cer- be substituted, dollar inerease tificates thus created to orations w of nder special privilege. rch 14, 190 grant- and prior na- orm of the Bilver party adopted at July €, 1900, makes the following nt it to be our intention to lend the repeal of this currency law, only repudiates the ancient and principles of the American people constitution was adopted. but is vio the the constitution not cease our efforts until principles o cen established in its place a mon tem based upon - unitm age of siver and gold money ssent legal ratio of 16 to the in lon of the United States, under which system all paper money shall be fssued Government and al shal such money coined or s be a full legal tender in pay- ment of ts, public and private, without exception In all three platforms these parties announce that their efforts shall be unceasing until the £03a act shall be blotted from the statute books and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 10 to 1 shall take its piace ‘Will the American People Hazard It? The relative importance of issues 1 do ot stop to discuss. All of them are important Whichever party is successful will be bound in conscience 10 carry into administration and legislation its several declarations and doc- trines. One decleration will be as pbligatory @5 another, but are not immediate. It is # possible that these parties would treat the f 16 to 1, the immediate realization of should be clothed with power. Otherwise thelr profession of falth ie insincere. It is, there- fore, imperative business of those opposed 10 thie 1al heresy to prevent the triumph of the parties whose union is only assured by adherence 1o the silver issue. Will the Amer- ickn people, through indifference or fanicied se- curity, hazard the overthrow of the wise finan- 18l jegisiation of the past year and revive the nger of the silver gtandard with all of the inevitable evile of shattered confidence and gen- disaster which Justly alarmed and aroused them in 18967 The Chicago platform of 189 is reafirmed in its entirety by the Kansas Oity convention, Nothing has been written or recalled, so that all the perfls then threatened are presented anew with the added force of a deliberate re- affirmation. Four years ago the people refused to place the seal of their approval upon these Gaisers aid revalilionary policles and s yeas the United States would 1 he been elected in he Rej d then takes up tl lared to be paramount. notes issued by pri- | i= demanded by their several platforms, | void and inoperative in the eventithat they | 9.—William McKinley’s g a Republican renomination ney, which was made public to- ok of the Re- npaign. Placing Sept. e political text present c: residen t shows that the financial be as much as they would McKinley reviews ican party duripg the “imperialism,” His an- of the action of the e issue of 15 a review rarding Cuba, Porto Rico and 1 the declaration: 1 duty and desertion. The against desertion—for the betwee imperialism. i the lette vill not fall to record again their earnest publican pa remains faithtul to its h supplies sufficlent rev- and adequate proteo- d producers: and of foreign markets to the f American labor and furnishes new s ugh which to move the surplus farms. The time-honored prin- protection and reciprocity were the Republican victory to be written aw of the Republican Ccmgrgss. esent ( ess has given to Alaska a government for which it had waited : it has estab- vernment in Hawail; the most liberal treat- nd their widows; has homestead policy. al jaw it provided for the f issue with a capital ¢ villages and rural nking within the reach are already avail- privilege. e st year more than $19,000,000 of r 1S nds have been_ paid m the surslus revenues of the Treasury, and in ad- in pr issued matured, called ess of payT by the Govern- of nearly held in relations substan- recetved t in cash and urities for pay- inishing, as was predicted four f our currency is great- has ever been. It was ased to 326 50 on tember 1, Our industrial and agricultural conditions are more promising than they have been for many years; prob- ably more so than they have ever been. Prosperity abounds everywhere throughout the republic. Ir . t the Southern as well as the ng a full share of conditions and that to our remark- The money lender for his capital than if it bus s. The rates of they have ever been those things which are m and in the workshops, ng them, have increased in active Our Foreign Trade. &n trade shows a satisfactory and Increasing growth. The amount of our exports for the year 159 over those of the exceptionally prosperous year of 18 about §500,000 for of the vear. these sums have e homes and enterprises of the ere has been an increase of over the exports of agricultural pro- 2.2 in manufactures and in the products the mines over $10,000,000. Our cannot fail to give satistaction