Connecticut western news., 1900-09-13

the United States In the Philippines to small fraction of the population, a single tribe out of 30 or more inhabitins the archipelago, fraction which wantonly attacked the American troops In Manila
 while In rightful possession under the protocol with Spain, awaiting the rstis- cation of the treaty of peace by the sen- ate and which has since been lp active open rebellion against the United ststsG We are asked 10 transfer our sovereignty, to a small minority ip tbe islands without consulting the majofity and 10 abandon the largest portion or the populktion. which has been loyal to us. 10 the crush ties of the guerrilla inturgept bapds- More than this, we are akked 10 protect this minority in establishing q govern msnt and 10 this end repress sll opposi- ton of the majority. We are required to set up stable government In the interest of those who have assailed our sovereign ty and fired upon our soldiers and then maintain it at any cost or sacrifice against It's enemies within and against those having ambitious designs from without. No government can 70 certainly pre- serve the peace, restore public order. e. tablish law, justice and stable conditions as ours. Neither congress nor the sxscs- tive can establish a stable Government In these islands except under our right of sovereignty, our authority and our ass. And this we are doing.
 Self Government Yremats.a. we could not do 1t as a protectorsts power 90 completely or 60 successfully
 as we are doing 1t now. As the sovsrs eign power we can initiate action and shape means to ends and suids the Fni- pinos to self development and self sow- ernment. As protectorstc power we could not initiate action, but would be compelled 10 follow and uphold a people with no capacity yet to bs alone. In the one case we can protect both ourselves and the Flipinos from being Involved In dangerous complications. in the other we could not protect even the riitpinos until after their trouble bad come. Be- | sides, If we cannot establish any govern ment of our own without the consent of the governed, as our opponents oontenda then we could not establish a stable rovs srnment for thsm or make ours q ptotecto- rate without the like consent, and n<ithew the majority of the people nor a mfnorfts of the people have Invited us to Assume 1t. We could not maintain s protSctorsu even with the consent of the govsrn6 without giving provooation for confiots and possibly costly ware. Our rights ln the Philippines are now free from outside interference and will continue 70 in our present relation. 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 commis | sioners believed they were receiving . | good title when they concluded the treaty. | The executive believed it was a good titlk | when he submitted it to the senate of the | United States for It's ratification. The senate believed it was a rood title whsn | they gave it their constitutional assent. | and the congress ssemA not to have doubt cd It's completeness when they appropri- stsd S20. 900. 900 provided by the treaty. If any who favored Its ratification De. | lieved 1t gave us a bad title, they were not sincere. Our title is practically idsn- | ticai with that under which we hold our territory acquired since the beginning of the government and under which we have exercised full sovereignty and establish | cd government for the inhabitants. Must Accept Obligations.
 .Thars were those who two years ago were rushing us on to war with Spain | who arc unwilling now to sccept its clear | consequence, as there sH those among us wbo advocated the ratification of ths
 treaty of psact, but SOW protest sssivsf | its ohlirstiens. Nations wblch 90 to - must be prepared to accept It's result. 4 | obligations and when they make treht.ss must keep them.
 Those who profess to distrust the lIb- ersI and honorable purposes of the ad- ministration In its treatment of the phu- | ippines are not justified Imperialism has no place in its creed or conduct. Free | dom is a rock upon which the Republican party was built and now rests. Liberty | l- .k eax | which the people went to war and for
 which a million lives were offered and
 billions of dollars expended to make 1t lawful legacy to all without the consent | of master or slave. There ls a strain of | III concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety Co
 extend the constitutcnal guarantees to I the people of the Philippines while their
 publication Is openly advocated at home. | Our opponents may distrust themselves,
 but they have no right to alscredit the good faith and patriotism of tho majority
 Of the people who are opposing them. | Thsy may fear the worst form of lm-
 periaiiAm with the helpless Filipines in their hands. but ' they do 1t Is bsoause
 they have parted with the spirit and
 faith of the fatbars and have lost the | viriiity of the founders of the party which they profess to represent.
 ssThe Republican party does net have
 to assert its devotion to the Declaration | of Independence, That immortal instru-
 ment of the fathers remained unsxscut-
 cd until the people nnder the lead of the Republican party In the awful clash of
 battle turned Its promises Into fulhll-
 ment. It wrote Into the constitution the
 amendments guaranteeing political equal. | ity to American citizenship. and it has
 never broken them or counseled others ln
 breaking them. It will not be guided In | its conduct by one set of principles at
 home and another set In the new territory
 belonging to the United States."
 In conclusion MT. Mckinley says;
 .sThe obliteration of old differences. the
 common devotion to the Hag and the com.
 mon sacrifices for It's honor SO conspicu-
 ously shown by the men of the north and
 south in the Spanish war have SO
 strengthened the ties ef friendship and
 mutual respect that nothing can ever again divide us The nation faces the new century gratefully aud hopefully,
 with inores sing low cY country, with firm
 faith In It's free institutionA and with high
 resolve that they shall not perish from
 the earth"
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