The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
ORDER BEFoRE FREEpoM.
1t Is a Rule That Has Prevailed from
the Beginning.
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The situation before our government i'm
the Philippines is no different from that
which has confronted it at every step of
the expansion across the continent, from the
headwaters of the Ohio to the mouth of the
Columbia. We have crossed a wide ocean,
instead of wide river, that is all but Ma
Mia is no more remote now than Illinois
towns were a century ago or California
half a century ago. Even close contact
with foreign nations and vexation from their
Jealous intriguing with native inhabitants
of our new territory is no novel thing. Spain
and England We're nearer to us at Detroit
and New Orleans after the revolution than
Russia and Germany now are in the East.
and no provocation Of Philippine resistance
can be as troublesome to us as was the con-
slant Indictment to uprising of the Indians
in the Ohio and Cherokee country before the
Jay and Spanish treaties
AT every stage of expansion the first prob
lem was establishment of order This had
to precede Introduction of American ideas
of popular liberty and organization of free
government. Order is the first social need
and liberty must wait till it can coexist
with law. The principles of the Declara-
ton ct independence never We're introduced
had been firmly established Nine-tenths
of what Is now the United States has been
subjected to the probationary experience
We are now imposing upon the Philippines.
All of the country west of the Alleghenies
endured for time longer or shorter the
military government against which patriots
who read history and politics in their sub
JectIVe emotions cry out as unheardof out
rage and insupportable oppression.
The Northwest Territory was under milf
tary rule till Ohio and Indiana had 5000
voters each. General st. Clair and General
Harrison were the first Governors After
ward the army ruled at Detroit and Kas-
kaskia. Louisiana and Florida were under
military rule after the cession, and the
creoles of the former cried out that they
had lost their liberties by transfer to the
American Republic. After one year they
got territorial government and i'm seven
years more Louisiana become a State Lib
erty followed fast upon the establishment
of order California remained under mill
tary rule until it became State so quickly
did the fitness of self-government succeed
establishment of order, and a considerable
alien population. absolutely ignored while
the first necessary process was going on.
found itself admitted TO full share in the
complete sovereignty of the American peo-
pie.
The formal sovereignty we are asserting
In the Philippines is no different no more
in discord with American ideas. and will be
no more permanent than that we set up I'm
the Northwest Territory. the Louisiana pur-
chase and the California cession. 1t is the
stamp of order that must guarantee fitness
for freedom. When order has been estab-
lished for protection of civilization and hu-
manty, SO much liberty as is consistent
with 1t can be fostered in the interest OF the
people. That win he the work OF Congress.
This is the work of the President and ii is
the duty of Congress to support him In it.