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Show TRU T H omuDucsux laYe 9 "o hesitancy in conditions that the government of the gard to the interests of any people for will is whom The judge has been deceived, cruelly deceived, upon the fact, as the Where are the Philip judge asks: markets? Where the developpine ment of their natural resources?' Let me tell him that he is deceived again; that the trade of the Philippine islands Is nearly double what it was in the last five years of peaceful conditions before the American occupation, the years of greatest Before our flag floated prosperity. over the islands the average imports of the Philippines were $15,000,000, be and the average exports $19,000,000, Let me tell the judge that they are and In the fiscal year of 1903 the imThe revenues far ex- ports were $32,000,000 and the exports ceed the expenditures in the Philip- $35,000,000. pine government The judge did not go far to seek for interests? ocFrom of American time the the There are two printed volumes of markets, for over $30,000,000 worth of to close of fiscal the the year goods were exported in that year of laws enacted by the commission, of cupation $48,000,-00revenues 1903, the exceeded 1903 to the United States. It is not whom three out of the seven members, American and witthe to trust an expensafe money, other than the governor, were distinditures over are little $37,000,000, ness. guished Filipinos, enacted by one of American money. Now, against this student of conthem, after public discussion, reported ditions The Philippines stand upon their against this slander on the to congress, printed, and they have become public documents of the United own bottom, and they ask no aid from good name and credit of our country this government or any other. That n the Orient, with which this student States. I undertake to say that if the $48,000,000 of revenue was raised by of conditions has imposed upon Judge lower and more equitable taxation Parker, let me cite as a witness Archjudge will take the time to examine than was ever imposed' by the people bishop J. J. Harty of Manila, who it those statutes he will find a body of happens has just returned from a tour law which, for wisdom, for due re !of the islands. of personal inspection throughout the islands. Of all men living he has had the best means of learning the truth; the truth from his own people, aud in this month of October, within a week before this slander was palmed off on Judge Parker, the archbishop states the results of what he had seen on his tour of inspection. He said: I was impressed during my JourAQK FOR. ney with the presence of American Wm. A. STICKNEY CIGAR CO. Institutions among the masses of the people, the general happiness, the seFINE CIGARS curity of person and property and the supremacy of order and Justice And this is the man who has had the responsibility of the welfare of the American people as close to his heart under the sanction of his sacred office as any man alive. I believe he says, that under divine guidance the beneficent rule of America is destined ultimately to place the Christian and Malay races on a similar political basis that has gain Philippines very bad. that the Filipinos know "Judge Parker has been deceived, todependence when they doubtless by the same use it. how to who led him to overstate the cost of it American occupation in the PhilipTMooerats are discovering that to form a pines by some four hundred and fifty tactically impossible cJtm betveen the Popocrats and million dollars. The judge says: T ask of the Rethe Plutocrats. publican party whether, if the adminhas ever istration of the United States should appeal to the people successful when continue in its hands, it proposes to been permanently and misrepre- - supply any remedy? Will it enact for bued upon perversion the Philippines any proper statutes regulating the affairs to better their anti-imperiali- st rule the nation and workshop hag become the granary men do not want a of the world. Wise Under Republican they were enacted, and for constructive ability, challenge comparison with the statutes of any state of the American union. Mr. Root continued with a detailed defense of the Philippine government, against the charges made in the speech referred to. Said he: The judge asks, Are the Philippine islands today a community? Why should not these islands, asserted by all and conceded by all to have great natural resources, self-supporti- ng self-supportin- g? self-supportin- g. 0, anti-imperialist- change. platform is really exanything more than a bill of The Democratic never against Republican ceptions in the Democrats bank, says & dispatch. are muHng no claims in Kansas this "Kansas has $100,000,000 year. might have been better if the candidate's letter had been sent to the dead letter Democracys chances is a dangerous disease, but it is not contagious among prosperous and contented Democratic discontent Canadian reciprocity will come, but it will come without the sacrifice of any American No industry. has ' ever party on a policy of negation. political triumphed The country is tree trade as free as strong silver. against The Republicans meet issues. Democrats dodge them. The o PARKER DOESN'T KNOW MUCH. New York, and Oct Senator 19 Lieutenant-Governo- r Pair-bank- s Hig- gins, candidate for Republican governor of New addressed a York, meeting in Madison large Square garden to night Secretary Root presided. Delegations from Yale and Princeton colleges were present and took part in the parade which preceded the meeting. Several delegations from othpr cities, Including the Pittsburg marching club of Pittsburg, attended, and a number of Fremonters occupied Places on the platform, and the audience filled every um. part of the auditori- Mr. Root, in opening 8Poke of ; the meeting, national issues. He said in part: It has been a campaign of personal a ck, but at least an issue has bejen projected into the canvass. I see BEWARE OF I6E WATER! Many people drink too much ice water in hot weather and are injured thereby Our American Beauty" This is the latest and best brand of beer we have on the market. It is equal to any of the imported varieties and superior to many In fact wc are of the opinion we have all competitors distanced. It is carefully brewed, properly and is aged and cleanly bottled entirely free from impurities a case and you will be Try highly pleased Pker'Says that .we hqve a bad government in the. Philip- pines. In bis recent speech to the Judge Parker says that been Informed by some be described as a 'student of anti-Jinperlalis- ts, never yet been attained by an Oriental people This is the task America has assumed. There is no reason why the people should take the government of affairs out of the hands of Theodore Roosevelt Great applause followed the speaker as he retired. When quiet was restored, Mr. Higgins delivered an address, devoting most of his time to state Issues. Senator Fairbanks, the last speaker, arrived shortly after 10 oclock from Brooklyn, where he had been making an address. His entrance was the occasion for hearty applause. Senator Fairbanks spoke sis follows: Commercial growth Is not merely the result of chance; Industrial development is not the fruit of accident. Our progress is due alone to an adherence to rational policies, which do not change with changing seasons. There is no political party successes so Important as the triumph of sound national policies. Capital must he assured that it can safely plan for the future. It must feel satisfied that the basis upon which It calculates will not be undermined' or disturbed by Irrational or temporary policies. The Republican party has during its entire career stood for these policies which have been enduring On the tariff Mr. Fairbanks said: stands party The Republican squarely for the protective system. This system has vindicated itself. It is the basis of our present Industrial The and commercial development. been Republican party has always ready to revise the tariff whenever revision has been essential to the public interests. It is not in favor of change for the mere sake of change. It is not in favor of revision along trade lines. , - my sasrsxsr ic |