The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09


modern miracle turns serpents into
men, deserts into gardens, famine into
plenty, England's work in the land of
the Sphinx has solved its profound rid
die, exalted not England only, but all
the world, by its noble example, and
thrilled to the soul every citizen of
Great Britain with civic pride in the
achievements of the greatest civiliZing
empire of the world Cast thy bread
upon the waters and after many days
it shall return unto YOU with what
measure yet meet, it shall be melted to
you again"
DOMINANT NOTES OF OUR FIRST
AND SECOND CENTURIES.
Mr.. President, government and
internal development have been the
dominant notes of our first century;
administration and the development
notes of our second century. And
administration is as high and holy a
function as self-government, just as the
care of a trust estate is as sacred an
own concerns. Cain was the first to
violate the divine law of human Socie-
ty which makes of us our brothers
keeper. And administration of good
government is the first lesson in self
government, that exalted estate toward
which all civilization tends. Admin
istratton of good government is not
denial of liberty. For what is liberty?
else of individual will. 1t is not die
tatorship. 1t involves government, but
not necessarily self-government- 1t
means law. First of all, it is common
rule of action applying equally to all
within its limits. Liberty means pro-
lection of property and life without
price, free speech without intimidation,
justice without purchase or delay, gov
eminent without favor or favorites.
What will best give all this to the peo-
pie of the Philippines? American ad-
ministration developing them gradual
- toward self-government, or self-gov-
eminent by a people before they know
what self government means?
TRUE INTERPRETATION OF DEC
TAXATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The Declaration of independence
does not forbid US to do our part in
the regeneration of the world. If it
did, the Declaration would be wrong,
just as the articles of confederation,
drafted by the very same men who
signed the Declaration, were found to
be wrong. The Declaration has no ap-
plication to the present situation. 1t
was written by lf-gOVerning men for
men who, for a century and a half, had
been experimenting in government
on this continent and whose ancestors
for hundreds of years before had been
gradually developing toward that high
and holy estate. The Declaration ap-
plies only to people capable of self
government. How dare any man pros
titute this expression of the very elect
of self-governing peoples to race of
Malay children of barbariSm, Schooled
in Spanish methods ana ideas And you.
who say the Declaration applies to all
men, how dare you deny it's application
to the American Indian? And if you
deny it to the Indian at home, how dare
you grant it to the Malay abroad?
PHRASE, CONSENT OF THE Gov
ERNED." misunderstood
The Declaration does not contem-
plate that all government must have
the consent of the governed. 1t an
nounces that mans "inalienable rights
are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness; that to secure these rights gov
ernments are established among men
sent Of the governed; that when any
form of government becomes deStruc-
tive of those rights, it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it. Life,
! liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
| are the important things; consent of
| the governed" is one of the means to
| those ends. If ANY form of government
| becomes destructive of those ends it is
abolish it," says the Declaration. ANY
form includes all forms. Thus the
Declaration itself recognizes other
forms of government than those resting
on the consent of the governed. The
world consent" itself recognizes other
forms. For consent means the I'M
derstanding of the thing to which the
consent is given; and there are peO-
pie in the world who do not understand
any form of government. Ana the sense in
which Consent is used in the declara-
! ton is broader than mere understanding;
| for consent in the declaration means
participation in the government con
scented" to: And yet these people who are
not capable of "consenting'' to any form
| of government must be governed. And
so, the declaration contemplates all forms
| of government which secure the funda-
mental rights of life. liberty and the
when that will best secure these edns,
as is the case of people capable of self
| government; other appropriate forms
| when people are not capable of self-gov-
| ernment- And so the authors of the dec
laration themselves governed the Indian
without his consent; the inhabitants of
| since. the sons of the makers of the
Declaration have been governing not by
| ion of our governing race, now by one
form, now by another, but always for
ends of life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, not in the savage, but in the
civilized meaning of those terms-life ac-
cording to orderly methods of civilized
society; liberty regulated by law; pursuit
or nhppnebS y Rer1 other 2y me tb 81
| is not the meaning of the Declaration,
our government itself denies the Declara-
alton every time 1t receives the repre-
sentative of any but Republican form
| of government, such as that of the Sui
| tan, the Gar or other absolute auto
| Gratis, whose governments, according to
| the opposition's Interpretation of the Dec
! laratiop, are spurious governments, be-
cause the people governed have not ICON
| sented'' to them
| CONSTITUTIONAL POWER TO GOV
ERN AS WE PLEASE.
| Senators in opposition are estopped
from denying our constitutional power
| to govern the Philippines as circum-
| stances may demand. For such power
| is admitted in the case of Florida, Louis
| lana Alaska How, then, is it denied
| in the Philippines? IS there a geograph-
| ical Interpretation to the constitution?
10 degrees OF longltuue nix constltulonai
ocean diminish constitutional power more
does not separate Us from the field OF
| our duty and endeavor-it joins us. an
| established highway needing no repair,
| and landing US at any point desired. The
seas do not separate the Philippine ISL
ands from us or from each other. The
| seas are highways through the archi-
| pelago, which would cost hundreds OF
| millions of dollars to construct If they