country. In 1885 we sold icts more than we 9,574,813, and in 1900 ring the three years a to- in our favor of $1,689.779.190—nearly baian ade in our favor for riod rs, from 1790 to . inclusive. red and thirty-six million dollars heen added to the gold stock of 1, 1866, The law 1900, authorized the refunding in g s 6f that part of the public debt Teprese the 3 per cents due in 1908, the 4 per cents due in 1907, and the 5 per cents due in 19%, aggregating $540,000,000, More than one- third of the sum of these bonds was refunded of gold have the United States since July of March 14, 2 per ¢ in the first three months after the passage of the act, and on § mber 1 the sum had been increased more than $33,000,000, making in all 50, resulting in 2 net saving of over The ordinary receipts of the Gov- ernment for the fiscal vear 1900 were $79,527,060 | In_excess of its exvenditures While our receipts both from e toms and fn- | ternal revenue have been greatly increased, our | expenditures have been decréasing. il and iscellaneous expenses for the fiscal year end- 190, were nearly $14.000,000 less while oh the war account thers is @ decrease of more than §95,000,000. Thore were required 5,000,000 less to support the navy this year than last, and expenditures on ac sunt of Indfans were nearly-$2.750.000 less than 95 The only two items of increase in the public expenses of 1900 over 1599 are for pen slons and interest on the public debt. For 18% we expended for pensions $139,394,92, and for the fiscal year 190 our payments on this ccount amounted to $140. The net in- terest’ on the public debt of 1900 uired by the war Joan was §3 Congress authorized the Goves ment to make a war loan of $100,000,000 at the beginning of the war with Spain, only $200,000,- 00 of bonds were issued, bearing I per cent interest. which were promptly and patriotically taken by our citizens. Prospect of Lower Taxation. | Tnless something unforescen occurs to reduce | our revenues or increase our expenditures, the rgress ot its Dext session should reduce faxn. tion very materially. | Five years ago we were selling Government { bonds bearing as high -as 5 per cent interest. Now we are redeeming them with a bond at ar bearing 2 per cent interest. We are selling r surplue of products and lending our surplus o Furope. One result of our selling to other nations so much more than we have | bought from them during the past three years it & radical improvement of our financial re- tions. The great amounts of capital which have been borrowed of Europe for our -rapld, | material development have remained a constant drain upon our resources for interest and div- idends and made our money markets liable to constant disturbances by calls for payment or heavy sales of our securities whenever money ringency or panic ocourred abroad. We have now been paving these dehts and DHnging home many of our securities and establishing counter- vailing credits abroad by our loans and plac- ing ourselves upon & sure foundation of finan- cial independence. In the unfortunate contest Britain and the Boer States of South Africa the United States has maintained ap attitude of neutrality in accordance with its well-known traditionai policy. It did not_hesitate, how- ever, when requested by the Governments of the Kguth African repubiics to exarcise 1ts €004 offices for a cessation of hostilities. It is to be abserved that while the South African repub- lics made a like request of other powers, the United States is the only one which complied. The British Government declined to accept the intervention of any power. Ninety-one per cent of our exports and jm- ports are now carried by foreign ships. For ocean transportation we pay annually to for- eign_shipowners over $165,000,00. We ought to own the ships for our ci ing trade with the world and we ought to bufid them in Amer- foan shipards and man them with American satlors. Our eitizens should receive the trans- posteiion charges now paid to forelgners. I ing the opportunity for | between Great | - N 1 | | | i | | | . 7 | ! /*q:zl(f.(’%«,,,,,.,,/ | Z I 1 PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY. | . have called the attention of Congres: subject in my several annual message: of December 6, 1597, I satd ““Most _desirable from every standpoint of na- | tional interest and patriotism is the effort to | extend our foreign commerce. To this end | our merchant marine should be improved and | enlarged. We should do our full share of the carrying trade of the world. We do not do | it now.” We should be the laggard no longer. | In my message of December 5, 1509, 1 sald: to this In that “Our national dev nent will' be one-side | and unsatistactory long as the remarkable | Browth of in industries remains unac- | companied by progress on the seas. There is no lack of constitutional authority for legislation which shall