Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-05-18
NATIONAL DESTINY.

NATIONAL DESTINY.
American Soil Ia Our Limit-All States
men Agree Republicans Determined
to Overthrow the Nation.
There is not an opinion in
favor of the principle that the
United States can possess colo
MES, vassels or territory not to
become states in the Union.
Mex Kinley himself was of that
opinion until he changed his
mind and forced congress to take
the great step towards the de-
struction of q peoples govern
ment, the obliteration Of popu-
lar sovereignty and the creation
of an independent. personal en-
pire.
Here are the truths expressed
by all of our statesmen begin
ing with Mark Hanna. A close
study of them will reveal the fact
that McKinly and the Republi-
can leaders are departing from
these truths and violating their
own convictions.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
'T speak not of forcible annex
alton, for that cannot be
thought of. That by our code
of morality would be criminal
7sHuman rights and constitu-
tional privileges must not be for
gotten in the race for wealth and
commercial supremacy. The gov
ernment of the people must be
by the people and not by a few
of the people. 1t must rest upon
the free consent of the governed
andOall OF the governed. Power,
it must be remembered, which is
secured by oppression or usurpa-
ton or by any form of injustice,
is soon dethroned. We have no
right in law or morals to usurp
thai which belongs to another,
whether it be property or power.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
"Arbitrary governments may
have territories and distant
possessions, because arbitrary
Governments may rule them by
different laws and sytems. We
can do no such thing. They
must be of us, part of us, or else
strangers. | think [ see a course
adopted which is likely to turn
the Constitution of the land into
a deformed monster, into a curse
rather than a blessing; in fact, a
form of an unequal government
not founded on popular repre-
sentation, not founded on equali-
ty; but on the grossest inequali-
ty; and l think that this pro-
cess will go on, or that there
| is danger that it will go on, un-
til this union shall fall to pieces.
I resist it to-day and always.
Whoever falters or whoever fails,
I contest. ."-Daniel Webster in
q. S. Senate, March %, 1S4S.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
.sIt is a remarkable feature Of
the Constitution of the United
States that it's trainers never
contemplated colonies, or
provinces, or territories at all.
On the other hand, they contem-
plated states only, nothing less;
states, ] perfect states, equal
states, as they are called here,
sovereign states.
There is reason-there is sound
political wisdom in this provi-
sion of the Constitution exclud-
ling colonies which are always
subject to oppression and ex-
Guiding provinces which always
tend to corrupt and ultimately
to break down the parent state.
"By the Constitution of the
United States there are no sub
ljects. Every citizen of any stat
is free and equal citizen OF tn
United States. Again, by the
CONSTITUTION of the United States
} there are no permanent prOvln
ces or dependencies.
JAMES MADISON.
"The object of the federal Con
stitution is to secure the unioT
of the thirteen primitive states
which we know to be practicable
and to add to them such othel
states as may rise in their Owl
bosoms, or in their neighbor
hood, which we cannot doub
will be practicable. "-Federalist
mo. Ia.
US. SUPREME COURT.
"The genius and character Q
! our Institutions are peaceful