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debt easier by increasing tile volume o
money available for the payment OF debt.

money available for the payment OF debt.
In Raymond's Life of Lincoln" pub
lished in 1865, the presidents views are
set forth as follows:
"Nothing can indicate more clearly the
elation Of mind with which the president
reg .rded the future of the country, now
that it's safety had been assured, than the
language he addressed, in ccnvei sation
at this interview, to Mi. Colfax. who was
at thus time preparing for a journey over
land to the Pacific coast. Said he: Mr..
Colfax, l want you to take message
from me to the miners whom you visit. l
have very large ideas Of the mineral
wealth Of our nation. l believe it ptacti-
caIly inexha,.stible 1t abounds all over
the Western country, from the Rocky
mountai to the Pacific, and its develop
ment has scarcely commenced. During
the war, when we we're adding couple
Of millions Of dollars every day to our
national debt, did not care about en-
couraging the increase in the volume Of
our precious metals. We had the coun-
try to save first. Bus now that the re-
bellion is overthrown 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 so much
the ca Ter. Now, said he, speaking with
more emphasis, / am going to encourage
that in every possible way. We shall
have hundreds OF thousands OF disbanded
soldiers, and many have feared that their
return home in such great numbers might
paralyze industry by furnishing suddenly
a greater supply Of labor than there would
be demand for. am going to try to at.
tract them to the hidden wealth of our
mountain ranges, where there is room
enough Tor all. immigration, which even
the war has not stopped, will land upon
our shores hundreds Of thousands more
per year from overcrowded Europe.
intend TO point them to the gold and sill.
yer that wait foi them in the West. Tell
the miners for me that shall promote
their interests to the utmost Of my ability ;
because their prosperity is the prosperity
of the nation; and,' said he, his eye
kinding with enthusiasm, we shall prove
in a very few years that we are indie ed
the treasury Of the world.'"
The republicans are now endeavoring
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 Numerically
opposed to the position taken by it in it's
earlier DAYS. The republican platform Of
1860 copied from the Declaration OF In.
dependence its four great principles,
namely that all men are created equal !;
that they are endowed with inalienable
rights; that governments are instituted
among men to secure these rights, and
that governments derive their just powers
from the consent OF the governed. Re-
publican leaders are now amending the
Declaration OF Independence to make it
read that governments derive their just
powers from the consent Of some OF the
governed. Lincon's eulogy Of the Dec
laration OF Independence, delivered in
1858, when he declared that it was erected
by the forefathers "as beacon to guide
their children and their children's chill
dren and the countless myriads who
should inhabit the earth in other ages"
contrasts strangely with the language Of
present day republicans who declare that
our nation is too big to be bound by the
limitations imposed by the doctrine Of
self.government.
One OF the main arguments advanced
in behalf OF the forcible annexation OF the
Philippine Islands is that We owe it to
the Filipinos to take them under our pro-
tecting wings, tax them without repre-.
sentation and govern them without their
consent, on the theory that they are not
capable OF self-government.
In one OF his speeches just prior to the
war Lincoln said: "These arguments
that are made, that the inferior races are
to be treated with as much allowance as
they are capable Of enjoying; that as
much is to be done for them as their con-
dition will allow-what are these argu-
ments? They are the arguments that
kings have made for enslaving the people
in all ages Of the world. You will find
that all the arguments in favor Of kings.
craft were OF this class; they always be.
strobe the necks Of the people-not that
hey wanted to do it, but because the
people we're better off for being ridden"
The republicans who contend now that
any criticism of the administration policy
is unpatriotic and calculated to help the
Filipinos have either forgotten. or never
read, the speech made by Lincoln in the
denunciation Of President Polk in the
midst OF the Mexican war.
Those republicans who would crush the
oa,,;rotiona If tllo EilininOa for aalf-QOy.