The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-02-11
THE PEACE TREATY Is RATIFIED.

BY bare majority of one the Paris
treaty was ratified on Monday in the
United States senate. while it sat in ex-
ecutive session. The vote stood 81 for
ratification to q against For it there
voted Al Republicans, 10 Democrats,
Silver Republicans, and Populists,
and against it Republicans, % Demo-
Gratis, Populists and l Silver Repub-
lican. Many voted for ratification who
are opposed to the Mckinley policy of
expansion, and the fact that the treaty
was ratified by only one majority. after
obtaining 16 opposition votes is an indi-
| cation that the administration cannot
| carry things high handed in it's dealings
| with the Philippine insurgents. Not
withstanding the fulsome eulogy of
Davis in the Pioneer Press, and the
"anti-expansion bugaboo' cartoon of
the Minneapolis Tribune representing
Mckinley on a lofty eminence, holding
the flag in one hand and the treaty in
the other, with Right Will Prevail
underneath the figure. both of them
have but little cause to crow over the
victory. Another such victory for them
would be an inglorious defeat.
Senator McEnery of Louisiana, was
induced to vote for the ratification on
the promise that the following resolu-
ton offered by him would be adopted by
the senate:
That by the ratification of the treaty
of peace with Spain it is not intended
to incorporate the inhabitants of said
islands into citizenship of the United
States, nor is it intended to permanent
ly annex said islands as an integral part
of the territory of the United States.
but 1t is the intention of the United
States to establish on said islands a
government suitable to the wants and
conditions of the Inhabitants of said
islands to prepare them for local self
government, and, in due time, to make
such disposition of said islands as will
best promote the interests of the citi-
zens Of the United States and the inhab-
itants of said islands"
OF course the eXpansionist senator's
had no intention Of adopting such res
olutlon. 1t went over to the following
day, and then the vote on it was postpon-
ed indefinitely. The vote of the Louisiana
Democrat was obtained under false pre-
lenses, and now he is meditating on the
Punic faith OF Davis and his confetlcr-
ates.
The ratification Of the treaty was car
ried by the aid or Democrats, Republic
cans and Populst5 who cannot be in
duccd to vote again for the enslayement
or the flllpinos, but who will insist that
they shall have a government of their
own, or one that will be satisfactory to
them. Any one who thinks that the
question of the Philippines is settled
by the ratifying of the Paris treaty
reckons without his host. Spain has
delivered a territory which it will take
the best blood of America to bring I'M
der subsection against the consent of it's
inhabitants. Mckinley is now in the
saddle and is impelled in his course by
the plutocracy of the country. who will
neither do the fighting nor pay the war
taxes according to their means. II they
fondly imagine that for the sake of
increasing their ill-gotten wealth the la
boring men and farming classes of this
country will enlist in the military scry-
ice to put shackles on a brave people
desiring to be Free and who have never
done them an injury. they will find
themselves rudely awakened from their
dream of empire and glory in the trop-
zeal regions of the Orient. Give Me-
kinley rein enough and he will drive
his party to political destruction.