The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-28

Up and Argued at Length.
WASHINGTON, Feb N.-Mr. Depew
IN. 70 addressed the senate today on
the Philippine question. His grafton was
beautiful in thought and diction. He
strongly upheld the policy of the admin
istration, and In conclusion pictured SO
brilliantly commerce and civilization
moving hand In hand for the happiness
and uplifting of the people of the Philip
pines, as we'll as those Of this country.
that the galleries were swept by storm
of applause.
After MIR. Turley had concluded his
speech on the, Quay case the Hawaiian
government bill was again taken up, but
little progress was made. An agreement
was reached that a final vote should oe
taken on the measure tomorrow. Mr
Depew said In part:
Mr.. President: In the wide range when
has ben given to the discussion OF inc
Philippine subject, many questions nave
been raised. which. in my judgment, nave
been settled by events. Ihey emoraee
our rights to govern the Pnilpplness, ~
STAY there, the existence of de facto
Philippine government, alleged under
standings from our government 70 ens
Filipino government for a recognition OF
its independence, the title Of the United
States to the archipelago, the power Of
the United States to subdue lnsurrecuon
within the islands or to impose IT'S laws
upon their people. and the power, unaer
the constitution, for the United States
to ACQUIRE territories and to govern them,
except under the familiar territorial form.
with the understanding that at the prop
err time they shall be admittea as s. ,sreIx
academic There are well meaning anu
honest people who gather every year IN
London, and did last year In Boston. 70
I. But Charles l. was beheaded $50 years
ago. BY his death the chains which
bound free people were broken. Crom-
well. with all his mistakes. all his errors.
and all the injustice which can De
charged against him, created that reign
of individual Judgment and conscience
which has evoluted into civil and rellg-
ious liberty, which mas Grea1ed .ne oie;ns
peoples, which has made them explorers
travellers, masters upon the sea and land.
as settlers and colonizers. and has car
ried, with their influence. self-govern-
and representative institutions all over
the world 1t is still an academic d1s-
cussion whether President Lincoln had
the right to coerce sovereign state;
but the exercise of that right saved and
re-created this republic and has made
it the foremost power of the world. There
are constitutional lawyers and writer's
upon public questions who stu DISCUSS s
the power of Abraham Lincoln to issue
the emancipation proclamation, but ne
did issue it, slavery was abolished, and
the blessings of the act are, enjoyed by
states, and by those that were once
known as the slave states.
We are in the Philippines; We are there
to stay by conquest and by q treaty rights ITS
treaty by the senate of the United States
is an academic question. Still the pres
entation of this ancient history, for the
rapid progress of. events makes history
speedily ancient. has occupied SO much
Of the time of the senate that it is well
briefly to review the situation.
Territorally constitutionally and nd,r by the the
United States have been expanding for
ministration of Washington. our country
the ' Ohio river. England on the, north
and Spain and France south and west
blocked the possibilities OF development
and commercial power. JEFFERSON was
pendence, of the strict-construction theory
of the constitution and Of the extreme
doctrine of state rights. He is claimed
by the anti-expansi s,I;s party soaay 4,, as
the West must have an outlet or the
fairest portion Of our country remain.
Wilderness He opened negotiations with
Napoleon for a harbor at the mouth or
the Mississippi and transit over its wa
terS.
Bonaparte had received the vast terri
tory called Louisiana from Spain for
eff to a Bourbon prince of the right to
rule a petty principality. He saw ne
could not hold his acquisition against the
power of Great Britain on the, ocean, ana
astonished the American ENJOYS by offer
ing to sell the entire territory. 1t extend
ed from the gulf to the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific and is the seat today of
a large part Of the wealth, population and
political strength of the republic Jerer-
sovereignty in the constitution which
opened his mind almost as was that of
Paul on his Journey to Damascus He
Of Taileyrand, Napoleon's famous minis
ter, "Why not take it all" and for sio-
000,0 the inhabitants. French. Spanish
and Indian. and the territory became
ours.
Monroe followed Jefferson's example.
and in 1873 bought Florida from Spain Tor
& 600 OOO and Pierce Arizona from Mex,
leo for SIC, 100000 while Seward secured
Alaska from Russia for 100000. Texas
came in by annexation. and we claimed
and Great Britain yielded Oregon to be
ours by right of discovery, because an
adventurous Yankee skipper had explored
the Columbia river. Mexico lay at our
feet crushed and bleeding after the war,
but by the treaty of peace we gave her
sl5. 600 600 for California and New Mexico.
and assumed the debt of 900 which
she owed to American citizens Under
the same broad, generous and wise policy