give to the country marftime &trength commensurate with its Industrial achievements and with fis rank among the na- tions of the earth. The past record has r corded exceptional activity in our shipyards and the promises of continual prosperity in shipbuilding are abundant Advanced legisla- tion for the | tion enacted. Our coast wisely framed at the ment and since sho! year unequ; power. tes, »f our seamen has been trade under regulations nning of the Govern- results for the past fiscal 1 in our records or thoee of any We shall fail to realize our opportuni i however, if we complacently regard only | matters at home and blind ourselves to the | | necessity of securing our share in the valuable | carrying trade of the world." I how reiterate these views. | Need of the Nicaragua Canal. A subject of immediate importance to our country is the completion of a great waterway of commerce the Atlantic and Pa- | eific. ruction of a marftime, canal | n ever indispensable to that | communication between our | Western seaports demanded by the | exation of the Hawalian Isl and the ;:qu our Influence and in lhel |~ Our nattonal policy more imperatively than | | ever calls for its completion and control by this Government, and it is believed that the next | session of Congress after iving the full | | report_of the com ted under the | act approved Mar make provisions Tor the sure accomplis Kkreat work. Combinations of capital which con- trol the market in commodities neces- | sary to the general use of the peo- | ple by suppressing natural and or- dinary competition, thus.enhancing prices to the general consumer, are | obnoxious to the common law and the | public welfare. They are dangerous | conspiracies against the public good and should be made the subject for prohibitory or penal legislation. Publicity will be a helpful influence to check this evil. This uniformity of legislation in the ]’sa-\-rnl States should be secured. Discrimina- tion between what is injurlous and what is use- ful and necegsary in business operations 1s es- sential to the wise and effective treatment of this subject. Honest co-operation of capital is necessary to meet new business ditions and | extena our r: ng forelgn trade, but conspiracies and combinations in- tended to restrict business, create monopolies and control prices should be effectually restrained. The best service which can be rendered to labor is to afford it an opportunity for steady and remunerative employment and give it every encouragement for advancement. The policy that subserves this end is the true Amerioan | policy. The past three years have been more | satigfactory to American workmen than many | | ¥ increa; preceding years, Any change of the present in- dustrial or financial policy of the Government Wwould be disastrous to their highest interets. With prosperity at home and an Increasing foredgn market for American products employ- ment stmuld continue to wait upon labor, and, with the present gold standard, the working- man is secured against payments for his labor | in a depreciated currency. | For labor a short day is better than a short dollar; one will lighten the burdens, the other lessen the rewards | of toil. The one will promote con- | tentment and independence, the | other penury and want. The wages of labor should be adequate to keep the home in comfort, educate the chil- dren, and, with thrift and economy, | lay something by for the days of in- | firmity and old age. Practical clvil service reform has always had the support and encouragement of the Repub- lican party. The future of the merit system is sufe in its hands. During the present administration, as occa- sions have arlcen for modification or amend- ment in the existing civil service law and rules, they bave been made. Important amendments were promulgated by executive order under | date of May 29, 1899, having for their principal | purpose the exémption from competitive exami- nation of certain places involving flduciary re- sponsibilities or duties of a strictly confidential, gclentific or executive character, which might better be filled either by non-comyetitive ex- amination or by other tests of fitness in the | discretion of the appointing officer. It is grati- | t¥ing_that the experience of more than a year bhas vindicated these changes, in the marked improvement of the public service. The merit system, as far as practicable, is made the hasis | for_appointments to office in our new terri- tory. | The American people are profound- ly grateful to the soldiers, sailors and marines who have in every time of conflict fought their country’s battles and defended its honor. ! | The survivors and the widows and orphans of those who have died in their country's cause are justly entitled to receive the just and considerate care of the nation. Few are mow left of those who fought jn the Mexican