The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-27


past, fcr. the interestand honor of the
countryf, Were the objects OF our
care" in the Philippines brought
within fthe @''exalted'' trust under
terms usually accorded to the honor
and best interest of n victorious ma
ton, or were they purchased at SC
much II head2 What is the nature of
the "beneiieent government which
has been provided for our Objects
or subjects, which-in Porto Rico?
Are our "objects" anywhere, the sub
jects of that tender solicitude which
was meted out to.the millions OF ig-
norant negroes by your party, when,
with almost lightning like rapidity, it
transformed them into full fledge6
American citizens; if not, why not?
Then, too: "Tnere must be no ScuttLe
policy" says the head Of the ticket.
1t must have been Il quick inspira-
ton which called forth this su.emn
| notification 70 like that juvenile
game wherein one suddenly thrusts ut
another ard excl aims: Tag, you're
it!'
Nearly one hundred and twenty
live years ago, tie American freemen
commenced 10 build our Snip of State.
They we're seven years in formulating
iss plans and nearly four years mora III
puttini: in place its massive tim beers of
enduring strength and when
completed it WAS a stately, stauncil
| vessel. built To- laugh at ali disaster, !;
! from it. mast head was unfurled the
| Stars and Stripes, that like Ruth and
Naomi the two should be ever in
| saparable; and az its bow kissed thu
waters of the world, they christened
it the Constitution" What is it's
condition today? Its keel is warped :;
| its ruGder is bent, and its proud flag
has been transferred to An improvised
mast stuck in Il piratical mud-scow,
where it bangles as the dropping en-
| Whilst the "Old Constitution" the
goodly ship that once held the most
precious freight of Repub-
lie, is now but an old hulk anchored in
the shoal waters of a home port, and
used as q mess house for political cor
morants. The policy of "Scuttlen has
already been inaugurated. I'VE re-
assert the early principle of the Re-
publican party, sustained by unbrok-
Ell judicial precedents, that the repre-
sentatives ofthe people in Congress as
sembled have full legislative power
over territory belonging to the United
States. subject to the fundamental
safeguards Of liberty, justice and pei
sonal rights" says President Mckin-
ley. But the highest exponent of
that coordinate branch of our govern.
ment, the judiciary and the only safe
guard remaining to the liberties of
fthepeople, goe, deeper into the subj. set
than the President gives utterance to.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that Congress in
legislating for the territories belong
ing to the United States, IS subject to
those fundamental limitations in
favor of personal rights which are
formulated in the Constitution and
its amendments. Nor does any de-
csion of the Supreme Court make
residence in q State condition of
citizenship in the United States. But
it has distinctly said, however, that
every nation acquiring territory, by
treaty or otherwise, must hold it sub
ject to the Constitution aud laws of
It's own government" Nor can there
ue laws enacted by Congress for which
there is no warrant in the Constitu-
ton. 1t would seem, therefore, that
the fundamental safeguards of lib
erty, justice and personal rights"
thus guarantee to our objects: in
possession, by this "early principle of
the Republican party" are not ex
actly locatable under our present im-
perialistic policy.
1t may be the opinion OF Colonel
Roosevelt, politically expressed, that
the opponents of the Republican par
ty hardly know what they do believe.
But the plain people of our land,
as Mr.. Lincoln liked to call them, will
determine the result of the coming
election; and we believe they have q
sufficient quantity of what is common.
| ly called American horse sense, to
know what they have lost and will
continue to lose by the administer =
ton of the Republican party. They
know, too, that tariff legislation was
first enacted for the purpose of giving
commercial life to diversified, infant
Industries; and not that giant mono
poles should be continually fattened
| by the government like swine in a st,.
They have an idea, somehow derived
from Republican sources, that Con
gress has settled the money question
for q longer term of years than the
Democratic candidate for President
can lay claim to, il he should be
elected and II they have any unbe-
lief in the stability of the standard al
ready fixed, may arise from their want
of faith in the Republican nominee.
who is already reasserting "early''
principles. But our plain people are
not worrying themselves just now
about the ratio in the coinage
-
should every county in every State in
the Union contain bank filled to the
doors with the precious metal, coined
at whatever ratio it may be, il would
not benefit them in the least unless
they could give quid pro quo, and
get some OF it. They do, however,
fully appreciate the fact that the
doctrine of expansion, as demonstrat-
ed by the Republican party, il limited
only by the Capacity OF the voracious
NAV of monopoly, and the far
reaching power OF money, MS now
welded by INSCRIPTIONS hands for
purely selfish purposes.
Do away with high tariff legislation;
exterminate trusts and Iuonopoiss;
to Constitutional government
of the republic, and the peo-
pie will very quickly see to it, that he
who pays out and he who recsive.
money will, in each case, handle dol.
lars whose purchasing aud debt-pay-
ing power will be equal to the dollar
paid to any government creditor. the |