Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-28

/ citizens OF the United States.
The fourth and fifth treaties were
with Mexico, July 4, 184S, and June 30,
1854-the peace and supplementary
"Gadsen purchase treaties. They con-
tained this provision:
ARTICLE Ix-The Mexicans who in
the territories aforesaid shall not pre-
serve the character of citizens of the
Mexican Republic shall be Incorporated
into the Union of the United States,
and be admitted at the proper time
Ito be judged of by the Congress of the
the rights of citizens of the United
states, according to the principles
of the Consultation, and In the mean
time they shall be maintained and pro-
tected in the flee enjoyment of their
liberty and property and secured in the
free exercise of their religion without re-
striction.
The sixth treaty was with Russia,
June 20 1867-the Alaskan purchase 1t
provided
ARTICLE III-The inhab itants of the
ceded territory, according to their choice,
reserving their natural allegiance, may
return to Russia within three years, but
If they should prefer to remain in the
ton of the uncfviljxed native tribes,
shall be admitted to the enjoyment
OF all the rights, advantages and
immunities OF citizens of the United
States, and shall be maintained and pro-
tected in the free enjoyment of their lib
erty, property and religion. The unciy-
ilized tribes will be subject to such
laws and regulations as the United
States may from time to time ad0Dt
In regard to aboriginal tribes of
that country.
The World points out that Sin every
one of these six treaties the rights and
liberties, civil and political, of the in
haStants are carefully safeguarded.
The phrases are according to the prin-
ciples of the Constitution and all the
rights, advantages and immunities of
citizens of the United States In the
sixth, The Russian treaty, we promise
to treat the uncivilized tribes of Alas
ka In just Ete same manner as we treat
our Indians-as wards, with their own
political organization and with internal
government. Every one OF the six
treaties makes a clear, an inspiring
picture Of republican principles in ac-
ton, OF freedom and justice and lib
Cl ~ GNCly OtlC vi IlSln dnAcACu Gull
tiguous or continental territory, adapt
ed and pledged to become an integral
part of the free and self-governing
United States"
Now comes the seventh treaty-the
Spanish treaty of April II, 1885, ceding
Porto Rico, the Ladrones and the Phil
ippines to the United States It pro-
vides, regarding the inhabitants-and
mark the difference from the fore
going treaties:
ARTICLE IX.-Spanish subjects, ma
tiVeS of the peninsula, may pre-
serve their allegiance to the Crown of
Spain by making before a. court of rec
ord, within year from the date of the
exchange of notifications of this treaty
a declaration of their decision to preserve
such allegiance, in default of which dec
laration they shall be held to have re-
nounced 1t and TO have adopted the ma
tionality of the territory in which they
the civil rights and political
status of the native inhabitants of
United States shall be determined
by the Congress.
The familiar phrases of all the other
treaties are missing here. There are
none of the time-honored guarantees of
rights, liberties and immunities under
the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence. Not one word Yet
several hundred thousands of these in
habitants are European, or of Euro
pean descent and education, and mill
ions Of them ChristianS-a people liy-
ing under enlightened and civilized
governments of their own, whom AID
miral Dewey, Major General Anderson,
General Charles King and other we'll
qualified American officers declared
were far superior in intelligence and
capacity for civilized self government
than the Cubans, to whom we propose
to give it.
AS the World says, "Since that (the
Philippine treaty. was adopted, the
,, Administration has established in Por-
to Rico the principle Of civil govern
ment without the consent of and with
out consultation with the governed
and the principle of taxation without
representation. In the Philippines it
has consulted the governed only once
-the Sultan of Sulu. to sanction his
despotism and to subsidize him and his
harem and to tolerate polygamy and
slavery In the abrupt change OF
| phrase and sentiment shown by COM
pairing the seventh treaty with the
other six we have at glance the re-
versal of the traditions, the principles,
the professions and the practices of the
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