war and while many of the veterans of the Civil war are still spared to us, thelr num- bers are ranidly diminishing and age and in- firmity are increasing their dependence. These | upon which an indepe January 1, 1500. We have restored grder and established domestic tranquility. We" have fed the starving, clothed the naked and ministered | to the sick.” We have improved the condition of the island. We have stimulated industry, introduced public education and taken a full and comprehensive enumeration of the inbabitants. The qualification has been settled and under it officers have been chosen for all the municipalities in Cuba. These local governments are now in operation, sanitary administ the people. Our military es- tabiishm, been reduced from 43,000 sol- diers to less than #00. An electifn has been ordered to be held on the 1ith of September under a fair election law alre: municipal elections to se constitutional convention, and by the same order is to assemble on the first Monday of November to frame a constitution ndent government for the island will rest. All this is a long step in the fulfillment of our sacred guarantees to the peo- wdy mbers of a the ple_of Cuba. | We hold Porto Rico by the same title as the Philippines. The treaty of peace which ceded us the one conveyed to us the other. Cohgress has given to this fsland a government in which the inhabitants participate, elect thelr own Legislature, enact their own local laws, pro- vide their ‘own system of taxation and In these respects have the same power and priv- ileges enjoyed by other Territories belonging to the United States ure of self-government and_ s th ny N w h larger, meas- inhabitants of Louisiana under Jefferson. A District Court of United States for Porto Rico has been established and local courts have been inaugurated, all of whicn are in opera- tion. The generous treatment of the Porto Ricans accords with the most liberal thought of our own country and encourag the best aspi of the people of the island, While they do t have instant free commercial In- tercourte with the United States, Congress complled with my recom ion’ by remo: | ing on the first day of May rast, § per cent of the duties and providing for.the removal of the remalining 15 per cent on the first of March, 1902, or earlier, if the Legislature of Porto Rico s=hail provide local revenues for the expenses of conducting the government. mediate perfod Porto Rican products coming into the United States pay their tariff of 15 per cent of the rates under the Pingley act and our goods golng to Porto Rico pay a like rate. The duties thus paid and collected, both in Porto Rico and the United States, are paid to the government of Porto Rico and no thereof is taken by the natlo All of the duties Government. from November 1, 18 June 30, 1900, aggregating the sum of §: 52221, paid ‘at the customs houses in United States upon Porto Rican products, un- der the laws existing prior to the above men- tioned act of Congress, have gone into the treasury of Porto Rico to relieve the destitute and schools and other public purposes. In addition to this we have expended for relief, education and Improvement of roads, the sum | of $1,513,084.95, The United States military force in’ the island has bden reduced from 11,000 to 1500, and native Porto Ricans consti- tute for most part the lucal constabulary. Under the new law, and the Inauguration of the civil government, there has been a grati- fying revival of business. The manufactures of Porto Rico are developing: her imports are Increasing: her tariff is vielding increased re- turns; her fields are being cultivated; free schools are being established. Notwithstand- ing the many embarrassments incidént to a change of national conditions, she Is rapidly showing the good effects of her new relations to this nation The Philippines. For the sake of full and intelligent under- standing of the Philippines question and to give to the public authentic Information of the acts and aims of the administration, T present at some length the events of importance lead- ing up to the present situation. The purposes of the Executive are best revealed and can best be judged by what he has done and is doing. It will be seen that the Government has been used for the liberty, the peace and the prosperity of the Phil- ippine peoples, and the force has been employed only against force which stood in the way of the reali- zation of these ends. : On the 25th day of April, 189, Congress de- clared that a state or war existed between Spain and the United States. On May 1, 189, Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. On May 19, 1898, Major Genera! Merritt, U, A., was placed in command of the military expedition to Manila and direc ed among other things to immediately *‘pub- Ush a proclamation declaring that we come not to make war upon the people of the Phil- ippines nor upon any part or faction among them, but to protect them In their homes, in their’ employments and in their personal anc réliglous rights. All persons who, .either by active ald or by honest submission, co-operate with the United States in its efforts to give effect to this beneficent purpose will receive the reward of it support and protection.' On July 3. 