The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-14
Whitelaw Reds Address.

Hon Whitelaw Reid, of New York, re-
spending to the sentiment American Di-
plomacy" said in part:
Let us free our minds of some bugbeafs.
One of them is this notion that with the re-
tention of the Philippines our manufacturers
will be crushed by the products of cheap
Eastern labor But it does not abolish. our
customhouses; and we can still enforce
whatever protection we desire.
Another is that our American workmen
will be swamped under the immigration of
does not emigrate to colder climates None
have ever come. If we need a law to keep
them out, we can make it.
1T is Il bugbear that the Filipinos would
be citizens of the United States, and would
therefore have the same rights of free travel
and free entry of their own manufactures
with other citizens. The treaty did not
make them citizens of the United States at
ALL and they never will be unless you neglect
1T is a bugbear that anybody living on
territory or other property belonging to the
United States must be a citizen. The Con-
sututon says that persons born or nat
uralzed in the United States are citizens
of the United States while it adds in the
same sentence, "and of the State wherein
they reside" showing plainly that the pro-
vision does not necessarily relate to terri
tories.
must necessarily be the same over any of the
territory or other property of the United
Constitution requires that ''all duties, i'm
posts and excuses shall be the.same through
out the United States, and while there was
an incidental expression from the Supreme
bench in 1920 to the effect that this Should
include the District of Columbia and other
territory It was no part even then of the
absurd to stretch this mere dictum of three
quarters of a century ago, relating then at
any rate TO TINS continent alone; to carry the
Dingley tariff now across to the antipodes
Brushing aside then these bugbears, gen
tlemen, what are the obvious duties of the
hour? First, hold what you are entitled to.
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till you have examined 1t and found out that
you have 10 use for it. Before yielding to
temporary difficulties at the outset take
time to be quite sure you are ready now 10
abCndon your chance for a commanding po-
sition IN the trade of China, in the CONNER
clal control OF the Pacthc ocean, and in the
richest commercial development of the APP
preaching century.
Next resist admission of any of our new
possessions as States or their organization
on plan designed to prepare them for adj
mission. Stand firm for the present Ameri-
can Union Of sister States undiluted by
anybodys archipelagoes.
Make this fight easiest by making IL at
the beginning. Resist the first insidious ef-
fort to change the character of this Union
by leaving the continent. We want no
Porto Ricans or Cubans to be sending sena-
tors and representatives to Washington to
help govern the American Union. any more
than we want kanakas or Tagalos or
Nisayas or Mahometan MalayS. We will
do them good and not harm, If we may all
the days of our life; but, please God. we
will not divide this Republic, the heritage
of our fathers, among them.
Resist the crazy extension of the doc
trine that government derives it's just pow
erS from the consent of the governed TO an
extreme never imagined by the men who
framed ii, and never for one moment acted
upon in their own practice Why should we
force JeffersOn'S language to a meaning
Jefferson himself never gave it in dealing
with the people of Louisiana, or Andrew
Jackson in dealing with those of South
Carolina or Abraham Lincoln with the
seeding States. or any responsible states
man of the country at any period in its
history In dealing with Indians or New
Mexicans or Californians or Russians?
What have the Tagalos done for us that
should treat them better and put them
on a plane higher than any of these?
And next. resist alike either schemes for
purely military governments; or schemes for
territorial civil governments. with offices
filed up by carpet-baggers from the United
States, on an allotment Of increased patrons
age. fairly divided among the bosses Of the