The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-31
not appurtenant to the American con

not appurtenant to the American con- tinent.
 "The fourteenth amendment would seem to make every child, of whatever race, born in any of our new territorial possessions, after they become part of the United States, of parents who are among it's inhabitants, and subject to our Jurisdiction, . citizen of the United States from the moment of birth. The Indian tribes on our own continent are held not to be subject to our jurisdic- tion in the sense in which those words are here employed. They were until 1871 (revised statutes, section 2079) con- sidered as separate nations, with which we dealt as treaty powers Their pres ent condition has been described by the supreme court of the United States as a dependent condition, a state of pupil age, resembling that of ward to his guardian. Can this same position be assigned to the pagan Malays, the Mo ros and the many savage tribes in the Philippines? This will be a grave ques- tion for congress and the courts to meet. But however that may be de- cided, the more civilized Filioinos and the blacks of Porto Rico, not less than the natives of Hawaii, will certainly be fully subject to our jurisdiction. Their children, born after the ratification of the Spanish treaty, if it should be rati- fled, will all be citizens of the United States. They must, therefore, by the fifteenth amendment, have the same right of suffrage which may be con- ceded in those territories to white men of civilized races. One generation of men is soon replaced by another, and in the tropics more rapidly than with us. In fifty years the bulk of the adult population of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, should these then form part of the United States, will be claim ing the benefit of the fifteenth amend nent.
 t.The provision of the first article of the onstitution that all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform through out the United States will also prove an obstacle to any policy of the open door if our protective system is to be main tained. It requires that any customs duties we may impose on imported goods shall be of one and the same form, and at one and the same rate at every port of entry throughout the United States. If there is duty of 40 Der cent. coilectible on woolen cloth brought to New York from a foreign port, the same percentage must be col lected on woolen cloth brought to Ma uila from a foreign port, subject only to any temporary reservations Of a right to entry on more favorable terms which may be made in the treaty of cession
 An objection against the permanent hincorporation of the Philippines into the ITnited States remains for consider ation which, if sound, is insurmounta- Eble. This naticn is the United states or America. That name was assumed on July 4, 1776, by the representatives Of the United States of America in Gen eral Congress assembled, who signed the Declaration of Independence. The first article of our first constitution. the articles of confederation, is that the Stile of this Confederacy' shall be The United States of America" The pre- amble of our present constitution states it's adoption by the People of the Unit ed States in order to form more per- feet Union. and secure the bless ings of Liberty to themselves and their Posterity.' What they did was sum- marized at the close of the preamble. It was to 'ordain and establish the Con- stitution for the United States of Amer ica' The United States of Amariea is a plural term. The union of separate states in one political body does not ex- l tinguish their separate existence, nor vary the force of their having formed this more perfect union in order to promote their several as well as their common interests. Can the United States of America ever include state erected on islands off the coast of Asia and having no possible tie of con Continued on Sixth Page.)