The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

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world. ~ means the construction Of
Notifications and deepening CT harbors
on every island in the seas that our
cupidity and lust for land may induce
us to lay our greedy grasp upon. When
all this Is done. IL means hat in every
quarter of the globe the possessions of
the United States must be defended,
and, In proportion as they are num-
erous. there will be opportunities and
probabilities for complications AMI
controversies with the other nations of
the earth.
"Twelfth-If the existing contracts
for japanese and Chinese labor in the
islands are to be annulled. then the
production of sugar upon the Islands
must practically cease. for the climate
In such that men from the temperate
zone, Europeans or Americans. cannot
endure the severe toll of the sugar
plantation under the Hawaiian sum-.
Therefore, In order for the production
OF sugar to continue. Asiatic labor must
be employed. And, I repeat. IL the pres
ent system OF Asiatic labor Is to be
continued, its existence is in direct vi
olation OF our contract labor laws.
'Thirteenth-The experience of the
present government of Hawaii during
It's existence has been thai its reve-
nues just about meet its expenditures.
Such being their experience. we could
not hope to do better and produce a net
revenue.
Finally. the reward which the people
Of the United States are to receive as
their portion Of this glittering scheme
of Imperialism is the privilege of'con-
tributing the money necessary TO de-
fray the enormous expense incident
upon the contamination OF the deal, to
gether with the interest upon every
issue of bonds made necessary by the
gradual but certain extension OF the
plan.
Wisdom of the Forefathers.
Let us then refuse to yield 10 the
temptation held before our ayes of ad-
ditional insular possessions in Oriental
or unknown seas; let US refuse to lend
acquiescence to the newborn senti-
ment Of territorial expansion beyond
the limits of our continent. which, in
its Ignorance, has given utterance TO
the statements. first, that we have out
grown the farewell address OF wash
ington, the maxims of the fathers, and,
second, has insolently told us that he
who refuses to assent to this doctrine
is an enemy of his country. Let us
with reverent and patriotic gaze fix II
eyes upon the ancient OF the
constitution; let us place our faith and
our reliance in the wisdom and patri-
otism of the fo~refathers. and by our
conduct now AND in the future let us
demonstrate to the world that they
builded better than they knew
The records of the world contain no
greater or grander works or more i'm
portant results than those performed
framed this republic.
'Incited by freedoms call AND in
spired by the voices or their oppressed
brethren. they framed the instrument.
each word of which contains a germ
Of liberty.
Time in it's ceaseIess flight cannot
obliterate from the memory OF man the
sublime doctrines N principles or
magnificent results OF the Declaration
of Independence, which recognizes
equally the rights OF all men. Men are
born, live, die n pass away forever,
but ideas and principles and their re-
suits continue on through each sue
ceeding age and generation and vanish
only with the human race. Although
our government found it's birth In rev.
olution, amid the passions and pretu-
dices of bloody war. no vindlctive or
malicious spirit can be ound In its
composition. 1t contains the gathered
wisdom acquired from the results of
every victory over tyranny. With this
end in view it's authors ransacke1
Magma Charter. the Bill of Rights and
the Common law of England, and from
them obtained suggestions and models
for many important provisions and sal
| lent feature of the organic law. In
! the sunshine of these forceful inc ben
| e1cial influences these great principles
grew and developed into the stately
| grandeur of the constitution-that in
strument which Is the guarantee of our
rights. the security OF our peace, the
pledge of national perpetuity and the
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during to individual liberty,
a model Of popular government. free
dom's best friend. tyranny's worst foe.
II stimulates ambition, incites emula-
ton, fosters genius, rewards merit.
breeds patriotism-it Is the lodesta Ar
of liberty. and under It's benign in1u-
ences we stand to-day In the full me-
ridian of national life. And with our
states cemented together by the indis-
soluble ties of common interests and
common good. with citizens in the
pursuit of their various avocations oc-
cupying and improving the rich and
productive territory which now consti-
tutes the landed possessions OF the
United States, together with such as
may in the fulness of time come to us
by the acquisition of Canada, with its
kdesirable people and its fertile and ara
BILE lands. With the full development
Of all this territory by the marvellous
and ingenious forces of modern civili-
cation. we may Justly hope that in the
succeeding centuries the American ma
ton, relying upon the patriotism Of
each of its citizens, will retain it's high
place among the nations of the earth,
and in the name of the great republic,
then as now, be known and respected
by every people in every land.
Let us avail ourselves of the fruits
OF the splendid naval victory of Adj
miral Dewey. the latest and most H.
%lustrious of the naval heroes of Ameri-
can history, as a security for our wal
indemnity, and when hat is paid from
the revenues of the island let us trans
fer them to A~guinaldo and his gallan,
band, upon which to erect such form
of government as the people OF the isl.
ands may determine. free from owner.
ship. control or domination of the
monarchy Of Spain.
Homage and Admiration.