The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-06-28
NATIONAL DESTINY.
WE CANNOT HAVE VhsSALs NOR
DISTANT POSSESSIONS.
Statesmen Agree-Rcpublican De-
termIncL in NNcrthroxN the NntiOn.

American Soil Is Our Limit-Au
Statesmen Agree-RcpubIicnn De-
termincd to Overthrow the Nation.
There is not an opinion in favor of
the principle that the United states
can possess colonies. vassals or ter
ritory not to become states in the
Union. Mckinley himself was of that
opininon until he changed his mind
and forced congress to take the great
step towards the destruction of peo-
pies government. the obliteration OF
popular sovereignty and the creation
of an independent, personal empire.
Here are the truths expressed by all
of our statesmen, beginning with Mark
Hanna. A close study of them will re-
veal the fact that Mckinley and the
Republican leaders are departing from
these truths and violating their own
convictions.
Mark Hanna.
"The destiny that has been written
for this country must be fulfilled. -
Mark Hanna at the Ohio Republican
state convention in May, 1900.
william Mckinley.
''I speak not of forcible annexation,
for that cannot be thought Of. That
by our code of morality would be Grim
inal aggression.
Human rights and constitutional
privileges must not be forgotten in the
race for wealth and commercial su-
premacy. The government of the peo-
pie must be by the people and not by
few of the people. 1t must rest upon
the free consent of the governed and
all of the governed. Power it must be
remembered, which is secured by OPP
preston or usurpation or by any form
of injustice, is soon dethroned We
have no right in law or morals to usurp
that which belongs to another, whether
property or power"
Daniel Webster.
Arbitrary governments may have
territories and distant possessions, be-
cause arbitrary governments may rule
them by different laws and different
systems. We can do no such thing.
They must be of us, part of us, or else
strangers. think | see a course adopt
ed which is likely to turn the constitu-
tion of the land into deformed mon
ster, into a curse rather than bless
ing; in fact, frame of an unequal
government not founded on popular
representation, not founded on equal
ity; and think that this process will
go on, or that there is danger that it
will go on, until this Union shall fall
to pieces. ! resist it today and always.
Whoever falters or whoever fails, l
continue the contest."-Daniel Web
ster in United States senate, March %,
1S4S.
william II. Seward.
at Is a remarkable feature Of the
constitution of the United States that
its trainers never contemplated colo
MES. or provinces, or territories at all.
On the other hand, they contemplated
states only, nothing less than states,
perfect states, equal states as they
are called here, sovereign states. ."
| There is reason-there is sound politi
/ cal wisdom in this provision of the
constitution excluding colonies which
are always subject to oppression and
excluding provinces which always
tend to corrupt and ultimately to break
down the parent state.
by the constitution of the United
| States there are no subjects. Every
citizen of any state is free and equal
citizen of the United States. Again,
by the constitution of the United
States there are no permanent prov
inces or dependencies"
james Madison.
"The object of the federal constitu-
tion is to secure the union of the 13
primitive states, which we know to be
practicable; and to add to them such
other states as may rise in their own
bosoms, or in their neighborhood,
which we cannot doubt will be prac-
ticable. e."-Federalist, No. IA.
u. 5. Supreme Court.
"The genius and character of our
institutions are peaceful, and the pow
er to declare war was not conferred
upon congress for the purpose of ag-
gression or ACKNOWLEDGMENT. but to en-
able the government to vindicate by
arms, If it should become necessary
its own rights and the rights OF its
citizens. A war therefore, declared
by congress can never be presumed TO
be waged for the purpose of conquest
or the acquisition of territory; nor
does the law declaring the war imply
an authority to the president to en-
large the limits of the United States
by subjugating the enemy's country
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