Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09

have the constitutional right ourselves to
institute new government for that people.
laying its foundation such principles
and organizing its powers in such form as
shall seem TO us most likely to effect cur
SAFETY and happiness without giving them
the slightest voice in the matter.
And, further, the senator must think.
although he does not say SOL suppose he
expects 10 vote so-that we have the right
TO turn our cannon, bayonets and ships of
war, and armies upon that people. 4 they
attempt to exercise this right, and prey ent
them from doing it.
No Nation Good Enough to Own An
other.
AT the close of the nineteenth century
the American republic, after its example
in abolishing slavery has spread through
the world, is asked by the senator from
Connecticut to adopt doctrine of cons titu-
tional expansion on the principle that Ii is
right to conquer buy and subject whole
nation if we happen to deem it for their
good-for their good as we conceive it,
and not as they conceive il.
Mr.. President Abraham Lincoln said
No man was ever created good enough 10
own another No nation was ever created
good enough to own another.
NO single American workman. no num-
BILE American home. will ever be better or
happier for the constitutional doctrine
which the senator from Connecticut pro-
claims, II il be adopted herr, not only the
only will the burden of taxation he in
creased, not only, like the peasant OF
Europe, will he be born with a heavy debt
about his neck and will stagger with an
armed soldier upon his back, but his dig
nifty viii be dishonored and his manhood
discrowned by the act of his own govern
ment.
Il do net agree Mr.. President. that the
lesson Of our first hundred years is that the
Declaration of Independence and the Con-
stitution are failure and that America IS
to begin the twentieth century where Spain
began the sixteenth.
The Monroe doctrine is gone. Every Eu-
ropean nation, every European alliance, has
the right TO acquire dominion in this hem
isphere when we acquire it in the other
The senator's doctrine put anywhere in
practice will make of our beloved country a
cheap-jack country. raking after the cart
for the leavings of European tyranny.
Human Rights Respected.
Our fathers respected above all the dig
nifty of labor and rights of human nature
The one thing created by God a little lower
than the angels was man. And they
meant 10 send abroad the American flag
bearing upon its folds invisible perhaps to
the bodily eye. but visible to the spiritual
discernment. the legend of the dignity of
pure manhood. That legend. that charter:
that fundamental truth. is written in the
opening sentences of the great Declaration.
and now the senator from Connecticut
would repeal them. He wolIld repeal the
great charter of our covenant. No longer,
the flag floats over uIStant seas. shall L
bear or its folds TO the doWntyodden and
oppressed among men the glad ti1in2s that
there Is at east one spot whore that beau
tifri dream is living reality. The poor
Malay, the poor African. the downtroddan
workman Of Europe will eXciain. he
reads this new doctrine: Good God, Is
there not one place left on earth where in
right of my manhood can stand up and be
a MANI
will you disregard every lesson of expe-
rience? No tropical colony was ever yet
successfully administered without a system
of contract labor strictly administered and
enforced By the government. / will not
speak of the thirteenth amendment. In our
parliamentary practice amendments fail
with the original bill. This amendment will
fall with the original Constitution.
Mr.. President. this spasm of folly and
delusion also. in my judgment. will surely
pass by. Whether it pass by or no, ] thank
God | have done my duty. and that / have
adhered to the gre at doctrines of righteous
ness and freedom, which / learned from My
fathers. and il whose service my life has
been Spaut.'