The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1904 TENPORARY CHAIAMAN ROOT SOUNDS KEYNQTE OF CAMPAIGN IN MASTERLY SPEECH B — — =3 | ! Grand Record%' of the Party in Power. | - | Increase of the Wealth of the Country. [ }To Increase ii the Farmers’ | Profit. 'Wisdom of the Late Presi- ‘ dent. McKirTIéfiyfi and . Regulétion of Big Corpor- i Hanna Are | ations. 1 Praised. | | had played a great part in establishing The Hague Tribunal for International Arbitration. | | The prevalling opinion of Burope was incred- .y | ! ulous as to the practical utility of the pro- t n masterly manner the | | ¥ision, and anticipated a paper tribunal un sues the A an people, and | sought by ltigants. It was the example of € n peog and | the United States which set at naught this g ¥ lar their repre- | opinton. The first Intermational case taken to e t thered | The Hague tribunal was under our protocol > it rom b | | with Mexico of May 22, 1902 submitti r - it B | | contention for the rights of the Roman Cath - & - Cabinet, from | |olic church in California to_a share of the ; so recently resigned. Root has | | church moneys held by the Mexican Govern t for seeing things | | | ment before the cession, and known as th ! | Plous fund: and the first decision of the X . o a0 welingd | | tribunal was an award In our favor upon that ke s gment sound he dem- e ons : convinelng | VENEZUELA INCIDENT. recelved witk = ppreciation u} — | When in 1903 the failure of Venezuels to e s | pay her just debts led England, Germany and 1 | | turbance, and that is in the country of the | fealy to Warlike measures for the collection of | | Mohammedan Moros, where there is an 0cca- | their claims, an appeal by Venezuela to our . | | stonal fitful savage outbreak asainst the en- | Government resulted in agreements upon arbi- 1 forcement of the law recently made to provide | tration in place of the war, ai d in abfe‘lu:t— | | for adequate supervision and control to put | that our President should act as erbireior an end to the practice of human slavery Agsin he promoted the suCherity SR AR | v of The Hague tribunal, and was able to lead FREE AND PEACEFUL: PEOPLE. | all the powers to submit the crucial questions When Governor Taft salled from Manila in | In controversy to the determination of that he will still guard the destinies of the people | American Government that U e ot ftm for whom he has done such great and noble | Peace has disappointed the expectations of 1= service, he was followed to the shore by a | detractors and by demonstrations of RrRcTCe ¥ mighty throng, not of repressed and sullen | Usefulness has begun a career raught WIS subjects. but of free and peaceful people, | PosFibilities il {008, was prociaimed - - whose tears and prayers of affectionate fare. | O the 11th of Apcil 1900, was prociaime : well showed that they had already begun to | another convention between all the great pow learn that ‘“‘our flag has not lost its gift of | éFs agreeing upon more humane TWEE KO O benediction in its world-wide journey to their | conduct of war: and these in substanc e = i 3 | shores." porated and gave the sanction of the clvilized one can foretell the future; but there [ WOrld to the rules drafted by Francls LielH - protect the farmer's product and extend his | seems no reasonable cause to doubt, that under | &d approved by Abraham Lincoln for the con. - market. and to improve the conditions of the | the policy already effectively inaufurated, the | duct of the armies of n s in ¢ way . | farmer's life; to advance the time when :.'.'fi‘:s‘":L?’:{.,}”":;“,, |m.v!:4m:d, P.';‘r.di dhe P20- | "Ali Americans who desire safe and o > | | America shall raise within her own limits ands, if !!; “)b'_ n:l“r‘("‘;lw‘*;: :nttlir&pri'x;upl?\i. 1 vative administration wh shall .“»,y,l a j every product of the soil consumed bY Rer | the Philippine people will follow in the foot- | Of quarrel. all who abhor war. all who 1 . = | people, as she makes within her own limits | steps of the people of Cuba: that more slowly | for the perfect sway of the Lfm'-tl"}’ of & - | every necessary product of manufacture—these | indeed, because they are mot as advanced, | Teligion Wwhich we all profess, should r e ‘ have been cardinal objects of Republican ad- | yet as surely, they will grow In capacity for | that under this Republican administzation thers y L - | | ministration; and we show a record of practl- | gelf-government. and receiving power as they | country has attained a potent leaderdhip among ) 4 { cal things done toward the gmomxpl‘hm!nt ot Chvacity Wil ceea e Sy | ,{__k ,.‘m..- ' {h the cause of peace and interna | these objects never before approachec el relhdionar - &r & eople of the | tional justice. L || Four years ‘ago we held. the lsiand of Cuba elations 1o the people of the | tonal SUICe, | a1 power thus gaired | | by military occupation. The opposition charged | differing in details as conditions and needs dif- | has been exercis e interests of human- | | and the people of Cuba believed that we did Not | fer, but the same in ciple and the same | ity, where the rules diplomatic intercours - intend to keep the pledge of April 20, 1898, that | jn ‘beneficent result | have made tervention _impossibie. _— 1“)1111 the pacification of Cuba was accom- | In 1900 the pr of an Isthmian canal | When the Roumanian outrages and when plished we should leave the government and | stood where it was left by the Clayton-Bulwer | appalling massacre at shacked clv | | contral of the island to its people. The NeW | treaty of 1850. For half a century it had | llization and filled th ur-OwH e | policy toward Cuba which should follow the | halted, with Great Britain resting upon a joint | ple With mourning, th America was { fulfillment of that pledge was unformed. Dur- | right of control. and the great undertaking of | heard through the . e | | ing the four years it has been worked out In| Da Lesseps struggling against the doom of | With full observ dipiomatic rules, but | | detail and has recelved effect. It was com- | fajlure imposed by extravagance and corrup- | with moral power a 1 eftect. " o - | municated by executive order to the Military | tion. On the 1Sth of November, 1901, the | We have adva the authority of th 5 i 3 S % “———‘l“ | Governor. It was embodied in the act n‘r Con- | Hay-Pauncefote treaty with Great Britain re- | Monroe de ine. Our ‘,"’v':’:}f..