Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

tect them.
On the other hand the republican posi-
tion on this subject Is plain and simple
and easily understood.
First, we deny that a single provision
= of. the constitution extends to the Philip
pines until it is carried there by act OF
congress.
Second, that our sovereignty over it Is
lawful and complete. having been ac-
/ quired by a solemn treaty which is the
supreme law of the land and to which
MI. Bryan and many democrats and
populist senators ave their support and
without which it could not have been
ratified.
1t is the policy of the republican party
to subdue the rebellion, which is being
fostered and encouraged by the demo-
cratic party and it's national platform;
to enforce respect for our flag and
obedience to our laws; to establish peace
and order; to protect every man, woman
and child in their just rights; to make
life and property secure; to establish
freedom Of conscience and of religion;
to build school houses; to educate the
children; to teach them to govern them
selves, and eventually to give them every
measure of liberty and self government
which they are capable Of enjoying, and
which we are capable of giving them un-
der our constitution and laws.
The republican party was conceived in
liberty. 1t was born to free the slave;
to dignity labor; to vindicate IN
and w~omanhood. and to establish indiv-
ldual sovereignty. The statement that
all men are created equal, and that all
governments derive their Just powers
from the consent of the governed" al
though drawn by Thomas Jefferson and
by him placed in the Declaration Of In
dependence, remained empty and void
mere glittering generalities. until the
republican martyr, Abraham Lincoln,
put forth the proclamation of emancipa-
ton and struck the shackles from the
limbs OF four and a half million slaves.
The republican party will never violate
It's own traditions. 1t will not insult its
own history, or belle it's own professions.
us mission Is not to forge letters but to
break them; not to stifle liberty but to
give higher Ideals OF what true liberty
means; not to discredit the flag, but
rather to let it's waving stripes of red
and white, and its shining stars in their
field of blue, which speak the purity of
our purpose, which tell of our sacrifices
NNS Va uAA1 AACCuOiup SOIItilluc
in the future, Is in the past, to be a
beacon light and an inspiration for all
that is highest and best in human gov
eminent.
We all deprecate war, but there are
times, as every rejecting man knows,
when war is inevitable ana necessary,
and when it cannot be avoided. Under
some conditions var is to the body
polite what the pillow is to the soil. 1t
uproots the tangled growth of savagery
and prepares the way for the richer and
choicer fruits of civilization.
In my humble judgment every dictate
of honor, and of high moral obligation,
as well as of material advantage, and
every prompting of humanity urges us
forward in the performance of the high
duty which events ave thrust upon us,
and in the fulfillment of the magnificent
destiny which is undoubtedly ours.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED"
And then there is the consent of the
governed theory about which we hear so
much in this campaign. and l wish to
say that this question VIII bear a close
investigation. Theoretically it sounds
we'll, but as a matter of truth n Of
history we have never ourselves always
observed it in actual practice.
We did no observe it in the formation
Of our own government, although we had
written it in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, because even then we were
governing nearly a million Of slaves
without their consent.
We have never observed it in our deal
ings with the Indians. who were the
original possessors of this continent, and
whom we have pressed backward and
backward UNTIL, with the aid of the i'm
perlal army of the United States, we
have finally herded them upon a lot OF
government reservations where we are
governing them without their consent.
And we have pursued this policy of i'm
perialism and militarism against the
American indian from the foundation
of the government until the present mo-
ment. at a cost of many thousands or
lives and of thousands of millions of
dollars.
We paid no attention to the rule of the
consent of the governed in 1903 when
Thomas Jefferson, the greatest expan-
sionist which this country has yet pro-
duced, bought the Louisiana territory
from the first Napoleon for fifteen mill
ions of dollars For years we governed
the mixed races. which we acquired with
that purchase, without permitting them
.e!ther a voice or a vote in their own
affairs and without asking their consen;
and against their solemn protest. Out Of
that territory fifteen sovereign states In
the union have since been created, our
own state of Montana among the num-
Der. And in connection with the Louis
lana purchase 1T is well enough to re-
member at this time, that for that act
Thomas Jefferson was reviled and con-
; demned upon every hand. He was
charged with violating the constitution
and plotting the downfall of the RepuL.
lie. He was called an imperialist and It
was this act Of his which was the o,ca-
sion of the first secession speech made
upon the floor Of the senate of the United