The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-10
FINDS Full WARRANT
Judge McAtee Worships No
Constitution" Fetch.
AVIS ARE BUT CREATURES
Its Real Constitution a Ma
tons Aspiration Is.
LAWS ARE BUT CREATURES

Guthrie. o. T., Jan. 9.-(Spscial.)-At the
legislative banquet tonight Judge McAtee'
a Democratic member Of the territorial
supreme court, replying TO the toast the
Disappearance of Sectionalism," addressed
himself to the policy Of expansion as fol-
lows:
prom the times which tried mems
souls we have grown from a people OF
20 900 900 until now we number sOoN.oJO OF
souls. The leaders who stood for the OPP
posing political creeds have passed away
Three-fourths Of those who bore arms IN
the struggle have passed over the river
and are resting beneath the shade OF the
! trees. a new generation has come upon
the stage. AS the scenes shift in the great
drama. new motives animate the national
| life, new actors appear, and IN the inter-
est; Of trade and commerce, and friend
ship and intermarriage, the north and the
| south consciously and unconsciously have
again been blending and uniting and mar
monizing into one national life.
"And the people of the north and the
people Of the south looked on at the cruel
| immolation of a neighboring people, strug-
| Cling for freedom in Cuba impatient and
! resenting the brutal destruction of human
life at our doors.
'And when at last American citizens
were destroyed upon - Maine, and the
| time had come 10 vindicaee the nations
honr, the sons of the south, the children
! of Confederate veterans. sprang forward
as eagerly, and were as ready to meet the
| duties of the hour, as were the children of
the north.
And when the nations responsibilities
were TO be awarded, a patriot president,
with wisdom born of true understanding
and true affection for the whole country,
distributed them equally to northern men
and to southern men, according to their
| promise Of usefulness.
And when the white flag was raised and
peace had come again, the south was as
| proud of Dewey and Sampson and Roose-
welt, as the north was of Schley, and
brave, magnanimous old Joe Wheeler, the
fighting Joe" of thirty-five years ago.
And no matter where we have been
born in all this broad land, we feel that
these are our heroes, and now again, as of
yore, the tender chords of memory stretch
out from every heart and hearthstone
fevery patriot who fell in the strife with
Spain.
And as Mckinley said at Atlanta the
other day: Under hostile fire. on a foreign
soil, fighting in a common cause, the mem
DRY of old disagreements has faded into
history. From camp and campaigns there
comes the magic healing which has closed
ancient wounds and effaced their scars.
For this result every American patriot
will forever rejoice. 1t is no small indem-
nifty for the cost Of the war
"And now this common cause which has
gone so far to reunite the sections has
brought us face to face with new prob
lens and new duties.
There was no purpose, when the war
began, to acquire territory. It was a war
for humanity and retribution. There was
no settled purpose but to drive the Span
ish tyrantafrom the western hemisphere.
1.-THE acquisition of Cuba and Porto Rico
: and the Philippines is but an incident-a
provdential incident, If you please-of the
, war
But having acquired, should we aban.
don them?
''They say we VIII lose our liberties IN
the increase Of the military power. But
= viii We? Has England lost her liberties,
Are her citizens not as free. IS not hel
I individual liberty as highly developed as
our own? And yet her flag floats oovel
= Canada, and India. over Australia, over
r one-thlrd Of the African continent. over
= three hundred and fifty millions of tn,
: human race. And wherever Il has gone +
z has carried with it the betterment and
: ameioration OF mankind. Neither will IN
cur the danger Of large standing army
See the small armed force which is KEEP
in England itself! Separated by the Eng
lish channel from the armed powers o
d Europe. her navy IS her protection And a
three thousand miles from western Enrop
we also, may well depend upon our nav!
. for our national safety. well remembering
J., that the liberty OF nations has never suf
u fered. and can never suffer loss from tn
/ naval power.
1 But It is said that we must be limite
d by the advice of Washington. not 10 be
come enamored in foreign politics.
Washington spoke wisely TO 1000 %
Is OF people, just beginning a national IF
d and not yet hardened into the bone Q
, manhood.
Eighty millions Of American citizens nov
" claim the United States as their country
e, and what nation viii challenge US. whe
/ we are in the highway 81 duty and lib
y erty? Our population has doubled ever
le twenty years in the past. II it double
but once in twenty-five years in the future
&c we shall have one hundred and sixty mil
L ions Of citizens in 1925: three hundred an
twenty millions in 1850. and persons ar
~ now living who. seventy-five years fror
r. this night Will see the day when ther
: will he more than six hundred millions e
citizens IN cur common country. VIVA
viii We 90 with them? Where will the
- 500 let the islands Of the sea prepaI
for them. for America IS moving.
49, But they say the constitution does -
provide for the government Of col0rie
- Let those who please define the power
or the government under the constitution
The American people * greater than &
- constitution. And whenever the const
60 tuition Is not broad enough 10 enable Us
OF discharge the duties which are thrust up0
c Us by the accidents Of d war for i,umanit
10 and duty. then * must he b-oadeced on
- We are not wearing the swsddiirS cIoth'
and pinafores and Wristbands q chl5hoo
II, II che country has growing pains the COZ
e- s-i,ution cannot hinder II from growing.
Our freedom e not 20 be preserved :
- the written constitution
The constitution which VIII preserve o,
= / liberties IS r. our blood i Is in our i-s,
buttons. Il Is IN The -igh. q trial BY 5ur
IN the love q the people for Justice. AZ
fer government by law. These and ne