‘,l?:nfl;'l‘ % : v v y 5 v 2 e * CONVENTION. gress known as the Platt amendment. It Was | jjeved the enterprise of the right of British | vention which established The ue tribunal | RETIRING HEAD OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE AND TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF CONVENTION. | |&rets kiown as the Platt smendmeny UL %08 | lieved the enterprise of the right of British | e e atlier powere, WS & L = -— - <} | tion on the 12th of October, 1901. It secured to | United States. Then followed swiftly the nme- | Jeclaration that nothing thersin con- Cuba her Ifberty and her independence. but it | gotiations and protocols with Nicaragua: the | d should be construed to jmply the relin been scrupulously observed? When has any | this matter by legislation the laws passed for | business has been jeopardized, no falr and | required her to maintain them. It forbade her | jsthmfan canal act of Ju S, 1902 quishment by the United States of its tradi American administration ever dealt more con- | that purposs thus far have proved ineffective, | honest enterpriee,has been Injured; but it i3 ever mgusnlm- I:'*»?gm e ‘h]nd ."".’A’i"&“fi:fifl' asraement with the French Canal Company | tional n'}!uvl‘ toward pieety W g A - Seirriceed a t std b not because of y+ laci or at- | cer vel o ’ g y 80 great a saerifice of blocd and tre: to pay them the value of wo! ey had | tions. The armed demonstration Bu- might have been ause of conflict with | tempt to enforce them, but simply because the | of the National Government reaches trusts are | quired her to maintain a Government adequate | treaty with Colom! the rejection of thac | the occasion for the United foreign powers? When have more just settle- | laws themselves as interpreted by the courts | being practically regulated and curbed Within | for the protection of life and property and | (reaty by Colombia in violation of our rig States of any intention to selze the territory - ents been reached by peaceful means? When | do not reach the difficulty. If the Insufficien- | lawful bounds as they never have before, and | liberty, and should she fail, it gave us the right | and the world's right to. the passage of the | of Venezuela, recognizing in the most unmis has any administration wielded a more power- | cies of existing laws can be remedied by further | the men of small capital are finding in the | to Intervene for the maintenance of such & | jsthmus; the seizure by Panama of the op- | takable way the rights of the United States e g ful influence for peace and when have we | legislation it should be done. The fact must be | efficiency and skill of the national department | government. And It gave us the right to naval | portunity, to renew her oft-repeated effort to | expressed in the declaration of that traditional w ted more secure in friendship with all man- | recognized, however, that ali Federal legislation | of justice a protection they never had before | stations upon her coast for the protectlon and | throw off the hateful and oppressive soke of | policy. t 5 nt Ly their ascendancy ind on this subject may fall short of its purpose | against the crushing effect of unlawful com- | defense alike of Cuba and the United States. | Colombla and resume the independence which | THE ARMY AND NAVY. FIRST HALF CENTURY. BUSINESS FOUR YEARS AGO. because of inherent obstacles and also because | binations | ~On the 20th of May, 1902, under a constitu- | once had been hers and of which she had | 5 AR) AX o E » - & | of the complex character of our govermental| We have at last reached a point where the [ tlon which embodied these stipulations, the | been deprived Traud and foree. the succees | In the meantime, mindtul that moral powers When the the next administration is Four years 2go the business of the country | syst which, while making Federal authority | public wealth of farm land which has seemed | government and control of Cuba were sur- | of the revolution; our recognition of the new | unsupported by phy ength do not al- ~ - Ehe & y will have | was 1 me internal taxes, preme within its sphere, has carefully limited | 80 inexhaustible is nearly gone, and the prob- | rendered to the President and Congress elected | republic followed by recognition from substan- | ways avail against s and aggression e first ha of ‘its national posed war with Spain. By the | that sphere by metes and bounds that cannot be | lem of utilizing the remainder for the building | by her people, and the American army eailed | tially all the civilized powers of the world: | we have been augmenting the forces which e ele ations since the | acte o and April 12, 1902, the | transgressed.’ of new homes has become of vital mportance. | away. | the treaty with Panama recognizing and con- | command respect first ele : n cover- | country Iy relleved of that an-| At every election the regulation of trusts had [ The present administration has dealt with | REPUBLIC OF CUBA [ e s o e uniaiag S So | Cud St onr See 0 & M Gl ing & pe een u nua ne hundred million dol- | been the football of campalgn oratory and the | this problem vigorously and effectively. Great | - - e ratification of the treaty by the Semate; con- | of efficlency and have exercised both army and a P - the greater | lars t her accumu a sur- | subject of many insincere declarations. areas had been unlawfully fenced in by men of | The new Republic began its existence with | firmatory legisiation by Congress: the payment | navy in the methods of seacoast defense. The Part N n each House | pius nstan withdrawing the | Our Republican administration has taken up | large means, and the home-builder had been | an administration of Cubans completely organ- | of the $30,000,000 to the French company and | joint Army and Navy Board has been bringing e gress has af- or country from circulation has been | the subject in a practical, sensible way as a | excluded. Many of these uniawful aggressors | ized in all its branmches and trained to effective | to Panama; the appointment of the Canal Com- | the two services together in good understanding 1 a pre he reductiongg! taxation | business rather than a political question, saying ; have been compelled to relinquish their booty_| service by American officers. The administra- [ mission in accordance with law; and its or- | and the common study of the strategy, the grov n Between the : June, 1900, and the let | what it really meant, and doing what lay at|and more than 2.000,000 acres of land have | tion of President Palma has been wise and effi- | ganization to begin the work. | Preparation and the co-operation Wh k e of 1904 asury Department c [m hand to be done to accomplish effective | been restored to the public. Extensive frauds | clent. Peace and order have prevailed. The | | B g in time of need. Ou e ug lected in revenues t rmous sum of §2 reguiation. The principles upon which the | in procuring grants of land, not for home- | people of Cuba are prosperous and happy IN JUSTICE AN N ships have been exercised in fleet and squad- the | 000,000 and expended $2 025,000,000, leaving us | Government proceeded were stated by the | steads but for speculation, have been Investi- | Her finances have beeh honestly administeres ] s AND - HONGR. Dg e e have been improved in marks- indi- | with a surplus er $170,000,000 after paying | President in his message of December, 1902. | gated and stopped. and the perpetrators have | and her credit is high. The naval stations have | The action the United States at every | oo bin " and flity, and have been con- e $50,000,000 for the Panama canal and toan- | He sald been Indicted and are being actively prosecuted. | been located and bounded at Guantanamo and | SteP has been in accordance with the law of | THVRP oy yo use. Since the last national & $4,600,000 to the St. Louis Exposition ‘A fundamental base of civillzation is the | A competent comnfission has been constituted | Bahfa Honda and are in the possession of our | Nations. consistent with the principles of jus- | SHEOUN, W0 W o o completed and added tice and honor, in discharge of the trust to two extraordinary payments, | inviolability of property: but this 1s fn no wise | to examine Into the defective working of the | navy. The Platt amendment fs the sheet an %o our navy 5 battleships, 4 cruisers, 4 moni- nvestments from past surplus and | inconsistent with the right of society to regu- | existing laws and to suggest practical legisla- | chor of Cuban independence and of Cuban | Puild the canal we long since assumed, by de. | /& W% SO00 o0 geqtroyers and torpedo boats; expenditures of current income, sur- | late the exercise of the artificial powers which | tion to prevent further abuse. That commis- | credit. No such revolutions as have afflicted | NYINg the right of every other power to bull | vhile we have put under comstru n 13 ba for this year will the reasonable | it confers upon the owners of property, under | sion has reported, and bills adequats to accom. | Central and South America are possible there, | it dictated by a high and unselfish purpose, | WhUS W g R, (00 t of about $12 060,00 | the name of corporate franchises in such a | plish the purpose have been framed and are be- | because it is known to all men that an at- | {0 the common benefit of all mankind. That | MQRNRS TO0 = CCHC0" army numbered over he vast and complicated transactions of the | way as to prevent the misuse of these pow- | fore Congress. The further denudation of for- | tempt to .overturn the foundations of that | &ction was wise, considerate, prompt. vigor- | .0008 FEOF Coare” and volunteers, 75 pe: Treasury, which for the last fiscal year show [ers. * * © est_areas, producing alternate floods and dry. | Government will be confronted by the over- | 0us and effective; and now ' the greatest of | 100,000 men—mregultrs tppines and Chim rm and the candidates of this | actual cash recel of $4.250,290,262 and dis- | ‘‘We can do nothing of good in the way of | ness in our river valleys, has been checked by | whelming power of the United States. The | “OfStructive natlons stands ready and compe- | (o0 0 CM 0 o 0® o0 "siatutes limiting the sements of $4,113,190,414, have been con- | regulating and supervising these corporations the extension of forest reserves, which have | treaty of reciprocity and the act of Congress of | tent to begin and to accomplish the great en- | URCST "0¢ FRCS with perfect accuracy and fidelity and | until we fix clearly in our minds that we are | been brought to aggregate more than 63,000,000 | December 6, 1903, which confirmed it, com- | terprise Which shall realize the dreams of past | eriod of