Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-01
Senator from Utah Delivers an Ad-
dress Before the Senate.
INEVITABLE PROGRESSION.
"No Man Can set IN Artificial rssrricr
10 the Progress Of s1sc Ameri-
can Peepis.-

WafUn8tou, F'b. t4-elTs lsluuhhgs
u<y) offered tho following Joint res
olution.
That the acquisition BY the United
States through conquest. treaty or
otherwise OF territory not adjacent TO
and geographically part Of the oonti-
ncnt OF North America carried with 1t
no constitutional or moral obligation
to admit It as territory or any portion
thereof In the federal union as a state
or States.
THAT It In against the policy. tradi-
lions and interest Of American people
to admit States erected out OF such
thereof into our Union OF American
states, at any time or under any con-
dltions.
Tint the United stntes accept from
Spain the ccssion OF the Philippine Is
lnnds with the hope that the people of
those Islands may demonstrate their
capacity to establish and maintain n
stable government, capable OF enforce
inR law ana order at hofnc ana OF dis
chnrRing the INTERNATIONAL obligations
resting ON separate aud Independent
states ana TINT with no Expectation or
desire TO permanently hold these is
lands ns colonies or subject provinces
VI VI tNiUptllUk tutlI Dtollt against
their consent TO submit 10 the author
ity OF the United Htasas after they
shall demonstrate theft capacity for
self government m herein defined. the
government OF the United States TO b.
the Judge OF such capucity."
Al Mr.. Lindsay's request the rcsolu-
tlon was loft on the table subject TO
call.
In accordance with notice previously
given. MIR. Rawlins Otitah) addressed
the senate ON the Vest nnti-cxpanuion
resolution. bricf'abstraet OF hts rr-
marks follows:
'"rhc atmosphere Just now seems to
be ciouded with perpiexing problems.
Every one l presume IN imbucd with a
wish while ndhcring to Justice 10 do the
best he can do for his country. ] have
not heretofore been opposed 10 expan-
sion. This nation has been one OF
growth: In population from three to
reventy-fve million. IN territory from
the shores OF tho Atlantic across tho
Of the pnoInc. Mililona of the homes
ef on, sturdy md pAAczD u. paorit and
magnificent states have becn the fruits
or our expansion. Territorial cxpan-
sion with commensurntc extension uf
constitutional freedom " twice blessed.
II blessoth them who give and them
who receive.
mo man can set an artificial barrier
10 the inevitable progress of the Amer
lean people. hut thus far our progress
has been that OF freedom. not OF tyran-
ny. when our fathers chriAtcned The
tepublic they gave II name which
they doubtless deemed sufficient to
cover all the cNigcncios OF It's future
career. II was TO be the United states
OF America" We could stretch out TO
the north ana to the south until we en-
compnsscd the two continents and all
the Islands Of the caribbean Sea, and
still we might appropriately bear the
name which our fathers gave us, Shall
We now change that name and N
80. what shall the new name be-
and what shall II symbolism snnli IL
be the United States OF America and
the kingdom ~ the philippineHg or
shall II be the empire OF America and
Asla5 Already there are spectral
visions Of this In the political sky. Mr.
President I have not been No much
alarmed at the idea OF extending our
borders nn ! have been AT some OF the
startling doctrines which have been nd.
yanccd by advocates OF the retention OF
the Philippines.
Mr.. Rawlna then discussed the ex-
tent OF the power ~ the government
under the Constitution To acquire hold
ana govern territory. maintaining that
such power must be exercised 10 sub
serve the objects ana purposes for
which the government was created. He
oontended that the Constitution In all
OF itH provisions. limitations and safe
guards was M applicable 10 the terri
tories ana their inhabitants rs TO the
states. that while some ~ the provisions
OF that instrument may not be- self
executing they are no less In a terri
tory than In n state that nm act OF
Congress In not necessary to apply the
provisions OF the Constitution to n ter
ritory.