The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-28

stable government at home and absolutely
helpless TO perform its international obliga-
lions with the rest of the world.
Will Defend Our Title.
To this we are opposed. We should NOT
yield our title while our obligations last.
In the language of our platform, Our au-
thority should not be less than our RESPONSE
bility," and our present responsibility Is to
establish our authority in every part of the
islands.
the peace, restore public order. establish
law, justice and stable conditions as ours.
Neither Congress nor the Executive can es-
tablish stable government in these islands
except under our right of sovereignty, our
authority and our flag. And this we are do
ing
We could not do 1t as protectorate power
so completely or so successfully as we are
doing Ii now. AS the sovereign power we
can Initiate action and shape means to ends,
and guide the Filipinos to self-deyelopment
and self government.
As protectorate power we could not ini-
tiate action, but would be compelled to fol-
low and uphold people with no capacity
yet to go alone. In the one case we can pro-
tect both ourselves and the Filipinos from
being involved In dangerous complications:
In the other we could not protect even tho
Filipinos until after their trouble had come.
Consent of the Governed.
Besides, II we cannot establish any gov
eminent of our own without the consent Of
the governed our opponents contend,
then we could not establish stable govern
ment for them or make ours a protectorato
without the like consent. and neither the
majority Of the people nor minority Of tho
people have invited us to assume it. We
could not maintain protectorate even with
the consent OF the governed without giving
prOvocation for conflict and possibly costly
wars.
Our rights In the Philippines are now free
from outside interference and will continue
In -.
be thus free in any other relation. We will
not give up our own to guarantee another
sovereignty.
Our title is good. Our peace commission
when they concluded the treaty. The execu-
tive believed 1t was good title when he
submitted Ii to the Senate OF the United
States for its ratification. The Senate be-
lieved 1t was good title when they gave IL
their constitutional assent, and the Con-
gress seems not to have doubted Its COM
pleteness when they appropriated $40, 000, 900
provided by the treaty.
Title Is Unquestionab1e.
II any who favored Its ratification believed
1t gave US a bad title they were not sincere
Our title Is practically Identical with that
under which we hold our territory acquired
since the beginning of the government and
under which we haye exercised full SOW
ereignty and established government for the
Inhabitants.
1t Is worthy of note that no one outside of
the United States disputes the fullness and
integrity OF the cession. What, then, is the
real issue on this subject? Whether Ii Is
paramount to any other or not, 1t Is whether
we shall be responsible for the government
Of the Philippines, with the sovereignty and
which enables us to guide them to
regulated liberty, law. safety and progress.
or whether we shall be responsible for tho
forcible and arbitrary government Of mi
nority, without sovereignty and authority
on our part, and with only the embarrass-
alrRf ~ .t.1k it,
their troubles without the power of prevent
Ing them.
Ob1igati of War.
There were those who two years ago were
rushing us on TO war with Spain who are
unwilling now to accept its clear conse-
advocated the ratification of the treaty of
peace, but now protest against its obliga-
lions. Nations which go to war must be
prepared to accept its resultant obligations,
and when they make treaties must keep
them.
Those who profess to distrust the liberal
Ind honorable purposes of the adminIstra-
ion In Its treatment of the Philippines are
Tot justified. Imperialism has no place In
to creed or conduct Freedom Is rock up
IN which the Republican party was bulded
md now rests. Liberty is the great Republic
AN doctrine for which the people went to
var and for which million lives were Of
cred and billions Of dollars expended to
make it lawful legacy of all without the
consent of master or slave.
Strain of Hypocrisy.
There is strain Of lll-concealed hypocrisy
n the anxiety to extend the constitutional
guarantees to the people Of the Philippines,
While their notification is openly advocated
It home. Our opponent may distrust them
elves, but they have no right to discredit
he good faith and patriotism of the major
ty Of the people who opposed to them.
hey may fear the worst form of imperial
SIN with the helpless Filipinos In theh
ands, but If they do 1t Is because they have
arted with the spirit and faith Of the faith.
RS and have lost the virility of the founders
( the party which they profess to represent.
The Republican party doesn't have to as
ert It's devotion TO the DECLARATION of indie
endence. That immortal instrument Of the
athers remained unexecuted until the peo-
lie, under the lead of the Republican party
d the awful clash of battle, turned its prom
ses into fulflment. 1t wrote Into the Con-
titution the amendments guaranteeing POI
tical equality to American citizenship, and
has never broken them or counselled 9TH
rs in breaking them. 1t will not be guided
q Its conduct by one set of principles at
ONE and another set in the new territory
elonging to the United States
Doctrine of Lincoln.
II our opponents would only practice az
Tell as preach the doctrines OF Abraham
lincoln there would be no fear for the safe
of our institutions at home or their fright
III influence in any territory over which our
az floats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto Rico
nd the Philippines by American freemen.
he flag of the republic now fonts over these
lands as an emblem of rightfuI sovereign
T. VIII the republic stay and dispense to
heir Inhabitants the blessings Of liberty,
iucation and free institutions, or steal
way, leaving them to anarchy or imperial
m?
The American question is between duty
nd desertion. The American verdict Will
e for duty and against desertion. for thu
epublc against both anarchy and imperial
m.
The country has been fully advised Of the
urposes of the United States In China and
ley will be faithfully adhered to as already
ehned.
Sufferers in Pekin.
The nation is filed with gratitude that the
tile band. among them many of our own
God, who for two months had been sub
cted to prlvations and peril by the attacks
pitiless hOrdes at the Chinese capital, ex-
biting supreme courage In the face of de-
pair, have been enabled by Gods favor to
'eet their rescuers and find shelter under
eir own flag.
The people not alone of this land but Of
| lands, have watched and prayed through
e terrible stress and protracted agony of
e helpless sufferers in Pekin; and while
times the dark tidings seemed to make all
,pe vain, the rescuers never faltered In the
,roic fulfillment of their noble task We
e grateful TO our own soldiers and sailors
I'd marines, and to all the brave men who,
ough assembled under many standards,
peoples and races strangers in
untry and speech, were yet united In the
cred mission of carrying succor to the be-
eyed, with a success that is now the cause
a worlds rejoicing