Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-26
The Consent of the Governed.
New York World.

New York World.
l. Their, is suytbing fuudane rt,.l v
distinctive IN tho A,ueric-.n =, ST. 10
of repnLl can government il is the
truth IL c!ared TO be ''self evi ient"-
that ':.o' ernnehts derive their inst
powers FROM the consent of the gov
er"ed."
In att mptrd psllIatrou oi Mr.. Nc
km'e,'T war in the Philippines Car
tam OF his supporters cite tn, sup
preston Of the Southern rebellion.
tie Louisiana purchase and our
dealings with the native indians To
prove that there are exceptions to
this principle.
The analOgies do not fit. Tie
people of the Southern States gave
their unavoidable consent to gov
eminent within and by the Union
when they applied for and obtained
admission to that ''indestructible
Union" They continued that con.
sent by participating in election, even
down to 1860. When men join in
an election it is under binding OBJ,
legation to accept the result. The
notion that minority of equal cit
liens is governed without its consent
because it is oitvoted in free cleo.
tlon is too preposterous for cousid-
Grafton in any scheme of practical
politics or OF possible government.
In the case of the sparse and scat
tered inhabitants of the territory &C
CURED from Spain and France, they
at least gave their tscit acquiescence
They did not resist or protest
ard they were guaranteed in advance
admission TO the UAion, with all the
rights. privileges and immunities of
other citizens.
The case of the Indians is almost
equally clear. They gave their con-
sent-even if, in some cases, under
duress-by making and signing
treaties with the United States.
Under these treaties they have tribal
government, lands, stipends, rations
clothing and other equivalenta for
rights recognized and surrendered.
The arrangement may not have
been wholly just, but they consented
to it.
In Sulu the American doctrine is
at least partially recognized The
Sultan OF those islands consented to
become Pr. McKinleS's satrap un
der an agreement whereby he CON
tinued to hold slaves and TO keep
harem, and he receives liberal sti-
pend from his great and good friend
the President.
In the Philippine Islsnds proper
the American principle has had no
recognition whatever. The ihhabi-
tants were called upon to submit
Internationally to our 'sovereignty.,
The proposition laid down in our
immortal Declaration that "all men
are created equal, and are endowed
by their Creator with certain i'll
alienable rights among which are
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, was denied application to all
yellow men except Sulus. The as
sertion that "to secure these rights
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed" is re-
pudiated for the 100000 Filipinos
They are not in rebellion" because
they have never acknowledged allie
glance to the United States. If thew
ever submit it will be by force, as
they did to the Spanish despotism.
and they will, as Theodore Roose-
vslt in his Life of Benton" said of
conquered people, "forever remain
alien and hostile to the conquerors."
MIR. Bryan truly declared in his
speech of acceptance that eff govern |
ments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, it is
impossible to secure a title to peopIe
either by force or by purchase