service. ' Ras BROCL W0 K%, ithout the loss of a doilar. Under wise | uot attacking the corporations, but endeavoring | acres of land. The reclamation by frrigation | pleted the expression of our policy toward Cuba; | 888, bind together our Atlantic and Pacific | Inth W8 7 FUE * tent organization under principles to | management the financial act of March 14, | to do away with any evl in them. We are not | of the vast arld regions forming the chief part | Which with a far view to the future aims to | C0asts, and open a new highway for that |and ts Of And SCRCER Cinens statt do- are right, and | 1800 which embodled the sound financial prin- | hostile to them; we are merely determined that | of our remaining public domain has been pro- | bind to us by ties of benefit and pretection, of | COIMerce of the Orient whose course has con- | the Practical CORIv O FLn M Fame divi- require’ that | ciples of the Republican party and provided for | they shall be 8o handled as to subserve the | vided for by the national reclamation law of | mutual interest and genuine friendship, that | trolled the rise and fall of civilizations. Suc- | Partments ¥ " of co-ordinating and vernm. | the maintenance of our currency on the stable | public good. We draw the line against mis- | June 17, 1903. The execation of this law, | island which guards the Caribbean and the | ¢S In that enterprise greatly concerns the | Sions of counsel and acit o coardiGqui 00 vas about to lapse b ehouid be followed in W shall ask because ecord | basis of the gold standard, has wrought out | conduct, not against wealth. * ¢ without taxation and by the application of the | highway to the isthmus and must always be_ | cFedit and honor of the American people, and | ¢ = the th Spatn of the Republican party in the past is an as- | beneficial results. On the 1st of November,| In curbing and regulating the combinations | proceeds of public land sales alone, through the | if hostile, an outpost of attack, and. It friend: | it is for them to say whether the bullding of | fusion and scandal in e Py BB’ of our declarations and | 1899, the intercsi-bearing debt of the United | of capital which are or may become injurious | construction of storage reservolrs for water, | Iy, an outpost of defense for the United States. | the canal shall be in charge of the men who | During the past (Our SEOC 0 JOReey ‘ool give them h we shal 020. On the 1st of May | to the public we must be careful not to stop the | will make many millons of acres of fertile | Rich as we are_ the American people have no | Made its building possible or of the weak- st 4 si ¢ U b heve been constant in princi- | last the unt_of that debt was $805.157,440, | great enterprises which have legitimately re- | lands available for settiement. Over §20.000, | more valuable possesslon than ihe ‘sentiment | lIngs whose incredulous objections would have | The oo l’néh‘r:r:':-?':'r!‘-d UCoi:;:;: "hes ple, loyal to our and faithful to our | a reduction of $150891,580. By refunding the | duced the cost of production, not to abandon | 000 from these sources have been already re- | expressed in the dispatch which I will now | Postponed it for another generation. | Deen e am of the army at 108,000 promises, we are ved and | annual interest has been still more rapidly re- | the place which our country has won in the | celved to the credit of the reclamation fund. | read: | - Throughout the world the diplomacy of the | fixed a maximum OF ‘Re SV T8 Ll trusted mow duced from $40.347.854 on the 1st of November, | leadership of the international industrial world. | Over 33,000,000 acres of public lands in four- | “HAVANA, May, 20, 1902—Theodore Roose- | Present administration has made for peace and | and a minimum at 60,967 22 T8 T SIS We shall ask it because the character of the | 1899, to $24,176,745 on the st of Jume. 1904, | not to sirke down wealth with the result of | teen States and Territories have been embraced | velt, President, Washington: The government | Justice among nations. Clear-sighted to per- | ODly the minimum in peace. o5 w8 oW S0 party gives assurance of £ood government. A | an annual saving of over $16,000.000. When | closing factorics and mines, of turning ths | in the sixty-seven projects which have been de- | of the fsland having been just transfetred. I, | ceive and prompt\to maintain American inter- | ;r’;;';,;'}g,',,,,fi‘. s the ranks to the max great political org: n by f e ranks t 2 zation, compete: the financial act was passed the th em_ ie mot & chance collection of individuals | portions of our country were suffering for lack | the farmer without & market for what he [ of these the work of actual constructfon has/ Interpreting the sentiment of the whole people Iy settled | wage-worker idle in the streets and leaving | vised and are under examination, and on eight | as chief magistrate of the republic, faithfully | eSts. it has been »’R"“."n‘i‘»‘ .2g.f;n;£x, znfd & | Tum. without waiting until after war has ; o erate o e | mum, » -y rect in its method: lings of others. begun, as he had to wait in 1808, Perma- brought together for the moment as the shift- | of banking facilitles because the banks were | grows, * * begun. of Cuba, have the honor to send you and the | Fights and of the fe & ve bee: od to ing sands are piled up by wind and sea, to be | in thelarge towns, and none could be organized | . 