Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28

take 1t down from any place where the
constitution could not follow it. Demo
cfatlc applause.) Do you desire to present
the anomaly Of a government restrained by
the Constitution in one quarter Of the globe
and possessed Of despotic power In the rest
OF the world? How long Is the Constitution
to shield and our children If its protec-
ton Is withheld from the humblest inhab-
liant? Let me borrow the words Of Lin
coin: This republic cannot endure one-half
free and one-half slave We must be all
citizens or in time will be all subjects.
l did not want to assimilate these alien and
inferior races. and pray God to deliver us
from the task But If you will take them
they must share our destiny with u.s.
The democrats greeted Mr.. Bailey's con-
clusion with uproarious applause, and half
hundred of them crowded up the aisle to
congratulate him.
Dolliver Closes for the Majority.
Mr.. Dolliver 0owa) closed the debate for
the majority. Long and loud was the DEM
onstration which greeted him. He began
quietly. in moderate tones. to address his
vast audience. Every seat on the floor was
occupied. and the galleries were crowded to
suffocation.
He had intended, he said, to argue some
OF the questions of law to which the gen.
tleman from Texas had addressed himself.
But he knew something the gentleman did
not know He had remained in the House
during the ten days debate while the gen.
tleman was absent preparing his speech.
He had listened to the discussion, and had
heard every case cited and argued by the
other side. and replied to by his friends on
his side.
So said he, Il am not prepared to go
into them again, even If the House could
endure a repetition of this case grinding
This bill is merely temporary measure
to provide revenue for Porto Rico. Yet 1t
has been magnifed in this debate until 1t
has been made to include the whole prob
lem of the government of all territory &C
CURED by us by the treaty of Paris The
President recommended that Congress
abolish all duties on Porto Rican goods
might rebuild their fallen fortunes and re-
generate their shattered Industries Despite
the abuse heaped by the press upon this
bill, am prepared to show that it will do
exactly what the President recommended
should be DONE tApplause)
Mr.. Doliver spoke derisively of the anx
iety and zeal of the democracy to uphold
the President. Coming after two wears of
calumny directed against the President ii
was but cheap party ingenuity. 1t was
declared that this bill was in behalf of the
sugar trust. when the fact is, declared Mr.
Dolliver. that the sugar trust wants free
trade. The same was true of the tobacco
trust. The syndcates had piled up the
wharves in San Juan awaiting their rich
harvest when free trade came, and their rep
Iesentatives hung about the halls of Con-
gress seeking to advance free trade bill
He said there was little to be feared from
the scribes and pharisees of the Constitu-
ton" in their deliberations before the
supreme court of the Imagination"
Predictions of Disaster.
so far as 1 am concerned" he said, Il
am not frightened by these tales of woe,
by these predictions of disaster, one follow
ing the other, coming up straightway out
of the Caribbean sea or the Pacific ocean.
For l can see that after recent national
experience it is possible for a man to un-
derrate the effect Of an appeal to the popu-
lar fear of free trade on SCALE however
small, even when presented by the man
ayers Of democratic politics in the United
States. daughter the republican side)
But II that were the only issue at stake 1t
Is not settled in my mind that anybody
ought to be frightened, certainly not out Of
the threat Of the admission into the markets
of the United States Of all the products of
our possessions either now or in time to
come. At any rate 1t is not commended that
any American industry is likely to suffer on
account of the free admission into this
country Of the surplus productions of the
people of Porto Rico. And so a horizontal
reduction of nearly 80 per cent in all the
schedules of the tariff law Of 1897 has in
troduced no element of alarm whatever
into the American market place. So that
has done no harm.
Not only has 1t done no harm, but it
has already done the republican party, at
least a great service, for it has put a st op
tc the INSCRIPTIONS agitation that was fill
ing the United States with the fear that IN
taking possession OF vast tropical areas and
territories the united states were Iouna
helpless to deal with snem' EXCEPT exc on terms
| of such political intimacy ana commercial
| equality as the Constitution prescribes for
| the people Of the lnited STATES. f ,uo =.
And 50. gentlemen, we present mere q
| revenue measure containing with II poliu-
cal possibilities that the democratic party
| has had Its eye on Tor year, ana Wnlcn
| seine of our boys on this SIDE nave got wild
| about, because they GOT thelr eye on them
| only ten days ago. daughter on the re-
publican sde).
Omen door to the World,
c.t,tu,,o,, q, .,a ,,,;,as
For II the %ohs'''".''' .e '..eu
States establishes free 'rade between Ma
Mia and San Francisco, 1t undoubtedly
do,s ha,uaen MARYLAND and Virginia. then
u'e' "e' 49,. 90, IT, 49, no,,
the 1act that we nave 81. 'o nc" |o'
! petition is only the least trouble that Is De-
fore Us. We are in that case disarmed at
| once in the momentous demand which this
| nation has made for eqnai rishts IN the
Shiiinnine Is,onds nnder circumstances
known and read of all men. Our going