The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-10


our flag. And this we are doing We
could not do Il as protectoraie power 50
| completely or so successfully as we are
doing It, AS the sovereign power we can
initiate action and shape means to ends
and guido the Filpinos to self-develop-
ment and self-government. As a protee-
torate power. we could mot initiate ac-
ton, but would be compelled to follow
ana uphold people With no capacity to
! 80 alone. In the one case we can pro.
tect both ourselves and the Fiipinos
from being involved In dangerous compN-
| cations; In the other we could moi pro-
test even TO the Filiplnos until after their
trouble had come. Besides, II we can not
establish any government OF our own
without tho consent o, the governed. ms
our opponents contend. then VIZ could rot
establish stable government for them or
make ours protectorate without the
Ike consent, and neither the majority OF
4 the people or a minority OF the people
! have invited us to assume Il. We could
not maintain protectorate even with the
consent OF the governed without giving
prosocation for conflicts and pnssih y
costly wars. Our rights In the Philip
pines are now free from outside Interior
ence and will continue in our present re-
lation. They would not bo thus tree In
any other relation We will not give up
/ our own 10 guarantee another sover-
eighty. Our title is. good, Our peace
commissioners believed they were re-
reiving good title wheu they concluded
the treaty. The executive believed II was
good title when he submitted Il to the
senate OF the United States for its rau.
hcation The senate believed 1t was Il
good title when they gave IL their consti-
tional assent aud the congress seems 10 to
h&ve doubted its completeness when ;hey
appropriated $40 600, 900 provided by the
treaty. IL any who favored its ratinca.
tion believed Il gave liz a bad title, they
were not sincere. Our title IS practically
identical with that under whuh we hold
our territory acquired since tho beginning
OF the government and under which we
have exercised full sovereignty and IS.
taplished government fer the inhabitants.
II is worthy to note that NO one outside
OF the United States disputes the fullnesa
ana integrity Of the oession. What tGcn
Is the real issue on this subject WhetN-
er 1t is paramount TO any other or not,
1t Is whether We shall be responsible for
the government of the Philippines With
the sovereignty and the authority which
enables us to guide them to regulated
liberty law, safety and progress or
whether we shall be responsible for tho
iofcible aud arbitrary government of
minority without sovereignty and author
ity ON our part and with only the em-
harraasment OF a proteetorate which
draws 10 into their troubles without the
power OF preventing them
There were those who two years ago
were rushing us on to war with Spain
who are unwilling now to accept its clear
consequence, Az there are tuose among
us who advocated the ratification OF the
treaty OF peace, but now protest against
lie obligations. Nations watch 60 to w,lr
must be prepared to accept It's resultant
obligations aud when they make treaties
must keep them. These who profess to
distrust the liberal aud honorable puf-
pos g of the administrator in It's trent-
ment of the Filipinls are not Justified
Imperialism has taken no place in It's
creed or conduct Freedom is rock
upon which the republican party waJ
built and now rests. Liberty is the great
republican doctrine for which the pen.
pie went to war and for which million
lives were offered and billions OF dollars
expended to make Il lawful legacy o,
ali without the consent of master or
slave There Is a strain of ill-concealei
hypocrisy In the anxiety to extend the
constitutional guarantees to The people
OF the Philippines while their publication
Is openly advocated at home. Our OPP
ponenis may diatrUst themselves but they
have no right TO discredit tho good laith
and patriotism OF the majority OF tho
may fear the worst form OF Imperialism
vita the helpless Filipinos in their hands
hut ii they do 81, it is because thoy have
parted with the spirit and faith of tbs
fathers and have lost the yirlity of the
founders of the party which they pro-
teas 10 represent,
The republican party does not have
to assert its devotion to the Declaration
OF Independence. That immortal instru-
ment Of the fathers remained uneXecut-
ed until the ueOple under the lead OF tho
republican party turned It's promises into
fuihlment, 1t wrote into the eonstltu-
ti0n the amendments guaranteeing poiu-
zeal equality to American citizenship
and IT, has never broken them or couu-
SEIZED others in breaking them. IL VIII
not be guided in its conduct by one set
OF principles at home and another set Ia
the new territory belonging TO the Unit
ted States. II our opponents would only
practice as we'll as preach the doctrines
OF Abraham Lincoln, there would be no
fear for the safety OF our institutions at
home or their frightful influence IN any
territory over which our nag ioats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen. The nag OF the republic now
floats over these islands as an emblem OF
rightful sovereignty. VIII the republic
stay and dispense 10 their inhabitants
the blessing OF liberty. education and |
free institutions or steal away, leaving
them to anarchy or Imperialism
The American question Is between
duty and deserton-the American YER
dict Will be for duty and against deser-
lion for the republic against anarchy
aud Imperialism.
The country has been fully advised OF
the purposes OF the United states la Chi
ma and they will be faithfully adhered to
as already defined,
The Nation Is nlled with gratitude that
the little band among them many of our
own blood. who for two months have
feen subjected to priyati0ns and peril
by the attacks OF pitiless hordes al the
capital exhibiting supreme cour-
age in the face OF despair, have been
enabled by Gods favor to greet their
reseuers and find shelter under their own
nag.
The people not alone OF this land, but
Of all lands, have watched and prayed
through the terrible stress and protract
ed agony OF the helpless sufferers In Pc
kin and while at times the dark tidlngs
seemed TO make all hope vain, the res
cuers never fatered In the heroic full
nliment OF their noble task.
We are grateful 20 our own soldiers ana
ia Tors and marines and 20 all the brave
men who, though assembled under MANI