1 belleve that monopolies, unjust discrimi- THE POSTAL SERV! American people. testimony of . our |.rnrdm§m-’ Within the month after the last national | Nent staft appointments have been changed to b B & (g e g sedoer with.a capital of iess than $50,000, Under the | nations, which prevent or cripple competition, d STAL SERVICE. Eratitude and the assurance of an enduring | COuvention met. Secretary Hay's circlar mote | detalls from the Hne, WO ComPIRiors FCIres It is & growth. Traditions and sentiments rovisions of that act there were organized | fraudulent over-capitalization. and other ‘evils| The postal service has been extended and im- | friendship, with wishes and prayers to the | Of July 3. 1900, (o the great powers of Eu- | at fixed intervals to ser¥ice with troops. F2 ng Gown through struggies of years gone. and | down to the 1st of May last 1206 small banks of | In trust organizations and practices which in- | proved. Its revenues have Increased from $76,- | Almighty for the welfare and prosperity of the | fope had declared the policy of the United | that the requirements of the feld and the the stress and heat of cld conflicts, and the in- | §25,000 capital, furnishing, under all the safe- | juriously affect interstate trade can be pre- | 000,000 in 1505 to $95,000,000 in 1809, and $144.. | United. States. T, ESTRADA PALMA." | States— . | Saoie xather Gham (8 ¥ & St fluence of leaders passed away, and the in- | guards of the national banking system, facili- | vented under the power of the Congress to| (00,000 in 1904. In dealing with these vast When the last national convention met the | ''To seek a solution which may bring about | desk shall control partn i A corps organization has ing fixed rules of inter- | ties to the small con grained habit of ap) unities of the West and | ‘regulate commerce with forelgn nations and | sums a few cases of peculation, trifiing in | Philippines also were under military rule. The | Permanent safety and peacs to China, preserve | tration and supply: =& C00 y, with a pretation and of thought, all give to a politi- | South. The facilities made possible by that | among the several States’ through regulations | amount and by subordinate officers, have oc- | insurrectos from the mountains spread terror | China's territorfal and administrative entity, head that there cal party known and inallenabie qualities from | act have increased the circulation of national [ and requirements operating directly upon such | curred there as they occur In every Husiness. | among the peaceful people by midnight foray | Protect ail rights guaranteed to friendly pow- | of artillery at the head =0 tha by which must follow its deliberate judgment | banks from 402,730 on the 14th of March, | comimerce, the instrumentalities thereof, and [ Nelther fear mor favor, nor political ' or per- | and secret assassination. Aguinaldo bided his | ers by treaty and international law, and safe- | be intelligent use of our costly seacoast OO and ultimate acts ke results for good or | 1900, to $445,988.565 on the 1st of June, 1004 | those engaged therein.” sonal Influence has availed to protect the wrong. | time in a secret retreat. Over 70,000 Amerjcan | uard for the world the principle of equal | fenses. Under the act of Fetruasy 1o 100% ol povermmont do mot deny that other | The ey of the country in clrculation has | cpEATES NEW DEPARTMENT. | docts. Thelr acts have been detected, investi- | soldiers from more than stations held a | and impartial trade with all parts of the | a general staff has been estabiishec, OVERRIFEC erting Buve on the iy e OF o increased in amount with our growth EATES NE : NT. | gated, 1ald bare; they have heen dismissed | still vigorous enemy in check. The Philip- | Chinese empire.” o SGT Ameeioun SOpSUEnS A Tt e gt 2 we mssert with con- | ! iness, but it has steadily gained in the | After long conelderation Congress passed | from their places, prosecuted criminally, In- | pine Commission had mot vet begun its work. | The express adherence of the powers of | and adequate for the performaars of t0e JO0S fidence that above all others, by the influences | stability of the basis on which it rests three practical statutes: On the 1ith of Febu- | dicted, many of them tried, and many of them g : INSU " & Europe to this declaration was secured. The | neglected but all-important dutles of directing which gave it birth and have maintained its INCREASE OF WEALTH | ary. 1903, an act to expedite hearings in suits | convicted. ~The nbuses In the carriage of NO MORE INSURRECTION. { oven recognition of the rule of right conduct | military education and training, a4 aPPivioE 1ife, by the causes for which it has striven, the 3 e oierdip | in” enforcement of anti-trust act; on the 14th | second-class mail matter have been temedled. | The last vestige of Insurrection has been | Imposed its limitations upon the conduct of the | the most advanced princinits of milfeary SCi lgedls which it hay followed. the Repubiican the st of March, 1597, when frst | of February, 1903, the act creating a new De- [ The rural &ree delivery has been whely ex- | swept away. With thelr work accomplished | PoWers in the Orient. It was made the test | to that necessary preparation for war which ia party # & party has acquired a character jon of Mc nley . - gan we had in | partment of Comumerce and Labor with a Bu- | tended. It is wholly the creation of Republl- | over 55,000 American _troops have been | of defensible action. Carefully guarded by the | the surest safeguard of peace nd best guarantee ry including bullion in the Treasury, | reau of Corporations, having authority to se- can administration. The last Democratic Post- | brought back across the Pacific. CIvil govern. | Wise statesman Who had secured lts accept- | Of the army mow rests P R le and effective .076. This was $23.14 per capita for | cure systematic faformation regarding - the | master General declared it impracticable. The | ment -has been established throughout