The San Francisco call., 1898-07-02
CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS.

THE frank declaration of the Examiner that a
 dependency" like Hawaii may be governed by
 Congress without regard to the constitution would be harmless, the vagary of yellow freak, ii 1t were not expressive of the purpose o the annexa ton crowd everywhere.
 They throw to the winds every principle of this Government They propose to annex and govern without consent of the governed They propose to tax without representation. They propose to erect different rules and enforce different statutes, accord ing to conditions" At home will stand the eight hour law the prohibition of contract labor, the stliction upon coole immigration In Hawaii there will be the longest day that human endurance can stand There will be contract labor, there will be free
 immigration of coolies under contract The fruits of this labor system will flow into market to com pete with the fruits of labor at eight hours day not bound by contract and paid on white scale. While inequality of law will permit this advantage of cheap tropical labor, there will be no complementary in equality o law for the benefit of white labor at home No tariff will shut out the products Of coolle labor Its sugar raised on wage of 50 to So month, will meet in the home market beet sugar produced by labor paid three times much, and the beet sugar will be driven out and the promising industry will be ruined There is no end to the caarities that will fol-
 low government unlimited by the. constitution and therefore irresponsible to the people, Yet the organ of annexation treats such government as properl
 The statesmen of this country saw in slavery an in equality. To keep light and leading away from the slaves there had to be Federal law regulating the
 mails by prohibiting the carrying of 'incendiary pub icatons" Greeley's Tribune and Garrsons Liber- ator were incendary" The law permitted their cir culaton by mail in the free States and prohibited it in the slave States In apportoning representatives in Congress according to the population the law counted every five negro slaves as three white men, though the law denied to any black the right to vote These and other inequalities of law were re- quired by the necessities of the shareholders yet our Government was founded on the principle of political equality!
 :. One day the voice of Lincoln rang out from Cooper Union in New York with the declaration that the Government could not live under such conditions of inequality that between freedom and slavery there was an irrepfessible conflict and the republic were to endure the Union must be all free or all slave The cry of .one land and law" smote the fountain of patriotism and 1t instantly afluent The land was filled with widows and orphans; industry took bur dens of taxation on its back; the people gave un uxtries first and necessares at last as willingly that there might be law for all. The veteran heroes of that struggle yet with us The verdure hardly hides the battlehelds where fell million of men in that struggle for equality. Yet We are told now that dependencies can be acquired and governed by un- equal laws that in such inequality there is no ir- repressbe conflict; that Lincoln was mistaken that the aurels of Gettysburg and Appomattox were ill., bestowed; that the constitution does not limit the powers of government, and that the ancient cry of "one land and one law was deusion