Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-16

prlue' put now you can say that Cam
ION Is the home of a President. and if
the election goes our way. II will al
ways be the home of an eX- President.
nesause tnat ute 'eX' is one of those
permanent titles that man never
roses. III any one insists that the Presi
uent deserves second term Won can
reply that one term is enough where n
president does well and too much
Wherc he does not do well. You have
mere IN your city cannon. | believe.
mat was presented to you as n tronh, =.
of the war. 1t was the custom, ~
earlier days for cannons 10 hear
mottoes. and your cannon has inscribed
upon II Mars ultima ratio reo,,n,
winch means that war is the last rem
son or kings. Charles Summer In hi,
Grafton on the true character of m
IONS. uelivered at Boston. July 4, 1914,
referred TO this motto, and said: LET
it be no reason for this republic
WAR NOT DESIRABLE.
i hope that you will not merely
rom the possession of that cannon he
ieu 10 peiieVe that war is a thing to he
desired. 1t ought to be further away
from republic even than from n mon,
arcIly,- because In q mnnarcA1.-tte-. -e,@.-
eminent rests upon force and has fro
quent occasion to resort to force. \
King is not always restrained hy those
considerations whith would restrai IN
the people of republic. In a country
like this where the government rests
upon the consent of the governed and
where justice is the rule between this
government and other governments. as
between the people. there ought to- be
less necessity for war.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
"In fact 1 believe that if this nation
will stand upon its rights and be no
careful to respect the rights of oibnr
people, as 1t is to defend it's own. there
would be little use of war. If this M :
tlon will obey the commandments
Thou shalt not steal 1t will have littio
difficulty in enforcing that command
ment in those places where this nation
is protector. The American iden of n
protectorate is different from the Eu
ropean idea. Under a European candi-
date the protector plumbers the protect
ed. Under our theory the protector ba g
to give the strength of the protector to
it's ward without making the ward the
victim of the PROTECTOR, and so we he
lieve in the far away Philippines that
this nation can be protector as il has
been in the South American republics.
and without governing the people orr
selves. We can say to the world Hands
Off and let that republic live and work
out its destiny.
PLANTED UPON EUROPEAN DOC.
TRINE.
"rhat is our theory and we feel that
ii is a significant fact that the Repub
lican party has planted itself upon the
European doctrine that you must own
a country in order to be of service to II
at the same time that 1t plants itself
upon the European colonial idea. You
will probably find In your town n few
people who will support the Republican
idea of the colonial policy, but sug-
gest that when you find a. Republican
who is willing to support the colonial
idea you ask him to show his sinceri-
~ by sending a petition to the Presi-
dent asking him to apologize to Great
Britain for the trouble we made her
before we learned of the blessings OF
this colonial system. for If the Repub-
lican party is right to-day in admin
stering colonies, taxing them without
representation and governing them
without their consent, then the colon
lists were wrong l25 years ago when
they asserted that unless these princi-
Piles were wrong.
Eve are in Ohio for few days. and
am glad TO have chance to present
our side of this question to the people
of Ohio. and trnO that when the cleo