Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-21

ADMINISTRATORS ana tlNS OtDes lhen, Wilc
are likewise TO be appointed by the
President of the United States. Thus
the people of Porto Rico can never pass
law for their own affairs without the
consent OF carpet-bag Senate, not
one member of which is elected by the
people. and all of whom are the direct
servants of the President of the United
States. When. in view of this fact.
which is placed beyond dispute by sec
ton is of the Porto Ricau bill the
President of the United States asserts
that the people of Poro Rico elect their
own Legislature and enact their own
local laws. the untruth is so glaring
that it IS impossible to conceive that
the President has ever read the meas
ure of which he speaks so freely.
II have repeatedly asserted before
the people in this campaign that this
bill was plainly established. not for the
government. but for the plumber OF the
people of Porto Rico. and | ask your
sober judgment upon this assertion in
view of the 18th and 3Sth sections OF
this BILL which provide. respectively,
that the Executive Council shall have
power to employ all necessary deputies
and assistants for the proper discharge
of their duties rs such officials and rs
such Executive Council, and that FUR
therInore all the salaries of these de-
puteS. assistants and help shall he
such and be so paid out of the reve-
nues OF Porto Rico. as the Executive
Council shalt from time to time deter
mine. In other words. this dcspotic
tribunal. which is grmly called The
Executive Council can appoint unlim-
tied office holders to swarm over the
Island of Porto Rico, fix the salaries OF
the carpet baSglng invaders, according
to their own sweet will. and order them
paid out of the treasury of Porto Rico
In condemnation of such system of
government we may revert to the pro-
~ l,.a .1F loo. l.,
BAY. who. when commissioners of the
customs were appointed ny the British
King. appealed against this system in
these words: These gentlemen are
authorized TO APPOINT us many as they
shall deem proper without limitation.
most of pensioners. by the arts which
they may use. may in time become as
dangerous To the liberties OF the people
as an army of soldiers, for there is Il
way Of suhduing the people by art as
we'll as by arms. q" The Decla-
ration of Independence is not wanting
i'll It's protests against such methods
We have only To recall this ringing
denunciation of such n system: He
tthe KING has created multitude OF
new offices and sent hither swarms of
officers to harass our people and eat
out our substance
CARPET BAGGINC OFFICIALS.
Having seen the Executive. the adj
ministrative and the legislative de-
partments thus delivered over to the
carpet-bagging officials ] ask your at
tention to the remarkable statement of
the administrations that this peo-
pie are to have their own courts BY
section SO ii is provided that the Chief
Justice and the associate justices of the
supreme Court shall be appointed by
The President of the United States and
the judges of the district courts, which.
as | understand it. are the ordinary
courts of the island. are to be APP
pointed by the Governor by and with
the consent of the Executive Council
Thus these courts will finally determine
the rights of the people of that island
but, as II to complete the violation OF
the principles OF Republican govern
ment, the salaries OF the justices OF the
Supreme Court are fixed by Congress
and are Ia be paid out OF the revenues
OF Porto Rico. Let me repeat the in.
dignant protest OF the Massachusetts
Legislature in 116S against such a svs-
tenn: If the Judges were to have sala
RES independent of the people. how
easy II would be for corrupt governor
10 nave set of judges to his mind. 10
deprive the bench OF justice of its glory
and the people of their security.' And
the Declaration of Independence no
less severely, declares: He has made
Judges dependent on his will alone for
the tenure of their Offices and the
ai'S"i't anu payment OF their Su Han rios
Inc student of colonial history will re-
call that when. in lT72, ii was ordered
mat in Massachusetts the iudres
should he henceforth paid bv the
CroWn.-1t caused naf4t.i4.l -t-st.it,,111Er7II
amounting almost 10 revolution. and
me Judges We're threatened with i'm
peachnent should they accent n doiIor
from the royal treasury. Is 1t nor I'M.
possible that the Postmaster General
should have read this measure when
his statement is considered that tba
people of Porto Rico xviii have their
own courts
AN ASTOUNDING STATEMENT,
BUT more astounding in the face of
the discussion which has taken n1oca
ana the denunciations which have
come even from Republican statesmen
is the statement OF the President that
the people Of Porto Rico, under this
bill. provide their own system OF ivy
alton 1t is notorious and was DO
nounced in the words OF Congressman
Mccall, Congressman Littiefield and
numerous other Republicans that tha
third section of this Porto Rican bin
provides for the taxation of Porto
Rico through customs duties upon
every article which is imported INFO
the United States from Porto Rico or
into Porto Rico from the United
States. This tax law was made in vi
olation of the first principles of Ameri-
cam yes even hritiSh. Constitutional
liberty. and is a law for the taxation
OF Porto Rico, in which the people of
that island have absolutely no voice.
1t is taxation without representation
of n wholesale nature infinitely worse
than the Stamp Act or revenue laws
of the English Parliament. against
which our forcfathcrs protested and
which led them into 4 revolution
against the dominion of England The
Declaration OF Independence not only
alleges that governments derive their
just power from the consent OF the
governed, but there is a separate pro-
test against the King and Parliament