The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-10

| obligation is to be no less, but our title
is to be surrendered to another power.
| which is without experience or training,
| or the ability to maintain a stable gov
eminent at home and absolutely helpless
! to perform Its international obligations
| with the rest of the world To this we
are opposed. We should not yield our
title while our obligations last In the
| thority should not be less than our re-
sponsibility, and our present respou-
sibility is to establish our authority in
every part of the islands.
| No government can so certainly pre-
| serve the peace, restore public order, es-
tablish law, justice and stable conditions
| es ours Neither congress nor the ex-
| ecutlVe can establish g. stable govern
ment in these islands except under our
right of sovereignty, our flag. And this
we are dong.
We could not do it as a protectorate
power SO completely or so successfully
! as we are doing 1t now AS the SOW
! ereign power We can initiate action and
shape means to ends, and guide the Fill
| ipinos to sself-government. AS protec-
torate power we could not initiate action,
but would be compelled to follow and
uphold the people with no capacity yet to
| go alone. In the one case we can protect
both ourselves and the Fiipinos from be-
| ing involved in dangerous complications;
in the other we could not protect even the
Filipinos until after their trouble had
come. Besides, if we cannot establish
diiy government our own without the
consent of the governed, as our opponents
contend, then we could not establish a
stable government for them or make ouI s
a protectorate without the like consent,
ana neither the majority of the people
nor minority of the people have in
vited us to assume it. We could not
maintain protectorate even with the
consent of the governed without giving
provocation for conflicts and possibly
| costly wars. Our rights in the Philippines
are now free from outside interference,
and will continue so in our present rela-
ton. They would not be thus free in
any other relation. We will not give up
our own to guarantee another sover-
eighty.
GOOD TITLE.
Our title is good Our peace commissions
believed they were receiving a good title
when they concluded the treaty. The ex-
ecutive believed it was a good title when
ne submitted it to the senate of the
United States for its ratification. The
senate believed it was good title when
they gave 1t their constitutional assent,
doubted it's completeness when it APP
propriated. $20,000,000 provided by the
treaty. If any who favored It's ratifica-
ton believed it gave US a bad title, they
were not sincere. Our title is practically
identical with that under which we hold
our territory acquired since the begin
n1ng of.sthe government, and under which
I we have exeF cised full sovereignty and
StablfShed government for the iuhab-
itants.
It is worthy of note that no one outside
OF the United States disputes the fullness
and integrity of the occasion What,
then, Is the real issue on this subject?
Whether it is paramount to any other
or not, 1t is whether we shall be respon-
slole for. the government of the Philip
pines with the sovereignty and authority
Which enable US to guide them to reg
ulated liberty law, safety and progress,
or whether we shall be responsible for
lhe Iorelp!e and arbitrary government of
a majority without sovereignty and au~
thorlty on our part, and with only the
embarrassment of a protectorate which
draws us into their troubles without the
power Of preventing them.
There were those who two years ago
| We're rushing US on to war with Spain
who are unwilling now to accept its
| clear consequences as there are those
among US who advocated the ratification
OF the treaty of peace, but now protest
| against its obligations. Nations which
go to war must be. prepared to accept
it's resultant Obligations and when thew
| make treaties must keep them
REPUDIATEs IMPERIALISM.
Those who profess to distrust the lib
| erai and honorable purpose of the ad-
| min1stration in It's treatment Of the Phil
ippines are not justified Imperialism
has no place in it's creed or conduct.
publican party was builded and now
rests. Liberty is the great Republican
doctrine for which the people went to
war, and for which a million lives were
| offered and billions of dollars were ex-
pended to make 1t a lawful legacy of all
without the consent of master or slave.
| There is a strain of ill-concealed hypo-
crisy in the anxiety to extend the con-
| stitut1onal guarantees to the people of
| the Philippines, while their notification
is openly advocated at home Our OPP
/ ponents may disgust themselves, but
| they have no right to discredit the good
! faith and patriotism of the majority of
the people, who are opposing them;