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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1904. PAGE SEVEN. ROOT OUTLINES CAMPAIGN (Continued from rage 2.) whose Incredulous objections would have postponed It tot another genera tlon. For Pesee and Justioe. Throughout the world the diplomacy of the present administration has made for peace and Justioe among nation. Clear-sighted to perceive and prompt to maintain American Interests, it hue been sagacious and simple and direct In Ha methods, and considerate of the rights end of the feelings of othera, Within the month after the lust na tlonal convention met, Secretary Hay's circular note of July t, 1900, to the great power of Kurope had declared the policy of the United States. "to seek a solution which may bring about permanent anfety and peace to China, preserve China'! territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly poweri by treaty and International law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and Impartial trade with all parts of the Chlneee empire." The express adherence of the pow ere of Europe to thti declaration woe secured. The open recognition of the rule of right conduct Impoeed Ita limi tations upon the conduct of the power In the orient. It waa made the teat of defensible action. Carefully guarded by the wlae atateaman who bad eecured Ita acceptance. It brought a moral force of recognised value to protect peaceful and helpless China from dismember Vent and (pollution, and to preserve the pen door In the orient for the com merce of the world. Under the In fluence of this effective friendship, a new commercial treaty with China, proclaimed on October I Inst, has en larged our opportunities, and abollMhed Internal duties on goods In transit with in the empire. There were indeed other nations which agreed with this policy of American diplomacy, but no other nation was free from suspicion of sel fish alms. None other bad won con fidence in the sincerity of Its purpose, and none other but America could ren der the service which we have render ed to humanity in China during the past four years. High evidence of that enviable position of our country, ts furnished by the fact that when all Europe was In apprehension lest the field of war between Ilussla and Ja pan should so spread as to Involve China's ruin and a universal conflict, It waa to the American government that the able and far-sighted German emperor appealed, to take the lead again In bringing about an agreement ' for the limitation of the field of action, and the preservation of the adminis trative entity of China outside of Man churia; and that was accomplished. Dispute With Canada. . Upon our own continent a dispute with Canada over the boundary of Alaska had been growing more acute for 10 years. A multitude of miners ttwlfi to defend their own rights by force were locating mining claims under the laws of both countries in the disputed territory. At any moment a fatal affray between Canada and American miners waa liable to begin a conflict In which all Hrltlnh Columbia would be arrayed on one side and all our northwest upon the other. Agree ment was Impossible. But the Alaskan boundary treaty of January 24, 1903, provided a tribunal for the decision of the controversy; and upon legal proofs and reasoned argument, an appeal has been had from prejudice and passion to Judicial Judgment; and under the lead of a great chief Justlec of England, who held the sacred obligations of his Judl clal office above all other considera tions, the dispute has been settled for ever and substantially In accordance with the American contention. ' The Hague Tribunal. In 1800 the first administration of McKlnley had played a great part in ak.n1.ll-.l-t ml ' a .nijiuiiniuim j no lingua inounai lor international arbitration. The prevail 1ng opinion of Europe waa Incredulous as to the practical utility of the pro vision, and anticipated a paper tribunal sjunsought by litigants. It waa the ex vny. v mo united oiaies wnicn set af naught this opinion. The first in tematlonal case taken to The Hague tribunal was under our protocol with Mexico of May 22, 1902, submitting our contention for the rights of the Roman Catholic church In California to a share of the church moneys held by the Mex ican government before the cession, and known as the IMous fund; and the first decision of the tribunal was an award In our favor upon that ques tion. When in 1903 the failure of Venes uela to pay her Just debts led England, Germany and Italy to warlike measures for the collection of their claims, an appeal by Venesuela to our government resulted In agreements upon arbitra tion In place of the war, and in a re quest that our president should act as arbitrator. Again he promoted the authority and prestige of The Hague tribunal, and was able to lead all the powers to submit the crucial questions In controversy to the determination of that court It Is due greatly to sup port by the American government that this agency for peace has disappointed the expectations of Its detractors, and by demonstrations of practical useful ness has begun a career fraught with possibilities of incalcuable benefit to mankind. On April 11, 1903, was proclaimed an other convention between all the great powers agreeing