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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED (Continued From Second Page.) not because of shifting conditions in the production of gold in the certain mining centers, bit in accordance with what we regard as the funda mental principleQ of national morality and wisdom. Upon the financial legislation we have enacted there is now ample cir culation for every business need: and every dollar of this circulation 1 is worth a d,llar in gold. We have reduced the interest-bearing debt and in still larger measure the interest I on that debt. All of the war taxes imposed during the Spanish war have been removed with a view to relieve the people and to prevent the accumulation of an unnecessary sur plus. The result is that hardly ever before have the expenditures and in come of the government so closely corresponded. In the fiscal year that has just closed the excess of income over the ordinary expenditures was nine million dollars. This does not :ake account of the fifty millions ex pended out of the accumulated stir plus for the purchase of the Isthmian Canal. It is an extraordinary proof of the sound financial condition of the nation that instead of following the usual course in such matters and throwing -the burden upon pos terity by an issue of bonds, we were able to make the payment outright and yet after it to have in the treas ury a surplus of one hundred and six ty-one millions. Moreover, we were able to pay this fifty millions of dol lars out of hand without causing the slightest disturbance to business con ditions. We have enacted a tariff under which during the past few years the country has attained a height of ma terial well-being never before reach ed. Wages are higher than ever be fore. That whenever the need arises there should be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted; but such changes can with safety be made only by those whose devotion to the principle of a protective tariff is be yond question: for otherwise the changes would amount not to read justment but to repeal. The read justment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective prin ciple. To the farmer, the merchant. the manufacturer this is vital; but perhaps no other man is so much in terested as the wage-worker in the maintenance of our present econom ic system. but as regards the finances and the tariff. The standard of living of our wage-workers is higher than that of any other country. and it can not so remain unless we have a pro tective tariff which shall always keep as a minimum a rae of duty sufficient to cover the difference between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who, like our opponents. "denounce protection as robbery" thereby ex plicitly commit themselves to the propositi. n that if they w'ere to revise the tariff no heed wou:ild be paid to the necessity of meeting this differ ence between the standards of living for wage-wo'rkers nere and( ir other countries: and therefore on this point their antgonismi to our position is~ fundamental. Here again we ask that their promises and ours be judged by what has been done in the imme diate past. We ask that sober and sensible men compare the workings of the present tariff law. and the con ditions which obtain under it, with thle workings of the preceding tariff law of 1894 and the conditions which that tariff of 1894 helped to bring about. We believe in reciprocity with for eign nations on the terms outlined in President's McKinley's last speech, which urged the extension of our foreign markets by reciprocal agree ments whenever' they could be made without injury to American industry and labor. It is a singular fact that the only great reciprocity treaty re cently adopted--that with Cuba--was finally opposed almost alone by the representatives of the party whlichi now states that it favrer reciprocitv. And here again we ask that the worth of our words be jud(ged by com paring their dleeds with ours. On this Cuban reciproctiy treaty there were at the outset grave differences of opinion among ourselves: and the notable thing in the negotiation and ratification of the treaty. and in the legislation which carried it into ei fect, was the highly practical manner in which without sacrifice oi princi ple these differences of opinion were recnciled. There was no rututre of a great party, but an excellent practical outcome, the result of the harmonious co-operation of two suc cessive presidents and two successive congresses. This is an illustration of the governing capacity which en titles us to the confidence of the peo ple not only in our purposes but in our practical ability to achieve those purposes. Judging by the history of the last twelve years, down to this very month, is 'there justification for believing that under similiar circian siances and with similiar initial dif jerences of opinion. our opponents would have achieved any practical re We have already shown in actual fact that our policy is to do fair and equal justice to all men. paying no heed to whether a man is rich or poor: paying no heed to his race. his creed, his birthplace. We recognize the organization of capital and the organization of labor as natural outcomes of our industrial-sys tem. Each kind or organization is to be favored so long as it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the rights of others. Each is to be granted the full protection of the law. and each in turn is to be held to a strict obed ience to the law: for no man is above it and no man is below it. The humblest individual is 'to have his rights safe guarded as scrupulously as those of the strongest organiza tion, for each is to receive justice, no more or no less. The problems with which we have to deal in our modern industrial and social life are manifold: but the spirit in which it is necessary to approach their solution is simply the spirit of honesty, of courage. and of common sense. In inaugurating the great work of irrigation in the west the administra tion has been enabled by congress to take one of the longest strides ever taken under our government toward utilizing our vast national domain for the settler, the actual home-maker. Every since this continent was dis covered the need of an Isthmian canal to connect the Pacific and the At lantic has been recognized; and ever since the birth of our nation such a canal has been planned. At last the dream has become a reality. The Isthmian canal is now being built by the government of the United States. We conducted the negotiation for its construction with the nicest and mos7t scrupulous honor. and in a spirit of the largest generosity toward those through whose territory it was to run. Everv sinister effort which could be devised by the spirit of fac tion or the spirit of self-interest was n:ae in ord-r to defeat the treaty with Panama and thereby prevent the consummation of this work. The construction of the cana! is now an assured fact: but most certainly it is unwise ti entrust the carrying out of so nmomentous a polic. to those who have endeavored to defeat the whole undertaking.. Our fo'reign policy has been so conducted that, while not o'ne of our inst claims has been sacriticed, our relati' nu with all foreign natitons are no w of the most peaceful kind: there is