The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-08
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dous, perhaps dangerous, despotic powe
our of the executives hands. So We cal
hardly expect plain sailing. Our duty i
! to respect the constitution, patiently ant
Loyalty to do our best under the circum
stances, and then to wish for the day.
Mr.. A Lawrence Lowell of Cornell uni
versity, spoke about 1.-THE Government o
| Dependencies He said in part
THAT the colonial administration ough
! to be independent of party politics il
| America, that the governor general Of the
/ Philippines ought not to be a party hacl
who is not big enough for position IL
! the cabinet, needs no demonstration II
! fact. the success Of England as a colonia
| power dates from the time when her colo
NAL administration of her colonies was
/ divorced from party struggles in parlia-
ment. 1t is no less evident that the gov
ernor general ought TO be advised by a
council drawn from the wisest members
Of the colonial service. There is, how
ever another principle which is less obvi-
Gus. 1t is that of avoiding excessive inter
ference from home.
THE employment of capable, influential
natives by the government is a matter OF
no little consequence. This leads naturally
to the suggestion, often made of late, of
governing through the native chiefs, as
Great Britain has done in India and the
Malay peninsula. That such a system is
advantageous wherever practicable, Eng
lish experience amply proves and, indeed,
it is now a maxim in India that every
native state ought to be preserved with
scrupulous care.
1T is, perhaps, needless TO emphasize
the Importance of absolute liberation. We
believe in it and practice it so fully at
home that we are not likely to violate it
in our dependencies
"The development of local self-govern-
ment is matter of the. highest import
ance, for 1t is the foundation of true polit-
ical liberty. Capacity for popular gov
eminent cannot be created by edct. It
must be acquired by sow experience, and
efforts to produce it suddenly have usually
been disastrous
"a permanent civil service is essential
to Porto Rico as well as in the Philip
different character. In the Philippines we
must depend in the main on American
officials, while in Porto Rico the service
ought, after hte first few years, to be
recruited almost exclusively from the res
idents. The judicial system is, perhaps,
the most important point of all. If the
people of Porto Rico are to acquire our
political ideas and traditions it must be
chiefly by means of the courts of law, for
the relation of the courts to the admins
trative officials and to the citizens is the
fundamental point of difference between
the Anglo-Saxon system of government
and that of the Latin races. It is the
force that prevents the government from
being autocratic-that makes it a govern
ment of laws and not of men"
Mr.. W. Alleyene ireland, of London,
England, delivered an address on THE
Government of Tropical Colonies" in
which he said:
81 do not believe that the inhabitants
of the tropics will ever be capable of self
government in the sense which is usually
attached to that expression. Is there at
the present day to be found anywhere in
the tropics a country which is showing
itself capable of self-g government? 1
might go farther and ask, Has there ever
been any country in the tropics which has
shown itself capable of self-government?
The reason why the negro has made no
progress is that a tropical climate does
not place a man under any necessities to
exert himself, and there is no reason to
suppose that the climatic influence of the |
tropics will be less powerful in the. next
years than it has been in the
past thousand years. I am inclined to think
that so long as theorists will maintain !
that political and ethical principles have |
an universal applicability, so long will all
at civiizing the tropics and in |
grievous disappointment. I will go so far
as to say that the faculty of governing |
the tropics lies wholly with the Anglo
Saxon race, but am firmly of the opinion |
that without the strong hand of the man |
Of the north to hold things together, the |
tropics will never advance beyond the |
point which has been reached by the Cen |
trail American republics
At 'tonights session, Prof Edmund ]. |
James. of Chicago university, the presi- |
dent Of the academy. was in the chair. |
The report on the work of the academy for |
the year was heard. The only address Of |
the evening was by Hon. Carl Schurz, on |
the subject. 'Militarism and Democracy" |
Upon the conclusion OF Mr.. Schurz's adj /
dress a reception was held