The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-22
NUfI|NA T|0NOF THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY SEPT. 8.

to another power, which II without expert
ence or training. or the ability TO maintain {
stable government mt home and absolutely
helpless to perform Its international obliga
lions with the rest OF the world.
Will Defend Our Title.
To this we are opposed. We should NC,
yield our title while our obligations last
In the language OF our platform, Our au
thority should not be less than our response.
billty, 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 ana our nag And this we are do
Ing.
so completely or so successfully as we are
doing IL now. As the sovereign power
can initiate action and shape means TO ends.
and guide the Filiplnos to selfdeyelopment
ana elfgovernment,
As a protectorate power we could not ini.
| tiate action. but would he compelled TO fol-
low and uphold IA people with no capacity
yet TO 20 alone. In the one case we can pro-
tect both ourselves and the Fillplnos from
being involved In dangerous complications;
In the other we could not protect even the
| Filipinos until after their trouble had come.
Consent of the Governed.
BESIDES if We cannot establish any gov
ernment OF our own without the consent Of
the governed, as our opponents contend.
then we could not establish a stable govern
ment for them or make ours n protectornte
| without the Ike consent. ana neither the
| majority of the people nor minority Of the
people have Invited us to assume II. We
could not maintain a protec,orate even With
provocation for conflict and possibly costly
wars.
Our rights In the Philippines are now free
Va
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
Our title IL good. Our peace commission
ers believed they were receiving n good title
when they concluded the treaty. The execu-
= tive believed 1t was IA good title when he
submitted II to the Senate OF the United
States for Its ratification. The Senate be-
lieyed 1t was good title when they gave IL
their constitutional assent. and the Con-
| gress seems not to have doubted It's com
pleteness when they appropriated SO, 100000
provided by the treaty.
Title Is Inquest enable.
III any who favored Its ratification believed
II gave us Il bad title they were 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
! creignty and established government for the
: inhabitants.
1t Is worthy of note that no one outside OF
the United States disputes the fullness and
Integrity OF the cession. What, then, Is the
real issue on this subject? Whether It Is
paramount to any other or not, II 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
forciblc and arbitrary government OF n MI
norlty. without sovereignty and authority
on our part, and with only the embarrass-
ment OF a protectorate, which draws MS 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 obliga.
lions. Nations which go to war must be
prepared to accept Its resultant obligations
ana when they make treaties must keep
them.
} Those who profess to distrust the liberal
and honorable purposes OF the adminlstra-
ton In its treatment OF the Philippines are
not justified. Imperialism has no place In
Its creed or conduct Freedom Is n 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 million lives were Of
fered and billions Of dollars expended to
/, make II lawful legacy of all without the
: consent OF master or slave.
. Strain of Hypocrisy.
5 There Is n strain OF il-concealed hypocrisy
In the anxiety to extend the constitutional
guarantees to the people OF the Philippines,
while their notification Is openly advocated
at home Our opponent may dlstrust them
selves, but they have no right to discredit
| the good faith and patriotism Of the major
7 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 II they do II IL because they have
parted with the spirit and faith Of the faith
ers and have lost the vlrillty OF the founders
Of he party which they profess to represent.
In ri AN hnp M
, scrt Its devotion to the Declaration Of indie
, pendence. That immortal Instrument OF the
fathers remained unexecuted until the peo-
pie, under the lead Of the Republican party
, In the awful clash Of battle, turned Its prom
ises into fulfllment. II wrote into the Con-
, stitution the amendments guaranteeing po-
, lltcal equality to American citizenship, and
, II has never broken them or cOunselled 9th
i ers In breaking them. IL will not he guided
= In Its conduct by one set OF principles ut
home and another set In the new territory
belonging to the United States.
, Doctrine of Lincoln.
, If our opponents would only practice as
, well ms preach the doctrines OF Abraham
Lincoln there would be no fear for the safe
ty OF our institutions ut 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 frecmen.
The flag OF the republic now floats over these
Islands as an emblem Of rlghtfu sovereign
ty. 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 desertlon The American verdict Will
he 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.
II Sufferers In Pckin.
The nation Is filed with gratitude that the
} little band, among them many OF our own
blood, who for two months had been sub
jected to privntions and peril by the attacks
OF pitilcss hordes at the Chinese capital ex-
! hiblting supreme courage In the face OF de-
spalr, have been enabled by Gods favor to
: greet their rescuers and find shelter under
their own flag.
The people not alone OF this land. but of
all lands. have watched and prayed through
the terrible stress and protracted agony OF
: the helpless sufferers In Pekln; and while
! at times the dark tldings seemed to make all
hope vain. the rescuers never faltered In the
heroic fulHllmcnt OF their noble task. We
are grateful to our own soldiers and sailors
and marines, and to all the brave men who,
though assembled under many standards.
n representing peoples and races strangers In
: country and speech, were yet united In the
| socrcd mission of carrying succOr TO the be-