Arizona republican., 1900-10-21

MT. AltSeld to the contrary notwith- standing, the voice of the people de cides things nowadays
 HE GOV in Europe as we'll as in ERNED- America. The only ab-
 CONSENT- solute government left
 INC AND over there is the czar- NON-CON- dom, and Russia is
 SENTING. more than half Asiatic
 The German emperor indulges in tall jure divino talk now and then, but when he wants money for the army or navy he has to go to the reichstag and to take what the reichstag chooses to give him. Civic liberty is as fixed a fact in England and her self-goyerning colonies as in the United States, and in some ways the English political sys- tenn is much more sd5mocratic than ours. If this months elections had gone against the Salisbury government, the noble marquis and his colleagues would have promptly gone out of of flee and Christmas would have found new premisr and ministry in pos session. Whatever the result of our November election, MT. Mckinley will be president until next March, and the new house of representatives will not begin legislating until then-if then.
 Government by the people and for the npnn1n jet another. It is not essential that all the people directly take part in it. As matter O. fact they never do. The 'corseEt of the governed" never meant anywhere or at any time what our latter-day Aguinaldian sentimentalists say it ought to mean everywhere and always. The doctrine formulated by Jefferson has precious little applicabil- ity to a state of war, or to the condi- tions arising out of a state of war; It did not restrain Abraham Lincoln from establishing the sovereignty of the United States over some millions of ve- hemently dissenting white Americans with force and arms. General Schurz and Col. Higginson personally assisted in that work of coercion, and MT. Bout well and the Springfield Republican applauded it.
 Here in our own country the con- sent of the women who are not per mitted to vote, the lads who have not reached the voting age, the unnatural ized alien residents. egc.-say three quarters of the population-is tacitly taken for granted. They are not asked whether they consent or not. Popular institutions as We have them are work able because the qualified voters under stand and agree that the decision of the ballot box must be accepted and obeyed until the rext election reverses or mou- flies it. In other words, our system assumes the existence of saving quantity of political intelligence and self-control among the voters.
 No such state of things is seen at present in Luzon-still less In the other islands of the archipelago. Probably there are a few Filipinos-one in five hundred perhaps-who have both the necessary intelligence and the no less necessary seif-control. It may be pos sible to develop these essential quail ties in the rest. That is what We have to find out. The task is not of our seek ing. It has be en laid upon us-an un- E1r.l nf Whether that war was wise or foolish, it has become history, and it is making new history right along. We done eX- banded" We cannot go back to 1897. We must go ahead, performing the du- ties which the events of 1898 ineXorably impose upon us as best we can. We must restore order in the islands. We must protect th3 friendly Filipinos, the Spanish and other foreign residents, the non- -combatants generally, against A guinaldO's gueril!as. We must sup press the brigandage that always in those parts follows the dispersal of an armed force of insurrectiOnists. We must at all costs preven, the Tagalogs from setting up a cruel and ra- pacious tyranny in the name of re- public. We must, if possible, educate the msn of the islands into an under standing of what self government is and a capacity for operating it. If we can do this, we shall have given them such a chance to work out their own salvation in peace and quiet as they never had bafore-never would have had, in all probability, but for those events of 1898. But we owe it to the Filipinos themselves no less than to civilization to make thorough work of their schooling and to care for them until they are fully able to take care of themselves.
 If this be Imperialism a cap ital I-make the most of it!
 Governor Murphy has not indulgei