Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

to another power, which is without expert
ence or training, or the ability 10 maintain q
stable government at home and absolutely
helpless to perform Its international obIlga-
lions with the rest of the world.
Will Defend our Title.
To this we are opposed. We should not
yield our title while our obligations last.
In the language of our platform. '.0ur 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.
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 dag. And this We are do
Ing.
so completely or so successfully as we are
doing IL now. AS the sovereign power we
can initiate action and shape means TO ends,
and guide the Fflipinos TO self-deyelopment
As a protectorate power we could not ini-
tiate action, but would be compelled to fol-
low and uphold q 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 othe- we could not protect even the
Fflipinos until otter their trouble had come.
Consent of the Governed.
Besides. IL we cannot establish any gov.
eminent OF our own without the consent OF
then we could not establish a stable govern.
ment for them or make ours a protectorate
without the like consent. and neither the
majority of the people nor a minority OF the
people have invited us to assume Ii. We
could not maintain a protectorate even with
the consent of the governed without giving
provocation 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 would not
be thus free In any other relation. We will
NOT give up our own TO guarantee another
sovereignty.
Our title is good. Our peace commission
ers believed they were receiving n good title
when they concluded the treaty. The execu-
tive believed IL was a good title when he
submitted IL TO the Senate OF the United
States for Its ratification. The Senate be-
lieyed IL was q good title when they gave IL
their constitutional assent, and the Con-
gress seems not 10 have doubted Ito COM
pleteness when they appropriated s20,ooo,000
provided by the treaty.
Title Is Unquestionable.
II any who favored Its ratification believed
Ii gave us a bad title they we're 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 fullness and
integrity or the %cession. What, then, Is the
real issue on this subject? Whether II Is
paramount TO any other or not, IL 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
forcible and arbitrary government OF a nil
nority, without sovereignty aud authority
on our part. and with only the embarrasS-
ment OF a protectorate, which draws us into
their troubles without the power of prevent
ing them.
Obligations of War.
There were those who two years ago were
rushing us on TO war with Spain who are
unwilling now to accept Its clear conse-
quences, as there are those among us who
advocated the ratification of the treaty of
peace. but now protest against Its obllga-
lions. Nations which 20 70 war must be
prepared TO accept its resultant obligations,
and when they make treaties must keep
them.
Those wEo profess to dlstrust the liberal
and honorable purposes OF the admlnistra-
ton In its treatment OF the Philippines are
not justified. Imperialism has no place In
Its creed or conduct. Freedom is a rock up
on which the Republican party was builded
and now rests. Liberty Is the great Republic
can doctrine for which the people went to
war and for which a million lives were Of
fered and billions OF dollars expended TO
make 1t a lawful legacy OF all without the
consent OF master or slave.
Strain of Hypocrisy.
There Is a strain OF iIl-concealed hypocrisy
In the anxiety to extend the constitutional
guarantees to the people OF the Philippines,
while their notification Is openly advocated
al 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 who are opposed to them.
They may fear the worst form OF imperial
ism with the helpless Filipinos In their
hands. but IL they do IL Is because they have
parted with the spirit and faith of the faith
ers and have lost the virillty Of the founders
OF the party which they profess 70 represent.
The Republican party doesn't have 70 as
pendence. That immortal instrument OF the
fathers remained unexecuted until the peo-
pie. under the lead OF the Republican party
Ia the awful clash of battle, turned Its prom
ises into fulhllment. IL wrote into the Con-
stitution the amendments guaranteeing POI
litical equality TO American citizenship. and
ers In breaking them. 1t will not be guided
In its conduct by one set of principles at
home and another set In the new territory
belonging 10 the United States.
Doctrine of Lincoln.
II our opponents would only practice as
well as preach the doctrines of Abraham
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 dag OF the republic now floats over these
islands as an emblem OF rightfui sovereign
~. VIII 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
be 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 as already
defined.
Sufferers i'm Pekin.
The nation Is filled with gratitude that the
little band, among them many of our own
blood. who for two months had been sub
jected TO privations and peril by the attacks
OF pitiless hordes at the Chinese capital, ex-
hiblting supreme courage In the face of de-
spair, have been enabled by Gods favor to
greet their rescuers and fnd shelter under
their own flag.
The people not alone OF this land, but or
all lands. hare watched and prayed through
the terrible stress and protracted agony OF
the helpless sufferers IN Pekin: and while
at times the dark tidings seemed 10 make all
hope vain. the rescuers never faltered In the
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