upon more humane rules for the conduct of war; and these In substance Incorporated and gave the sanction of the civilized world to the rules drafted by Francis Lleber and approved by Abraham Lincoln for the conduct of the armies of the United States in the field. All Americans who desire safe and conservative administration which shall avoid cause of quarrel, all who abhor war, all who long for the perfect sway of the principles of that religion which we all profess, should rejoice tlat under this republican administration their country has attained a potent l.Ajlarihln amonir tha nation In tha ause of peace and International jus tice. Runint alna4. The respect and moral power thus J gained has been exercised in the Inter ests of humanity, where the rules of diplomatic Intercourse have made for mal Intervention Impossible. When the Roumanian outrages and when the ap palling massacre at KIshlnelT, shocked civilization, and filled thousands of our own people- with mourning, the protect of America was heard through the voice of it government, with full ob servance of diplomatic rules, but with moral power and effect. We have advanced the authority of the Monroe doctrine. Our adherence to the convention which established The Hague tribunal was accepted by the other powers, with a formal decla ration that nothing therein contained should be construed to Imply the re linquishment by the United States of Its traditional attitude toward purely American questions. The armed dem onstratlon by the European powers against Venezuela was made the oc casion for disclaimers to the United States of any Intention to seize the ter ritory of Venesuela, recognising In the most unmistakable way the rights of the United States expressed in the declaration of that traditional policy. Physioal Strength Necessary. In the meantime, mindful that moral powers unsupported by physical strength do not always avail against selfishness and aggression, we have been augmenting the forces which com mand respect. We have brought our navy to a high state of efficiency and have exercised both army and navy in the methods of seacoast defense. The Joint army and navy board has been bringing the two services together In good understand ing and the common study of the strat egy, the preparation and the co-opera tion which will make them effective in time of need. Our ships have been exercised in fleet and squadron move ments, have been Improved in marks manship and mobility, and have been constantly tested by use. Since the last national convention met we have completed and .added to our navy t battleships, 4 cruisers, 4 monitors, 34 torpedo destroyers and torpedo boats; while we have put under construction II battleships and 13 cruisers. Four years ago our army numbered over 100,000 men regulars and volun teers, 75 per cent of them in the Philip pines and China, Under the operation of statutes limiting the period of serv ice, It was about to lapse back into Its old and Insufficient number of 27,000, and Its old and Insufficient organisation under the practical control of perman ent staff departments at Washington, with the same divisions of counsel and lack of co-ordinating and directing power at the head, that led to confusion and scandal In the war with Spain. During the past four years the lessons taught by that war have received prac tical effect. The teachings of Sherman and of Upton have been recalled and respected. Congress has fixed a maxi mum of the army at 1100.000, and a minimum at (0,000, so that maintain ing only the minimum in peace, as we now do, when war threatens the pres! dent may begin preparation by filling the ranks to the maximum, without waiting until after war has begun, as he hud to wait In 1898. Permanent staff appointments have been changed to details from the line, with compulsory returns at fixed Intervals to service with troops, so that the requirements of the field and the camp rather than the requirements of the office desk shall control the departments of admlnlstra tlon and supply. A corps organisation has been provided for our artillery, with a chief of artillery at the bead, so that there may be Intelligent use of our costly seacoast defenses. Under the act of February 14. 1903, a general staff has been established, organized to suit American conditions and require ments and adequate for the perform ance of the long-neglected but all-important duties of directing military education and training, and applying the most advanced principles of mili tary science to that necessary prepara tion for war which is the surest safe guard of peace. The command of the army now rests where it is placed by the constitution In the president His power is exercised through a military chief of staff pledged by the conditions and tenure of his office to confidence and loyalty to his commander. The civilian control of the military arm, upon which we must always Insist, is reconciled with that military efficiency which can be obtained only under the direction of trained military experts. Obsolete Military Law. Four years ago we were living under an obsolete mllltla law more than a century, old, which Washington and Jefferson and Madison, and almost every president since their time, had declared to be worthless. We pre sented the curious