Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-03-22
PRESIDENTS COLONIAL POLICY
Attitude of the Administration
Towards Our New Pos
sessions.

known as a careful, conscientious and
intelligent journalist that his Inter
pretations" of the presidents ''coloni
al"policy in the Sunday Post-Dispatch
may be accepted as authoritative. Mr..
Mckinley talked freely, wisely choos-
ing this as the best way of getting his
views before the country.
The presidents announcement is the
most important political utterance
since the establishment of the govern
ment, except, perhaps, the emancipa-
ton proclamation. 1t is revolutionary.
1.-The president believes that congress
has plenary power over Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines"
That is, in governing the colonies,
congress is not restrained by any con-
stitutional limitations. 1t is absolute.
Further, congress may refuse to the
natives (of Porto Rico. Hawaii, etc.
and to the American citizens who may
go to our colonies the right of jury
trial, the right of free speech, the
right to bear arms, the right of peace
able assemblage and of petition"
The presidents conclusions are not
the result of legal inquiry or judicial
study. They are the product of par
tisan necessity.
Our new possessions must not be
permitted to injure any of our pro-
tected interests"
This doctrine, though revolutionary.
is not new or strange. The Roman re-
public conquered foreign peoples ana
governed them for the benefit of Rome
and Romans. Mr.. Mckinley proposes
to do the same thing-to govern the
people of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Filipinos without reference to their
welfare, but primarily for the CONNER
cial benefit of Americans, and in order
to accomplish this he proposes to re-
pudiate every principle of American
policy and give the lie to every Ameri-
can principle.
What will the people of this country
say to this ?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Lincoln and Mckinley.
On Lincoln day, 1900. William Nc
Kinley sent the following congratu-
latory dispatch to the Chicago i'm
periaiists:
Each succeeding year our citizens
have seen with clear vision how great
was Lincoln's contribution to the
forces which make for the welfare
and perpetuity of the nation, and ev-
ery occasion which commentaries his
life is an incentive to patriotic serv-
ice. Accept my best wishes for
most successful and inspiring meet
ing this evening.
WILLIAM MKINLEY.
In 1865, just after the civil war,
Abraham Lincoln uttered the follow
ing prophecy, which is being fulfilled
by William Mckinley and his i'm
perialistic followers:
81 see in the near future a crisis
arising that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my
country. AS result of the war, cor
porations have been enthroned, and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power will
continue to sway by appealing to the
prejudices of the people, until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the republic destroyed. I feel
more anxious for the safety of my
country than ever before, even in the
midst of the war"
The national administration
claims it has not surrendered to Great
Britain, but there are several things
that look as though it had. Great
Britain dictates our financial policy.
She dictates our colonial policy. She
opens the mail of some of our consuls
She will not allow US to fortify our
Nicaragua canal, and the administra-
ton agrees to it. There isn't much
else to surrender, but the lovely Brit
ISL administration at Washington will
no doubt hasten to surrender every
thing it can ind that has not been sur
rendered.-Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
when administration organs
come forward courageously to tell us
that ''the war is over they probably
mean that it is over in the Philippines.
1t has been over there ever since Nc
Kinley purchased it from Spain-but
there viii be some of it in the United
States slong about the first Tuesday
in Observation-Disclosures (O.) Press
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