The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-21

to another power, which is without expert
ence or training, or the ability to maintain .
stable government at home and absolutely
helpless to perform its international obliga-
lions 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
| 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-
except under our right of sovereignty, our
authority and our flag. And this we are do
Ing.
so completely or successfully as we are
| doing Ii now. AS the sovereign power we
can initiate action and shape means to ends,
and guide the Filipinos to self-deyelopment
| and selfgoyernment.
/ As protectorate power we could not ini-
| 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 Fiiipinos from
being involved in dangerous complications;
| In the other we could not protect even the
| Filipinos until after their trouble had come.
Consent of the Governed.
! Besides, IL we cannot establish any gov
eminent OF our own without the consent Of
! the governed, as our opponents contend,
| then we could not establish stable govern
ment for them or make ours a protectorate
without the like consent. and neither the
| majority OF the people nor minority Of the
/ people have invited us to assume 1t. 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 FREQ
| 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 to guarantee another
| sovereignty.
| Our title is good. Our peace commission.
ers believed they were receiving good title
when they concluded the treaty. The execu-
tive believed 1t was q good title when he
submitted It to the Senate Of the United
States for its ratification. The Senate be-
| lieved 1t was good title when they gave 1t
| their constitutional assent, and the Con-
gress seems not to have doubted It's COM
pleteness when they appropriated $50, 600, 600
provided by the treaty.
Title Is Unque.tionable.
If any who favored it's ratification 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 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
we shall be responsible for the government
of the Philippines, with the sovereignty and
authority which enables us to guide them to
| regulated liberty, law, safety and progress,
| or whether we shall be responsible for the
forcible and arbitrary government of MI
| nority, without sovereignty and authority
on our part. and with only the embarrass,
| their troubles without 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 are those among us who
| advocated the ratification of the treaty Of
peace, but now protest against Its Obliga-
| lions. Nations which go to war must be
prepared to accept Its resultant obligations,
and when they make treaties must keep
them. sA Is Il -
Those who profess to distrust the liberal
and honorable purposes of the administra-
| ton In its treatment Of the Philippines are
| not justified. Imperialism has no place in
| Its creed or conduct. Freedom Is rock up
| on which the Republican party was buided
and now rests. Liberty is the great Republi-
can doctrine for which the people went to
| fered and billions of dollars expended to
make it lawful legacy of all without the
| consent Of master or slave.
Strain of Hypocrisy.
There Is a strain Of ill-concealed hypocrisy
in the anxiety to extend the. constitutional
guarantees to the people of the Philippines,
while their notification is openly advocated
at home. Our opponent may distrust them
the good faith and patriotism of the major
ity Of the people who are opposed to them.
They may fear the worst form Of imperial
| ism with the helpless FiIIpinos In their
baO nd hiIt do Ia hov
parted with the spirit and faith of the faith
! ers and have lost the virility Of the founders
! of the party which they profess to represent.
The Republican party doesn't have to as
sert its devotion to the Declaration Of indie
pendence. That immortal instrument of the
| fathers remained unexecuted until the peo-
in the awful clash of battle, turned its prom
Uses into fufllment 1t wrote into the Con-
stitution the amendments guaranteeing po-
litical equality to American citizenship, and
1t has never broken them or eounseled 9TH
ers in breaking them. 1t will not be guided
In Its conduct . by one set OF principles at
belonging to the United States.
Doctrine of Lincoln.
If our opponents would only practice as
well as preach the doctrines of Abraham
Lincoln there would be 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 Rico
, and the Philippines by American 1reemeH.
The flag of the republic now floats over these
islands as an emblem of rightful 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 our own
blood, who for two months had been SUBJ
jected to privations and peril by the attacks
Of pitiless hordes at the Chinese capital, ex-
hibiung supreme courage In the face OF de-
spair, have been enabled by Gods favor to
greet their rescuers and find shelter under
their own flag.
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 Pekin; and while
at times the dark tidings seemed to make all
hope vain. the rescuers never faltered in the
heroic fulfllment of their noble task. We
are grateful to our own soldiers and sailors
and marines, and to all the brave men who,
though assembled under many standards,
representing peoples and races strangers In
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