spectacle of a peo ple depending upon a citizen soldiery for protection against aggression, and making practically no provision what ever for training its citizens In the use of warlike weapons or In the ele mentary duties of the soldier. The mandate of the constitution which re quired congress to provide for organ izing, arming and dlsclpllng the militia had been left unexecuted. In default of national provisions, bodies of state troops, created for local purposes and supported at local expense, had grown up throughout the union. Their feel ings towards the regular army were rather of distrust and dislike than of comradeship. Their arms, equipment, discipline, organization and methods of obtaining and accounting for supplies were varied and inconsistent They were unsulted to become a party of any homogenuous force, and their relations to the army of the United States were undefined and conjectural. By the mili tary act of January 20, 1903, congress performed its duty under the const!- tlon. Leaving these bodies still to per form their duties to the states. It made them the organized mllltla of the United States. It provided for their conformity in armament, organization and dlsclplllne to the army of the United States. It provided the ways In which, either strictly as mllltla or as volunteers, they should become an active part of the army when called upon; It provides for their training, instruction and exercise conjointly with the regular army; It imposed upon the regular army the duty of promoting their efficiency la many ways, la rec ognition of the service to the nation which these citizen soldiers would be competent to render, the nation sumed I's share of the burden of their arrrmmmt, their supply and their train lug. The workings of this system have already demonstrated, not only that we can have citizens outside of the regu lar army trained for duty In war, but that we can have a body of volunteer officers ready for service, between whom and the officers of the regular army have been created by intimate as sociation and mutual helpfulness, those relations of confidence and esteem without which no army can be effect ive. The first administration of McKln ley fought and won the war with Spain, put down the Insurrection in the Phil ippines, annexed Hawaii, rescued the legations In Pekln, brought Porto Rico Into our commercial system, enacted a protective tariff, and established our national currency on the firm founda tions of the gold standard by the finan cial legislation of the Fifty-Sixth con gress. Present Administration, The present administration has re duced taxation, reduced the public debt, reduced the annual Interest charge, mode effective progress in the regula tion of trusts, fostered business, pro moted agriculture, built up the navy, reorganised the army, resurrected the mllltla system, Inaugurated a new policy for the preservation and re clamation of public lands, given civil government to the Philippines, estab lished the republic of Cuba, bound It to us by ties of gratitude, of commercial Interest and of common defense, swung open the closed gateway of the Isth mus, strengthened the Monroe doctrine, ended the Alaskan boundary dispute, protected the Integrity of China, opened wider Its doors of trade, advanced the principle of arbitration, and promoted peace among the nations. We challenge Judgment upon this record of effective performance in legis lation, In execution and in administra tion. The work Is not fully done; policies are not completely wrought out; do mestic questions still press continually for solution; other trusts must be regu lated; the tariff may presently re ceive revision, and If so, should receive It at the hands of the friends and not the enemies of the protective system; the new Philippine government has only begun to develop its plans for tbe benefit of that long-neglected country; our flag floats on the isthmus, but the canal Is yet to be built; peace does not yet reign on earth, and considerate firmness backed by strength are still needful In diplomacy. The American people have now to say whether policies shall be reversed, ur committed to unfriendly guardians; whether performance, which now proves Itself for the benefit and honor of our country, shall be transferred to unknown and perchance to feeble hands. No dividing line can be drawn ath wart the course of this successful ad ministration. The fatal 14th of Sep tember, 1901, marked on change of policy, no lower level of achievement. The bullet of the assassin robbed us of the friend we loved; It took away from the people the president of their choice; It deprived civilization of a potent force making always for right eousness and for humanity. But the fabric of free Institutions remained un shaken. The government of the peo ple went on. The great party that William McKlnley led. wrought stilt tn the spirit of his example. His true and loyal successor has been equal to the burden cast upon blm. Widely different In temperament and methods, he has approved himself of the same elemental virtues the same funda mental beliefs. With faithful and re vering memory, he has executed the purposes and continued unbroken the policy of President' McKlnley for the peace, prosperity and honor of our be loved country. And