The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-17
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THAT proclamation he will make by
turning our guns and bayonets, IL need
be, upon the people OF tie Philippine
Islands, compelling them to submit To
a government whose powers. just OF IN
just. are not to depend upon their con-
sent, compelling them to submit to tax
alton without representation, and de-
priying them forever OF the equality
which the Declaration of Independence,
in which he still has faith, declares
they were created. . The great
doctrines Of the Declaration and OF the
Constitution, which, I think, are lions
in the path, he says are chained now,
and that be can go quietly by them to
his Malay Castle Beautiful in the dis
tant Oriental a
He does not say what fathers. But I
suppose, from his doctrine, he means
Father Lord North, and Father George
III, and Father Hutchinson, and Faith
er Tryon, and the Tory fathers of Rev.
dictionary times, for they are the only
persons having any connection with the
history of this country who ever be-
lieved one of his doctrines. 1t is
the doctrine on which I have acted
and on which the party to which / be-
long has acted during the whole of my
public life. The United States are a ma
ton composed of forty-five states-in
the language of a great statesman and
Chief Justice, AN indestructible union
of indestructible states To the people
who compose M union belongs SOW
ereignty in the amplest measure. That
sovereignty they may exercise to such
extent and through such agencies as
may seem to them good. =
A year ago last December the Presi-
dent of the United States sent a mes
sage to congress. In that message he
said:
II speak not of forcible annexation,
because that is not to be thought of,
and under our code of morality that
would be criminal aggression
The time of conquest is past said
Louis Napoleon. All, Mr.. President,
President Mckinley but repeated Louis
Napoleon, though in louder and clearer
voice. The time Of conquest is past
said the French emperor. 1T is not by
extending the boundaries of its terri
tory that a nation can henceforth be
honored and powerful, but by placing
itself at the head of generous ideas and
spreading everywhere the empire of
right and Justice
President Mckinley, when he spoke,
was not thinking even of honor or pow
er, inspiring and alluring as are honor
and power He placed himself and
placed the American people on the
stern, enduring and perpetual rock Of
righteousness; that forcible annexation
is not to be thought of, under our code
Of morality; that would be criminal ag-
gression.
Who shall haul him down? Who
shall haul down the code? Who shall
haul down the PRESIDENT"
There are some excellent passages we
would be delighted to reproduce. He
is particularly happy in his references
to George III, of England, and the dread
of u fathers of a standing army, and
the cost that is inevitable in imperial
ism. He says and it cannot we'll be
disputed, that it will bring a permanent
increase of $3.50, OOO, 600 each year. He
says that cit is precisely the same thing
as adding to our national debt five thou
sand million dollars, capitalized at 8
per cent, which is more than the gov
eminent is nov paying, and that a
permanent increase in our expenditures
of three millions a year is the same as
increasing our national debt ten thou
sand millions, capitalized at 5 per cent
l think it car be easily demonstrated
that the policies on which we are asked
to embark involve a permanent nation
al expenditure much larger than the
amount I have named" Sensible, eau
tious, rejecting men will consider long
and we'll before taking such a mighty
and perilous leap in the dark.