DISCUSSES PROBLEM OF DEALING WITH OUR INSULAR POSSESSIONS NS la Iu Hawaii our aim Must be to keep kaep the territory ry on tt the e traditional Amer Amet American ican can lines s We de do not wish a region of ot large estates tilled by cheap labor we wish a healthy American com corn community community of men who WRo themselves till the farms they own awn AU UI our legislation fr fOr fOrthe the islands should l be he with this tais end in view the th w of the aver average average average age homemaker most must afford a ord the true test teat of or the healthy development of the islands Tile The land heed policy polley should as nearly as possible IbIe pos be modeled on our homestead system It is a pleasure ie tel say eay that it is hardly more mor necessary n ry to report as to Porto Porte RIcA than th as 11 to any an state or territory within our cur continental limits The T Th island is thriving as never before and it is being administered efficiently and honesty honestly Its Ita people are now en enjoying g liberty and order under the pro protection protection factIon of the United States and upon this fact we congratulate them theta and ourselves elves our Their material welfare must be bo as u carefully and jealously consid considered considered considered ered as u the welfare of any other por per portion porton ton thin of our country We have given them the great gift of free t access for their products to the markets of the United States I ask uk the attention of or orthe the congress to the need eed of legislation l concerning the public lands of Porto Porte PortoRico PortoRico Rico Cuba to Be Her Eer Own Mistress 4 In Cuba such ucb progress has been 4 4 made toward putting the inde independent 4 4 I pendent pantheist government of or the island 4 4 upon a firm finn footing tooting that before the t 4 present session of the congress 4 4 doses closes this tit will be an 4 4 pUshed tact fact Cuba will then start Slut 4 4 as her own mistress and to the 4 4 beautiful Queen of the Antilles 4 4 as she I this new page of oft 4 4 t her destiny we extend our heart be heartiest 4 4 iest lest greetings tings and good wishes 4 Elsewhere I have haft discussed the ques question tion of reciprocity In the case of Cuba however there are weighty reas rena reasons reASons ons one of morality and of national inter interest Interest est set why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application and I most moet earnestly ask asic your attention to the wisdom m Indeed to the vital need of providing for r a substantial reduction reduction reduction tion in the tariff duties doUse on Cuban im import port into the United d States Cuba CUM has ban in her constitution affirmed what we desired that she ehe should stand in international matters mU in closer and more friendly relations relation with us than with any other power tad and we are bound by every eVer consideration of or hoPer honor and anI expediency to peer pass MI commercial measures me ures in the interest of her mate material rial nat Affairs in the Philippines In the Philippines our problem is larger They are very rich tropical islands inhabited by many varying tribes trl representing widely different stages of progress toward civilization Our earnest effort is to help these peo people people pie upward along alon aion the stony and dif dU difficult path th that chat leads Jeada to ment meat We hope to make our adminis administration administration of the islands honorable to our nation by making it of the highest benefit to the Filipinos themselves and andas andas andas as an ail earnest earne t of or what we intend to todo todo todo do we point to what we have done Already a greater measure of material prosperity and of C governmental hon hen honesty honesty esty and efficiency has vs been attained in the Philippines than ever before in their history It His is no light task teak for a nation to I achieve the temperamental qualities quaIl ties without which the institutions ln of free I government are but an empty mock mockery mockery I ery Our people ate are now successfully governing themselves because for I mere than a thousand years they have ha ye yeI been Men slowly fitting themselves them elves some sometimes sometimes sometimes I times consciously sometimes unconsciously unconsciously toward this thle end cud What has hM taken us thirty generations to achieve i we cannot expect to see another race accomplish a out ut of hand especially e when large portions of that race start very far behind the point which our out ancestors had reached rec even thirty gen generations generations orations ago In Jr dealing with the Philippine peo people people pIe we must show both patience and strength forbearance and steadfast I resolution Our QUI aim to Is high bl h We Ve do donot donot t not desire dutre to do for the islanders merely what has elsewhere been done I for tropic peoples by even the best foreign governments sov We hope to do for them what wh t has never before been heen done for any people of the tropics to tomake make them lIt fit for ment af at after after atter ter the fashion of the really free na nations nations Our Interest in the Filipinos History may safely rely be De challenged to show a single instance in which a masterful race such as 8 ours having been forced b by the tile exigencies of war warto to ti take possession pos of an Jt alien lien land laRd has behaved to its inhabitants with the dis die disinterested disInterested interested zeal for fOt their progress that our people have shown in the Philip Philippines Philippine Philippines pines pine To leave the islands at this time would mean that they would fall into a welter of murderous anarchy Such desertion of duty on our part would be a crime against humanity The character of Governor Taft and of his associates and subordinates is a proof if such be needed of the sincer sincerity sincerIty ity of our effort to give the islands a 3 constantly increasing measure of self government exactly as aa Last fast as they show themselves fit to exercise it Since the civil government was wu established not an appointment has baa been made in inthe inthe Inthe the islands