he has met all new occasions with strength and reso lution and farslghted wisdom. Tribute to MeKinley. As we gather In this convention, c hearts go back to the friend the never to be forgotten friend, whom when last we met we acclaimed with one accord as our universal choice to bear a sec ond time the highest honor In the na tion's gift; and back still, memory goes through many a year of leadership and loyalty. How wise and how skilful he was! how modest and self-effacing! how deep his Insight Into the human heart! how swift the intuitions of his sym pathy! how compelling the charm of his gracious presence! He was so un selfish, so thoughtful of the happiness of others, so genuine a lover oi his country and his kind. And he was the kindest and tenderest friend who ever grasped another's hand. Alas, that bis virtues did plead in vain against cruel fate! Yet we may rejoice, that while he lived he was crowned with honor; that the rancor of party strife had ceased;' that success In his great tasks, the restoration of peace, the approval of his countrymen, the affection of his friends gave the last quiet months In his home at Canton repose and con tentment . And with McKlnley we remember Hanna with affection and sorrow his great lieutenant. They are together again. But we turn as they would have us turn to tbe duties of the hour, the hopes of the future; we turn as they would have us turn, to prepare ourselves for struggle under the same standard borne In other hands by right of true Inheritence. Honor, truth, courage, purity of life, domestic virtue, love of country, loyalty to high Ideals all these combined with active Intelligence, with laming, with experience- In affairs, with the conclusive proof of compet ency afforded by wise and conservative administration, by great things al ready done and great results already achieved, all these- we bring to the people with, another candidate. Shall not these have honor In our landf Truth, sincerity, courage! these under lie the fabrlo of our Institutions. Upon hypocrisy and sham, upon cunning and false pretense, upon weakness and cowardice, upon the arts of the dema gogue and tbe devices of the mere politician, no government ca stand. No system of popular government can endure In which the people do not be lieve and trust. Our president has taken the whole people into his confi dence. Incapable of deception, he has put aside concealment. Frankly and without reserve, he has told them what their government was doing, and the reasons. It is no campaign oi appear ances upon which we enter, for the people know the good and the bad, the success and failure, to be credited and charged to our account. It Is no cam paign of sounding words and specious pretences, for our president has told the people with frankness what he be lieved and what he intended. He has meant every word he said, and the peo ple have believed every word he said, and with blm this convention agrees because every word has been sound republican doctrine. No people can maintain free government who do not in their hearts value the qualities which have made the present president of the United States conspicuous among the men of his time as a type of noble man hood. Come what may here come what may In November, God grant that those qualities of brave true manhood shall have honor throughout America, shall be held for an example tn every home, and that the youth of genera tions to come may grow up to feel that It is better than wealth, or office, or power, to have the honesty, the purity and the courage of Theodore Roosevelt Imoroved ironing boards and irons heated by electricity. The capability for all this expert work Is developed in the short school life which shows the latent energy and capacity that have waited the call to rise in a mighty upheaval and make of the younger Indian generation a quickening leaven to lift the great In ert mass of the race. Wily, elusive old Geronlmo Is then virtually a prisoner, and what he thinks of the change nobody can guess except by the readiness with which he accepted It In Its 10-cent form tm which he bartehs his autograph. This he prints upon a pink card, holding It upright in his hand and beginning at the bottom and working up, nd so making the letters sldewise. Some times his alert old eyes look awa westward, and one wonders If be la THE WORLD'S FAIR A3 8EEN BY A WOMAN. Each morning a great tide of hu manity flows in through the Fair gate ways and spreads Itself out in th big valley between wooded bills and Pike It ebbs again at sundown, floating out a floatsam of acquired Information and a Jetsam of accumu lated souvenir. Along toward noon it climbs the hill to the west and stands for hours about the moccasined feet of the In dians who have come to see and learn and to show and teach. Out there Is a second" Pike, and It runs straight through the Indian building and trails off down the hill and among the te pees. On either side of It are the booths of the concessionaires, who are their own most effective barkers, although they sit quietly within at homely tasks. The errant fancy of the inveterat sensation chaser has been led off after strange gods since the event of the sleek chocolate caramel that stuck to the finger Uncle Sam poked Into Spain's pie. The said