The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-11-02

and basic doctrine; A menarcny "a. N;
pretended principle that which afepubiic
cannot do without destroying utterly it's
what then is our status in the Philip
extended over those people accSsdinE x to
not consented to 1t. 1t has not extended
over them according to the basic law OF
divine 90 rH5 we
are left then to the brutal and naked
confession that our rule there is founded
simply upon force. q thing which even
kings ire ashamed to admit. :,
POLICY OF AMERICA AGAINST TWO
EVILS.
II. ~ the republicans now claim. eur
past conduct can be referred to I'm tusti-
zatisn policy. 1t is a little remarkable
that none of the statesmen publicists
Of the past ever reaiizst the fact that
DR.. Francis Wharton. the celebrated
American law writer, is the author Of a
tionaI Law Digest" which covers the
whole subject of international law, as
understeos and I Irastised by the gowern
the policy of the United States with ref
erence to expansion of the domain and
a chapter os q pages. That chapter
bears the following title: Assertion
Not Policy Of , the United
portion az the British possessions. DIR.
history: .'on July 2. 1866 the chairman
of the committee on foreign affairs In
the En-, house Of rspr s hdv reported
ment of state should be officially notified
that Great Britain and the several Brit
proposition Of annexation, the president
shall declare by proclamation that Nova
Upper Canada. and the territories, of Sell
kirk, Saskatchewan and of columbia
should be admitted into the United States
as states and territories: This resolution
1867, a resolution from the committee on
foreign affairs was passed in the house
without opposition to the effect that the
people OF the United States regarded
with extreme salicitude the confederation
pn9 shs of of
provinces to be confederated."
It will thus be seen that as late as
wholly forgotten. that this republic de-
rives its just powers from the consent
With wi n Extreme ne seiicttude the confederation
to annex these people without the as
sent Of the people of the provinces to be
Mr.. Lincoln himself said that no man
was ever born good enough to rule an
other hs man " 1bs his consent
time still remember the words of Lincoln.
That the republican leaders have now
Again DR. Wharton sets forth the fol-
lowing. taken from a letter, of. Hsmiiton
sh then AIRY R Of
under date of April s. 1873:
HAVE BEEN OPPORTUNITIES BE-
FORE TO EXPAND.
1.-THE policy of this government as do
clared on many occasions in the past has
tended toward avoidance of possessions
disconnected from the main continent.
Had the tendency of the United States
been to extend territorial dominion be-
yond intervening seas opportunities have
not been wanting to effect such a pur-
pose. whether on the coast of Africa, in
No such opportunity has heretofore been
embraced. and but little hope can be Of
ultimate 1 resort be brought to decide tho
question of such transmarine iurisdio-
ton. would favorably regard such an
Again, he cites the fact that Mr.. Ere
linghuysen. secretary of state, In q letter
"A CONVICTION that a Fl liked ed policy. dat
ing back to the origin Of our constitution
al government. was considered to make 1t
grandizement, which would require main
tenance by naval force in excess of any
yet provided for our national use, had
acquisition. Even as simple coaling sta
lions, such territorial acquisitions would
The United States have never deemed it
needful to their national life to main
tain impregnable fortresses along the
worlds highways of commerce.
Again, February LISA. Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen writes as follows:
THE policy of the United States, de-
clared and pursued for more than GEN.
fury, diScountenanceS and in practice
forbids distant colonial acquisitions Our
action in the past touching the acquisition
OF territory by purchase and cession. and
our recorded disinclinations to avail our
selves OF voluntary proners made by
other powers to place territories under the
sovereignty or protection of the Unit
States. are matters of historical pronni-
nence."
If Col. Roosevelt and the other republic
our conduct in the Philippine islands
'is the same as that in all other cases Of
the acquisition of territory by the United
States 1T is little remarkable that a re-
publican congress and the republican adj
ministra ton OF Gen. Grant and the repub-
and the great publicist, Mr.. Wharton.
never discovered the fact. et-
LANGUAGE OF COURTS UPON THIS
QUESTION.
But the supreme court Of the United
nation upon a policy O, colonization by
the United States. Its language is as fol-
lows:
THE United States under the present
constitution cannot acquire territory to
be held as colony to be governed at is
quire territory which, at the time has
not population that fits it to become
state, and may govern 1t as territory
until 1t has population which. in the
Judgment of congress. entities 1t to be
admitted as a state of the union.
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