Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-25

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| ence or training, or the ability to maintain a
| stable government at home and absolutely
| helpless to perform its international oblfga-
tions with the rest of the world
| Will Defend Our Title.
To this we are opposed We should not
yield our title while our obligations last
In the language of our platform, Our au-
| thority should not be less than our RESPONSE
bility, and our present responsibility Is to
esta blish 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-
| tabtish stable government in these islands
| except under our right of sovereignty, our
authority and our flag. And this we are do
We could not do it as protectorate power
so completely or SO successfully as we are
| doing 1t now. As the sovereign power we
| can initiate action and shape means to ends,
and guide the Filipfnos to self-development
and self government.
As protectorate power we could not fni-
tiate action but would be compelled to fol-
low and uphold people with no capacity
yet to go alone In the one case we can pro-
| tect both ourselves and the Filipinos from
| being involved in dangerous complications;
In the other We could not protect even the
ffhp1nos 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
L u.
| then we could not establish a stable govern
ment for them make ours a protectOrate
without the like consent. and neither the
| majority of the people nor a minority Of the
people have invited us to assume it. We
| could not maintain a protectorate even with
the consent of the governed without giving
| provocation for conflict and possibly costly
| wars.
| Our rights in the Philippines are now free
from outside interference and Will continue
so in our present relations. They would not
be thus free in any other relation. We will
not give up our own 10 guarantee another
| sovereignty.
! Our title Is good Our peace commission
| ers believed they were receiving good title
| when they concluded the treaty. The e3ecu-
tive believed II was a good title when he
submitted 1t to the Senate of the United
States for It's ratification. The Senate be-
| ieved 1t was good title when they gave 1t
| their constitutional assent. and the Con-
gress seems not to have doubted Its COM
pleteness when they appropriated $50, 600, O %
| provided by the treaty.
Title Is Unqueetionable.
II any who favored It's ratification believed
| 1t gave US 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
ereignty 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. 1t Is whether
we shall be responsible for the government
of the Philippines. with the sovereignty and
authority which enables us 10 guide them TO
regn lated liberty. law, safety and progress,
Or whethe shall be responsible for the
forcibie and arbitrary government of IA mi
nority. without sovereignty and authority
| on our part. and with only the embarrass-
ment of protectorate. which draws us into
their troubles wit bout 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 those among who
advocated the ratification of the treaty of
peace but now protest against Its obligA-
| lions. Nations which go 10 war must he
prepared TO accept It's resultant obligations
and when they make treaties must keep
them.
Those who profess 10 distrust the liberal
| and honorable purposes of The administra-
ton in it's treatment of the Philippines are
not justified Imperialism has no place in
its creed or conduct Freedom is Il rock up
on which the Republican party was huiiina
| and now rests. Liberty Is the great Rerub.i-
war and for which a million lives were of
make it lawful legacy Of all without the
consent of master or slave.
Strain Of Hypocrisy.
There Is strain OF III concealed hypocrisy
In The anxiety tn extend the constitutional
guarantees to the people OF the Philippines.
while their Dullitcltion Is openly advocated
at home. Our opp nrIi may DIS ru 1T hem
selves, but they have Do right 10 diScredit
the good faith and patriotism of the major
lily of the people who are opposed to them-
They may fear the worst form OF iniI;eral-
ism with the helpless Fipinos iii their
hands. hut if they d.. IL is in cause they have
parted with the spirit aud faith Of the faith
ers and bav" lost the virilty of The founders
of the party which they profess to represent.
The Republicans party doesn't have TO AS
sert its devotion 10 the Declaration of hide
pnndence 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 It's prom
ises into fulfIlment. 1t wrote into the Con
stituiion the amendments guaranteeing po-
litical equality to American citizenship, and
1t has never broken them or counselled 9th
ers in breaking them. II will not he guided
In its conduct by one set of principles at
home and another set in the new territory
belonging to the init ed States.
Doctrine of Linco'n.
IL our opponents would only practice as
well preach the doctrines of Abraham
Lincoln there wond he no fear for the safe
ty Of our Institutions at home or their fright
full influence in any territory over which our
flag floats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto Rice
and the Philippines by American freemen.
The flag of the republic now floats over these
islands an emblem of rightfui sovereign
ty. Will 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 desertion. The American verdict will
be 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.
Sufferers in Pekin.
The nation Is filled with gratitude that the
little band, among them many of own
blood, who for two months had been sub
jected to privations and peril by the attacks
Of pitiless hordes at the Chinese capital. ex-
hibiting supreme courage In the face of de-
spair have been enabled by Gods favor TO
greet their rescuers and find shelter under
their own Gag.
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 idings seemed to make all
hope vain. the rescuers never faltered in the
heroic fulflment of their noble task. We
are grateful to own soldiers and sailors
aud marines, and to all the brave men who,
though assembled under many standards,
representing peoples and races strangers in
country and speech, were yet united In the
sacred mission of carrying succor to the be-
siered with a success that is now the cause