The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30

MCKINLEY relieved our legation and at the
same time maintained proper relations
with the Chinese empire.
The policy of the United States as to
Chlna should in my opinion, be this: 1t
must rescue It's citizens. 1t must exact
Indemnity for all injuries e. 6halr person
or property. 1t Will insist that China
shall observe all treaty stipuIatiOns and
that, under any and all conditions of SOW
ereignty, cesslon or foreign aseendancv.
tbs open door shall remain open We
shall use no military force for CONQUEST,
and nave no concert with any European
theirs.
We covet no Chinese territory, and we
viii acquire none. We desire no terri
torial sphere Of influence. We viii give
no approval or support, physical, moral or
sentimental to the d1snemberment OF
China, or to the extinctions of her SOW
ereignty by the acquisition of spheres of
influence by any European power.
1 look for regeneration of China as
the result of the convuIsions she is now
sunerlng. 1t VIII come to pass not by
the PARTITION of that mighty and imme-
mortal empire, but by It's full entry into
commercial relations with the other
nations OF the world. The process will not
be a long one. 1t has been going on for
nIty years, and has become more perfect
and extensive every year. When fully
completed the United States viii be the
greatest participant ia that trade of the
Pacific which humboldt predicted more
than 70 years ago would be the greatest
commerce that land and sea have ever
known. We need cross but one ocean to
grasp the wealth Of Ormus and OF Ind -
Europe must traverse four seas 10 share
1t. We can produce everything which
that Unsuitable market Ecan absorb just
as now we are producing and exporting
our fabricss textile, metallic and misceI-
laneous, to every market inkthe world as
the direct result of Republican economic
policies put In force during our Icivil war
and steadily persisted in by that party
ever since.
This is manifest destiny; it is written
by an auspicious astrology kupon the sky
OF a visible future. 1t win give fifteen
million Of people to our states of the
talents OF an aspiring youth ana IN every
way carry the United States far along on
that course OF national grandeur for
which l believe 1t was ordained.
Imperialism is not the paramount Issue
OF the campaign and cannot be made so.
The adjustment OF any question as to the
Philippines is TO be considered after re-
1 bellion against the sovereignty and au-
thority OF the United States has been put
down. The paramount issues this year are
financial and economic. Shall the anti
protection party of Is TO one be put in
power TO advance its principles by the
enormous powers of executive influence
ia case Mr.. Bryan is elected, and win
| the first eng agement IN a campaign the
/ next battle OF which viii be for the con-
troll of both houses Of Congress?
The question for the plain people is,
| do they wish, with the instructions Of q
| bitter experience fresh and deep in their
/ memories, to change or submit to the
prospect of change in that abounding pros
perity wh1ohscame with the election of
President Mckinley, prosI ty which no
/ Democratic platform or speaker denies
nor dare not rejoice in or even allude to.
Aguinaldo can walls until the American
people take a bond of fate' II necessary,
by annihilating for the preservation Of
their own domestic interests the political
! com binatiOn which is at the same time
their enemy and the alder land aDettor of
/ the TaQaI rebels. The immediate DUTY
| is to maintain It's sovereignty and to
crush re D6lllOn against It, What It's con-
stitutiona1 powers kand limitations are
can be more prohtably discussed and con-
sidered after the authority OF the United
States shall have been firmly established.
l do not believe that the constitution
contains any disabling 1nhib1tions which
Will prevent this government from gov
erning, and governing those islands as
their best interests may demand, and
according to the capacities of their peo-
pie. no such difficulties interviewed IN
the administration of Louisiana, Florida
or the territory which we acquired kfrom
Mexico. Congress legtslated at the last
/ Alaska in some particulars entirely un
warranted by the constitution, of the dis
abl1ng construction placed upon it by
our opponents is correct. There are GER
tain large and general considerations,
| however, which. to my mind, demon
strate that the authority to govern these
dependenciess1s vested IN Congress subject
to no disabling limitations OF certain pro-
visions of the constitution, which, be-
caue they are inapplicable to such situa-
tion, never could have been designed by
the trainers to apply to it.
1 believe it never was heard before that
any constitutional government with the
full and complete powers of a alton was
disabled by the very Instrument which
created it from the acquisition OF terri
tory by the consideration that it would
be Impossible to govern 1t when acquired.
Speaking my own opinion, l would
hold the Philippines permanently and
not prOvi siOnally. / would, from time to
capacity, give them the fullest power OF
seIf-government they are capable of exer-
oising. I would do as Great Britain did
with n race of the same stock in the
Straits Settlements where, htty years ago
she found a barbarous population ruled by
three separate sultans, making war on
each other and infesting the seas with
piracy. Little by little she has given
them self government, until their self
administration is now almost complete.
1t is one OF Jne InOSb pfouu0blVe' prosper
Gus and peaceful communities in the
world. 1t is loyal 20 the mother state and
it's soldiers stand ready to be marshalled
in wars for the protection of her SOW
ereignty and for civilization in China
The conditions and situations as to
Cuba and the Philippines are not the
same We never had sovereignty over
j Cuba We have sovereignty over the
Philippines. When we interviewed as be-
tween Cuba and Spain, the Cubans We're
in arms fighting for their Independence
and were practically belligerents. When
we invaded the Philippines the natives
were not In arms. We never promised
to give independence to them and they
did not demand it at that time. Before
we invaded Cuba in the very declaration