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Show TRU T H. 6 WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. What will we do with the Philippines? is a question that has been frequently asked in the past. The Republican reply is, We will protect and educate the Filipinos until they are able to take care of themselves. We will help them develop that Oriental Eden they call home, and this for their own welfare. We will bring to the light of day natural resources such as the great outside world has not dreamed of, and we will uncover such wealth down there as will astonish mankind throughout the nations. Manila is the golden gateway of the mystry shrouded far east, and from this gateway we will watch and study our interests throughout the Orient, ready at all times to take our proper place in the drama to be staged there. Westward the course of Empire takes its way. Just so sure as this is true; just so sure as there is no healthful life without expansion, no growth without activity; no success without effort, just so sure is it the destiny of the United States of America to take a. leading part in and exert a wide spread influence over the great work of expansion and civilization now going on in the Orient. We cannot be merely onlookers in this great work; it is for us to play one of the chief roles and for this reason alone the Philippines will yet prove to be worth many millions more than we have ever considered them. What will we do with them? We will bind them together with steel rails and cables. Under the spell of American industry and energy that vast archipelago which has remained these hundreds of years a closed book to the world will be opened up. The sleep of ages will be shattered by the shriek of steam whistles; the buzz and hum of mills and factories will be heard throughout the land from Apor-r- i on the north to Zamboango on the south, and millions of acres yet unsurveyed and idle will be made to contribute to the wealth and happiness of the world. But let me answer the question: What will we do with them? in the light of what we have already done for them. The Americans found the Philippines in a state of rebellion against Spain. For years the country had been torn and devastated by a war which had not only impoverished the people, but which was each day driving them farther back into the worst kind of savagery. The Americans put down this rebellion, pacified the people called them back to their farms and vocations and thereby started again their wheels of commerce which are today, six years later, working for peace and prosperity and- - happiness as never before. Americans found the masses of the islands burdened with taxation while there was no provision for taxing the areat landed proprietors. The poor, they who had scarcely enough to keep body and soul together, were forced to defray the expenses of a costly and extravagant government, while the "ich, they who owned the land were mlirely; exempt from taxation. Today there isT a land tax in the Philippine islands and the man who owns one acre or one thousand acres of Gods 'oil is made to contribute accordingly to the expenses of government. Americans found Manila, one of the no'st unsanitary spots on the face of y the earth; the city is cleaner than many American cities, and it 'ias- - ?. much lower death rate. to-da- Americans found in Manila a customs house that would have made a Turkish city ashamed of itself. Here a tariff for revenue only was collected and under a law that forced the con- sumers of lifes commonest necessities to pray the duties. Diamonds, silks and other luxuries the rich alone could afford, came in duty free. Our government changed all this so that it is the luxuries that pay the duties now while the necessities are taxed as lightly as possible. Americans found the penitentiary at Manila overtaxed with native male and female prisoners who had never been tried, and in scores of cases they could not possibly tell why they had been imprisoned. Some of these victims of that rotten old monarchy, Spain, had been incarcerated for periods upwards of twenty years. Today the penitentiary at Manila is a model institution and its great high walls confine none who have not been duly tried, convicted and sentenced. -- The gospel of Republican expansion literally struck the shackles from hundreds of innocent natives in Manila and made them free. Today, in the Philippines all are equal before the law and every person regardless of color or nationality may go to the courts sure of a prompt and just hearing something that was undreamed of during Spanish times. Under Spanish regime there was at Manila a public school system that was in no sense worth the name. These e public schools were of the most most in held the order, ordinary dwelling houses of nipa and bamboo and taught by teachers who were considered amnlv paid if they got from six to ten dollars per month. Today there is a school system in the Philippines that would do credit to aiy country. It is a school system built on the American plan and presided prim-ativ- over by teachers, one thousand of whom are graduates of American colleges and universities. English is more widely spoken in Manila today than Spanish ever was. Americans found in the Philippines a people who had absolutely no voice in the affairs of government even though they paid all the taxes. Today the great majority of the officials of the islands, whether elective or. apFor pointive, are native Filipinos. ' s over three hundred years the were governed in the interests of Spain; for six years now they have been governed in the interests of the Filipinos themselves. And so on. One might write of what we have done for the Philippines for a month and yet not tell it all. The people and the country are in better shape today, they are more prosperous and in every sense of the word better off than they ever were before. If the work of the Grand Old Party in the Orient be viewed from a humanitarian standpoint, then must it be conceded that our acquisition, pacification and government of the Philippine islands constitutes one of the grandest and most sublime achievements of the century. Patriots who are familiar with our work in the far east will vote the Republican ticket next November, and this regardless of what political faith they may have heretofore professed. It is the part of wisdom to make ones self familiar with the important' questions of the PHIL A. PEEN. day. 5,000 Philp-pine- o Hard Task for Children. In East Indian schools mental arithmetic is a vastly more serious matter than it is in the schools of this country. Pupils of ten years are taught to remember the multiplication table up to forty times forty. llff&l! In connection with the Rio Grande and Colorado Midland, the three great trains daily to the East, with equipment and service of the highest grade. No. 6( (Map ago SI. Louis Special From Salt Lake 8:50a m daily ; from Denver 2:00 p m. Arrive in St. Joseph 9:30 a m; Kansas City 11 :40 a in. Arrive in St. Louis 6:50 p m. M H SI. I SSI From Salt Lake City 3:15 p m daily; From Denver 4:15 p m. Arriving Omaha 6:45 a m; Chicago 8:00 p m. Note: The daily standard through sleeper, Salt Lake City to St. Louis, Paves Salt Lake City at 3:15 p m. Daylight ride through scenic Colorado, arriving Denver 4:00 p m, with desirable stopover interval at Denver until departure of the Eastern Express from Denver at 10:35 p m, arriving at St Louis the second morning No. 4, Eastern Express . . . . From Salt Lake City 8:05 p m. dally; from Denver 10:35 p m, Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joseph ar.d Kansas City next afternoon; St. Louis arriving and Chicago xthe second morning from Denver. f Through tourist sleepers leave Salt Lake City at 8:05 p m for Chicago and Boston every Friday and Saturday evening: for St Louis every Friday evening, with daylight ride over the Rio Grande ihrbugh scenic Colorado: also at 8:05 d m Thursday Ior Midland, Chicago and Boston via Rio Grande-ColoraDiverse routes to the East are allowed with these rates, but the Burlington, with its own rails and its own through train service between Denver and St. Louis, between Denver and Chicago can offer with its own railroad as great a variety of tours as can be offered by any other combination of routes. There is education in travel. It is an education to ride a thousand miles over the Burlington Route. 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