Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-10-12

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,s.,,svoIently or inadvertently, or a1y
osber .lv." islands lying In the tropics
But my friend wants : kno"
er / think any republican
changing this form Of government. -
us see. Mr.. Whitelaw Reid Is q repuo
lican. Mr.. Whitelaw Reid was one o.
the commission that negotiated en
treaty. of Paris, whereby we purcnaseo
sbe Philippines from Spain. MI
ybitelaw Reid enjoys the DISTINCTION
If preceding Mr.. Roosevelt as an I'M
successful candidate for the vice pres
idencv. Mr.. Whitelaw Reid Is great
admirer of the English. When Lazy
Randolph Churchill. the daughter OF .
New Yory merchant and the wire OF
Iondon lord, desired to estaDlish q
great magazine, whose purpose shouio
he tn cultivate social and literary SUD-
serviency in America to British over
lordship, put the price Of the magazine
for popular circulation at only $3.50 per
month. Il have this volume at nome;
r. was presented to mel she got
Whitelaw Reid to write an article on
this colonial business for her maya
zine; and you will find In the Ansio-
Saxon Review for the month OF june
1883. this article Which conciuGes ia
the words shall read. This man Is
republican. What he says partiahy
answers the inquiry OF the judge
whether l think any republican wants
to- change our form OF government.
Says Mr.. Reid: 1.-The American gov
eminent has the new territories and
will hold and govern them. A republic,
such as the United States, has hitherto
not been well adapted TO that sort OF
work. Congress is apt to be slow, II
not also changeable. lPeople, you
know, may elect other repre- entatives
and spoil a scheme; 1t is great incon-
venience, fellow citizens, to have the
people NEEDLE with the government
and, under the constitution, [Mr. Reid
says this with a kind of regretl the
method of government for territories
must be prescribed by congress. NO
doubt, referring to certain cases then
pending, Hawaii, etc.1, executive &C
ton, in advance of congress, might be
satisfactory; but president Is apt to
wait for congress unless driven by ir-
resistibe necessity. 1.-THE president
must wait for congress, except in cases
of irresistible necessity, of which he,
of course, is the only judged He can
only take the initiative through some
form of military government. For this
the war department Is not well organ
ized."
Now listen a moment. The Judge
wants to know whether any republican
proposes to change the form OF this
government. See what Mr.. Reid says
next. Possibly the easiest solution
for the moment would be in the organ
izatlon of another department" Now
what do you suppose they are going to
call this other department. "a Depart
ment for War and Government beyond
the Seas?" He says, You know, the re-
public has not been well organized for
this sort of thing heretofore. So they
are going to change it, make 1t more
like a military government. less slow,
less cumbersome in it's action; and he
proposes that We establish a Depart
ment for War and Government be-
yond the Seas. War, war with all
Gods creation, war a la Roosevelt
daughter and applause.)
There is published down in Washing
ton the Army and Navy Journal which
represents very largely the views Of
the military and naval people, who re-
Joice in decorations and the distinc-
ton that comes with military rank, a
thing that the younger sons of the
New York rich families and bankers
are very DESTROYS of increasing, ip or
der to take the places of those titles
which they worship, but cannot i'm
ttate, when they spend the golf season
NJ some OF the countries OF Europe. So
the Army and Navy Journal. admiriny
greatly the English system, says this
in its issue of the 4th of August: One
million two hundred thousand dollars
spent In London is the price of admin
lstering order over a colonial rule.
whose total budgets, THAT is, it's total
expense account for all purposes-a
budget Is the technical name given to
the fund raised by all kinds of taxa
ton with which the expenses of gov
eminent are met], amounts to $1,724.-
oo4,S96 or 80 per cent more than our
total OF federal state, county, city and
village expenses for which taxes are
levied. In contrast to the results of
this system of executive adminstra ton.
the fact is cited that the American
congress has spent the entire winter
wrestling with the tariff, the taxation.
the administration and the personal
rights of two little islands. [They are
impatient, you see, that we have spent
So mucn time over the rights of these
people. We should have disposed of il
oH-hahd, like clerk in a water bu-
Ieau.J Inc English executive is an
imperial executive; the British parlia-
ment is an English Legislature, [mean-
ing by that, you know, that parliament
iegislates for England, but the execu-
tive runs all the rest of the possessions
of England, which, of course ar q
hundred times greater than the hon,o
uy' Let my friend the Judge, who
wants 10 know II l think any republi-
sans nave any idea of changing our
ioriii OF government, let him read and
poHoer THIS republican editorial II
proceeds in this way]: "To the same
system We are coming by the decree Of
circumstances as inevitable as that Of
iate. II this be imperialism make the
most OF 1t. Applause) So far as cit
Henship is concerned, the British en,-
pre- is one; but beyond the limits ~
the United Kingdom the citizen Iives
uhoer rule essentially monarcb;ai
ana not restricted by parliamentar,,
ieglslation,"-just exactly what tha,,
contend Tor in this case, that beyond
eiiis country these dependencies arc
outside the constitutional limita,,os
Vi our parliamentary or congressionaI
sys'em' In other words, that our aa :
III SRA beyond the territory Of
the United States alone must ha
pepiai administration. (Applause1
roosevelt himself, in his ST pa,,
speech says that We must go an Wis.
uui part IN the worlds work. ana