Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-11

unI11 IL exceeds nGr TRADE Will d1 A0E
colonies combined. Trade does not de-
pend on a flag; trade depends on markets:
But they tell us that they Will establish
Filipinos and the Porto Ricans and our
selves. Now there is one thing which is
absolutely certain. and that is that you
cannot administer a protective system
against a dependency without perpetrating
granny. We ourselves have laid down the
rule that taxation without representation
is tyranny. 1t was not against oppressive
taxation or excessive taxation, but any
tax. The very essence of protection is that
the trade relations are hostile, conflicting,
other; that every government owes to its
people all the protection in the way of dis
eliminating tariffs that it can afford.
"Now, with protection against an indie
pendent country, all you can do is to i'm
pose the discriminating duties in your own
the advantage in your own markets You
cannot give them any advantage In a for
eign market, not because you do not want
to, but because you are not able. But as
against a dependency. you can give pro-
Z ction to your native producers against
the products of these countries
eff, for instance, a Connecticut tobacco
grower thinks that he could sell his to-
were not for the competition of the Phil
ippine PRODUCER this governme1t mas the
p GiTe'nis d If # R Pr dGfT 70 be siv a prohae3ioe
in the French market to the American pro-
Queer while it has the power-and it has
the power. All it need do is to impose a
heavy internal revenue discriminating tax
upon tobacco in Manila and they can pro-
hibit its manufacture and production al
together.
How can they be just, how can they be
impartial, LShen We are contestants with
them? How can you administer protection
in our favor and against US at the same
time? All the value which these items
have according to the protectionist and
imperialist theory is that it will give us
access to their markets. Now, if we OPP
pose protection against them, and this gov
eminent should undertake also to give
tho Dhilfnninnc nrnfoTinn a QS in f III tn the
extent we give the Philippines protection
against the American producer they would
They cannot at one and the same time give
us protection and refuse it to us.
Either Treason or Oppression.
eff they give us the advantage they
the Filipinos Justice and the advantage
they are faithless to us. They must
choose between treason to their own peo-
ents in their power. Whichever they do
cannot be justice. And SO We find when
texts You viii find that it is always an
attempt to reconcile the American peo-
pie to wrong by promising them the pro-
ceeds, the fruit of extortion and oppres-
But if hey do give certain protected
interests an advantage there is no doubt
eminent on this principle is not govern
ment for protection: 1t is government for
plunder, and here let me remind you,
ladies and gentlemen. that government
cannot profit if it is honest. There is no
profit in government except for a osue.
The only way a government can make
money is by taxation. Now, the peopl
are entitled under an honest government
to a full return in some form of %Service
for every dollar that is taken frc-1. them.
IF a government takes more than it
returns to the people the excess is trib-
ute. Now. the history of the world
teaches one lesson, one lesson with an
unbroken series of precedents. and that
is that While nations that have been COM
| nailed tn nav tPihnta have survived if
the alton that have exacted tribute
have always persisted.
DespotS Claim Divine Right.
Now, no government is willing to ad-
NIT that it rests it's claim to authority
upon the naked power of the sword, so
we always find that deSpots intervene a
claim of Divine right; not being able ITO to
vine authority, and usually an absolute
Monarc is associated in some way with
the offices of Divinity. The ear of Rus
STA is the head of the Greek church. The
sultan of Turkey is the chief prophet of
an oriental creed and the emperor Of
China is the supreme head of q patriarch
This necessity of intervening an as
sumption of Divine power springs from
the indisposition of n person to admit
that he is taking the people by the throat
and planting his heel upon their breast.
This is the actual definition OF despotism.
Now, Mr.. Mckinley is following the
wake of all other despots- When he talks
about despotism and Providence and Di-
vine interpositon he is really setting up
a claim OF Divine right, just as any 9TH
er desDot has done it; But YOU perceive
avowed is much better than when it is
secretly cherished. because when it is
restraint and limitation. The Divine
power, for instance, that creates a mon
archy imposes a certain respohsloitlty up
Two Obligations Are k~eciprccaI.
THE obedience and loyalty are recip-
rocal obligations. The same power that
commanded the subieet to obey, com ON
Late his duties and his subjects could not,
for the king had the means of enforcing
obedience. But while the king might VIC
late his coronation oath, in taking 1T he
admitted the obligations which it en-
braced; But this system of Mr.. Mckin-
nation oath. These nnfortunates won
even have the protection of any. path:
The only oath that can be administered
To an officer of the United States is. an
oath to support the constitution of the
holders will be bound to support the CON-
stitntion; If he did it would destroy him.
his jurisdiction.
Government to BE Set Up.
Let us see. after our congress has an
nexed all these territories. if it has the
chooses in them. We may have Mr.. Nc
kinley a constitutional monarch in Can
ada, a captain general in Mexico, a pro-
consul in China and a sultan somewhere
else. By the way, we have that already
Now, picture to yourselves is this an ex-
trayagant suggestion?
DO you remember what Tracy, of Ken
tncky, said 100 years ago? He said that
he thought we might go beyond the seas
and Breckenridge, of Kentucky, would
argue it with him. That is the very ques-
ton of this campaign.
Let us once set up an empire in the
Philippine islands and despotism and
what is to prevent congress extending
the sway of it's despotic authority until
the sphere of republican territory will be
but a small part of the territory of the
United States, and congress having set
rious parts of the world, what is to pre-
vent it moving itself to Montreal or the
City of Mexico or Buenos Ayres or Pc
king or Manila?
The very first suggestion that is made
here of empire in the Philippine islands
requires us to overthrow the one contri-
epce of government. l have said that
the destruction of power of parts of gov
rnmen have existed almost as long as
government has been known to man. But
the method of their distribution has been
original in this country.
COynrdly, Base and Weak.
THE seizure of any territory by the
freedom, their traditions of justice, with
the new principles which they formulated
at their birth would be discreditable. but
the attempt against the Philippine islands
has an element of baseness and treachery
that is almost inconceivable 1t has
every element of deDravity which can
mark the crime of the nation against
morals.
ct is cowardly because it is perpetrated
against a weak people 1t is base, because
in the hour of our difficulty. 1t is treach-
erous, because it involves the butchery of
our allies. ~(Applause.)
Does anybody doubt that Aguinaldo and
his troops would have risked their lives
side by side with our troops if they be-
lieved that their success would simply
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