The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-11-02


to the chair of Washingto and Cleveland
the most ridiculous mountcback, the most
chattering specimen of the Bander Log,
we would be Just as anxious to do bust
ness as We are today. The difference
would not be in our desire. but in our
opportunity. We cannot do business,
however much we desire, if the "tyranni-
cal' of a want of contide: CO shuts me off
from cur sources of SIMPLY. | did not
want to coerce any en,pl"ye. | wanted
to show the employees of my own and
other companies the coercion that bo' h
they and l are underline tyranny of
gets free.
A MORAL AND
INTELLECTUAL DEBAUCH.
A word now on your dealing with the
interests of the wage Garner. You have
in this campai gn been on a great lntellec-
tual and moral debauch. You have been
emancipated from the tyranny of fact.
You have taken marvellous positions that
required wonderful assurance, but your
| most daring achievement was to present
| a Populist to the wageearner as his friend
that took some nerve If you ask the
farmer to worship the weevil and the
grasshopper, or the gardener to erect an
altar to the tomato worm and the pea
louise, they would tell you that they were
their natural enemies. The relations of
| the PopuliSt to the wage Garner is ust the
| same. The Populists are for the most
| part men who have bought Western farms
which they could not pay for. They hope
| to pay off their mortga yes from the profits
| of the land. They, therefore. desire Il
| dehasing of the currency, that " may
pay both capitalists and wage learners ill
cheap money. They are after the wage
| Garner as distinctly as they are after the
capitalist. 1t may be all right for the
wa &c Garner to vote for Populst against
his interests, but anvho ly who persuldcs
them tina, it is t" his interest to do so
| commits a fraud.
ANTI IMPERIALISM.
Let me leak If the first Does t e
Cow i'itutinn forbid us to acquire teri
tory Me- ih t'y the CT nSent of its pe"pl,:
Does the Constitution extend to newly
acquired territory?
CAY We never acquired any territory by
the consent of the governed. We have
aruuirrd much territory, and nobody ever
dreamed of applying this phrase to it.
(B) We have never treated newly ac-
Quired territory aS part of the United
States or g,veri.l ~ the provisions Of
~
| CONSTITUTIONS jralnusly secures to the State
| the right of self government but the gen
| eral government manages the territories.
The Constitution requires all ju lges Of
| the United States to hold their positions
| during good behavior. The territorial
judges are appointed for terms of years.
The Constitution does not allow the
| national government to make mere local
| improvements in the States, but the gen
eral government makes all kinds of local
| improvements in the territories. In all
| ways the general government has, from
the beginning, treated the territories as
not part of the United States.
| CO. To treat new territory as governed
| by the Constitution, as il applies to the
| States would strip our government OF
powers inseparab.e from the whole idea
| of government, and make the treaty
making power purely ridiculous.
.RRITORIES SIMPLY PROPERTY
| OF UNITED STATES.
CD The Constitution itself makes the
clearest distinction between the Uuited
| States and such territory. 1t treats the
latter simply as the property of the Unit
ed States, to be dealt with by Congress
| exactly as it would with the powder pur-
chased for the Army or the supplies for
the departments Its regulations for such
territory are even described as laws, but
as rules and regulation" Here is the
| provision Constitution, Act ", Section 3
Sub Section)
| The Congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules
| and regulations respecting the terri
tory or other property belonging to
| the United States
| (E) The theory that the provisions of
the Constitution as to the States extend
to the territories was an ingenious theory
| of Calhoun, invented" as Benton eX
presses it, to secure "a recognition of
slavery in them. His position was made
little ridiculous by his previous recogni-
ton that it did not so extend. He tried
| to slip into an appropriation bill an amend
ment extending the Constitution to the
territories. Webster, in a luni..uu, argu
ment, showed that it could not, as Con
stitution, even be extended to them by an
act. CT would require an amendment to
the Constitution itself to extend it to the
territories). Calhoun's position did not
commend itself even to the Democrats
and then he invented the present theory
his objections of New Mexico and Cali
fornia to having slavery forced on them
AN OUTWORN SCARECROW.
Such is the anti imperialistic dogma. 1t
is absolutely without substance. The
loud cutlery that has been raised by you
and others against the action of the pre-
sent administration as involving the over
throw of our free Institutions is simply
an outworn scarecrow that has been rails
ed against every administration that ever
| had difficult position to deal with. Every
| great measure in England or this country
| hoc nt 1,rh in ha nf 6
| alarmist outcry, and there has been a
steady advance in freedom and self gov
eminent all the time.
| Now for your second point on anti eX.
| pansion:
EXCUSE OF BRYAN FOR FAVORING
| TREATY NECESSARILY FALSE.
My Bryan personally helped to pass
| the treaty by which we acquired the Phil
| pines of Spain. He now says that he did
50 net for the sake of raising false issne
but because he knew we could readily
abandon them after the treaty. 1t is
| painful to say that this cannot be true.
That treaty binds us to secure to Spain
the same rights in Philippine ports that
we have ourselves and to secure for all
| time reli gious freedom in the islands. This
| of course, we could not d. if we aban
| doned them.
| PUTTING Us WITH THE SAVAGE
TRIBES.
The ground taken by you, and in the
Maryland Democratic platform, is that it
| is contrary to our policy to expand beyond
the sea. We must only expand into
contiguous territorv,' and among
| homogeneous people" Where does this
| doctrine bring up. Russia, the land of the
| knOut and the Spy wants only land
| contiguous to her own. China, too,
never cared for any land not borderin G
on the sacred contiguous empire. the
| Katfir tribes, and other savage peoples
make war only for contiguous land. On
the other hand, the ancient Greeks, the
Hollanders, the English, the French, the
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