The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-09-19

"Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1900
REDwOOD FALLS,


to smother power, which Is without expert
ence or training, or the ability to maintain =
J helpless to perform It's international obliga-
lions with the rest Of the world.
Will Defend Our Title.
TO this we are opposed. We should mot
yield our title while our obligations last.
In the language Of our platform, "Our au-
thority should not be less than our RESPONSE
bility, and our present responsibility Is to
establish our authority In every part Of the
islands.
i No government can so certainly preserve
the peace, restore public order, establish
law, justice and stable conditions as ours.
Neither Congress nor the Executive can es-
tablish a stable government in these islands
except under our right of sovereignty, our
authority and our nag. And this we are do
ing.
We could not do it as protectorate power
doing It now. As the as sovereign power we
can initiate action and shape means to ends,
and guide the Filipinos to self-development
and self-government.
As protectorate power we could not inl-
tate action, but would be compelled to fol-
low and uphold people with no capacity
yet to go alone. In the one case we can pro-
tect both ourselves and the Filipinos from
being involved in dangerous complications:
In the other we could not protect even the
Filipinos until after their trouble had come.
Consent of the Governed.
Il Besides, IL we cannot establish any gov
eminent Of our own without the consent OF
the governed, as our opponents contend,
then we could not establish a stable govern
ment Tor them or make ours protectOrate
without the like consent. and neither the
majority Of the people nor minority Of the
people have invited us to assume 1t. We
could not maintain protectoratc even with
the consent OF the governed without giving
proyocation for conflict and possibly costly
wars.
Our rights in the Philippines are now free
from outside interference and will continue
SO In our present relations They wemld not
not give up our own to guarantee another
sovereignty
Our title is good. Our peace commission
erS believed they were receiving good title
when they concluded the treaty. The execu-
tive believed it was good title when he
submitted It to the Senate Of the United
states for its ratification. The Senate be-
lieved it was good title when they gave it
their constitutional assent, and the Con-
gross seems not to have doubted its COM
DleteneSS when they appropriated sec, OOO, 900
provided by the treaty.
Title Is Unquestionable.
If any who favored its ratification believed
it gave 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 SOW
ereignty and established government for the
inhabitants.
1t is worthy of note that no one outside Of
the United States disputes the fulness and
integrity of the cession. What then, is the
real issue on this subject? Whether it is
paramount to any other or not, it is whether
| we shall be responsible for the government
of the Philippines, with the sovereignty and
authority which enables us to guide them to
regulated liberty. law. safety and progress,
Or whether we shall be responsible for the
fofcible and arbitrary government of mi
nority. without sovereignty and authority
on part. and with only the embarrass-
ment of a protectorate which draws us into
their troubles without the power Of prevent
ing them.
i Obligations of War.
There were those who two years ago were
rushing us on to war with Spain who are
| unwilling now to accept it's clear conse-
/ quences, as there are those among us who
| advocated the ratification of the treaty OF
peace. but now protest against its obliga-
tons. Nations which go to must be
prepared to accept its resultant obligations,
and when they make treaties must keep
them.
Those who profess to distrust the liberat
and honorable purposes of the administra-
not justified. Imperialism has no place in
it's creed or conduct. Freedom is a rock up
on which the Republican party was builded
and now rests Liberty is the great Repub!i-
war and for which a million lives were Of
fered and billions of dollars expended to
consent Of master or slave.
i Strain of Hypocrisy.
There is a strain of ill-concealed hypocrisy
in the anxiety to extend the constitutional
; guarantees to the people of the philippines,
| while their notification is openly advocated
at home. Our opponent may distruSt them
selves, but they have no right to discredit
the good faith and patriotism Of the major
ity of the people e., who are opposed to them
ism with the helpless. Filipinos In their
hands. but If they do 1t is because they have
parted with the spirit and faith Of the faith
ORG nd huv loSf tha VII nf ha fnI,n 1Aru
of the party which they profess to represent.
The Republican party doesn't have to as
) sert its devotion to the Declaration of indie
: pendence That immortal instrument of the
| fathers remained unexecuted until the peo-
pie, under the lead of the Republican party
in the awful clash of battle, turned it's prom
iSeS into fulfillment. 1t wrote into the Con-
stituton the amendments guaranteeing po-
litical equality to American citizenship, and
it has never broken them or counselled 9TH
ers in breaking them. 1t Will not be guided
in it's conduct by one set Of principles at
home and another set in the new territory
belonging to the United States.
i Doctrine of Lincoln.
i If our opponents would only practice as
well as preach the doctrines of Abraham
I Lincoln there would be no fear for the safe
ty of our institutions at home or their fright
full influence in any territory over which our
flag floats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto Rico
and the Philippines by American freemen.
The flag Of the republic now floats over these
islands as an emblem Of rghtful sovereign
ty. Will the republic stay and dispense to
their Inhabitants the blessings OF liberty,
education and free institutions, or steal
away, leaving them to anarchy or imperial
ism?
The American question is between duty
and desertion The American verdict will
he for duty and against desertion. for the
Republic against both anarchy and imperial
ism.
| The country has been fully advised OF the
purposes Of the United States in China, and
they will be faithfully adhered to already
defined.
Sufferers in Pekin.
The nation is filled with gratitude that the
little band. among them many Of our own
blood. who for two months had been SUBJ
jected to privations and peril by the attacks
Of pitiless hordes at the Chinese capital. ex-
hibiting supreme courage in the face Of de-
spar, have been enabled by Gods favor to
greet their rescuers and find shelter under
| their own dag.
The people not alone Of this land, but Of
! all lands. have watched and prayed through
the terrible stress and protracted agony Of
/ the helpless sufferers In Pekin; and while
at times the dark tidings seemed to make all
| hope vain. the rescuers never faltered in the
J heroic fuldIlment Of their noble task We