Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-07

short Of sending an army for her liberia
don. In fact, the armed enemies OF
Great Britain have found q great deal
Of substantial aid In this country. Now,
a. part and parcel Of this fantastic, gro
and suicidal lingo scheme, we
are to Join hands with the merciless OPP
prsssors of the Irish race. God forbid
we should be such bowling idiots!
The proper policy for MS to pursue Is to
do what we have always done-attend
to our own business and let the
old world take care Of itself, fight its
own battles and settle its own bills.
In Faos Of Our Own Resolutions
Let it not be forgotten that we went
into this Spanish wal ON q solemn reso-
passed by both houses of con-
gress and signed by the president, that
we r not waging it for purposes OF
imperial ACKNOWLEDGMENT or territorial
expansion, but solely for love of human
ity. 1t is not putting it too strong to say
that that resolution raised us immeasur-
ably in the eyes of all civilized nations,
placed us On an unequaled pinnacle OF
glory and made us many valuable riends
In Europe.
Now, within six weeks Of the passage
Of that lofty resolution, We are begin
ming to do precisely the reverse, putting
ourselves in position to be charged with
acting with Punic faith and dragging
q country down from the high pedes-
tai on which we placed her, thereby re-
ducing her to the low and common level
of the land grabbers of the old world.
Some Of the other inevitable evils OF
annexation are an increase in our stand
ing army, an increase in u navy. a
vast increase in our taxes. Unless the
American people have made up their
minds deliberately to do those three
things we have no right to saddle such
a load upon their backs-a load which
will 60 ON augmenting year by year so
long as the world shall stand. Most as
suredly 7 refuse to be a party to such an
outrage upon those who. in the last
analysis must foot the bills.
How Shall We Govern Them?
That a great many people who are in
favor of annexation have been scared at
the idea Of creating q state out of these
islands is shown by the fact that the
annexationists evolved aecheme to make
them a county or counties of California.
This latter proposition was a little
better than making a state Of them, for
while as a part of California they would
not have two United States senators and
three presidential electors of their own
still the hateful fact remains that by
holding the balance Of power in Cali
fornia politics they might control the
two senators and nine electors from that
state, which they would generally do,
as California is a close state.
But as California objected strenuously
to that we are now assured that it il
not intended to make either a state or a
California county out Of them.
III this be true, If this is not a trick
with which to rope in the unwary, why
is it not so stated in this resolution:
True, it might have no binding effect
upon our successors here, but an agree
ment SO solemnly entered into would
have a moral effect for all time and
would 60 far toward removing opposi.
ton, not that we would be convinced OF
the wisdom Of annexation upon any
terms, but because we would be choos.
ing the lesser Of two evils.
Even that would not solve the prob
lem Of "What will we do with them?''
For if we annex them we must govern
them some way. If not as a state or 9
county of California, then what? Do we
propose to resolve this day that we will
hold the people of these islands in per
petual tutelage as q territory, by which
term we have hitherto meant a state il
embryo?
A perpetual chrysalis existence as &
territory is rer ugnant to the genius O.
our institutions and out of harmony
with our entire history. Home rule ha'
been our policy from the beginning. ant
the chief boast Of the younger Harrison
administration was that it relieved thu
| people of six territories from the re
| preach and annoyances OF territorial
leading strings and conferred upon then
the glory and dignity of statehood.
Not Fit For Citizens.
Again, I submit that these people ar
| not fit to vote in territorial elections i
| they are unfit to vote in state elections
| which they clearly are. even accordin.
to the standard of President Dole's littl,
oligarchy; otherwise he would not hav'
so revised the voting lists as to confin
the suffrage to 2, 800 persons out of
total population of l09, 900 souls-tha
is to say, about o%ne-seventh as man.
people are allowed to vote now as wer
permitted to vote under the monarchy.
If, however, these people are .it TO
neither a state nor a county nor a terri
tory, what form Of government shall W,
give them? Grown colonies like til,
English? Or shall we send American
proconsuls to plumber these un%fortunat
people as the Roman proconsuls plum
dered the ancient world or set up a sy:
tenn of satrapies to be controlled by IN
central government here in Washing
"a system utterly un-American i'll it
character and contradictory of our Ell
tire theory of government?
All, Mr.. Speaker, there m to N,
mind this moment the sage remark o
Abraham Lincoln, which / commend t
the American congress, "f we coul
first know where we are and whitlie
we are tending, we would the bette
know what to do and how to do it."
For whose benefit and behoof are W
to do this preposterous thing? Not TO
ourselves or our children, surely, 70
Hawaii has a tropical climate, beneatI
whose burning, blistering sun no Angie
American can work outdoors.
Why not learn something from tn
great historic and scientific fact-fo
fact it is, though it may be amazing
that Teutonic civilization and repre-
sentative government r coextensiv
with the wheat belt? They are exotic
in the tropics, and will wither and pei
ish there.
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Wool Wanted.
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nrica for w0O1 Hatha