The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-01-16
THINGS WHICH HoAR FoRGErs

OCAdLOL 14OaA SRCOSA "a
pansion is the strongest which has
been made on his side, and is probab
1y stronger than any which any other
isolationist will make. 1t is not
quite so convincing, however, as he
and his friends imagine It to be. The
senator quotes President Mckinley
as saying, about thiI teen months ago,
in a message to congress, that "forci-
BILE annexation" was 'not to be
thought Of" because, as the president
declared, "under the code of morality
that would be criminal aggression"
Thus the senator accuses the presi-
dent of inconsistency. Then he at
tackled Senator Platt, of Connecticut,
who spoke in favor of expansion a
few days ago. 81 maintain" said the
Massachusetts senator, ''that the
powers of the United States must be
affirmatively delegated or they do
not exist. In other words, the i'm
piled power referred to by Mr.. Platt,
the power to govern territory ac-
quired through war, does not exist"
AS the senator is a student of
American history it may be well to
point out to him one or two instances
in the annals of his country in which
changes of conditions made men
change their position. On July 6,
1775, the American congress formally
disavowed any intention on the part
of the colonists to separate from Eng
land, although Lexington, Bunker
Hill and other battles had been
fought at that time Ticonderoga and
Crown Point had been captured, and
congress had authorized the raising
of an army of 10000 men, and made
Washington commander-in-chie A
year later congress reversed its disa-
Vowal of separation, and declared for
that policy. According to Senator
Hoar's theory, the Americans, in the
peace of 1888, instead of insisting on
independence should have gone back
into vassalage. In July, 1861, after
the war of secession had been under
way three months. congress passed
and president Lincoln signed reso-
luton declaring, among other things
that "thls war is not waged" with any
purpose of overthrowing or interfer-
ing with the rights or institutions Of
those (the seceded) states," but te
preserve the union. The emancipa-
ton proclamation, subsequently, an6
the thirteenth amendment, both o.
which interfered with the institution.
of the seeded states very seriously
must, according to Senator aoar'
reasoning, have been as he character
ICES President McKinley's conduct
''immoral and wicked"
The senator's contention that tn,
United States government has NJ
power except what is 'affirmatively
delegated" Is as absurd as is hi
charge of inconsistency by Mr.. Nc
Kinley, because the latter changed hi
position after the situation hat
changed. Jefferson in 1871, opposed
the United States Bank, on th
gtound that the constitution did no
affirmatively delegate any power t,
congress to create any such institu
tion. Madison, Gallatin and all th
other Democrats of that day or O
the next three or four years took tn
same ground. All of them, however
reversed themselves subsequently,
and Madison as president signed tn
s bill to create the second UEite,
States Bank, which was modelled o.
the first institution of that name
Jefferson could find no affiImatly
authority IN the constitution to anne,
territory, nor could anybody else
The supreme court, however, readil,
found this authority in the lmplie'
powers of congress. 1t is an adjunc
of the power of making war and O