The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-10

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great oceans. We. being the mothers oil
men have primary right TO protect our
sons from violent death and the sickness
aad Generalization that always must ac-
company army of invasion. You mus;
listen TO us. We have no vote in Congress.
We are not even allowed TO sit on the floor
of either House during debates of vital
Importance; We are political nouentities.
though there are thirty millions of us in
the land as competent to think and as wise
to plan as our brothers of the other thirty
millions who claim the right to govern us
simply because they are born sons to us
rather than daughters.
The Need for Webster.
Would that the lips OF that great de-
fender of the Constitution appealing TO us
in bronze could have the power OF utter
auce restored to them and could speak for
us aud for the Constitution Oh which we
are content to base our claim to be counted
as among the sovereign people who may
ordain' constitutions and help to main
tain genuine republics. Hear him at the
close of his speech NJ the dedication of the
Bunker Hill Monument in the year lSi3:
' Our history and our condition. all that
has gone before us, and all that surrounds
us. authorize the belief that popular gov
ernments. though subject 10 occasional va
riatous in form. perhaps not always for
the better. may yet in the general charac-
ter be as durable and permanent as other
systems. We know. indeed that in our
country any other is impossible. The prin-
ciple of free governments adheres to the
American soil. 1t is bedded in it, i'm
movable as its mountains. Let
our conceptions be enlarged to the circle
OF our duties. Let us extend our ideas
over the whole OF the vast field in which
we are called to act. Let our object be
our country. our whole country. and moth
ing but our country. And by the blessing
of God may that country itself become
vast and splendid monument not Of OPP
preston and terror. but of wisdom. OF
peace. and OF liberty. upon which the
world may gaze with admiration forever
The Right TO Acquire Territory.
The right of our Government to acquire
otherwise, is, as | have said. an implied
and necessary power OF the sovereignty,
there being nothing in the Constitution TO
forbid it, and the Government would have
the right to hold the acquired territory
subject TO its later determination how TO
organize a government. II such territory
already has a modified monarchicsl gov
we should have perfect right to
leave IL TO continue in such a government
like the case of Samoa-or IL ;he people |
were too unciviliZed to construct a govern !
ment of their own. we should have right |
to impose upon them any reasonable gov
that we should think best
The expression in the Declaration of |
lpdanapdapra hot ha nf ha espN
erned is essential 10 a Just government. |
applies TO the people and country that are |
making government for themselves and |
does not strictly apply TO the government ,
hat we should have the right 10 constitute |
over an imperfectly civilized people. The \
1nly principle that should control us in our
icticn toward such a people is not con-
;titutional limitation. but a great moral
iuty duty which we as a Republic owe to
Ill the world to help it toward free re-
publican form of government.
And that is all that can justly control
Is in our action in the Philippine matter
The question between ourselves and such
people would be merely what is in the
circumstances the best thing for such a
,eople. and not the iron rule that We must
make ii a free republic. The government
II Canada is near enough TO a free repub-
ic 10 meet the wants of almost any peo-
lie. But where as in the case Of the
the people are intelligent
nough to earnestly desire free republic.
nd are. as we believe. able. with our
elp. very soon to establish and maintain
UGH a government. there can be no pos
ible question of our duty to help them to
10 it
Mrs Howell after reading the address
Isabella Beecber Hooker, spoke al length
n the horrors of war. War must cease.
woman's heritage-''tears and a broken
cart
Mrs. Howell was vigorously applauded.
The Justice of womaa Suffrage.
Mary Church Terrell. President OF the
,aiional Association OF Colored Women,
cling next on the programme. gave
very scholarly and logical argument
Ii the subject The Justice of Woman
ufirage." She said I'm part: ITO assign
easons in this day and time why 1t is
Must to deprive one-hsif of the human
ice OF rights and privileges freely ac.ord-
/ to the other. which is neither more de-
CRYING nor more capable of exercising |
hem. seems like reflection upon the in
diligence OF the audience to which they
re presented. To argue the inalienability
nd the equality of human rights at the
lose OF the nineteenth century in a coun- {
Y whose government is founded en- the |
ternal principles that all men are created 5
zee and equal. that governments derive |
leir just powers from the consent Of the
overned, seems like laying ones self .
able TO the charge of anachronism"
THE argument thai it is unnatural for |
omen TO vote is es old as the rock-ribbed |
Ills. Whatever ia unusual is called I'M |
ltural the world over When the world ! I
hes step forward in progress some old ,,
istom falls dead at our feet Nothing |
'uld be more unnatural than that a good
oman should shirk her duty TO the state,
it were possible for her to discharge It,"
Mrs. Terrell's very interesting address
as followed with close attention by every ,
lie, and she was literally applsuded at its
Inclusion.
The next speaker was the Corresponding a
,cretary. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery. who Fl
nounced that collection would be taken 4
, TO detray The running expenses OF the c
INVENTION d
Rev. Ida c. Huitin, OF Illinois. delivered v
address on the Woman in the Minis I
- She said that humanity is bounding c
1m what it was, and was not into what
and will be. In governments. in homes.
lere there is any responsibility to bear.
must be borne by woman as well as man n
al home life is where man and woman 4
e one; purity for purity; one code of Il
,rals should apply TO man and woman" v
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