Show LEVEL MASSACHUSETTS HEADS The platform adopted by the Republicans Repub-licans last week in Massachusetts must worry Senator Hoar some little It must be a damper on Mr Winslow I and act like a bath of liquid air upon I Mr Edward Atkinson There are some very level heads in Massachusetts I i some men with clear visions and some I with as high a sense of right as their fathers had rho following Is taken from their platform and It would do very well to placo It In the Republican national platform this year I stales the case tersely and It states it I in away a-way too that it cannot be answered except by thy sneers which make the I stock of arguments of all those who are seeking to prejudice voters and lo obtain their votes thin year not on the merits possessed by the outs but tho demerits charged upon the ins I is I as follows By tho treaty of Parlf 1 number of Islands formerly held bv Spain have come < under the domnlon of the United States aid by h the terms of the treaty tho duty o I ol providing for their government and of determining tho civil rights and political status of the Inhabitants has devolved upon the Congress of tho United States An a result of these acquisition races of people havo come under thl protection of tho American llag who have been so long degraded by tyranny as to have very inadequate dlladcII adequate conceptions of iho truo spirit o liberty and of the responsibilities eif selfgovernment and who have beon 10 impoverished and weakened by tho exploitations ex-ploitations of their oppressors as to l bo unable to defend themselves unaided from tIe greed of foreign conquest 1 No greater trust than the uplifting and educating edu-cating of these defenseless T pooulo bus been Imposed upon the United Stales The Republican party believes I to bo I the hllh and solemndutv of the Nation to accept I I and execute this trust with all ho re Rppnslbllllles It Involvpi by retaining tho I ItdandH and by providing for their ado juao government upon the PrinciPles oran toernmelt lrlcPles liberty and humanity J believes that to I abandon them to local anarchy or lo the lust of tho invader would he cowardly and dishonorable and a betrayal of its trust Impossible to bo contemplated by a great t frets and enlightened nation I cnlrhtenNl Not tho material InlercHls alone of the NatIon whOm trade and commerce arc now competing for the markets of tho competnf I world but tho highest dictates o duty require UM to take thu peoplo uf these I Islands under our protectIon to suppress UPJre disorder and violence to rostoro peace to dispel the darkness of Ignorance 1 lo promote Industry lo teach them the duties du-ties t and rcsponHiblllllcs ot real Hrlfgov ornment to secure to thorn civil and religious re-ligious liberty and by these meaim to establish order all civilization In placo of anarchy and barbarism The same policy pol-icy which governed our fathers In dealing with the acqulslllons of territory nuido In their time should bo pursued with respect re-spect to these now possessions |