The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-12-23
THE BASIS OF OPPOSITION.
Full Text of the resolutions UpOn
the Philippines Introduced by
Senator Bacon, of Georgia.

Washington, Dec. 2O;-The joint res
buttons upon the Philippines intro
duced in the senate. Monday by Sen
ator Bacon, of Georgia. were shown to
q number Of democratic senators be-
fore being presented to the senate, and
the impression gathered is that they
will be the basis of the opposition IN
debates on the Philippines. The text
of the resolutions. which We're care
fully prepared by Senator Bacon, is as
! follows:
'First-That the government and Peo-
pie of the United States have not
waged the recent wal with Spain for
conquest and for the acquisition of
foreign territory, but solely for the
! purposes set forth in the resolution of
congress making the declaration Of
war, the acquisition of such small
tracts of land or harbors as may be
necessary for governmental purposes
being o deemed inconsistent with
the same.
|. Second-That in demanding and in
receiving the cession of the Philippine
islands it is not the purpose OF, the
United States government to secure
and maintain permanent dominion
over the same as a part of the terri-
tory of the United States. or TO per-
manently incorporate the inhabitants
thereof as citizens of the United States
Or to hold said inhabitants as vas
sails or subjects of this government,
and the United States hereby dis
claim ANY disposition or intention to
exercise permanent sovereignty, juris-
diction or control overtime islands.
Third-That the United States hav-
ing accepted the cession. of the Philip
pine islands from Spain, and having by
force of arms overthrown all organized
authority and opposition to the au-
..thority of the United Statestherein. the
duty and obligation rests upon the
United States to restore peace and
maintain order throughout the same;
to protect in said islands the enjoy
ment of life and property and the pur-
suit of lawful avocations, and to con-
tinue such protection until the power
and duty to maintain said protection
shall have been transferred and in
trusted by the United States to a gov
eminent of the people of said islands
deemed capable and worthy to exercise
said power and discharge said duty.
Fourth-That when armed resistance
to the authority of the United States
shall have ceased within said islands,
and peace and order shall have been
restored therein. the purpose and in
tention of the United States. so soon
thereafter as the same can be practi-
cally and safely accomplished, to pro-
vide the opportunity and prescribe the
method for the formation of a govern
ment by and of the people of the Phil
irpine islands, to be hereafter indie
p%endently exercised and controlled by
themselves, it being the design of the
United States to accord to the people
of said islands the same measure OF
liberty and independence which have
been pledged by the congress of the
United States to the people of Cuba. |
Fifth-That when a stable govern !
ment shall, by the method aforesaid, /
have been fully formed and erected in A.,
said islands. competent and worthy, !
in the judgment of the United States,
to exercise the powers of an indie
pendent government, and to preserve
peace and maintain order within its
jurisdiction, it is the purpose and in '
of the United States, reserving
to themselves only such harbors and
tracts of land as may be needed for
stations CT other governmental
purposes. to transfer to said govern
.ent. upon terms which shall be re:,.
and just, all rights and terri
secured in said islands under the
with Spain, and to t%hereupon
cave the dominion and control of the
to their people.
SiXth-That when said government
las been thus formed and set up in the
islands, and approved by
he United States, through treaties
With the leading nations of the world,
o secure the guaranty of the contin-
independence of the same.