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

pie OF imperialism, he know that his
treaty contained no such reservation
of rights for the people of his to-be-
conquered territory; on the con-
trary, he knew that such a provision
would be quite inconsistent with the
plans of the exploiters who make up
his foreign policy.
i Similar reference was made by the
President, in the tour of his hippo
drome, to the territory acquired by
us as a result of the Mexican war, in
1S4S. He perhaps forgot,-at al
events, he failed to mention. one or
two things to be found in the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
ARTICLE VIII.
"* Those who shall prefer
to remain in the said territories may
either retain the title and rights OF
! Mexican citizens, or acquire those
of citizens of the United States. :
ARTICLE TX.
1.-The MeXicans who, in the terri
tories aforesaid, shall not preserve
the character of citizens of the Mex
ican Republic, conformably with
what is stipulated in the preceding
article, shall be Incorporated into
the Union of the United States, ano
be admitted at the proper time Ct,
be judged of by the Congress of the
| United States) to the enjoyment OF
all the rights of citizens Of th'
| United States, according to the prin
ciples of the Constitution; and in tn.
| meantime, shall be maintained and
| protected in the feee enjoyment OF
their liberty and property and Sc
cured in the free exercise of their re-
| ligion without restriction"
Mr.. Mckinley was dumb as to this
treaty obligation which secured full
American rights to all the Mexican.
in California and New Mexico in
1918, just as his treaty is silent as to
the guaranteed and certain rights OF
the Filipino people, whom he calls
insurgents" but never citizens
present or prospective.
The Gadsden purchase of territory
from Mexico, in 1858, was likewise
dwelt upon by the president, as an
example which ought to reconcile his
hearers with his policy of shooting
Americanism into the inhabitants of
Luzon. He appears, however, not
to have known, or to have forgotten,
for he said nothing of it,-that the
Gadsden treaty contained this stip-
ulation.
ARTICLE V.
'!All the provisions of the eighth
and ninth, sixteenth and seventeenth
articles of the treaty of Guadalupe.
Hidalgo, shall apply to the territory
ceded by the Mexican Republic in
the first article of the present treaty,
and to ali the rights" of persons and
property, both civil and ecclesiasti-
cal, within the same, as fully and as
effectually as if the said articles
were herein again recited and set
forth"
And while Mr.. President was thus
reasoning from these treaties to his
treaty, but suppressing the fact, run
ming through all of them, of solemn
covenants of equality of civil rights
with US, and which makes his basis
of analogy absolutely worthless, and
in view of the policy pursued by his
General Otis, of refusing even to re-
ceive or recognize any deputation
from the Filipinos seeking an ami
cable solution of their disagreement
with us, it would not have been en-
tirely out of place for Mr.. Mckinley
to tell his listeners the purport of
another provision of this same treaty
to which, among others, he so conf
IDENTIFY appeals in justification of his
policy of conquest:
ARTICLE VII.
"Should there at any future period
(Which God forbid) occur any disa-
greement between the two nations
which might lead to repture
of their relations and reciprocal
peace, they bind themselves in like
manner to procure by every possible
the adjustment of every diff
ference; and should they still in this
not succeed, never will they
proceed to declaration of war with