The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-23

grover O. sugar ara tGaaSco, Ss Wesz, Il
such course Is deene! wise
I. has already been announced frat tire
open door psiscy hiss besa guaranteed by
he treaty for a perio3 % Twelve years II
this n fellows .ne precedent established
a. tha tine 81 the Louisiana pHrchase.
when Spain ard Tranae were given spe-
eiai privileges In ali ports q the ces3@a ter
ritOry. TIE treaty met with opposition On
the ground that il w1s In violation Of he
constitutional provision that ar duties,
imports ard exctses shall be uniform
throughout the United States To this OBJ
lection the advocates OF the treaty ansvez-
ed. no. TIE constitution says ports %
che state over those Of ano.he-,' and when
II says state. IL means stats, But New
Orleans is part os territory, ard the
constitutional restriction does no; apply.
The constitution does. indeed. require an
duties 20 be uniform throughout tae Unit
ed States. but louisiana Is not pars OF
the United States
1T Is" said one speaker. ga territory
purchased by the TztteG States IN their
confestsrate6 capacity, and may be dis
posed Of f,y them at pleasure IL Is n the
nature Of a colony whose cornrnerce may
be regulated without airy reference 20 the
constitution.
Such wss the opinion OF tso-thirds OF
the senate, ard the treaty was ratified. Bur
congress went still further. In 1854 il lin
tied trial by jury In the territory Of Or
leans 30 that there was absolutely no jury
trial for casss Of less than $50 in value.
Now, the constitution says that 'ir az
suits at common law where the value in
controversy shall exceed s2n. the right OF
trial by jury shall be preserved" Not
may be, but shall" be preserved. Yet
in Orleans territory ii was not preserved
under the value OF five times so. This
was done at time when many OF those
who assisted in framing the constitution
were SIN living, and they must have been
the best Interpreters Of the instrument ere
ated by them. Ia is4s Daniel Webster said
''Ths territories are the property Of, not
part OF. the United States" The precise
question Is said he, whether territory
whIis II remains IL territorial state Is a
part OF the United States maintain that
/. Is not The constitution Is extended over
the United States and nothing else. and
can extend over nothing else. IL cannot
he extended over anything save the old
states and the new states that shall come
In hereafter when tney do come In
IL will probably be admitted that Mr..
Webster was a good constitutional law
yer II follows. therefore. taat the con-
grsss has the right and authority, within
the constitution. to pass such measures as
I, chooses for the government Of our new
territories. Il can exclude such class or
classes of immigrants as il may deem pru-
dent. and il may levy such duties upon the
products Of those territories as may be
expedleut This Is conclusive, and confed-
Grated labor IL neediessly alarmed.
The anti-expansion papers OF the East
have been holding UP this scarecrow 10 the
workingmen until they have fallen into a
sanseiess panic. ~ the Kansas City con-
vention the delegate from Boston, Mr..
Lloyd. declared:
HE would have the Federation Of Labor
serve notice upon every politician In the
country tha; any American voting for ex-
mansion would place himself In deadly en-
NIFTY to organized labor"
This Is arrant dsmagogism. The pro-
sressive policy OF the United States viii
quicken all the channels OF Industry Trade
and commerce viii be especially s;imulat-
cd WM no. this inure 10 the benefit OF
the iaboring men? Let federated labor
pause before 1t seeks TO block the wheels
OF progress.