The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-14
nEID ON AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.
Annual banquet of the Marquette
Club at Chicago.


Chicago, IHeb. 13.-The annual banquet
of the Marquette Club was held this even
ing in the Auditorium. 1t was the four
teeuth mt of its kind, and a large num-
her of pro minent men from all parts of the
United States were present.
The chief speaker of the evening was
Whitelaw Reid, member of the Spanish
Amertc an peace commission, who respond
ed to The toast American Diplomacy"
The following are extracts from Mr..
Reid ; speech
Let us free our minds of some bug
bear 5. One of them is this notion that
with the retention of the Philippines our
ms .nufacturers viii be crushed by the pro-
dT lets of cheap eastern labor. But 1t
q oes not abolish our custom houses and
we can sim enforce whatever protection
we desire
Another is that our American workmen
will be swamped under the immigration of
cheap Eastern labor. But tropical labor
does not emigrate TO colder climates None
have ever come. If we need law TO keep
them out we can make it.
1T is bugbear that the Filipnos would
be citizens of the United States, and
would therefore have the same rights of
free travel and free entry of their own
manufactures with other citizens. The
treaty did not make them citizens of the
United States at all, and they never will
be- unless you neglect your Congress.
1T Is a bugbear slat anybody living on
territory or other property belonging to
the United States must be a citizen. The
constitution says that persons born or
nfturalized in the United States are citi-
ems of the United States; while it adds
m the same sentence. and of the state
wherein they reside showing plainly that
I the provision does not necessarily relate
to territories.
1t Is equally a bugbear that the tariff
must necessarily be the same over any of
the territory or other property of the
United States, as it is i'm the nation itself
| The constitution requires that all duties,
imposts and excuses shall be the same
throughout the United States and while
there was an incidental expression from
the supreme bench in 1920 to The effect
that this should include the District of
Columbia and other territory, it was no
part even then of the decision actually
rendered, and it would be absurd to
stretch this mere dictum of three-quar-
ters of century ago, relating then at any
rate to this continent alone, to carry the
Dingley tariff now across TO the Anti
podes.s 7,.,
Duties OF the Hour.
Brushing aside then these bugbears,
gentlemen; what are the obvious duties
of the hour?
First, hold what you are entitled to-
If you are ever to part with IT, wait at
least till you have examined it and found
out that you have no use for 1t. Before
yielding to temporary difficulties at the
outset, take time TO be quite sure you are
ready now 10 abandon your chance for
commanding position in the trade Of
China, in the commercial control of the
Pacific ocean, and in the richest CONNER
cial development of the approaching cen
tYry.
Next resist admission of any of our new
possessions as states or their organiza-
ton on a plan designed to prepare them
for admission. Stand firm for the present
American union of sister states, undiiuted
by anybody's archipelago.
Make this fight easiest by making it at
the beginning. Resist the first insidious Ell
fort TO change the character of this union
by leaving the continent We want no
Porto Ricans or Cubans to be sending sem
ators and representatives to Washington
TO help govern the American union any
more than we want Kanakas or Tagalos
or Visayas or Mahometan Malays We
will do them good and not harm, If we
may, all the days of our life; but, please
God we will not divide this republic, the
heritage of our fathers, among them.
Resist the crazy extension of the doc
trine that government derives its just pow
ers from the consent of the governed to
an extreme never imagined by the men
who framed it, and never for one moment
acted upon in their own practice. Why
should we force Jefferson's language to a
meaning Jefferson himself never gave 1t in
Andrew Jackson in dealing with those of
South Carolina, or Abraham Lincoln with
the seeding states, or any responsible
statesman of the country at any period In
its history in dealing with Indians or New
Mexicans or Californians or Russians?
What have the Tagalos done for us that
we should treat them better and put them
on plane higher than any of these?
And next, resist alike either schemes
for purely military governments; or
schemes for territorial civil governments,
with offices filed up by carpet-baggers
from the United States on an allotment
of increased patronage, fairly divided
among the bosses of the different states
Egypt under Lord Cromer is an object-les-
sou of what may be done In more excel
lent way by men of our race in dealing
with such a problem. Better still and
right under our eyes, is the successful So
luton of the identical problem that con-
fronts us, in the English organization and
administration of the federated Malay
states on the Malacca peninsula.
Mr.. John Charlton M. r., and a MEM
Der of the British-American joint high
commission, responded to the toast "Abra-
ham Lincoln"
The Hon. Charles g. Dawes, controller
of the currency, spoke about Currency
Reform"
Hon. Stewart L. Woodford of New York,
ex-minister to Spain, spoke about Great
er America"
Addresses were also made by several
local speakers.
IN HONOR or IINcOIN