1598, the Spanish fleet in attempt- | Ing to escape from Santiago harbor was de- stroyed by the American fleet and on July 15, | 1888, the Spanish garrison in the city of Santi- ago surrendered to the commander of the American forces. The Peace Commission. Following these brilliant victories, on the 12th of .August, 1898, upon the inftiative of Spain, hostilities were suspended and a proto- col was slgned with a view to arranging terms of peace between the two governments. In pursuance thereof, I appointed as commission- ers the following distinguished citizens to con- duct the negotiations on the part of the United States: The Hon. Willlam R. Day of Ohio, the Hon. William P. Frye of Maine, the Hon. Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota, the Hon. George Gray of Delaware and the Hon. White- law Ried of New York. In addressing the Peace Commission before its departure for Paris, 1 said: “It is my wish that throughout the megotia- tions entrusted to the Commission, the pur- pose and epirit with which the United States accepted the unwelcome necessity of war should be kept constantly in view. We took up arms only In obedienge to the diciates of humanity and in the fulfiliment of high public and moral obligations. We had no design of aggrandizement and no ambition of conquest. Through the long course of repeated represen- tatlons which preceded and aimed to avert the struggle and in the final arbitrament of force With the soldicrs of the Spanish war will not be neglected by their grateful countrymen, The nsion laws have been liberal. They should justly administered and will be. Prefer- encés should be given to the soldiers, sallors and Marines, thelr widows and orphans with respect to erbployment In the public service, Cuba and Porto Rico. We have been In possession of Cuba since this country that compelled soiely by the purpose of relleving Frievous Wrongs and pe- moving long existing conditions which dis- turbed the tranquillity, which shocked the moral sense of mankind and which could no longer be endured. It is my earnest wish that the United States In making should fol- low the same high rule of conduct which guided in facing war. It should be as and magnanimous in the conclud- of electors | tried in the | convention | s given 'to the | During this inter- | | ing settlement as it was | its, original action. * * “‘Our aim in the adjustment of peace should | be directed to lasting results and to | achievement of the common good under the demands of civilization, rather than to am- bitlous designs. * ¢ ¢ ““Without any original thought of complete | or even partial acquisition, the presence and | success of our arms at Manila imposes upon | us obligations which we cannot march of events rules and o action. Avowing unreservedly the wvurpose | which has animated all our effort and stiil solicitous to adhere to It, we cannot be un- mindful that without any’ desire or design on ur part the war has brought us new dutles 1d responsibilities which we must meet aud | discharge as becomes a great mation on whose growth and career from the beginning the ruler of nations has plainly written the high | command and pledge of civilization." Instructions to Peace Commission. On October 2, 1598, while the Peace Commis slon was continuing’ its negotiations in Pari the following additional instruction was sent: It e imperative upon us that as victors we should be governed only by motives which will exalt our nation. Territorfal expansion should be our least concern; that we shall ot shirk | the moral obligations of our victory is of the greatest. It is undisputed that Spain's autHor- | Ity Is permanently destroyed in every part of he Bhilippines. To leave any part in her fe | control now would Incerase our difficultie be opposed to the interest of humanity. * * * Nor can we permit Spain to transfer any of the islands to another power. Nor can we invite another power or powers to join the United States in the sovereignty over them. We must | either hold them or turn them back to Spain. “‘Consequently, grave as are the responsibili- ties and unforeseen as are the difficulties which are before us. the President can see but one plain path of duty, the acceptance of the archi- pelago. Greater difficulties and more serious complications—administrative and International —would follow any other course. The Presi- dent has given to the views of the commis- sioners the fullest consideratiof, and, reaching the conclusion above