Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-14

Lei ~ assume thit. gcchr'cllly Wv
ing So Mr. ClUvrland's rotrrnt NOM MI
FrellughuyHO position, .he Gay sNh-
Huiwcr trfasy is. ln lrtcrnu tlunnl lAWs
what o. Germs declare u O. he, perpt-
nnlly binding upon the unsed States.
Dos 10 follow rhti, L. she. Interest q
.hr rational 9Npirflln which u ali iiy
under way. hn1 which may acquire
orormnuH momentum IN she twrp.l, IA
cnntury, We ought rai o. hurri the
hlnd2 T. q morally juFiliithle fur one
Z grnrratlnn - nardcun ald Htliie an
cher. which. In respect ~ political and
/ economical corigi1Et. may he Eeparai-
"a from ]. hy an lmmcasurah.e Euff
To such an exercise ~ nntlCipaiury r.
precision 10 mufi he p0sFlhle 60 plead go
the forum 4 International tquiy a
fsttutc - Limitations. The swaidilrg
clothes ~ an infant commonwealth
should u,g be- sun rcd 20 Hiranglc a IA
I isrn In ~ manhood. Sush was the
conviction ~ aur fathers. Nfycr was
fherc treaty mlrc obligatory nom
the ethical virwfssp thlu that COM
| rludrd between she cuTtluHftul clu-
| &c ~ and The French RavefImcut. be-
| cAufo thr consideration Elvnu was tho
assistance indispensable o. the achieve
mtnt ~ our lrdrperd nee, Nevrf.hf-
less, rs sweriy years had passed aftor
/ the signing ~ that convention 'Hhfu
our fathers rrpudlated tia ohllgaelous.
because they believed rhcm irrccancl-
able wlih thr frur Interests ~ the ru-
| ton. on 20 face AMI in iia essence, thr
Jay treaty Win Drfit Britain was In
compatible wHh she irelty made maay
years before win France. Again. y
may be- said with truth ihac treaties.
sacred uH they are, arr ~ more bnl-
INK upon ua chan i she Federal C0url-
tuiinn, Now. not vnly che whole Fed
| ernlIst party. but a large proportian ~
JefIcrson's frsrtls. and. what IL more
Go she pNir,. President Jefferson him
self. c1nr.lt-td the purchase ~ shc
Louisiana territory - very doubtful
c1nstltuil1rllilY Nevertheless. Prral-
dent IrnrfrHn made up his mind co
purchase the territory. because h. ho-
llevcd 10 tho maxim SaluH relpublicir
Huprfma lex. AMI because he held 4h4t
the pledges VI self-rcairalnt enfersd In
50 by one generation ignorant - future
eNlgenclcs ought not 40 fie che hauls
~ its successor. IN the history -
every nailln capable ~ remarkable Do
vel1pmeHf. che slime has come Ahpu y
has rupturud the W.thes Imposed upon
Y by treaty whore would Oerminy
he today n Frederick IN Grclg had
adhered fo The compact by which Prus-
STA had bound herself Ca the father ~
Maria Tersaf The unity ~ Italy
would stlll Do lulcrompllshe had Vic
NHNN lsNlNNNNl IT NI| NNNl ~ lNtN me
treaty made with NAPOLEON III. which
babe She former leave unassilled the
sovereignty " the pope IN Rome. How
many treaties has England broken In
che course ~ her m lild progress TO-
ward w0rld-hCylnr tmplref From
tho International viewpoint. the posi-
tlon Vt tho United States IN 1880 dlf-
ferod by almof, inc whole diameter ~
actual ana aypiuilOnll being from the
y
fl1n which thsy occupy today. The
change. Indeed, may be described az
Only development. hut AZ truthfnily
may Il be fih that the Roman empire
In tn cline " Augustus was hut the
development ~ pollty started many
centuries before upon a few hills beside
the Tlher Was she rule, however, NJ
political conduct. nay. was the text ~
treaties, which had shaped the political
course ~ Rome, when, ~ yet. she
asprd not beyond the Territory bee
tween the ~ and the straits Of Mrs,
slna. % govern her International nc-
tlon when her vast trlnsmarine pos
sessions and the Incidental Interests
and duties compelled her to police thf
Adriagic nud 90 uphold the Roman
peace throughout The Mediterranean
world? There was II tmo, some ffty
years ago, whom the interiors; 81 Great
Britain I'M North America might be
reasonably compared by statesmen
with our own such a comparison TO-
day would be- uhsurd our Pacific
states arr already equal In wealth ard
population 90 many a European king
dom, ara are irsrcaslug ~ rate that
viii soon place them ON a level with
spain II M with Iilly. WIN Il be siid
thai inc ,hlnly- pe0plcd Hftilomtnls IN
British Columbia give Great Britain an
equnl claim ln tho forum ~ public
equity 10 a Clntrul ~ ghe islhmus
waterway which VIII give lnierc1m-
muulclf.1n 70 our pacitio and Atlantlc
N,ates?-colgsr's Weekly.