Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-30
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any European power. except to rescu
our citizens and theirs.
W coyet no Chimes Territory and W,
will acquire none. We desire no terrific
rial sphere of influence. We will give n,
OF sentimental. to the dismemberment o
China. or to the extinction or her SOW
erelsnty by the acquisition of spheres o
influence by n European power.
REGENERATION IN CHINA.
- look for a regeneration as the result
or the commissions she is now suffering
IT VIII come to pass not by the partition
OF that mighty and immemorial empire
put by its full entry into commercial 70.
iations with the other nations Of thu
world. The process will not be a long
one. 1t has been going on for so years
ana has become more perfect and eX-
tenslve every year. When fully com
pleted the United States will be the
/ greatest participant in that trade of the
Pacific which Humboldt predicted more
than s~eienty-tipe years ago would be the
greatest commerce that land and sea
have ever known. We need cross bu.
one ocean to grasp the wealth of Ormus
and of Ind Europe must traverse foul
seas to share it. We can produce every
thing which that Unsuitable market can
absorb. just as now We are producing
and exporting our fabrics, textile. metal
lie ana miscellaneous, to every market
In the world, as the direct result of re-
publican economic policies put in force
during our civil war and steadily per-
sisted in by that party ever since.
This is manifest destiny: it is written
by All auspicious astrolosy upon the sky
of a visible future. 1t will give fifteen
million of people to our states of the
Pacific coast. it will open a career to the
talents of an aspiring youth and in every
way carry the United States far along
On that course of national grandeur for
which l believe it was ordained.
Imperialism is not the paramount is
sue OF the campaign and cannot be made
SO. II adjustment Of anE question as
10 the Philippines is to be considered af-
ter rebellion against the sovereignty and
authority of the United States has been
put down. The paramount issues this
year are financial and economic. Shall
the anti-protection party of Is to | be
put in power to advance its principles by
the enormous owe of executive infiu-
ence in case Mr.. Bryan is elected, and.
win the first engagement in a campaign
the next battle of which will be for the
control of both houses of congress:
The question for the plain people is. do
they wish, with the Instructions of a bit
ter experience fresh and deep in their
memories, to change. or submit
to the change of that Astounding pros
perity which came with the election OF
President McKinley-a prosperity which
Io uSItftSidttS piolloi III vi SpSdnS W.
MES nor dare not rejoice in or even al
Jude to. Aguinaldo can wait until the
American people taxi "a bond of fate"
if necessary. by annihilating for the
preservation of their own domestic in
terests the political combination which
is at the same time their enemy and the
alder and abettor of the Tagal rebels?
MUST CRUSH REBELLION.
The immediate duty of this govern
ment as to the Philippines is to maintain
its sovereignty and to crush rebellion
against it. What its constitutional pow
ers and limitations are can be more
discussed and considered after
the authority of the United States shall
been firmly established. 1 do not
believe that the constitution contains
any disabling inhibitations which will
prevent this government from governing
and governing those stands as their best
may demand. and according to
she capacities of their people. No such
interviewed in the admins
traitor of Louisiana. Florida or the ter
ritory which we acquired from Mexico,
Congress legislated at the last session
in regard to the government Of Alaska
in some particulars entirely unwarrant-
by the constitution, if the disabling
construction placed upon it by our OPP
ponents is correct. There are certain
large and general considerations, how
CIV Sl I'M W lily lllIlu. uGllfJLlSlIdl6
that the authority to govern these de-
Tendencies is vested in congress subject
to no disabling limitations or certain
provisions of the constitution, which, be-
they are inapplicable to such a sit
never could have been designed
by the amer to apply to it.
HAVE POWER TO GOVERN.
81 believe it never was heard before
that any constitutional government,
with the full and complete powers of a
vas disabled by the very instru-
lnent which created it from the acqui-
sition of territory by the consideration
that it would be impossible to govern it
when acquired. Speaking r1y own opin-
ion. J would hold the Philippines perma-
nently and not Professionally. I would.
from time to time. as their people dem
onstrate their capability. give them the
fullest power of self-govrnment they
are capable of exercising. would do
as Great Britain did with a race of the
same stock in the Straits settlements
where so years ago. she found a barbar-
sultans, making wal on each other and
tnfesting the seas with piracy. Little by
little h has given them self-goyern-
ment. until their standardization is
now almost complete. It is one of the
most productive, prosperous Inc peace
full communities in the world. 1t is
loyal to the mother state and it's soldiers
stand ready to be marshaled in arms for
the protection of her sovereignty and for
civilization in China.
THE conditions and situations as to
Cuba n the Philippines are not the
same. We never had sovereignty over
Cuba. We have sovereignty over the
Philippines. When we entervened as be-
tween Cuba and Spain, the Cubans were