ar nnnnr'fldfn the light of just and humane in ¢ errules human the information communicated @the President since your departure, he has been influenced by the single consideration of duty and humanity. The President is not unmindful of the distressed financial condition of Spain, and whatever con- sideration the United States may show must come from its sense of generosity and benevo- lence, rather than from any real or technical obligation. " Again, on November 13, T instructed the com- misston’ “The trade and commercial side, as well as the indemnity for the cost of the war, are questions we might | yield. They might be waived or com- promised, but the questions of duty and humanity appealed to the Presi- dent so strongly that he can find no appropriate answer but the one he has here marked out.” Treaty of Peace. The treaty of peace was concluded on Decem- ber 10, 1898. By its terms the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands was ceded by Spain to the United States. It was also pro- vided that the “civil rights and political status of the native Inhabltants of terirories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress.” From the standpoint of indemnity both the archipelagoes (Porto Rico and the Philippines) are insufficient to pay our war expenses, but, aside from this, do we not owe an obligation to the people of the Philippines which will not permit us to return them to the sovereignty of Spain? Could we Justify ourselves in such a course or could we ‘permit their barter to some Willing or not, we have the re- duty which we cannot escape. | The President cannot believe that any division of the archipelago can bring us any- thing hut embarrassment in the future. Twenty days thereafter, on December 21, the following direction was given to the com- mander of our forces in the Philfppine: “* « ¢ The military commander of the United States Is enjoined to make known to the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands that, in succeeding to the soversignty of Spain, severing the former political relations of the inhabitants and in establishing a new political | power, the authority of the United States Is to be exerted for the securing of persons and property_of the peaple of the islands and for the confirmation of all their previous rights and relations. It will be the duty of the com- mander of the forces of occupation to announce and proclaim in the most public manner that we come not as invaders or con- querors, but as friends to protect the B ployment and in their personal and | religious rights.” and effective extension of authority throughout these islands and to secure with the least possi- | ble delay the benefits of a wise and generous protection of life and property to the inhabi- tants, I appointed in January, 1800, a commis- mission consisting of the Hon. Jacob Gould Schurmann of New York, Admiral George Dewey, U, 8. Charles Denby of Indiana, Professor Dean C. Worcester of Michigan and Major General Elwell E. Otis, U. . A, Instructions to Philippine Commission Their instructions contained the following: “In the performance of their duties the com- missioners are enjoined to meet at the earliest possible day in the city of Manila and to an- Tounce by a publie proclamation thelr presence dnd the mission intrusted to them, carefully Setting forth that while the military govern- ment already proclaimed is to be maintained and continued so long as necessity may require, efforts will be made to alleviate the burden of taxation, to establish indusirial and com: mercial prosperity and to provide for the safety of persons and of proverty by such means as may be found eonducive to these ends. “The Commissioners will endeavor, without interference to the military authorities of the Ur'ted ,States, now in control of the Philip- pines, to ascértain what amelioration in the { condition of the inhabitants and what improve- ments in public order may be practicable, and for this purpose they will study attenfively ihe existing soclal and political state of the yarious populations, particularly as regards the forms of local government, thé administration of justice, the collection of customs and other taxes, the means of transportation and the need 'of public improvements. They will re- port ® * * the results of their observations fRion aa Dty " From Gme T T emtte on_as ma: me me. them wise and useful. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to confer authoritatively with any persons resident in the islands from whom o~ the | natives in their homes, in their em- In order to facilitate the most humane, pacifie | Makes tle ar That the Cry of “Imperialism” s Politi- cal Claptrap and the Re- publican Party Is Right. the rebellion was su they may believe themselves able to derive in- and desiring to formation or suggestions valuable for the pur- | place before the Congress the res 2 their Doses of thelr commission or whom they may | Jbservations, I requesi-i the commission. to Choose to employ as agents, as may be neces- | return to the United Sta‘es T Taoet tnted gent this purpose. and comprehensive report in all their < 1t is my desire that to Congress relations with the inhabitants of the islands | In March. 