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Show I Our Flag in the Philippines. President Roosevelt recently said: "Save only our attitude toward Cuba, 1 question whether thore is a brighter page in the annals of international dealing between the strong and the weak, than the page which tells of our doings in the Philippines." We believe that is true. Neither life nor property prop-erty were safe there when the Americans took possession pos-session of the country. One or two strong tribes were warring to get control that they might loot the others, their ideas of how to deal with the weak being modeled after those which the em-bruted em-bruted Spaniards had impressed upon them. Our country compelled peace. It established order, filled the islands with school houses; drew its protection pro-tection around life and property, began the building build-ing of railroads that the interior tollers might get their products to market; from the first gave natives na-tives who could be trusted places of honor and profit; increased the number of these as the years went by; has given them now a legislature and all the time has promised that so soon as they were prepared to govern themselves wisely they should be given the chance. The way our country has treated Spain's ancient island possessions ought to convince the world that no lust of conquest attaches to our nation and the example set, both oast and west, ought to draw new reverence to our flag and to the institutions insti-tutions of which It is a symbol. |