The Portland daily press., 1898-11-03

tad states-Uuder 1t the Tax Gatherer
Would Be the Most Frequent Visitor to
the Am ertcau Household,
(From Senator'S Hosr's Speech at Spring
fleld.)
Some Of our good friends have said
thoughtlessly In their zeal, that where
the American flag goes it must stay. But
surely they cannot wish to commit the
country Co that doctrine. We planted 1t
onathe city of Mexico. But no men de-
mand 1t should stay there. If the war
goes on, we shall plant it on the coast OF
Spain; very likely it will fly over the
capitol of Spain. But we have no desire
to hold permanent dominion there. SLch
a doctrine would change every future
war into war of determination or sub.
jugation.
If the Philippine islands become ours,
then under the late decision of the Su-
preme court every child hereafter born in
them becomes an American Citizen. free
to come, free to go. Are you going to ad-
NIT them as states, with go representa-
tives and dozen or 20 Senators? Are you
going to hold them as SUBJECTS, taxation
and representation not going together,
all men not created free and equal to
live under the American flagf Are you
going to have subject people, without
trial by jury, without habeas corpus,
governed not by their own legislative as
sembIies. but by praetors and proconsulsp
Are you going to have trained and
governing class. such as England ha
been compelled to build up, educated for
the purpose, and when they come of age,
with the same right to offices in the
colonial government as the officers edu-
Gated at West Point or Annapolis have to
In the army or the navy?
Are You going to enter into the struggle
and scuffie for power in the eastern
hemisphere. with it's necessity Tor intrigue
and bargain and secret diplomacy? Are
you going to abolish the right of the Sen
ate to concur in treaties, or the right OF
Congress to declare war and make peaceY
To maintain itself in that struggle every
great nation must have power OF an in
stant, rapid and unfettered action, entire
ly inconsistent with our constitutional
Leselhiue. Afo you SoinS w AAui"PAJ ~
ten the eize of Jour navy, and to have
navy such as England has, equal to that
Of any other two powers on the face OF
the earthS
Arc you gning to have standing army
which must amount, in my Judgment, to
hundreds OF thousands In number? Are
you going to have the national tax
known visitor to every American house?
Are you going to increase many fold 70
national debt? Is every American child
hereafter to be horn as In Europe with an
ar cd and trained soldier upon his lack
and q mortgage of 500 about his little
neck?
These things are involved in this wild
and impsssioned CRY for empire. Anu
these questions Will be answered by I'll q
American people before we enter upon
that crusade. For myself I disbelievs Al d
hate the no ion that the Ameri. an p eple
are to submit to such q transit )rmatI II.
Incredulus obi. The cry that We have
outgrown Washington; that the Oh
can no niger support our
temple; that the doctrines OF the Declara-
ton of Independence and the Constitl.
ton of Massach uset5s are not eternal
verities, but only the makeshifts OF
generation; that they are for little
countries and not for large ones; that the
pol cy and the destiny Of this people are
to be better settled "a crowded assem- DIGS.
with shouting and dlApping OF hands and
stamping of feet, than they were OF old in
the quiet chamber where Madison and
Hamilton sat in council; that the flag
stands for trade and for dominion and
not for manhood and for self government;
that Washington lived anu That Lincoln
died only that We might have another
Rome or another Spain; that spain has
SO revenged herself upon us as that her
spirit and ideals have entered into and
taken possession of us-these things shall
never happen while AmericR Is America,
and while Massachusetts is Massachusetts,.
We will not give these people back to
Spain Indeed, she could not reoonquer
them if we let her alone. We will set
them on their feet; we will support them
in the exercise of self government. II in
the future 1t shall be found ne tessary, we
will call other civilized and Christian
nations into our counsel and invite their
90 operation. But we will not annex
them to our Union; we will not treat
them as booty. and we will nos COVE
than, nc aarfe