chaser looks with amusement at the little Filipino with his tobacco box In his armpit and a clothespin through his ear, and laughs and callea him cute and envies him hjs emancipation from laundry bills, while shuddering at his fate when the mosquito fleet shall anchoi In Arrowhead. But nobody calls a grown Indian cute, but takes him with dignified se riousness, even while secretly deriding the turkey feather in his hair and the sleigh bell at his knee. Along the Indian pike are man; Contrasts that will be still further added as arrangements are completed startling contrasts between the old and new that have been wrought within the space of one short) genera tion. At one Place an old brave sits In the sun and yellow ochrje his face, or shoots diverging arrows at a nickel in a cleft stick, while at another place a young brave makes a fine set of har ness or prints a daily paper of the doings on Indian hill. In one corner an old woman In blankets and beaded moccasins sits flat o nthe floor before her loom or shapes the crude pottery about her hand, while across the aisle a trim dark maid In immaculate shirt waist suit stock collar and berlbboned pompadour turns off daintily beauti ful garments from the sewing ma chine. From one booth comes the aimless, monotonous beat ring of a skin-covered hollow log, and! the dron ing "al-al hai!" bu both art drowned by the ring of hammer upon anvil from where a youg man builds a useful farm wagon. On one side of the aisle the Indian squaws encouraged by the beat of the drum grind the blue corn Into a dark flour with a stone slab and beater and mix It with water to a thin gravy paste. Then, , on a large, smooth stone, over a fire of charcoal, they smear it with the hand in a thin layer, which, when baked, is of paper-like consistency '.nd of a slate gray color, and reminds one of nothing so much as a hornet's nest Ironed out into tissue paper by a street roller. . But Just across the Usle In a fly screened kitchen are Indian girls In neat ginghams, white aprons and caps, who under the direction of an expert domestic science teacher, bake In elec tric ovens great pans of snowy rolls and loaves of cake and the toothsome pies that one can buy warm at the lunch counter. Near by, too; neat, pretty Indian girls In white serve ooffae and choco late to callers, In hand-fainted china cups, done by Indian students. Out side among the tepees art a few shapeless calico garments flapping on drying lines or poles, but Insldt la thei St tool laundry the neat laundresses are at work with sua Urn y washtubs, ri n lit, L vono PERFECT ooffiPovMoj AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY Used br people of refinement vox over a quarter of a centurj PKEPARKOtr friends. Now she has found a new field for her talent for getting some thing for nothing. "During this lovely spring weather my husband and I have spent our Saturday afternoons driving tn the not remembering the merry chase nCOuntry." ghe ald the other day t0 M A in trnnrtm Alt ih&ra teatBarA 41. inn. ! set and If his squint is not remlnis cent of aims along protesting gun bar rels pointed their way. Every day the Indian life goes on upon Indian hill with family book and desk and blackboard, and every day the scholars astonish the visitors with the work they accomplish and the var ried talents they show. Every day there Is fine band music and entranc ing accompaniments , a e played to plaintive love songs walled out by a tenor voice that shames the spaghetti-fostered squalls down on tbe la goons. Every day there are sung pa triotic songs, and the flag is respect fully and reverently saluted morning and evening. Well who has a better right to salute this country's flag than these dark people whose signal fires once doubtless unfurled a smoky ban ner on tbe same hill, which was their own? GENEVA LANE. Getting Much for Nothing. In the course of the winter the wo man who sponges has moved twice, each time getting six week's rent free. She has breakfasted on free samples of cereals and dined on free samples of soups. She has furnished her parlor by begging trading stamps from acquaintance. . The latter, who knew that thereby hung a tale, raised her eyebrows Inquiringly, ; ' "Why. it's the ? greatest scheme," went on the W. W. S. Tou know, every out-of-town real estate agent has a horse and carriage, In which he takes you to look at his houses, which are sometimes miles apart Tou simp ly tell him you are looking for a fur nished house for the summer and he will drive you about all day If you wish it We go to a different suburb every week, of course, and drive the whole afternoon for the price of the railroad fare which only amounts to 40 or SO cents." ' ' " ' ' - "And do you mean to say you have the face to take up the man's time when you haven't the slightest Inten tion of hiring a house?" exclaimed the other woman. "Oh, rd take one If I could get a couple of months' rent free," said the W. W. S. Natural Error. "Will you take me to your circus, Mr. Merry?" "Why, Willie, I have nothing to do with any circus. What mokes you ask that?" "Why, mother said you was a clown." Ceo. H. George, President, J. E. rli&iM, Cashier, Ceo. V. Warren, Vice-President, CiLttisgins, Airt. Cashier. 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