El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29


ence or training the ability to main
tain q stable government at home and
absolutely helpless to perform its inter-
national obligations with the rest of the
world. To this we are opposed. We
should not yield our tide while our obi
cations last. In the language of our
platform. Our authority should not be
less than our responsibility" and our
present responsibility is to establish our
authority in every part of the islands.
No government can so certainly pre-
serve the peace, restore public order. es-
tablish law, justice and stable conditions
as ours Neither congress nor the exec
utiye can establish a stable government
in these islands except under our right of
sovereignty. our authority and our nag.
And this VIC are doing.
Self Government Promised.
We could not do it as a protectorate
power so completely or so successfully
as we are doing it now. AS the sover-
eign power we can initiate action and
shape means to ends and guide the Fill
pinos TO self development and self gov
ernment. AS protectorate power we
could not initiate action, but would be
compelled to follow and uphold people
with no capacity yet to be alone. In the
one case we can protect both ourselves
and the Filipinos from being involved
in dangerous complications, in the other
we could not protect even the Filipinos
until after their trouble had come. Be
sides. if we cannot establish any govern
ment of our own without the consent of
the governed, as our opponents contend.
then we could not esta blish a stable gov
eminent for them or make ours protecto-
rate without the like consent, and neither
the majority of the people nor a minority
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it. We could not maintain a protectorate
even with the consent of the governed
without giving provocation for conflicts
and possibly costly wars. Our rights in
the Philippines are now free from outside
Interference and will continue so in our
present relation. They would not be thus
free in any other relation. We will not
sovereignty.
sioners believed they were receiving
good title when they concluded the treaty.
The executive believed it was a good title
when he submitted it to the senate of the
United States for its ratification. The
senate believed Ii was a good title when
they gave it their constitutional assent,
and the congress seems not to have doubt
ed its completeness when they approprl-
ated 10000, 900 provided by the treaty.
lieved it gave us a bad title. they were
not sincere. Our title is practically iden-
teal with that under which we hold our
territory acquired since the beginning of
the government and under which we have
exercised full sovereignty and establish
ed government for the inhabitants.
1t is worthy of note that no one out
side of the United States disputes the
fullness and integrity of the cession.
-har fba,, ,c he tSStr h
ject? Whether it is paramount to any
other or not 1t is whether we shall be
responsible for the government Of the
Philippines with the sovereignty and
authority which enables us to guide them
to regulated liberty, law, safety and
progress or whether we shall be RESPONSE
BILE for the forcible and arbitrary gov
ernmcnt on our part and with only the
of Il protectorate which
draws us into their troubles without the
power OF preventing them.
Must acccr, obligations.
There were those who two years ago
were rushin. ~ ON 10 war with Spain
who are unwilling now TO accept its clear
consequence. a. there are those among
us who advocated the ratification of the
treaty of peace. hut now protest against
its obligations. Nations which so to
war must be prepared to accept its re-
sultant obligations and when they make
treaties must keep them.
Those who profess to distrust the lib
eral and honorable purposes of the ad-
in its treatment of the Phil
ippines are not justified. Imperialism
has no place in its creed or conduct.
Freedom is 4 rock upon which the Re-
publican party was built and now rests.
Liberty is the great Republican doctrine
for which the people went to war and
for which n million lives were offered
and billions of dollars expended to make
il a lawful legacy of all without the con-
sent of master or slave. There is strain
Of i'll concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety
to extend the constitutional guarantees to
the people of the Philippines while their
is openly advocated at home.
Our opponents may distrust themselves.
but they have no right to discredit the
good faith and patriotism of the ma
jority of the people who are opposing
them. They may fear the worst form
Of Imperialism with the helpless Fill
pinos in their hands. but if they do it is
because they have parted with the spirit
and faith of the fathers and have lost
the virility of the founders of the party
which they profess to represent.
The Republican party does not have
to assert its devotion 10 the Declaration
Of Independence. That immortal instru-
pd until the people under the lead of the
party in the awful clash OF
battle turned its promises into fulfill
mcnt. 1t wrote into the constitution
the amendments guaranteeing political
equality to American citizenship. and it
has never broken them or counseled otE-
Prs in breaking them. 1t will not be
guided in its conduct by one set of prin-
riples at home and another set in the
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