The evening times., 1900-10-18

the people unless our nation has forgotten |
the sacrifice of our forefathers in found
ing this Government. The financial is
sues ought TO be disregarded until these
principles for our national preservation
are e-established and lesson taught TO
the world that, notwithstanding sordid in
terests may at times largely sway our ac-
| t1ons and partly undermine WelI-estab-
! lished governmental principles in the re-
public. the people will not suffer jot or
| title OF that sacred charter of human
! rights to de destroyed.
Wherever our flag permanently floats
! as the emblem of freedom the Constitu-
ton ought also to go with all its pro-
| lection and guarantees, and it ought not
| to stay unless il represents freedom TO
| those over whom it floats, II the Philip
/ pines are American possessions both by
! treaty and conquest, the protection of the
! Constitution must be there also-the right
! of life, liberty. and the pursuit of happi-
ness, the right of trial by jury and all
! the other guarantees of the Constitution.
| I apprehend that when the question is
! presented 10 the Supreme Court II will de-
! clare that such pursuit of happiness could
not be restrained even if the Filipinos
| should desire to come into our own IA
! vored land.
| If they are in American territory and
! entitled to the benefits OF the Constitution
/ and under the flag. they can come to
/ America and enter into competition with
cur own iaboring citizens and thereby de-
| grade American labor, which, l hope, will
never be permitted. We will not consent
| therefore to their becoming citizens and
we cannot consent to hold them as sub
| jects. If we hold their land as conquered
! territory ard prohibit them from removal
| at will, and without the intention of Civ
/ ing them the rights now extended to 9TH
er American territory, we cannot find any
authority for such action in the Constitu-
+ tion, but, on the contrary, there is no
! warrant in our organic law for that
course of action. Therefore our best in
terests are subseryed and the law yindi-
Gated by dealing with them as we mean
to deal with Cuba and by letting them and
| the world also know that we recognize
even the Fiiipinos as freemen and entitled
to the privileges OF self-goveTnment to
| 1he same extent that we have always
claimed to ourselves
THE declaration OF right to govern g.
0Q0 coo OF 10000, 600 of people on the other
side Of the world without giving them the
right to participate either in their own
! affairs or have an interest in ours, viii, If
sanctioned by the people, be felt most Sc
Tiously in our own country. While pa
teTnal Administration may, even with all
the attending carpetbaggers, swindlers,
d-grabbers, and official protectors, be
Fbetter than these Asiatic hordes have
| heretofore been accustomed to- yet We
must suffer the greater penalty by contin-
uing the undated war taXes-in our own
dreams to fulfill our destiny under Provi-
dence as a world power-in trying to ex-
cuses the breaches made in our great
charter by technical attempts at apparent
Justification in encouragement given to
militarism and diverting the rising gene
ration from peaceful productive industries
into nation OF soldiers and to that ex-
tent non productive consumers.
| TO permanently retain these foreign
possessions would require an immense
standing army at all times, such as is re-
Quired by the monarchs of Europe, and
such foreign acquisitions must, necessa-
| rily bring us oftentimes into the entan-
! clements of European powers II we en-
ter upon this new imperial policy then i'm
perialisTn is fastened on as great oc-
topus, and Will be the Inheritance of the
next generation, with all the evils that
necessarily follow in its train. We cannot
embark in this sort Of world-power and
land-grahbing business. whether you call it
| provfdentia1 expansion for commercial in
terests OF adventure, without serious in
jury to our country, now already legiti-
mately extended from ocean to ocean, and
expressly enlarged American soil for
the very purpose of enforcing peace and for
the purpose of avoiding wars with all other
| nations.
THE laws OF trade are not regulated by
the flag II the monopolies and trusts in
| tend still further to reduce the price of Ia
Dor and raise the price OF their own prod
uets, Independently of the laws of legiti-
mate trade, perhaps that country might Be
utilized as an involuntary place of refuge,
where they can employ cheap labor. When
we have a Democratic Attorney General,
with an Administration behind him to or
der the district attorneys of the United
States TO enforce the laws now on the stat
ute books against illegitimate trusts ere
ating monopolies to the injury of the pub
lie, which heretofore have for a valuable
consideration, successfully escaped inves-
tigation, there will be a better condition of
things compared with what now exists
COMPANION TO TIE SHARP.