Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-11

territories to become States in the
union.
In still another case it said:
The territories acquired by Congress,
WHETHER BY DEED OF CESSION
FROM THE ORIGINAL STATES, OR
BY TREATY WITH A FOREIGN
COUNTRY, are held with the object,
as soon as their population and condi-
ton justify it, of being admitted into
the union as States, upon an equal
footing with the original States in all
respects.
In still another case it said:
The constitution was made for the
benefit of every citizen of the United
States, and there is no citizen, what
ever his condition, or wherever he may
be within the territory of the United
States, who has not a right to its pro-
lection.
And in defining the rights of the in
habitants of territories it said:
The personal and civil rights of the
inhabitants of the territories are Sc
cured to them, as to other citizens, by
the principles of constitutional liberty
which restrain all the agencies OF gov
eminent, estate and national.
And Chief Justice Marshall, for the
entire court, defined the term United
Etates' as follows:
Does this term designate the whole
or any particular portion of the Amer
lean empire? Certainly this question
can admit Of but one answer. 1t is the
name given to our great republic, which
is composed of States and territories
The District of Columbia or the terri
tory west of the Missouri is not less
within the United States than Maryland
or Pennsylvania.
Judge Cooley, whose commentaries
are universally accepted as conclusive
interpretations of our constitutional
law, summarizes the doctrine as fol-
lows:
And when territory is acquired, the
right to suffer States to be formed
therefrom and to receive them into the
union must follow of course, not only
because the constitution confers the
power to admit new States without re-
striction, but because it would be in
consistent with institutions founded on
the fundamental idea of self-govern-
ment that the federal government
should retain territory under its i'm
perial rule and deny the people the
customary local institutions.
Are these the institutions which we
have offered to the Philippine people?
If so, when, where, by whom were they
rendered?
/ admit that ADMIRAL DEWEY
ORIGINALLY OFFERED THEM THE
AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND
ALL ITS GUARANTEES AS DEFIN-
ED BY OUR COURTS. WITH THIS
PROMISE THEY ALLIED THEIR
| FORTUNES WITH OURS AND
FOUGHT FOR US WITH ALL THE
ZEAL OF NEW-MADE CITIZENS OF
THE GREAT REPUBLIC. WHEN
MANILA FELL, THE SCENE WAS
SHIFTED FROM SEA TO LAND.
THE MILITARY POWER WAS SUB
STITUTED FOR THAT OF THE
! NAVY. DEWEY DEPARTED AND
| OTIS CAME. The President lost time
in feeling the popular pulse. He first
| hesitated between withdrawal and oc-
| cupancy; then between naval station
and all of Luzon; then between the
| single island of Luzon and the twelve
| hundred islands of the Philippine
group. Having determined upon the
entire archipelago, he seemed to fear
| the political effect of annexing SO many
Asiatic states. He then halted between
| a government of imperialism and the
constitutional rule of the fathers.
Wearied and worn by ceaseless search
for the popular will ON these subjects,
tired nature sought repose. The Presi-
dent for a moment slept and dreamed
| that fatal dream by which Jupiter de-
| luded the unfortunate Romans:
ITO them no bounds of empire I assign,
| No term of years to their immortal souls y
The mirage of universal empire open
cd up its deceitful beauties to his I'M
steady vision. The sterile deserts sud-
denly turned into fields of waving grain.
Belching volcanoes were gradutlly con-
verted into mountains of gold and pre-
cious stones. The untenanted oceans
grew white with the sails of commerce,
and new cities, boundless in their pro-
portions and Unsuitable in their con-
sumption of American merchandise,
slowly emerged from the murky and
treacherous gloom.
The time had at last come to deter
mine the condition and destiny Of
eleven millions of people, created by
the same Being who created us, and
worshipping at the same affairs before
which we confess the ''Fatherhood Of
God and the brotherhood of man; and
where we daily promise to do unto
others as we would that they should
do INTO uc