Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-27

binding on Congress. In those prohibitions
which are also privileges enjoyed by the
people wherever our jurisdiction extends,
is a complete charter Of rights which Con-
gress can neither limit nor impair. All per-
sonal privileges ard immunities. such
religious freedom. property rights. freedom
of speech and of the press and equality
before the law, must prevail wherever cur
flag floats. But outside of the Consti: ution
and laws is an unwritten law created by
the genius of the institutions of the para
mount power and controlling its acts and
officials in all colonial governments.
1--WE know from Cicero's Grafton that
even a Roman prOconSul was subject to
this idea. England received her lesson IN
the danger of violating this spirit when
she lost her American colonies by our sue
cessfu revolution, and she has today the
greatest and most loyal colonial empire
the world has ever known by granting such
measures of self-government each col
ony demonstrates its ability to maintain.
America and Europe.
America and Europe are the benefici-
veopment of the nineteenth century. Elec-
tricity, steam and invention have stiInu-
lated production beyond living limits I'M
less markets can be discovered. The
great migrations of ancient and modern
times appear insignificant when compared
with the exodus from Europe in the last
seventy-fve years. The figures reach the
enormous volume of 1I.01O,00o of human
beings whose exile from home and country
has been mainly enforced by congestion
from overproduction and revolution in en-
pigments by inventions and development
in the arts and industries. Our fertile
lands have attracted most of them, but
they are practically exhausted. and now
the worlds problem of markets for the sur
plus Of farms and factories, or low wages,
want of employment, idleness and want is
near our own doors.
Oriental Markets.
THE markets for the products of our
farms and factories accessible by the At
lantic ocean will soon be filled But across
the Pacific are limitless opportunities.
Within a distance from Manila not much
greater than Havana from New York live
800, 600, 600 of people purchasing now an
nually from all nations, of the things which
we produce, to the sum of a thousand mil
lion dollars, of which we furnish D per cent.
And yet with our Pacific coast and its en-
terprising people the opening of the canal
across the iSthmus and an American mer
chant marine that > per cent should be 30.
With railroads opening up these countries
and civilization stimulating their people,
the possible increase in their trade dazZes
the ina gination.
ITO relieve home congestion starvation
and revolution, England Germany ana
France are increasing their armies, enarg
ing their fleets and either wag1ng war or
on the eve of great conflicts while paru-
tioning Africa, threatening China, selling
Asiaic principalities and madly building
railroads across the continents Of Asia and
Africa. BY victorious war and triumphant
diplomacy We in our own territory
within easy reach, at Manila, of China,
Siam, Corea, AMMAN, the East Indies and
Japan. Without war or entangling alli-
ances we will have equal rights with other
nations to the parts of the orient, with all
that it means for the demonstrated SUI
periority of our manufactures and the sur
plus harvests of our farms.
Colonial Prosecutions.
This is not a sordid view, nor can any
right apprehension of our Philippine policy
or our relations to our island colonies be
sordid or purely commercial. In spite of
ourselves we have colonial possessions. We
have. no policy to declare. no glittering
resolutions or proclamations to make and
in the future to embarrass us. We will
stamp out the instruction and establish a
stable government. We will organize local
government. We will constitute courts.
We will insure with the whole power of
the United States security for life and
property, freedom of religion and the equal
and just administration of the law.
1.-The kindergarten of liberty, under COM
petent instructors, rapidly develops its pu-
pills for larger responsibilities for citizen
ship, respect for law, for judicial duties
and for constantly increasing share in
their local and general assemblies. One
year of rule by the United States in Cuba
is a convincing object lesson. Brgands
have become farmers. and revoluuonists
conservative citizens. Order has taken the
place of anarchy, and law Of license. The
Cubans are developing their industries and
rapidly acquiring habits of self-govern-
ment So the uplifting of the people of the
Philippines to the comprehension and prac-
tice of orderly industry, respect for indi-
vidual rights, confidence and then particle
patton in government will add enormously
to their happiness and reciprocally to the
strength, prosperity and power Of our coun-