The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-11

STOMACH
BITTERS.
Beware of limitations.

without the consent OF the governed, as
our opponents contend, then we could not
establish a stable government for them,
| or make ours a protectorate, without the
| like consent, and neither the majority of
the people nor a minority of the people
have invited us to assume 1t We could
not maintain protectorate even with the
consent of the governed, without giving
provocation for conflicts and possibly
| wars.
THE UNDERSTANDABLE TITLE.
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 rela1
ton. We will not give up our own to
guarantee another sovereignty. Our title
is good. Our peace commissioners believ-
ed they were receiving a good title when
they concluded the treaty. The execu-
tive believed that it was a good title
when he submitted it to the senate of the
United States for its ratification. The
senate believed it was a good title when
they accepted it, and the congress seems
to have not doubted It's completeness
when they appropriated s2O,00O,0O0 pro-
it's ratification believed it gave US a bad
title, they were not sincere. Our title is
practically identical with that under
which We hold our territory acquired
since the beginning of the government
and under which We have exercised full
sovereignty and established government
for the inhabitants.
THE ISSUE IN A NUTSHELL.
''It is worthy Of note that no one out
side of the United States disputes the
fullness and integrity of the concession.
What then is the real issue on this sub
ject? Whether it is paramount to any
other or not, it is whether we shall be re-
sponsible for the government of the
Philippines with the sovereignty and
authority which enables us to guide them
to regulated liberty, law safety and pro-
gress, or whether we shall be responsible
for the forcible and arbitrary government
of a minority, without sovereignty and
authority on our part and with only the
embarrassment of a protectorate which
draws us into their troubles without the
power of preventing them
THOSE WHO PLAY MUST PAY.
were rushing US on to war with Spain
who are unwilling now to accept its clear
consequences, as there are those among
US who advocated the ratification of the
treaty of peace but now protest against
its obligations. Nations which go to war
must be prepared to accept its resultant
obligations, and when they make treaties
mast keep them.
HYPOCRISY OF THE ANTI.
''Those who profess to distrust the lib
eral and honorable purposes of the adj
ministration in its treatment of the
Philippines are not justified. Imperialism
Freedom is the rock upon which the Re
publican party was builded and now
rests Liberty IS the great Republican
doctrine for which the people went to
war and for which a million lives were
offered and billions of dollars expended,
to make it the lawful legacy of all with
out the consent of master or slave.
There is a strain of ill-concealed n.y.
pocrisy in the anxiety to extend the con-
stitutional guarantees to the people of
the Philippines, while their notification
is openly advocated at home. Our oppo-
nents may distrust themselves, but they
have no right TO discredit the good faith
and patriotism of the majority of the
people who are opposed to them; they
with the helpless Filipinos in their han
may fear the worst form of imperialism
with the helpless Filipinos in their
hands; but if they do, it Is because they
have parted with the spirit and faith of
Co. n. A.
the founders of the party which they pro-
fess to represent.
THE DECLARATION WHINE.
The Republican party does not have
to assert its devotion to the Declaration
Of Independence. That immortal instru-
ment of the fathers remained unexecuted
until the people under the lead of the
Republican party in the awful clash of
battle turned its promises into fulfllment
1t wrote into the constitution the amend
ments guaranteeing political equality TO
American citizenship and it has never
broken them or counselled others in
breaking them. 1t viii not be guided in
its conduct by one set of principles at
hcme and another set in the new terri
tory belonging TO the United States
II Cur oAlNItitS H9Glu only pLdCLlCe
as we'll as preach the doctrines OF .Ab-a-
ham Lincoln there would be no fear for
the safety OF our institutions at home or
in any territory over which our rag
floats.
WHO THE REAL IMPERIALIST rs.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen- The flag OF the republic low
floats over these Islands rs an emblsn OF
rightful sovereignty. WIZ the republic
stay and dispense 20 their inhabitants the
blessings Of liberty. education and fee
institutions, or steal away. leaving chem
70 anarchy or imperialism?
The American question is between
duty and desertion-the American verdict
wiz be fer duty and against GessrtIon:
fG- the republic and against b7<h anar-
chy and imperialism.
sHE CHINESE QUESTION
THE country has been fully advised OF
tbs purposes 81 the United States IN
China, and they viii be faithfully ad-
herei 70 as already defined.
RESCUE or TIE LEGATToNTRS
The nation is flied with gratitude
thst the Lite band arnozg taezn wAo for
two months have besn subjected 70 pr
Walton and ps-1i By Tire attacks % the
pistless hordes AZ the Chinese esPStai. ex-
hibiting supreme courage n the face OF
despair. bays been enabled b. Got's