The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-11-02


claim to the town or province thus alien
ated since she has relinQuished every
right she could have over it.
But the province or town thus ab4n-
doned and dismembered from the state is
not obliged to receive the new master
whom the state attempts to set over it.
IT was a member. 1t resumes all its orig
inal rights, and If 1t be capable of de-
lending its liberty against the prince who
would subject it to its authority. 1t may
lawfully resist him.
The law as laid down by Vattel has
never been openly denied. That nations
ayarice and injustice. may have ignored
1t, prove no more than to cite the exam
pie of private malefactors who constantly
violate the laws of their own country.
In the early part Of the campaign the
republican press and orators made no at
tempt to argue this; question. but coz
about patriotism. the flag. expansion, ETC.
The terrific pressure of the principles IF
pels them to make an attempt at argu-
ment, but no one has been so bold yet as
to affirm in direct terms that sovereignty
can either be sold or bought, and this IS
the whole issue. by adroit maneuvers cir
cuitous arguments. far-fetched differences,
impossible Prescriptions and baSelesS i'm
plications.
PELPLE IN PHILIPPINES HAVE
STRANGE CONDITIONS
In the Philippine islands we find a whole
race of people. In the language Of public
affairs a people, a nation numbering TO-
100000 of souls. owning the soil. living
upon 1t and cultiyating It, carrying on ag-
riculture. commerce and trade, possessing
and inhaDltlng large cities, comprising an
organized society with laws and civil in
fabric resting upon the Christian relig-
ion. We found there also regularly or
ganfzed government, supported by an ar
prisoners 10000 SpaniardS captured in
battle and ready and willing to fight
interminably for the liberties of the peo-
pie. Nothing of this kind existed either
In Louisiana. Florida or the territory
acquired from Mexico. The fact is that
in the treaty of cessIon in each of these
instances the inhabitants of the coded
country made no resistance and by their
silent acquiescence consented to the SOW
tended over them precisely as did the in
habitants. of Porto Rico. 1t cannot be
truly said then that they were governed
of the United States Beside, in each and
every one of these instances the treaty
by which the territory passed to the Unit
the coded territory should have AL of
the rights. privileges and immunities of
the citizens OIL the United States. And
that the territory should be admitted in
to the union as states as soon as they
possibly could be in conformity with the
principles of the constitution. Thus they
of the constitution SO far as their rights
were concerned and made equal with the
citizens of the United States and made
candidates for sovereignty as co-equaI
states so soon as their condition as a
people would warrant such step.
But no such provision is contained in
quishes her hold upon the Philippine is
lands. There Is no provision as to citi-
zenship or statehood in that treaty. And
the treaty was no sooner ratified than
the republican senate passed Il resolution
declaring that the territory of The Phil
ippine islands should never be any part
q ri of hn Wi n6 Sfof Foe
and that the Inhabitants of said islands
should never be citizens of the United
States. Our relations. therefore, to that
territory and to these people are as COM
pletely different from the relations which
we sustained to the territory and inhab
itants of Louisiana, Florida and the other
one thing can be different from another.
AND LOUISIANA TAKEN
FOR INSTANCE.
If the inhabitants of Florida or Louis
lana or of the territory coded by Mexico
had refused to recognize the cession from
and had declined to submit
to the extension of our sovereignty over
them, and if We had in each instance
assisted those Inhabitants to defeat the
mother country and accepted OF their
services to defeat the mother country in
war. and II we in the treaty in each in
habitants as citizens or possible citizens
of the United States, and If our senate
had passed a resolution declaring that
a part of the United States. and that its
inha bitants should never become citizens
of the United States, then the eircum-
stances would have been similar to those
which obtain in the Philippine islands.
and then our attempt to exercise sover-
eighty over those people would have been
an act Of imperialism as the same at
tempt In the Philippine Islands Is an act
of imperialism.
In the whole history Of the human race
only two sources Of public power have
been recognized as legitimate. No ty-
pot has ever been so despOtic, that he
dared to openly say to his people that ne
ruled them simply by force. but they
upon a moral sanction. Civilized govern
ment must rest upon moral sanction.
And In the whole history of man only
which such moral sanction can be OBJ
tanned.
The first and oldest of these was d.
dogma of the divine right of kings to
rule their fellow men. AS mankind in
creased in knowledge, and as the light of
reason dawned upon the minds Of men;
hlngcraft was rejected. and it Is to-day,
in the mind of the enlightened world.
an exploded theory which has been re-
formed.
MONARCHS STILL RULE WITH THE
SAME HAND.
With a monarchy it is different While
the citizens of all republics discard and
repudiate the doctrine of the divine right
of kings to rule, and while the intelli-
the very thought of it. yet the monarchs.
themselves have not discarded their old
blood-stained. false and fraudulent doc
the Almighty. Agents of deity. And IL
they are truly such. then they have a