190, belicvine that the the Commissioners exercise due respeet for Wi | tion was practically ende and cae the ideals, customs and institutions of the | siring to promote the establichment n, emphasiz- | ble government in the tribes which compose the populal a ago on all occasions the just and beneficent e following civil c The Patentions of “the Government of the United n Tafe of Oh . States. It is also my wish and expectation that ter. of Michigan Hon. Luk the Commissioners may be received in a man- | of Tenne Homey ©. Mo, of v ner due to the honored representatives of the | the Hor. Bernard Moscs, of . American Government, duly commissiond on ac count of their knowledge, skill and integrity as bearers of the good wiil, the protection and | My instructions to them containe the richest hlessings of a liberating rather than | 1oy a conquerinz nation On the 6th of uary, 1889, the treaty was ratified by the Senate of the United States and the Copgress immediately appropriated $20.- 600,000 to carry out its provisions. The ratifica- tions were exchanged by the United §tates and Spain on the [1th of April, 186 i Efforts to Restore Peac: 139, the Philippine Com- Y the on in the first u (the Secretary War) fw ommissicn * ¢ * 4 munici gove: natives of the islands, in t communities, shall be affor anage their own | | As early as April, | which, after a careful stu missfon, of which Dr. Schurmann was presi- | 2040 SUEE G EREHEE S ¢ dent, endeavo ahout In the | roi shall be consistent w islands by reo b g Drell il St Tagalogs, representing ymmission is o n that government, to the end that some general Plan | ¢ wiraice in the F of government m o ey U saftiy flaserer they could accent. So gre tary to civil eontrel, they tion of the insurgent commissioners with the | (¥t QWAL contral, they Wil War form of government pr by the Ameri- | £19o% Ry can Commissioners that the latter submitted | (PoIF Fe be established the proposed scheme to me for approval and my action thereon is shown by the cable mess- | Vo5 Of taking over the ¢ was submit- nsus nest a sta Instructions to Civil Commission. t P ‘ “Beginning with the first day of Februar ollowing : e Fe e ORURISANY, | MANTA: | % T, solharity o ox . rubfect to oy Yours 4th received. You are authorized to pro- | APProval. through the Secretary of War, ¢ pose that under the military power of Pres. | DAt of the power o government In the ident, pending action of Congress, government | pine Islands which is Islative nature, is the Philiny lands shall consist of a | {0 be transferred Tilitary vernor General, appointed by the to this commission, to be a - ‘abinet, appointed by the Governor by them in General Advisory Council elected by the pe Governc the qualifications of electors to be you (& considered and determined and the it ¢ neral to have absolute veto. Judiciarry | ment strong and indenendent: principal judges ap- | {oregoing paragraph. pointed by the President. The Cabinet and | Otherwise provide Jjudges to be chosen from natives or Americans, | authority will include or both, having regard to fitness. The Presi orders having the et of law for dent earnestly desires the cessation of blood- | of revenue by xes ustoms dutfes and im shed, and that the people of the Philippine | Posts: the appropriation and expenditure of Islands at an early date <hall have the largest | the public funds of the establish measure of local self-government consistent f an edue hroughout th with peace and vood order.”’ slands: the system to se In the latter part of May anether group of Cure an ficie: rganization representatives came from the Insurgent leader. | and establishme 1 depart | The whole matter was fully discussed, when | mental governments gard, The | in | the promise of acceptance seemed near at hana. | a civil nature for which the Military They assured « ‘ommissoiners they would | Is now m ent to g de by rules or return after consulting with their leader, but a legislat haracter. The commission they never aid will also have power The et 8 As A result of the views expressed by the | (o appoint to office su rs under th first Tagalog representative favorable to the | diclal, educational and ecivil service syst plan of the commission, it appears that he was, | and in the municipal and departmental ¢ by military order of the insurgent leader, strip- | ernments as shall be provided for - ® & = ved of his shoulder straps. dismissed from the | Until Congress shall take action T de army and sentenced to twelve years' imprison- | that