The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Washington Feb. LIN accordance
with notice previously given Mr.. Raw
Inns of Utah today addressed the SEN
ate on the Vest anti-expansion reso-
luton. a brief abstract OF his remarks
follows:
The atmosphere just now seems to
be clouded with perplexing problems.
Every one, l presume, Is imbued with
wish, while adhering to justice. to do
the best he can do for his country. l
have not heretofore been oA posed to
expansion. This nation has eeen one
of growth; in population from three
TO seventy-five millions; in territory
from the shores of the Atlantic across
the continent and out into the swelling
waters of the Pacific. Millions Of the
homes of our sturdy and patriotic peo-
pie and magnificent states have been
the fruits of our expansion. Territorial
expansion with commensurate eXten-
sion of constitutional freedom is twice
blessed, it blesSeth them who give and
them who receive.
NO ban can set an artificial barrier
to the inevitable progress OF the Amer
lean people. But thus far our progress
has been that of freedom, not of ty-
ranny. When our fathers christened
the republic they gave it a name
which they doubtless deemed sufficient
to cover all the eXigencies of its future
career 1t was to be the United States
of America We could stretch out to
the north and TO the south until we en-
compassed the two continents and all
the islands of the Caribbean sea. and
still we might appropriately bear the
name which our fathers gave us. Shall
we now change that name, and il so
what shall the new name be, and what
shall it sym boliZe? Shall it be the
United States of America and the
Kingdom of the Philippines? or shall
it be the Empire of America and Asia"
Already there are spectral visions OF
this in the political sky.
Mr. President, | have not been so
much alarmed at the idea of extending
our borders as ] have been at some OF
the startling doctrines which have been
advanced by advocates of the retention
of the Philippines"
CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS.
Mr.. Rawlins then discussed the ex-
tent of the power of the government
rnder the constitution to acquire mold
and govern territory, maintaining that
such power must be exercised to sub
serve the objects and purposes for
which the government was created lie
contended that the constitution in all
of its provisions, limitations and safe I
guards was as applicable TO the terri
tories and their inhabitants as to the
states; that While some Of the provi-
sions of that instrument may not be
executing, they are no less in a
territory than in a state; that an act
of congress is not necessary to apply
the provisions of the constitution TO
territory
Referring to the contention Of Sena-
tor Lodge and other senator's, that the
labor product OF the Filipinos would not
be permitted To come into competition
with American labor and its product.
Mr. RaWlinS pointed out that if con-
gress possessed this authority il could
impose duties which would prevent the
wheat grown in Oklahoma from COM
,eting with that grown in Kansas or
othee- states of the Union. or the min
es-ai production of New Mexico and Ari-
Zona from competing with the ike pro-
duct of Colorado and Utah. lie main
tanned that il the inhabitants Of the
philippine archipelago may be denied
the liberty of locOmotion, not as a pun
ishment for any crime of which they
7,l;av have been duly convicted, if they
NAV be lawfully forbidden to come to
America. then we may deny them the
right Of passing from one island TO an
other, or from visiting their neighbOr's
1olIse and if we may do this we may
throw them into Spanish dungeons.
there 10 await the incoming tide to end
their troubles AMI place them beyond
fhe reach of American tyranny.
Allusion was made TO the contention
that until the treaty is ratified the
frlce between the United States and
spain must continue, and then Mr..
Rawlins said:
rs it possible that the end of the
war with Spain, accomplished by the
ratification of the treaty, is to be the
inception of a new war with the in
habitants Of those islands? That we
are to turn our guns from the Span
iards upon them, although guilty of no
crime except the desire and aspiration I
to be free?
WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
I'VE can retain Subs bay and suffi- |
cient territory around it or some other