The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-12

like their caribou bulls.
KIND OF AMERICAN OFFICIALS
NECESSARY.
The men we send to administer civil
lized government in the Philippines
must be themselves the highest exam
pies of our civilization. / use the word
examples, for examples they must be
in that words most absolute sense.
They must be men of the world and of
affairs, students of their fellowmen,
not theorists or dreamers. They must
be brave men, physically as we'll as
morally. They must be as incorrupt-
able as honor, as stainless as purity,
men whom no fear can frighten, no in
fluence coerce, no money buy. Such
men come high, even here in America.
But they must be had. Better pure
military occupation for years than gov
ernment by any other quality of ad-
ministration. Better abandon this
priceless possession, admit ourselves in
competent to do our part in the world
redeeming work of our imperial race;
better now haul down the flag of ar
duous deeds for civilization and run up
the flag of reaction and decay than to
apply academic notions of self-govern-
ment to these children or attempt their
government by any but the most per-
feet administrators our country can
produce.
TRUE INTERPRETATION OF DEC
LARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
The Declaration of independence does
not forbid us to do our part in the re-
generation of the world. If it did, the
Declaration would be wrong, just as the
articles of confederation, drafted by the
very same men who signed the Decla-
ration, was found to be wrong. The
Declaration has no application to the
present situation. 1t was written by
self-governing men for self-governing
men. 1t was written by men who, for
a century and half, had been expert
menting in self-government on this
continent and whose ancestors for hun
dreds of years before had been gradu-
ally developing toward that high and
holy estate. The declaration applies
only to people capable of self-govern-
ment. How dare any man prostitute
his expression of the very elect of self
governing people to a race of Malay
children of barbarism, schooled in
| Spanish methods and ideas? And you,
| who say the Declaration applies to all
| men, how dare you deny this applica-
ton to the American Indian? And if
you deny it to the Indian at home,
how dare you apply it to the Malay
| abroad?
PHRASE, CONSENT OF THE GOV
| ERNED," misunderstood.
The Declaration does not contemplate
that all governments must have the
consent of the governed. 1t announces
| that mans 'inalienable rights are life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
that to secure these rights governments
| are established among men deriving
their just powers from the consent OF
| the governed; that when any form OF
government becomes destructive tC
those rights,it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it," Life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness" are the
important things; consent of the gov.
erned" is one of the means to those
ends. If any form of government be.
comes destructive to those ends, it Is
the right of the people to alter Of
abolish it" says the Declaration. Any
form includes all forms. Thus tn,
Declaration itself recognizes othe
forms of government than those restinl
ron the consent of the governed. TIL,
word consent" itself recognizes othe
form. For consent means the un
derstanding of the things to which tn,
consent" is given; and there are people
in the world who do not understand
any form of government. And the sens
in which consent" is used in the Decla
ration is broader than mere under
standing; for consent" in the Declara
ton, means participation in the govern
ment consented" to. And yet thes
people who are not capable of consent
ing to any form of government must b.
governed.
GODS HAND IN ALL.
That flag has never paused in it
onward march. Who dares halt it nov
now when history's largest event
are carrying it forward-now when w
are at last one people, strong enough
| for any task, great enough for an,
glory destiny can bestow. How come
1T that our first century closed with tn
process of consolidating the American
people into a unit just accomplished
and quick upon the stroke of that grea
: hour presses upon us our world op
portunity, world duty, and world glor
5 which none but people were led int
an indivisible nation can achieve or per
, form? Blind, indeed, is he who see
. not the hand of God in events so Vast
= so harmonious, so benign. Reaction
airy, indeed, is the mind that preceive
not that this vital people is the strong
est of the saving forces of the world
that our place, therefore, is at tn
head of the constructing and redeemin
nations of the earth; and that, to stan
aside while events march on is a sur
render of our own interests, a betraya
of our duty as blind as it is bast
, Craven, indeed, is the heart that fear
to perform a work so golden and s
noble; that dares not with glory S
= immortal.
= Do you tell me that 1t will cost u
: money? When did Americans eve
: measure duty by financial standard
= DO you tell me of the tremendous to-
: required to overcome the vast difficult
, of our task? What mighty work 70
the world, for humanity, even for our
selves, has ever been done with ease
Even our bread must we eat hv tb