ment. Tpon ewy divisiol ne o] of forth In thetr own words: | peuedt these tavi e “Devlorable an war is, the one in which we | fosgl these invic That no person are now engaged was uhavoidable by us. We | itk ut’ que process of Taw: that provate. oo were attacked by a bold. adventurous und en- | arty shall not be taken for rubile wae wiinok thusiastic army. No alternative was left o | Jit compensation: that im ol oeiminal moos us except ignominious retreat. It is not t0 be | tutions, the accused shall enioy the waht o a conceived that any American would have sanc- | speedy and public tpfal, to be Informed of ¢ tioned surrender of Manila to the insur- | RS S04 PADEC Sftal. to be informed of the s. Our obligations to other nations, and | tronted with the witnesses againat him: to to the friendly Filipinos and to ourseives and | ; U€T U T Eatetm Wit our emanded that force should be met by | necces'tn his favor, and to have the acelstance Whatever the future of the Philippines | ¢ i nen) for his defense: that excessive b be, there Is MO course open to u8 NOW €X- | thail not be required, nor excessive fines cept the aresecution of the war until the in- | podas "for eruel Snd’ Unustol maahD surgents are reduced to submission. The com- | grccla. BQF CTIel And unueual vur mission is of the opinion that there has been | y orots UURL FO FOTRON SRAT be put € no time since the destruction of the Spanisn ed criminal case to ba uaran Cr At T s pia 1 e L | o teway ot a. himself: that the right to security against n un sible to withdraw our forces from the 18Iands | reasonable searches and sctsares skl oot ra either with honor to ourselves or with safety | lorited. that nelther slavery mor heroleatary to the inhabitants [ servitude shall exist except as a punishment for crime: that no bill of attainder or expost o s e s facto law shall be passed: that no law shail After the most thorough study of the Deo- | b pagsed abridging the freedom of speech or ples of the archipelago, the commission report- | of the press, or the rights of the meanie to among other things peaceably assemble and petition the ern “Their lack of education and political expe- | IO Y BICOTC e AT B en: that no law rience. combined with their ractal and linguist | SO 0 B ROAvers OF slevaneess CRar Bo lav liversitics, disqualify them In spite of their mental gifts and domestic virtues to undertake | of. and that the fre the governing of the archipelago at the pres- e exercise and MHglon or prohibiting the free exerc! e there ent of religlous profession and worship without ent time. The most that can be expected of | ygerimination or preference shajl forever be them is to co-overate with the Americans In | iiia s = « l‘ the admintstration of general affatrs from Ma- nila s & center, and to undertake, subject to | To Promote Educatiom®n the Islands. American control or guidance (as may be | ., " o n ¢ - | will be the Auty of the commission to found necessary). the administration of pro- | It Wil Be the Huty of the commission t O N N e s Al | to improve the system of education already in “Should our power by any fatality be with- | fo Improve the system of education al : drawn, the commission belleves that the Gov- ernment of the Philippines would speedily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse if it did not ing this they should regard as d o ch = e free to all necassitate the Intervention of the other powers | ducation which shall be free to all and the eventual division of the islands among | *hal! tend to @t the peopls for fhem. _ Only through American occupation. therefore, 18 the idea of a free, self-governing and united Philippine commonwealth at all conceivable. * * * ““Thus the welfare of the Filipinos coincides | with the dictates of national honor In forbi ding our abandonment of the archipelago. We cannot from any point of view escape the re- sponsibilitles of government which our sover- elgnty entails; and the commission is strongly | persuaded that the performance of our national | Huty will prove the greatest blessing to the | peodles of the Philippine Islands.”” Satisfied that nothing further could be ac- complished In pursuance of thelr mission unt'l a civilized community. Frape tion should be at once given to affc opportunity to all the peanle of the acquire the use of the English languaj Tpon all officers and employes of States. Both civil and pressed @ sense of the merely the materfal, but the person treat them with the same courtesy a nal dignity which the States are accustomed other. A lifetime of comfort and luxury ONE OF THE VERY BEST high-grade offerings we have in our big store is this very chair—the extreme achievement in comfortable upholstery. The frame is of quariered polished oak. The leather is of the genuine kind and the upholstery of the best. 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