the | Auce, it brought a.moral force of recognized | the constitution—in the Presdent, Tl powes than any other | our population, and of this 3S.883 per cent was | organization and operation of corporations en- | first administration of McKinley proved the | archipelago. Peace and order and justice pre. | Yalue to protect peaceful and heipless China | is exercised through a military chief of st which makes its ascendancy th of & government ioy in execution. Throw m—the party of Lincoln and McKinley—can- | was gold. This great increase of currency has The Attarney-General has gone on In the | the isolation of life on the farm. which they have enacted upon careful and in- | procl ot fail o work in the spirit of its past and | been arranged in such a way that the large | same practical way, not to talk about the | The Department of Agriculture has been | telligent study of the needs of the country | enla 3 n loyalty to great ideals government notes In clrculation are gold cer- | trusts, but to proceed against the trusts by law | brought to a_point of efficienty and practleal | challenges comparison with the statutes of any | N€W Dorts to our commerce. and abolished in- | Four years ago we were living under am ASK CONTINUED CONFIDENCE, | !!ficates, while the silver certificates and green- | for thelr regulation. In- separate suits four- benefit never before known. The oleomargarine | country. The personnel of civil government | ternal duties on goods in transit within the em- | obsolete militia law more than & century old, . 4 = backs are of small denominations. As the | teen of the great railroads of the country have | act of May 9, 1902, now_ sustained in the Su- | has been brought together under an advanced | pire. There were indeed other nations which | which Washington and Jefferson and Madi We chall ask the continucd confidence of the | large gold certificates represent gold actually | becn restrained by injunction from giving ille- | preme Court, and the act of July 1, 1902, to | and comprehensive civil service law, which has | agreed with this policy of American diplo- | and almost every President since their time people because the candidates whom we present | on deposit, their presentation at the Treasury | gal rebates to the favored shippers, who by | prevent the false branding of food and dairy | been rigidly enforced. A complete census has | macy, but no other nation was free from sus- | had declared to be worthless. We presented are of proved competency and patriotism, fitted | in exchange for gold can never infringe upon | means-of them were driving out the smaller | product, protect farmers against fraudulent | been taken, designed to be there as it was in | picion of selfish ajms. None other had won | the curious spectacle of a people depending to Ml the offices for which they are nominated, | the gold reserve. ~As the small silver certi- | shippers and monopolizing the grain and meat | imitations. The act of February 2 1903, ena- ; Cuba tho basis for representative government: | confidence in the sincerity of its purpose, and | upvn a citizen soldiery for protection againat ' e credit and honor of our country | ficates and greenbacks are always in active | business of the country. The beef trust wi bles the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the | and the people of the islands will soon proceed | none other but America could render the serv- | aggression, and making practically no pro’ We shall ask it because the present policies | circulation. mo large amount of them can be | put under injunction. The officers of the rail- | spread of contagious and Infectious diseases of | under provisions already made by Congress to | ice which we haye rendered to humanity in | whatever for training its citizens in the us sovernment are beneficlal and ought not | accumulated for the purpose of drawing on | roads engaged In the cotton carrying pool, af- | live stock. Rigld inspection has protected our | the election of a representative assembly, in | China during the past four years. High evi. | warlike weapons er in the elementary ¢ imed on the Sth of October last, has ? LAW. ed our opportunities for trade, opened THE MILITIA LAW political organization the moral sentiment of | gold. On the Ist of March, 1001, when the | gaged in ifterstate commerce; and on.the 10th | contrary. At the beginning of f] vear | vi he Philippine Commission, from dismemberment and spoilation, and to | pledged by the conditions and tenure of his America fings expression. 1t cannot depart | becond administration of McKinley began, the | of Febraary. 1903, an gt enlArEINE the powers | 1806 thare were about. 200 foutes n oeamiien | Hest by, execative order and. then by the wins | preserve the open door In the Orlent for the | offics to confidence and lovaity o his com from the @irection ¢ tendency. From what [ money in the country was $2,467 295,228 'This | of the Interstate Commerce Commission and of | There are now more than 25,000 routes, being- | leglslation;of Congress in the Philippine Gov. | commerce of the world. Sendur. "Thos avillan. cintyet of e SerERDy it has been may be known certalnly what it | was $28.34 per capita. and of this per | the courts, to deal with secret rebates in trans- | ing a dally mall service to more than 15,000 000 | ernment ot of July 1, 1002, has established TREATY WITH CHINA army, upon w e Sl vt must be. Not all of us rise to its standard; | cent was gold. On the lst of Ma: the | portation charges, Which are the chief means | of our people in rural communities, enlarging | and conducted a government which has been a 5 NA. Teconctled with that military efficiency whi mot all of us