Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-25
NO HALT
Says President Mckinley In
Upholding the Flag.
ELOQUENT MADISON SPEECH
9tephen A, Douglas Quoted In Favor
Of Expansion to the Islands.
THE POWERS OF TIE PRESIDENT,

Congress Alone Can Alien te Territory
and IL 1t Sought co There Ia No Gov
srnnent In the Islands Hut Ours.
ThUss who Most Desired war Now
Are Trying to shirk It's Resultant Re
sponsibilities.
In his address at Madison, Wis, last
week, President Mckinley discussed
expansion more fully than. in any of
his former speeches. His quotation
from Stephen A. Douglas, the great
Democrat who led his party in the
west as the chief opponent of Lincoln
in the sos, shows how the McLeanites
have departed from the old traditions
of their party. The President said:
My fellow-citizens: 1t is a very great
of Wisconsin here in their beautiful
capital city. | recall with the most
pleasant memories my former visits
here. On those occasions we were
engaged in the
Discussion of Great Eoon"mic ou stI"ns.
affecting the interests of this country.
The voice of partisanship is hushed
today and the voice of patriotism is
alone heard in the land. We know
neither party nor creed nor sect or
nationality in our devotion to a COM
mon country and a common flag. We
are all one in the presence of great
national duty, and there are no divis-
ions among us when our flag is assail-
ed, wherever and by whomsoever
We have gone through a war, the
celebrity of which, the results of which,
are scarcely recorded of any other war
in history. The American arms tri-
umphed on land and on sea with un-
precedented exemption from disease
and from death on the part of our SOL
diers an sailors. We are proud of the
army and the navy. They have
brought us great responsibility.
They Have Brought Us New Acquisitions
and it is for us to accept these re-
sponsibilities, meet them with manly
courage, respond in manly fashion
to manly duty and do what in the
sight of God and man is right. One
tribe, one small fraction of that tribe,
is questioning the sovereignty of the
United States in the island of Luzon.
The very people we emancipated from
oppression struck our flag and shot
our soldiers. The shedding of blood
is anguish to my soul. The giving up
of the lives of our bravest and best
young men wrung my heart. The she'd
ding of the blood of the misguided
Iilipipos is a matter of sincere regret
and sorrow to all Of us, and yet they
are resisting the sovereignty of the
United States over a territory which
we acquired not by conquest alone,
but by solemn treaty of peace sane
toned by the congress of the United
States, and as long as that sovereignty
is disputed SO long we will continue
hostilities. When our authority is un-
disputed in every part of that archi-
pelago, they will stop. Enthusiastic
cheering)
1t Is Said We Could Have Peace.
If we would give them independence
and a government of their own, under
their own sovereignty. 1t is said that
If the president would do this we
would have peace. The president has
no power, even if he were disposed,
which he IS not, to ALLEVIATE a single
foot of territory which we have hon
estly acquired, or give up a sovereign
ty over it to other peoples. That pow
er belongs to the people. That power
is vested in congress, which represents
the people, and no such power has
ever been given to the chief executive
by the people, by congress or by the
constitution; and to use such power
would be base usurpation of the pre-
rogative by the chief executive of the
government. And then, if we were
going to cede the islands away, to
whom would we cede them? There is
no government there but ours.
THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE
PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGE ALLEGI-
ANCE TO THE UNITED STATES
FLAG AND ARE GLAD TO HAVE
THE SHELTER OF IT'S PROTEC-
TION.
MY FLLOW-CITIZENS, THE PHIL
IPPINES CAME TO US NOT OF OUR
SEEKTNG ROME OF TTS EVER