Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-20

ton of Massachusetts, which does not
permit criminals or persons who cannot
read or write to vote; in the constitu-
tional provision by which congress ex-
ercises exclusive jurisdiction over the
District of Columbia; in the Louisiana
treaty; in the government of territories
before they become states and in the
acquisition and government of Alaska
Having completed this argument,
my honorable friend from Connecticut
joins his fellow expansionists in their
enthusiastic chorus, reads me a lesson
on fear and doubt and seeing lions in
the path and ends with pious prayer
for the faith and courage of the fathers
The great doctrines of the Declaration
and of the constitution, which, think,
are lions in the path, he says are
chained now, and tina. he can go quiet
ly by them to his Malay Castle Beauti-
full in the distant oriental seas
"He does not say what fathers But
1 suppose from his doctrine he means
Father Lord North and Father George
III, and Father Hutchinson and Father
Tryon and the Tory fathers of Revolu-
tionary times, for they are the only per-
sons having any connection with the
history of this country whoever be-
lieved one of his doctrines. He certain
ly does not mean Father George Wash
ington, Father Thomas jefferson, Fa-
Their John Adams, Father Benjamin
Franklin, Father Oliver Ellsworth
Their faces were all set infexibly
against his constitutional doctrines and
his moral theories.
1.-THE constitutional argument for
slavery was ten times as strong as the
argument of the senator from Connecti-
cut. The slave master said he owned
men for their good The senator from
Connecticut proposes to own nations for
their good. But the slave property had
come down to the slave owner from his
fathers.
MIR. Honr's Contrary Opinion.
"To the constitutional doctrine of the
senator from Connecticut | desire to op-
pose mine.
THE powers not delegated to the
United States by the constitution nor
prohibited by it to the states are re-
served to the states, respectively, or to
the people. Amendment, Article 10.
"The sovereignty which can be exer-
cised by the nation as unit is only
that which Is necessary for accomplish
ing the purposes of the constitution,
and must be either expressly granted
therein or necessary or convenient, in
the Judgment of congress, to accomplish
the purposes expressly declared therein
''All other sovereignty is reserved to
to conquer alien peoples and hold them
in subjugation is nowhere expressly
granted. The power to conquer alien
peoples and hold them in subjugation
is nowhere implied as necessary for the
accomplishment of the purposes declared
by the constitution. 1t is clearly shown
to be one that ought not to be exercised
by anybody-one that the trainers Of
the constitution thought ought not to
be exercised by anybody
First. -Because it is immoral and
wicked in itself
'Second Because it is expressly de-
MED in the Declaration of Independence
"Third 1t is affirmed that it is i'm
moral and unfit to be exercised by any
body-in numerous instances by con-
temporary state constitutions and the
contemporary writers and authorities on
public law who expressed the opinion
of the American people in that genera
ton who adopted the constitution as
well as of the men who framed it.
THE power to hold property is inn
piled, whether that property be land or
chattels. 1t exists because:
''First.-It is essential to the accom-
plishment of the purposes of the consti-
tuition. That is undoubtedly as true
of the right to acquire and hold proper
ty in land as other property.
"Second. THE power also is clearly
affirmed by the letter of the constitution
where it declares, article 4, section 3
1.-THE congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules
and regulations respecting the territory
or other property belonging to the Unit
ed States, and nothing in this constitu-
ton shall be so construed as to preju-
dice any claims of the United States or
of any particular state.
''This power to dispose of the terri
tory or other property belonging to the
United States and to make all needful
rules and regulations respecting it and
the power implied from that provision
to acquire and hold territory or other
property, like other constitutional pow
ers, is power to be exercised only for
constitutional purposes. And Mr.. Pres
ident, you are not now proposing to &C
quire or own property in the Philippines
with dominion as necessary incident
You are not to own foot of land there
You propose now to acquire dominion
and legislative power and nothing else
Where in the constitution is the grant
of power to exercise sovereignty where
you have no property?
''Now, Mr.. President, there are sena-
tors here yet hesitating as to what their
action may be in the future who will
tell you that they loathe and hate this