Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-06-24
NUMBER 81.
AN ADMIRABLE COURSE.
The Democratic Administration WORKING
on Jefyersonian Principles.


on Jerersonian Principles.
The latest reports from Hawaii show
that Mr.. Cleveland is still carrying Out
his thoroughly American and thorough
ly democratic policy of non-interven'
ton in the domestic affairs OF our
weaker neighbors MIR. Blount has
given the provisional government 70
understand that American newspaper
correspondents in Honolulu must not
be arrested and punished for what ap-
pears in American newspapers, but ne
has taken no part IN the controversy
on the islands and is doing nothing
whatever TO promote the trouble,
which, as is now well known, was
originally due to the intrigues OF per-
sons connected with the Harrison ad-
ministration. .,
The autonomy of these islands will
be maintained. They will remain IN,
dependent of foreign control. we Will
not annex them, nor will we declare
protectorate. twill be enough simply
TO have 1t understood, as IT is well un-
i ,lerstood now by the whole world. si'at
the Monroe doctrine applies to them
| Mr.. Clevelands foreign policy is IN
every respect admirable. He has OPP
posed himself to the policy OF en-
tangling alliances and intrigues which
| under Harrison threatened the couh,
try with the gravest dangers. HAD
we gone on for another year without
change of this policy, we would nave
, almost certainly had foreign war OF
, conquest and rapine, in which, 70 our
/. lasting disgrace and to the final over
, throw of democracy, we would have IN
0 vaded and subjugated some one OF our
S weaker neighbors.
h In opposing himself to this Mr..
IS Cleveland represents the democracy Oh
= Thomas Jetferson--of government oy
n consent of the governed; of opposition
IL to subjugation; of helpfulness and
% neiphborliness instead of rapacity and
II violence.
We have a country SO large already
4, that any further acquisition OF terri
1t tory would be in every respect disad-
IN vantage. If we acquire nsore territory
|. we must sooner or later abandon the
in republican form OF government 1t Is
at not suitable for an empire, and we can
I'd not make it SO. What do any OF us
re know of the condition of our subjects
4. in Alaska? We know that they are our
re subiects-more the slaves OF the federa
es government than if they were persona
II. chattels We hear from time to time
lii that whole villages of them are carried
N. off bv starvation, and we know in
ro- general way that all this country care
ch about in Alaska is what money can D.
le cot out of the mines and fisheries. Bu
do bevond this we know nothing and car
me nothing of these people for whom w
lev are morally responsible since we hav
,er bought them as slaves in buying thel
an country without their consent bV
ma who will say that our form OF govern
new ment is suitable for them? And II II
liar not, who can deny that it was a erin
for us 10 buy them as it is CRIME
of hold them in subjection?
out As the country becomes more II
the perial in extent it becomes more dlf
cult to maintain local self-governmen
thus Our territory already extends fro
will ocean to ocean, and already in t.
your course of its first century we have be-
mon, nom obliged to fight civil war which car
d by near costing us the abandonment
vote the principle of consent and the restoi
We Oh tion of the old barbaric rule OF for'
" s"v, ~ What folly, then, would it be to en'
O re. deliberately on policy OF subJugati
new territory when it is certain that
lean so doing we would forfeit our own /
now critics.
diff Mr.. Cleveland deserves the thanks
its every patriotic American for what
the has done to save the country from
sue great danger that threatened it
has danger of rejecting the democra
ais principle of finally abandoning the
make publican form and of rushing headl'
sup into a policy OF imperialism.-st Lc
Such Republic.