Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-15

Did we ask the consent of the lOyaliStS.
Far from It, We forced the revolutions
AIRY government on the loyalists at the
point of the bayonet and, when the rev
olution was over. they had to accept the
government thus forced upon them or
60 into exile. In view of these facts.
who can resist Mr.. Lodges conclusion
that. Ii Jefferson's phrase be tested with
an eye to the actual conditions under
which he WAS. engaged in setting up the
new government, it will be found in no
wise to justify the fantastic internreta-
sions which have been put upon II in the
interests of those Filipinos who have
supported Aguinaldo
Let us follow Mr.. Lodge thru his im-
pressiye array Of proofs of the sense
attached by American
statesmen to the phrase consent of the
governed. The proofs begin Within
two years after thr declaration was ut
tered. In the treaty of alliance With
France. concluded in lis. occurs an arr
ticle TO the effect that ''ifs the United
States should think fit 10 attempt the
PRODUCTION of the British power remain
ing in the northern parts of America.
OF of the Bermuda Islands. those coun-
tries or islands, i'll case of success. shall
be confederate With or dependent upon
the said United states Mr., Lodge
points out that the treaty clause Just
quoted vas drawn by Benjamin Frank
Elm. who had been on the committee
(which drafted the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and 70 whom that document
had been submitted for amendment and
correction. franklin must have known
what the declaration meant, yet he saw.
no Inconsistency in penning q treaty
l.claus,e which provided for the acquisi-
l.tien Of Inhabited territory by conquest,
and asserted the right of the United
4 states 70 govern the territory thus ac-
Iquired as a dependency.
/ IL was scarcely a Year later. or in the
winter OF ii1s-79 that the second prac-
4 tical Interpretations the Declaration of
4 Independence came with our first ex-
+ tensionsof territory tiiru the conquest of
itile Illinois country by George Rogers
Clark. MIR Lodge reminds us that We
did not ask the consent Of the French
inhabitants OF that region ~ our gov
eminent when. by the right Of conquest.
they We're coded 10 US under the treaty
OF Paris.
The next Of out expansions was the
great Louisina purchase. In the treaty
e,abodying tiat purchase there is not a
i wprd about the consent of the governed,
neither is there a word about such con
sent in The resolutions Of eongress which
gave Jefferson the power ~ r,iie oyer
iihat Vast region. 81 in the act organic
4 ing the ;etlitoliai government. As a
matter ef fact. nss.stthelsss there We're
4 same 30 noe white mon settled neai The
mouth Of the MISSISSIPPI and On the
banks of that RIVER who had 10 good
Vii 10 this government, and Whose
wishes We're fleyer consulted by the ma
/ iions which decided their fate. i, has
neen said that the case Of the j,ihabi-
taiis u Louisiana differs from the eass
iof tho Filipinos because the former wei.e
few, While their tarritcry WAS vas, Mir
hodge would inquire at What point h
4 the census a doctrine reputedly sacred
10 take effect. He submits That
siif he consent Of the governed i a rig
or9us and iumutabls- principle. 10 easu-
s3ietry can make it 1T once absolute and
ye, subjec, 10 mobilization by LAND
areas or census statistics. The appii,
Eoation Of the principle is either GOV
EefsleG By the laws Of common sense or j
sliiehangeable Jefferson. III, his part
did not attempt 70 rest his eavernnen
81 Louisiana without the conssntof n
governed oii such grounds as the nun
hers Of the popu,afio, or the size II to
Etefrito,y Nj Lodge quotes from iet
er 10 l,oNiii Clinton 70 show thai Jsf
fersor offended i OF the siipliila z
common sense foi he wrote our neV
fellow citizens are. as YET. rs iilgapahl
Qf seIf gavsrnnlsn' as arech children.
senator Lodge goes on 70 shaw tha