Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-28

cannot deal with them because the old
methods do not fit them. There is moth
ing so narrow as the egotism of prece-
dent.
Let us be specific The Philippine peo-
pie are to be governed. We can govern
them best by considering them as they
are. We cannot deal with them as we
would with New Englanders. We must
not ignore differences of location, condi-
ton. climate. race. With all our new do
mnions we must deal as facts demand.
Our constitution does not prohibit this.
1t says, Congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules
and regulations respecting territory and
other property belonging to the United
States Even if this present develop
ment was not dreamed of when the con-
stitution was framed. that ordinance of
national life still authorizes it.
For the constitution grows as the peo-
pie grow. otherwise the people would
have to stop growing or the constitu-
tion would have to be destroyed. Neither
is necessary. The constitution is not
contract of purchase and sale, or a deed,
or life insurance policy. 1t is an or
dinance of national life. Let us thank
God for a Hamilton, and Marshall. The
constitution was made for the American
| constitution. The constitution does not
give immortality to the nation: the ma
tion gives Immortality to the constitu-
ton.
The saying that Our constitution fol-
lows the flag is only partly true. The
whole truth is this: Our institutions fol-
low the flag. Our constitution is only
one of our institutions. Our constitu-
| ton did not give us our institutions: our
institutions gave us our constitution.
| Our institutions follow the flag, the SIM
| plest first, later the more complex and
| finally. when the way is prepared our
| noblest institution. the American conSti-
| tuition. follows the flag. Free schools,
| equal laws. impartial justice, social or
| der and, at last. when these have done
/ their work and our wards are ready to
understand rightly use it, our constitu
! ton, which is our method of government.
follows the flag. First the blade, then
| the ear. then the full corn in the ear.
Our flag. our institutions. our constitu-
ton. The American constitution follows
| the flag when the American people deem
| it best and the American people may be
| trusted.
| The Puritan insisted upon settling his
| own questions in his own way, and he
| knew what his own questions We're. He
had the logic of geography. and we, his
/ children, must have it, too. Any canal
| which joins the American Pacific to the
American gulf must therefore, be itself
| American. The Antilles are the major
premises; the Philippines and Hawais
! are the minor premises; all Central
| American and isthmian canals finish
/ that sylogism. The Puritan had that
independence which consists in self-de
| pendence in his own affairs.
! Apply this to the present facts. The
| Philippine question is an American ques-
ton: the American nation must work it
| out. We cannot permit a concert of
F! powers in solving it. The Cuban ques-
| ton is an American question: the Amer
| lean nation must work it out. We cannot
| permit a concert of powers in solving it.
| All Atlantic and Pacific canals and the
| future of Central America, so far as af-
| fected thereby, are American questions.
| We cannot permit a concert of powers in
| solving them. This sentiment is not
! anti-foreign: it is only pro- o-American.
International respect is based on re-
spective national strength as we'll as on
justice. Remember that the figure of
justice always bears a sword. Geogra-
ply and interest, not altrusm, are the
bases of fundamental national rights.
America is today the young man of the
nations, eager for his work, and with
that work waiting to be done. We will
not tie his hands; we will not bind his
| future. Mr.. President. I propose this
sentiment: America, the young man OF
the nations-the proudest development OF
the Puritan spirit. Give him clean fu-
ture and free hand and he will make OF
the new epoch the beginning of man.
kinds golden age
Some of Senator Beveridge's views
will no doubt CRATE harshly upon the
, ears of Mr.. Atkinson and his group o.
anti-expansionists, but on the whole i
will be difficult to point out just where
the eloquent young senator has misrep
!, resented the spirit of the young man o
, | the nations.