are worthy of its glorious history: | money in the country was $2,814,985.446, which | by which the trusts crush out their smaller | the circulation of the newspaper and the mag- | credit to its country and a biessing to the | Under the influence of this effective friend- | can be obtained only under the direction but as & whole this great political organiza- | was $31.02 per capita, and of it 48.028 per cent | competitors. azine, increasing communication, and relleving | people of the islands. The body of laws | Ship & new commercial treaty with China, | the trained military expert. aside; and the people’s business is | the gold reserve: and thus, while every man | fecting all that Ere industry of the South, | cattle against infection from abroad, and has | which for the first time in their history they | dence of that enviable position of our counmtry | of the soldier. The mandate of the constitution 1l done. and ought not to be inter- | can get a gold dollar for every dollar of the | were indicted and hdve abandoned thelr com- | established the highest credit for our'meat pro. | may have a voice In the making of their own | is furnished by the fact that when all Europe | which required Congress to provide for organ- wd wit Government’s currency, the endless chaln which | biration. The Northern Securities Company, | ducts in the markets of the world. The earth | laws. In the meantime the local and pro- | Was in apprehension lest the fleld of war be- | izing, arming and discipiining the militia had Have mot the American people reason for | we were once taught to fear so much has been | which undertook by combining in one owner- | has been searched for weapons with which to | vincial governments are in the hands of officers | tween Russia and Japan should so spread as | been left unexecuted. In default of national satisfaction and pride In the conduct of their | effectively put out of business. The Secretary | ship the capital stocks of the Northern Pacific | fight the enemies that destroy the growing | elected by the Filipinos; and in the great cen- | to involve China's ruin and a universal con- | provisions, bodies of State troops. created for Government since the election of 1900, when | of the Treasury has ehown himself mindful of [ and Great Northern railroads to end traffic | crops. An insect brought from near the Great | tral offices, in the commission, on the bench, | flict, it was to the American Government that | local purposes and supported at local expense. - dered their judgment of approval upon | the needs of business and has so managed our | competition in the Northwest, has been de- | Wall of China has checked the San Jose scale | in the executive departments, the most distin- | the able and farsighted German Emperor ap- | had grown up throughout the Union. Their first mistration of President McKinley? | finances as himself to expand and contract our | stroyed by a vigorous prosecution expedited [ which was destroying our orchards: a parasitic | guished men of the Fillpino race are taking | pealed to take the lead agaln in bringing | feelings toward the,regular army were rather Have we had an honest government? Have | currency as occasion has required. When fn the | and brought to a speedy and .effective conclu- | fly brought from South Africa i3 exterminating | their part in the government of their people. | about an agreement ‘for the limitation of the | of distrust and dislike than of comradeship. ' wen selected for office been men of | fall of 1902 the demand for funds to move the | sion in the Supreme Court under the act of | the black scale in the lemon and orange groves | A free cchool system has been established and | field of action, and the preservation of the | Their arms, equipment, discipline, organization ¥00d reputation who by their past lives had | crops caused extraordinary money stringency | February 11, I The Attorney-General says: | of California; and an ant from Guatemala is | hundreds of thousands of children are learn- | administrative entity of China outside of Man- | and methods of obtaining and accounting for glven evidence that they were honest and com- | the Secretary exercised his Jawful right to ac- | “Here, then, are four phases of the attack | about offering battle to the boll weevil. Broad | ing lessons which will help fit them for self- | churia; and that was accomplished, supplies were varied and inconsistent. They n any private business be pointed | cept State and municipal bonds as security | on the combinations in restraint of trade and | ecience has been brought to the aid of limited | government. The seeds of religious strife ex- | Upon our own continent a dispute with Can- | were unsuited to become a part of any homo- cut 1n which lapses from honesty have been so ( for public_deposits, thus liberating United | commerce—the railroad injunction suits, the | experience, Study of the relations between | Isting in the bitter controversy between the | ada over the boundary of Alaska had been | genuous force, and their relations to the army w und o trifiing proportionately as in the | States Londs which were used for additional | cotton pool cases, the beef trust cases and the [ plant life and climate and soil has been fol- | people and the religiots orders have been de- | growing more acute for thirty years. A multi- | of the United States were undefined and con- | snlic service of the United States? And when | circalation. When the crops wers moved and | Northern Securities case ~The first relates fo| lowed by the introduction of special crops | prived of potemcy for harm by the purchase {tude of ~miners swift to defend their own [ jectural By the militia act