The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-22

knowing them 10 be ineffective, but
deeming that they may, by darkening
counsei, achieve Tor themselves spu.
rious reputation for wisdom. No good
whatever is subserved by indlscriminate
remuneration OF corporations generally,
and or all forms of Industrial combine
nation In particular; and when this pub
lie Remuneration is accompanied by pri-
vate membership In the great corpora
lions denounced, the effect IL, OF course,
TO give an air OF lnsineerity to the whole
abuses, and there Is ample reason Tor
striving to remedy these abuses.
crude or ill-considered effort to
lutely without effect or else would sim
ply do damage.
The first thing to do is to find out the
facts; and for this purpose publicity as
10 capitalization, profits, and all else OF
Importance to the public. Is the most use
fui measure The mere fact OF this pub
and, as to the others. IL would In some
cases point out the remedies. and would
at least enable us to tell whether or not
certain proposed remedies would be use
ful, The state acting IN Its collective
capacity would thus first find out the
facts and then be able to take such
measures as wisdom dictated. Much can
be done by taxation Even more can be
done by regulation. by close supervision,
and the unsparing excision of all I'M
healthy, destructive and anti-social ele-
ments. The separate state governments
can do great deal: and where they de-
cine 10 cooperate the national govern
While paying heed to the necessity OF
Keeping our house In order at home, tho
american people can not, If they wish to
retain their self-respect, refrain from
doing their duty as a great nation In the
world. The history OF the nation is In
large part the history of the nations
congress met In Liberty Hall and
thethirteen original states declared them.
selves a nation. the westward limit of
Allegheny mountains. Even dur
Ing the revolutionary war the work OF
expansion went on. Kentucky, Tennes-
see and the great northwest, then known
as the Illinois country, were conquered
from our white and Indian foes during
the revolutionary struggle and were con-
1883. Yet the land thus confirmed was
not then given to us. 1t was held by an
alien foe until the army under Gen. An,
thony Wayne freed Ohio from the red
man, while the treaties of Jay and Pinck-
ney secured from the Spanish and British
Natchez and Detroit
greatst single stride In expansion that
we ever TOOK was taken by the purchase
OF the Louisiana territory. This so-call-
ed Louisiana. which included what are
now the states OF Arkansas, Missouri,
Louisiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nebraska, North and South Dakota.
Idaho, Montana and large part of Col
orado and Utah, was acquired by treaty
and purchase under President Jefferson
exactly and precisely as the Philippines
have been acquired by treaty ana pur-
chase under PRESIDENT Mckinley. The
doctrine OF the consent OF the governed
the doctrine previously enunciated by
Jefferson in the Declaration OF lndepenu-
ence, was not held by him or by any
other sane man to apply to the Insian
tribes in the Louisiana territory which
he thus acquired, and there was no vote
taken even OF the white inhabitants not
To speak OF the Negroes and Indians,
as TO whether they were willing that
fnrr Oh hn n hn
great majority of the inhabitants, white
and colored alike, were bitterly opposed
To the transfer. An armed force OF Unit
ed States soldiers had to be hastily sent
into the territory TO prevent insurrec-
ton, President Jefferson sending troops
to Louisiana tor exactly the same
reason and with exactly the same pur-
pose that President Mckinley has sent
troops to the philippines. Jefferson dis
tinctly stated that the Louisianians were
mot lit for self-government,' and years
elapsed before they were gwen self-gov-
ernment, Jefferson appointing the gov
ernor and other officials without any con-
sultation with the Inhabitants of the new
ly-acquired territory. The doctrine that
the Constitution follows the flag was
not then considered either by Jefferson
or any other serious party leader, for 1t
never entered their heads that new ter
ritory should be governed other than in
the way In which the territories of Ohio
and Illinois had already been governed
under Washington and the elder Adams (;
the theory known by this utterly false
and misleading phrase was only struck
out i'm political controversy at much
ter date for the sole purpose OF JUST.
Tying the extension of slavery into the
territories.
The parallel between what Jefferson
did with Louisiana and what Is now
being done In the Philippines Is exact.
Jefferson the author of the Declaration
OF Independence, and of the consent OF
the governed" doctrine, saw no incon-
gruty between this and the establish
ment of government on common sense
ut.n do In ha M "A nd hn n
ed at the sticklers for an impossible APP
plication OF his principles, saying, In Ian
guage which at the present day applies
TO the situation In the Philippines with
out the change OF word, though II
rs acknowledged that our new fellow cit
liens are as yet as incapable of self-gov
eminent as children, yet some can not
bring themselves to suspend its prin-
ciples for a single moment He intended
that ultimately self-government should
but only as the different parts became
tit for 1t, and no sooner. This Is just
the policy that has been pursued. In no
part OF the Louisiana purchase was COM
plete self-government introduced for a
number of years; In one part of II. the
Indian territory, It has not yet been in
PRODUCED, although nearly n century has
elapsed. over enormous tracts of II, in
GLIDING the various indian reservations.
with a territory In the aggregate as large
ton has never yet followed the flag
the army officer and the civilian agent
still exercise authority, without asking
the consent of the governed" We must
proceed in the Philippines with the same
wise caution, taking each successive step
as 1t becomes desirable. and accommo-
dating the details or our policy TO the
peculiar needs of the situation. But as
soon as the present revolt is put down and
order established, II will undoubtedly be
possible to give the Islands a larger meas
ure OF self-government than Jefferson
originally gave Louisiana.
The next great step In expansion was
the acquisition of Florida. This was part
ly acquired by conquest and partly by
purchase, Andrew Jackson being the most
prominent figure in the acquisition 1t
aftertime President John Quincy Adams
being active In securing the purchase.
AS in the case of the Philippines. Florida
was acquired by purchase from Spain.
and In Florida the Semnoles, who had
not been consulted In the SALE rebelled
and waged war exactly as some OF the
Tagals have rebelled and waged war in
the Philippines. The Seminole war last
ed for many years. but Presidents Mon
roe, Adams and Jackson declined for II
moment to consider the question of aban-
doning Florida to the Seminoles, or to
| treat their non-consent to the govern
reason for turning over the territory to
them
Our next acquisition of territory was
that of Texas, secured by treaty after II
had been wrested from the Mexicans by
| the Texans themselves. Then came the
acquisition of California, New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada and parts of Colorado
| ard Utah as the result of the Mexican
war, supplemented five years later by