The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-19
ASCONTINENTAL UNION.
New Possessions not to be Admitted
rs Partners in the National Firm.

| rs Partners i'll the National Firm.
New York Tribune: 1t is best to be
accurate tinseverr phase. 1t is just as
easy and It is safer, because an inco.-
rect phrase, conveys an incorrect Idea.
and that may become Embedded In the
mind as to lead one day TO Incorrect ac-
ton. An examples much in evidence
just now. Men speak OF taking Hawaii
or Porto Rico or the Philippines Into
the union" That is wrong. They have
| not been taken into the unton and IRE
not going to be. Then why say so?
Let It be kept in3mind just what this
union Is. II Is a union OF states. of
equal partners In n national organiza-
zion. \ territory ls'not member of the
union. Kansas and Nebraska and the
4 Dakotas were not .'in the union" until
! they became states Arizona and New
Mexico are not :"in the union" to-day.
They belong to the union. that Is all.
I They are no, more members Of Il than
4 clerk Is member Of firm that en-
ploys him. Some day he may be taken
into partnership IN 1.-THE firm. That Is a
matter wholly within the discretion OF
the existing members of the firm SO
thest' territories may some time be
Z taken into the partnership OF states.
That Is matter wholly within the dis
erection of the existing states. Until
then 1t lisa gross misnomer 10 speak Of
any territory as being 'ir the nnIon''
The question Is now and then raised
whether any Of the new possessions OF
this union, or any lands that may here
after come Into It's possession, shall be
admitted TO partnership l.: the national
firm. tbs limited that Porto Rico which
We now own, would make snug little
state. and that one of these days Cuba,
having learned tho art OF sclf-govern-
nent as independent republic, may
make overtures for suca admission to
the union. To all such questions there
Is only one answer compatible with
national dignity. welfare and principle.
That Is an emphatic and infiexible NO"
Ours Is a continental union OF states.
contiguous and homogeneous. We want
no outlying partners scattered about the
oceans Of the glooe. Other weaker peo-
pies have looked to this nation for sue
cor from tyranny and for instruction In
the art OF free government. This nation
does not want to call them In to help
govern Il. Massachusetts docs not need
the aid o. the creoles and mulattocs OF
Cuba. Virginia Goes not want 10 go into
cJurcil on state affairs with the Kan
alsas OF f3awail. The constitution OF the
United States will stand without being
expouEded or defended BY Tagal states
men. Our industries and commerce will
prosper without coolic control. The dcs-
tlrS OF this. nation, whatever Il Is to be,
is not to be worked out by fragments
OF forgotten peoples" from the Islands
OF the sea.
The annexation Of the Philippines, or
other outlying lands. may properly be
discussed. but not the taking of them
Into the union" They are rot to be
taken Into the union. nelthc" now nor
hereafter. The possessions Of the union
may be In both hemispheres and every
zone; the members Of the union must
I've on the North American continent.
We mat hold territories or colonies or
pro;ectDra;eS or what you Will: We shall
have no state OF Hawaii. or OF Cuba. or
81 Palawan. We may find It our duty,
for n time. or permanently, 10 provide
IN orderly and stub!c government for
them. But we shall never Invite these
remote Islands 20 assist In governing us.
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