Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-04

oub having previously pdlu dttcHOioh
to what has been Set forth in article
81 of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidal-
go for similar cases, which article is
here re-affirmed."
Now article 81, thus referred to,
provides for the settlement of differ
ences by arbitration.
The President wanted his hearers to
believe that in his course in the
Philippine islands he is but tread
ing the path of time-honored Ameri-
can precedent and upholding patri-
otic American tradition. To induce
this belief it was of course essential
to be silent as to treaty provisions
which destroy the value of the in
ference he wishes the public to draw.
He was equally insistent on the
good which has come to us from the
purchase of Alaska. He said moth
ing about a part of the treaty by
which Alaska became ours. 1t is
this:
ARTICLE III.
1.-The inhabitants of the ceded ter
ritory, according to their choice, re-
serving their natural allegiance, may
return to Russia within three years
out if they should prefer to remain
in the ceded territory, they, with the
exception of uncivilized native tribes.
'han be admitted to the enjoyment Of
I'll the rights, advantages and i'm
nunities of citizens of the United
States, and shall be maintained in
he free enjoyment of their liberty
property and religion
Now fair reference to our former
acquisitions of territory should have
included a statement of this uniform
line of treaty agreements by which
the full equality with us of the rights
# citizenship have been so solemnly
safeguarded for incoming peoples,
hut which are not secured to the
Philippine islanders. Why was it
not made, as well as a frank ac-
acknowledgements of the worldwide
difference between the peaceable
purchase of territory contiguous to
ours, and the military conquest of
islands in another hemisphere?
But the sins of presidential omis-
sion do not end here. Mr.. President
said from the rear platform of his
car" that America never buys
peace with gold" Here is a singu-
lar lapse of memory. He plainly
had forgotten (for otherwise surely
he would have told it, the treaty by
which three month ago he bought
the peace of his ''good BROTHER"
Hadji Mohamad Womo1ol Kiram,
otherwise known as the Sultan of
Sulu, paying him therefor ten
thousand dollars, more or less, and
throwing into the bargain the right
to keep up slave barracooh and to
harem of plural wives
two things which Mr.. McKinley's
party a generation ago began de-
as twin relics of barbar-
ism.' and which it pledged itself to
extirpate, and did extirpate, at a |
cost too well known to us all, and |
both of which are now prohibited by
law. The President did |
not even explain to his audience
what kind of diplomatic acrobat it |
takes to make treaty with his own |
subject. Perhaps Mr.. President had
. mental reservation up his sleeve in
The fact that Hadii etc. was paid off
in Mexican dollars. But then, in
the Canton porch platitudes these !,
same dollars were regarded as so
sinful, SO depraved and immoral, so !,
utterly dishonest that to pass them
,tf on any one except a Mussulman
would be grievous wrong.
Mr.. Mckinley, while swinging
round the CIRCLE" ala Andy John
ION, had great deal to say about
destiny" pushing him into his war
If conquest; about destiny determin-
ng duty; about responsibility born
# duty" about waging this war
because in the providence of God
his archipelago has been placed in
he hands of the American people;"