Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-23
cutive and does away for the necessity Of

cutive and does away for the necessity Of
legislation.
The Army and Navy Journal. in its issue
OF august 4, the English system
ana declares that as a result of this system
q nrth OF the worlds area, containing a
nftn OF It's population, is ruled with an adj
illustrative economy which is an admin
lstrative marvel. and adds:
'One million, two hundred thousand dol
iars spent in London is the price of admin
istrative over a colonial rule whose total
budgets aggregate 81 ,724, ss54, 1876, or 80 per
cent more than our total of federal, state,
county and village expenditure for every
possible purpose for which taxes are levied.
II contrast to the results of this system
OF executive administration, the fact is
cited that the American congress has spent
an entire winter wrestling with the tariff,
lhe taxation. the administration and the
personal rights of two little islands. The
english executive is an imperial executive.
Ihe British parliament is an English legis-
iature. To the same system we are COM
ing by decree of circumstances as inevita-
Die as that of fate. If this be imperialism,
make the most of it. So far as citizenship
IS concerned the British empire is one,
dom the citizen lives under a rule essen
tally monarchial and not restricted by
the constitutional limitations of the parlia-
mentary system"
ers turning toward the dark
ages. There is nc middle ground between
.ne american policy and the European
principles, Its traditions and it's history,
1t cannot hold colonies. If it enters upon
a colonial career it must repudiate the doc
Urine that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed.
When such an issue is raised there can
only be two parties-the party, whatever it's
name may be. which believes in a republic,
ana the party, whatever it's name, which
pelieVes IN an empire; and the influence of
every citizen is, consciously or uncon-
sciously, Intentionally or Internationally
thrown upon side or the other.
Where the divine right of kings is rec
ognized, the monarch can grant different
degrees of liberty to different subjects.
way, the people of Canada. in another; the
people of Ireland in another, while the
people of India may be governed according
to stu different forms; But there can be
a republic differs from the doctrine of a
monarchy as the day differs from the
night, and between the two doctrines there
Is and ever must be, an irrepressible con-
fict.
Queen Victoria has recognized this neces-
sary antagonism between the democratic
proroguing parliament a few days ago. she
said:
Believing that the continued political
independence of the republics would be a
constant danger to the peace of South
Africa. I authorized the annexation of the
Orange Free State.'
A republic is always a menace to a
monarchy, just as truth is always a menace
to error. Self-government being the nat
ural government, must necessarily create
dissatisfaction among the subjects of those
governments which build upon some other
foundation than the consent of the gov
erned. What the Orange Free State and
republics are to South Africa, our re-
public is to the world, and only our in
creasing strength and the wide Atlantic
have protected us from the inextinguish-
able hostility which must ever exist be-
tween those who support a throne and
ereign.
Every step taken towards Imperialism
by this nation means with that the prompt
coin pointed to the interest which Euro
pean nations have in the abandonment
here of the doctrine of equal rights. He
said:
1.-The principles of Jefferson are defni-
tons and aXioms of free society. And
yet they are denied and evaded with no
small show Of success; One dashingIy
other bluntly calls them 'seIf-evident lies.
And others insiduously argue that they
apply to superior races Those express
slons, differing in form, are identical in OBJ
ject and e~ffect-the supplanting of the
principles of free government and restor-
ing those of classification, caste and legiti-
macy. They would delight a convocation
of crowned heads plotting against the peo-
pie. They are the vanguard, the miners
and sappers OF returning despOtism. We
must repulse them or they will subjugate
us"
Our opponents say that the world would
laugh at us If we should give indenend.
ence to the Filipinos; Yes. kings would
would laugh who deny the alienable rights
of men and despise the humber folk who
"along the cool. sequestered vale of life
keep the noiseless tenor of their way"
But let this nation stand erect and, spurn-
ing the brides of wealth and power, show
that there is a reality in the principles