with any reference to con considerations considerations considerations of political influence or to aught else el e save nave the fitness of the theman theman theman man and the needs nee of the service 4 In our anxiety for the welfare 4 4 and progress s of the Philippines 4 4 it may be that here and there 4 4 we have haye gone too rapidly in 4 4 ing inS thAm local 4 4 It is on o this side that t our ur error error 4 if any has No Not Not i t t competent Observer sincerely de tIe J t 4 sirous of ot finding out the facts f 4 and influenced only by a desire 4 4 for the welfare of the thc natives 4 4 can assert hat that we have not 4 4 gone far enough We have gone 4 4 to the very verge erge of safety in 4 4 hastening the process To have 4 4 taken a single e step farther or 4 faster in advance would have 4 4 been folly and weakness and 4 4 might well have been crime 4 4 We are extremely anxious that 4 4 the natives shall show the pow power 4 4 er of governing themselves We 4 4 arr arF an lous Ore firs im sakes 0 7 4 and next because it relieves us ug 4 4 of a great gre t burden There need 4 4 not be the slightest fear of cf our 4 t 4 not continuing to t give them all aU 4 4 1 liberty for which they are tIt fit 4 The only fear is lest in our ow anxiety we give them a degree of otin in independence independence dependence for which they are unfit thereby there y Inviting reaction and disaster As fast as there is any reasonable hope that in a given district the pee peo people pepie pie can govern themselves ment has been given in that district There is not a locality fitted for tor self government which has not received it But it may well be that in certain cases it will have hae to be withdrawn be because be b I cause enuse the inhabitants show themselves unfit to exercise it such instances j t have ha already occurred In other words word there Is not the slightest chancEl chance of our failing falling to show a sufficiently hu humanitarian spirit The danger comes com comIn in the opposite Troubles in the Islands There are still troubles ahead in the islands The insurrection has become an affair of local and maraud marauders ers era who deserve no higher regard than the brigands of portions of the old world Encouragement direct or in indirect IndIrect Indirect direct to these stands on the same footing as encouragement to hostile hc itne Indians in the days when we westill westill westill still had Indian wars Exactly as our ouraim ouraim ouraim aim is to t give to the Indian who re remains remaIns remains mains peaceful the fullest and amplest consideration but to have it under understood stood that we will show no weakness if he goes on the warpath so we ve must make snake it evident unless we Weare are false e eto to our own traditions and to the de do demands demands mands mends of civilization and humanity that while we will do everything overy thing in out or power for the Filipino who is l le we e will take the sternest measures with the Filipino who follows the path of the and the ladrone The heartiest praise is due to large lare numbers of ot the natives of the islands for their steadfast loyalty The Mac have been conspicuous for their courage and devotion to the flag I recommend that the secretary of war be empowered to take some systematic action In the way of aiding thons of these men who are crippled In the service and the families of those who are killed Legislation for Philippines The time has come when there should be additional legislation for the Phil Philippines Philippines Nothing better can be done for the islands than to introduce Introduces in industrial IndustrIal InduStrial enterprises Nothing benefit them so much as throwing them open to industrial development The connection between Idleness and mis mischief mischief chief is proverbial and the opportunity I to do remunerative work Is one of the surest preventives of war Of course course no business bu iness man will go into the Philippines unless it is to his bis in interest Interest interest terest to do so 80 and it is immensely immen ly to the interest of the islands that he should go in It is therefore necessary that the congress should pass pa laws by which the resources of the islands can be he developed so that franchises for limited terms of years can be granted to companies doing business in them and nd every ever encouragement be given to toI I the incoming of or business men of every kind Not to permit this is to do a wrong to the Philippines The franchises fran must mUt be granted and the business permitted only under regulations which will guar gulU guarantee antee the islands against any kind of improper exploitation But the vast natural wealth of the islands must be developed and the capital willing to develop it must be given the opportunity opportunity nit The field must be thrown open to individual enterprise which has been the real factor in the development of or every region over which our flag stag has flown It is urgently necessary to enact suitable laws dealing with gen general general eral oral transportation mining banking currency homesteads and the use dad ft ownership of the lands hands and These laws will give free play to in industrial enterprise and the commer commercial cial dat development which will surely fol follow follow follow low will afford to the people of the Isi islands ands the best proofs of the sincerity of our desire to aid them a Pacific Cable Needed I I call your our attention most earnestly e rn U Uto to the crying need of a cable to Hawaii and the Philippines to be continued from the Philippines to points In Asia Asta We should not defer deter a day longer Ulan titan necessary the construction of such a cable It is demanded not merely for tor Commercial but for political and mili mill military tary considerations Either the congress should Immedi Immediately immediately immediately provide for the construction of a government cable or else an arrange arrangement arrangement ment should be made by which like ad advantages advantages adVantages vantages to those accruing from a gov gee crassest cable may be secured to th tb government by contract with u a privet privat cable company