Show OUR POSSESSIONS ABROAD Nation Has Done Much for Islands the Isthmian Channel The American government In Republican Republic-an hands has freed Cuba given peace and protection to Porto Rico and the Philippines under our tag and begun the construction of the Panama canal The present conditions In Cuba vindicate the wisdom of maintaining between that republic re-public and this Imperishable bonds of mutual Interest and the hope Is now expressed ex-pressed that the Cuban people will soon again be ready to assume complete sovereignty sov-ereignty over their land In Porto Rico the government of the United Slates Is meeting loyal and patrI otc support order and prosperity prevail pre-vail and the wellbeing of the people Is In every respect promoted und conserved We believe that the native Inhabitants of Porto Rico should be nt once collectively collec-tively made citizens of the United States and that nil others al properly qualified un der existing laws residing In said Island should have the privilege of becomlrtg I naturalized In time Philippines Insurrection has been suppressed law established nnd life and property made secure Kdiicatlon 1IIucaton and practical experience are there advanc lag the capacity of the people for clplel govern Jorrn mont and the policies of McKlnley anti RooieVclt are leading the Inhabitants step by to step an ever Increasing mcns ure of home rule Panama Route Approved Time has Justified the selection of the Panama route for the great Isthmian canal and events have shown thn wis dom of securing authority over the zone through which It Is to be built The work Is I now progressing with a rapidity far beyond expectation and already the rf ullzatlon of the hopes of centuries has come ture within the vision of the near fu New Mexico and Arizona We favor the Immediate admission of the territories of New Mexico and Ari zona as separate slates In the union Centenary of Birth of Lincoln February 12 1900 will be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln nn Immortal spirit whose fame has brightened with the wih receding years anti whose name stands among the first of those given to the world by the great republic We recom mend that this centennial be celebrated throughout anniversary tho confines of the nation by all the naton al people there thert of and especially by the especialy public schools pUblc as an exercise to stir the patriotism of the youth of the land |