no t a clo.ud on the horizon. The last catuse of irritation between us and any other nation wvas removed by the settlement of the Alaskan boundary. In the Caribbean Sea we have made good our promises of independence to Cuba. and have proved our asser tion that our mission in the island was one of justice and not of self aggrandizement: and thereby no less than by our action in Venezuela and Panama we have shown that the Monroe doctrine is a living reality, designed for the hurt of no nation. but for the protection of civilization on the western continent, and for 'the peace of the world. Our steady growth in power has gone hand in hand with a strengthening disposi tion to use this power wi-th strict re gartd for the rights of others, and for the cause oi international justice and goodlwill. We earnestly desire friendship with all nations of the new and old worlds: and we endeavor to place our relations with them upon a basis of reciprocal advantage instead of hos tilitv. We hold that the prosperity o.f each nation is an aid and not a hindlance to the prosperity of other nations. WVe seek interinational amity for the same reasons that make us believe in peace within our own h er dlers: and we seek this peace not be cause we are afraid or unready'. but be cause we think that peace is right as well as advantageous. A\merican interests in the Pacific h-n-e rapily rown. American enter prise has laid a cable across this, the greatest of oceans. We have proved in effective fashion that we wish the Chinese empire well and desire it; in tegritv and independence. Our foothold in the Philippines greatly strengthens our position in the competition for the rade of the east: but we are governing the Phil ippines in the interest of the Philip pine people themselves. We have al ready given them a large share in their government. and our purpose is i4s increase this share as rapidly as thev -:ve evidence of increasing fit nes for the task. The great majority 4f the oicials of the island. whether eectvve .or appointive. are already na tive FiliiOf. \We are now )r,,vi(l in-. for a legi.latve assembly. This i, the ;-, step to be taken in the fitnre and it would be eminentlv un wise W. dare what m:r n:-:t sep will he mtil this first step has been taken and the results are manifest. T,, hav, gone faster than we have already gone in giving the is landers a constantly increasing neas ure of self-government would have been disastrous. At the present mo ment to give political independence to rile islands would result in the im ne'diate loss of civil rights. personal liberty and public order. as regards the mass of the Filipinos, for the ma jority of the islanders have been given these great boons by us, and only keep them because we vigilanly safe-guard and guarantee them. To withdraw our government from the islands at this time would mean to the average native the loss of his barely-won civil freedom. We have established in the islands a govern ment by Americans assisted by Fili pinos. We are steadily -striving to transform this into self-government by the Filipinos assisted by Ameri cans. The principles which we uphold should appeal to all our countrymen, in all portions of our country. Above all they should give us strengch with the men and women who are the spiritual heirs of those who upheld the hands of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striving to do our work in the spirit with which Lincoln approached his. During the seven years tha-v have just passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked: no necessary task which we have feared to undertake, or which we have not performed with reasonable efficiency. We have never pleaded impotence. We have never sought refuge in criticism and complaint in stead of action. We face the future with our past and our present a. guarantors of our promises: and we are content 'to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. BIG MONUMENT FOR LIARS. Mounds Erected to Shame Men Who Were Fabricators While on Earth. Straits Settlement Budget. WVhile other nat ions build monui ments to the memory of men who have done great and noble dels. the Dyaks heap u~tp a pile of the branches of trees in memory of the man who has uttered a great lie, so that future generations may know of his wicked ness and take warning from it. The persons deceived start the tu gongbula by heaping up a large num ber of branches in some conspicuous spot by the side of the main road. Every passerby contributes to it. and at the same time curses the man in memory of whom it is. The Dy&cs consider the adding to a 'tugong bula they must pass a sacred dty. the omission <f which will mee-t with supernatural punishment, and so. however pressed for time a Dyak may be, he stops to throw on the pile sonie branches or -twigs. This custom dates from very an cient times. Tt is interesting to no tice that , though the ethics of the Draks. even at the present day, do not agree in many points with the moral code of other and more ad vancedl races, still from the earliest ages the Dyaks seem to have agreedl in coinsidering a lie a most disgrace ful crime. not only of his own gener at i n. buit also of pe' ple yet unborn. A few small branches. a few small twg and leaves-that is what the t'inan buta is at hrst. But day by day it increases in size. Every passer by adds something ti it. and in a few reamrs' time it hecom'nes a large antd im p. 'ing monuitment. raised to memory of onei who was a liar. It has often been remarked by nytrs that any other punishment would if a man had his choice. be much preferred to having the tugong bula put up in his memory. Other punishments are soon forgotten. but a tugong bula remains as a testimiony to a man's untruthfulness for suc ceeding generations to witness. and is a standing disgrace to his chiI dren's children. l3elieving. as the Dyaks do. in the efricacy of curses-a curse among teicm being a lnable offense-it is easily understood how a Dvak would dread th< ccumulation tt curse which w, I nece;sarilv accom'pany the formation of a tugong btla. What the Big Order Meant. WVashington Po;t. Orville Wright. the flying-machin-' mian. told a reporter this story: "A little hv bustled into a gr ery one day with a memorandum in his hand. "1'Hello. Mr. Smith.' he said. want thirteen pounds of coffee at 32 cents. V er good.' said the grocer, and he noted down the sale. and put his clerk to packing the coffee. 'Any thing else. Charley?' 'Yes. Twenty-seven pounds of sugar at 9 cents.7 "'The loaf. eh? And what else?' " 'Seven and a half pounds of bac on at 20 cents.' That is the arrow brand. Go on.' 'Five pounds of tea at go cents; eleven and a half quarts of molasses at 8 cents a pint; 'two eight-pound hams at 21 1-4 cents, and five dozen jars of picked walnuts at 24 cents a jar.' "The clerk bustled about and the grocer made out the bill. "'Its a big order," he said. 'Did your mother tell you to pay for it, or it is to be charged?' " 'My mother, said the boy as he pocketed the neat and accurate bill, 'has nothing to do with this business. It is my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done somehow.' Southern Railway. i off~s F&i - --- R. Wes Best Line, Choice of Routes, Through Pullman Sleepers, Dining Cars. 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