The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-04

were adding a couple OF millions OF
dollars every day to our national deb''
did not care about encouraging the
increase in the volume of our precious
metals.
I'VE had the country to save first.
But now that the rebellion IS over
thrown and we know pretty nearly
the amount of our national debt, the
more gold and silver we mine, we
make the payment OF that debt $"
much easier. Now" said he, speaking
with more emphasis, Il am going to
encourage that in every possible wa.
We shall have hundreds of thousands
of disbanded soldiers and many have
feared that their return home in such
great numbers might paralyze indus
try by furnishing suddenly greater
supply of labor than there would lie
demand for. | am going to try to at
tract them to the hidden wealth OF our
mountain ranges, where there is room
enough for all. immigration, which
even the war has not stopped. will
land upon our shores hundreds OF
thousands more people from over
crowded Europe. l intend to point
them to the gold and silver that wait
for them in the west. Tell the miners
for me that l shall promote their in
terests to the utmost OF my ability;
because their prosperity is the pros
perity of the nation; and,' said he, h's
eye kindling with enthusiasm, I'VE
shall prove in very few years that we
are indeed the treasury of the world
The republicans are now endeavor-
ing to lessen the volume OF money
available for the payment OF debt by
limiting the payment to gold alone
On the Philippine question the position
of the republican party is diametrl-
cally opposed to the position taken ny
| it in its earlier days.
Changes In Policy.
The republican platform OF 1860
copied from the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence its four great principles,
namely: That all men are created
equal; that they are endowed with in
alienable rights: that governments a;e
instituted among men to secure these
rights and that governments derive
their just power from the consent OF
the governed. Republicans are now
amending the Declaration of lnde
perdence to make it read that govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent of some of the gov
erned. Lincoln's eulogy OF the
Declaration of Independence, delivrte,
in 1853, when he declared that it wa
erected by the forefathers, "as bea
con to guide their children and thel'
chil1ren's children and the counties
i. myriads who should inhabit the eartl
! in other ages" contrasts strangc',
with the language of the present-da,
| republicans who declare that our ma
ticn is too big to bound by the limita
! tons imposed by the doctrine OF self
} government.
7 One of the main arguments tsadvance'
in behalf of the forcible annexation
: the Philippines islands is that we oW
p it to Filipinos to take them under o"
J, protecting wings. tax them wlthou
3 representation and and govern thel
without their consent, on the theor
! that they are not capable of self-go'
ernment.
: Iii one of his speeches just prior I
| the war. Lincoln said:
. These arguments that are mad
j., that the inferior races are to be treat
l ed with as much allowance as they ar
I capable of enjoying; that as much
e TO done for them as their conditio
will alow-what are these arguments
!, They are arguments that kings hay
| made for enslaving people in all age
+. Of the world. You will find that a
p the arguments in favor of kingcr'lt
t were of this class; they always be
;, strobe the necks Of the people--nt
o that they wanted to do it. but beraus
the people were better Off for heln
l. ridden"
+ The republicans who contend no
y that any criticism of The headminis1ratio
d policy is unpatriotic and calculated
T.. h, ,lp the Filpinos have either 10
p gotten or never read the speech ma'
:. by Lincoln in denunciation of Pres
a dent Polk in the midst Of the MeNica
II war
q Those republicans who would crus
:, the aspirations of the FilipInos #
i. seli-rovernment should read Lincoln
J. speech of 1853, in which he said:
v What constitutes the buIwark
d our liberty and Independence IT
h not our frowing battlements. OF
II bristling sencoasts, our army and OF
"a navy, These are not our relian'
If against tyranny. All of these may
If turned against US without making
weaker for the struggle. Our relian
o is in the spirit of liberty which Ge
Al has planted in us. Our defense is
" the spirit which prizes liberty as t!
i. heritage of all men in all lands, ever
II where. Destroy this spirit and y@
,c have have planted the seeds of despc
,e ism at your own DOORS"
L. Thirty-tive years ago the republica
declared that no white man could oV
a black man under the American fla
70 now some OF the republicans asse
.. that this nation can rightfully pr