The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-09-09

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NEW ENGLAND TO THE FRONT.
Whenever the republic is in danger
either from domestic or foreign foes
the people OF New England are sure
to be heard from in the cause of liberty.
Massachusetts, particularly has been
conspicuous at all times in maintaining
the principles of patriotism and indie
pendence. At this critical juncture,
when men proclaim that the American
people have outgrown the constitution
OF the republic and that they should go
forth as conquerors to govern alien
races against their consent, the sons OF
New England, and especially OF the Old
Bay State, raise their voices in indig-
nant protest. That venerable states
man, Senator Hoar, denounced the pol
icy OF the administration in making war
upon people attempting to free them
selves from foreign yoke. He de-
clared that the Filipinos were entitled
to life, liberty, and the pursuit OF hap
piness like the rest of mankind, and
that the president was violating the
basic principles OF the republic when he
was sending troops to make them
American subjects or colonists under
the flag OF this country.
Another distinguished New England
er, Ex-Governor Boutwell, OF Massa-
chusetts, is strenuously opposed to the
un-American policy of Mr.. Mckinley
in his treatment OF the natives of the
Philippines. Last Wednesday, at
Springfield, Mass, he addressed an
anti-expansion meeting of huge proper
tons and attacked McKinley's war pol
icy in an elaborate argument. He de-
clared that supremacy in the United
States government rests in congress and
not in the president. This was to show
that criticism of the president and his
policy could not be construed as trea-
son. In the course of his forcible ad-
dress he said in part:
"In the thirty-ninth and fortieth con-
crosses the great measures for the re-
construction of the government, and for
its preservation upon republican basis,
became statutes against the opinion OF
the president. Moreover, the two hous-
es provided for the assembling and re-
assembling of congress in defiance OF
the wishes OF the president Beyond
what has been done, congress may as
semble upon the motion of majority
OF members Of each house, and may
proceed to business without the aid of
preliminary proclamation by the execu-
tive. The congress always exists, and
upon its own motion it may exist with
a right to act. Members of congress are
not officers of the government, they are
constituent parts of the government.
For the purpose OF government and
in the ultimate, the two houses of con-
gress are the United States. They are
self-existent bodies. They can command
men and money for such purposes as
they may think expedient, including
their own support and defense, and on
them every branch and agency of the
government is dependent.
Gas individuals, the members of con-
gress are responsible, first, to their as
sociates in the respective houses, and
beyond that they are responsible only
to the people whom they represent
The attempt>now making by the inn
perialistic press and organs to compel
the country into silence means the ac-
ccptance OF Imperialism in America,
while the president makes war in Asia
war which has never been sanctioned
nor recognized by congress, and whose
conduct and fortunes are systematically
concealed from the people.
First Of all, seek for an answer to
this question: What is the character of
the war that we are now carrying on in
the Philippine Islands? Is it struggle
OF arms for the suppression OF riot or
popular outbreak against recognized
and established authority, such as oc-
CURED at Chicago in President Cleve-
lands administration or is it war
against an organization which has all
the attributes and qualities of a civil
government and which has come into
existence through the exercise OF orig
inal sovereignty by 100000 or 10000
600 pcople-a sovereignty that is divine
in its origin, if any sovereignty in gov
eminent can be called divinc-and with
which the millions of Filipinos were and
are quite content? II it is war against
such an organization and against such a
people, then those who are Carrying it
on are guilty OF crime called lese
humanite, treason to humanity"
The people OF New England are
awake to the dangers that menace re-
publican institutions on this continent
by the usurping powers OF William Nc
Kinley with the plutocracy behind his
throne. 1t is because they are loyal and
true Americans and the descendants OF
patriots and martyrs that they are OPP
posed to the imperialism OF the Hanna
administration. When the proper time
arrives they will repudiate William OF