of January Im. ! ave occurred, have mot the offenders | the stringency was over he called for a with. [ the monopoly produced by secret and prefer- | sulted to our varied conditions. The - friars’ lands, and their practical with- | rights py force were Iocating mining claims gress performed its duty under the een velenticaly broseculed and sternly pun. | drawal of the State and municipal securities, | ential rates for railroad transportation: the | auction of just the right kind of seed has mo- | arawal. | By the sct of Congress of March | under the laws of both countries In the die: | roociitation. ~ Loaving thess bodies still to a without regard to political or personal | and thus contracted the currency. Again, in | second to rallroad traffic pooling; the third.to | abled the Gulf States to increase our rice crop 1903, @ gold standard has been established | puted territory. At any moment a fatal affray | perform their duties to the States. It made ons ? 1903, under similar conditions, he produced | a combination of Independent corporations to | from 115,000,000 pounds In 1898 to 400,000,000 | to take the place of the fluctuating silver cur- | between Canadian and American miners was | them the organized militia of the United Heve we not had an effective Government? | similar results. The payment of the $50,000,000 | fix and maintain extortionate prices for meats, | pounds in 1903, and to supply the entire Ameri- | rency. The unit of value is made exactly one- | liable to begin a conflict in which all British | States. It provided for their conformity in Huve not the Jaws been enforced? Has not the | for the Pansma canal made last month, with- | and the fourth to a corporation organized to | can.demand, With a surplus for export. The | half the value of the American gold dollar, | Columbia would be arraved on one side and | grmament, organization and discipline to the slow process of legislative discussion upon many | out causing the slightest disturbance in finance, | merge into itself the control of parallel and | right kind of sugar beet has Increased our an- | so that American money is practically part all our Northwest upon the other. Agreement | army of the United States: it provided the serious questions beem brought to practical | showed good judgment and a careful considera- | competing lines of railroad and to eliminate [ nual production of beet sugar. by over 200,000 | thelr currency system. To enable the Phillp- | was impossible. But the Alaskan boundary | ways in which, either strictly as militia or as conclusions embodied in beneficlal statutes? | tion of the interests of business upon which | competition In their rates of transportation: tons. _Seed brought ‘from countries of little | pine Government to issue this new currency | treaty of January 24 1903. provided a tribunal | volunteers, they should become an active part And has not the executive proceeded without | our people may confidently rely. UNLAWFUL COMBINATIONS. rainfall is producing millions of bushels of | $6,000,000 was borrowed by them in 1908 in | for the decisioh of the controversy; and upon | of the army when called upon; it provided aciilation or weakness to give these effects ; Erain on lands which & few years ago weys | ine olty of New York, and It was borrowed at | legal proofs and reasoned argument an apues T ing. Istruction and exercise con- Are mot the laws of the United States obeyed REGULATION OF TRUSTS. The right of the Interstate Commerce Com. | deemed a hopeless part of the arid belt. @ Dot Intereat charge of 1% per cent per an- | has baen had from prejudice and passion o | womtly with the regular army: it imposed upon «: home and does mot our Government com- Four years ago the regulation by I mission to compel the production of books and THE FARMER'S MARKET. num. The trade of the islands has increased | judicial judgment; and under the lead of a | the regular army the duty of promoting thei: mand respect «nd honor throughout the world? | great corporate combinations called * papers has been established by. the judgment notwithstanding adverse conditions. During | great Chief Justice of England, who held the | efficiency in many ways. In recognition of the Jlave we not had & safe and conservative | stood substantially where it wae when the | of the Supreme Court in a sult against the The systematic collection and publication of | the last five years of peace under Spanish rule | sacred obligations of his judicial office above | service to the nation which these citizen sol- Government® Flas not property been protected® | Sherman anti-trust act of 1500 was passed, | coal carrying roads. Other suits have been | information regarding the magnitude and con- | the average fotal trade of the islands was less | all other considerations, the dispute has been | gjscs would be competent to render the nation Are mot the fruits of enterprise and lndullryi?rmdenl Cleveland, in his last message of | brought and other indictments have been | ditions of our crops. is mitizating the injury | than $36.000.000. During the fiscal year ending | settled forever and substantially In accordance secure? What safeguard of the constitution for | December, 1896, had said: found and other trusts have been driven back | done by speculation to the farmer’s market. June 30, 1903, the trade of the islands was over | with the American cortention. Vested right or Individusl freedom bas motd *Though Congress has attempted to deal with ! within legal bounds, No investment in lawfull To increase the profit of the farmer's toll, 0]/$66,000,000. There is but one point of dis- ! In 1000 the frst administration of McKinley Continued on Page 7, Columa 5,