Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-25
Territorial Pupils in Primary Glass Of
Republicanism.
UNCLE sam A CHRONIC, CRUEL DESPOT
Who Has Long Bought Men Like
Cattle and Ruled Them as Serfs.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

Sans primary class in republicanism and
self-government At the head of the class
stand organized territories like New Mex
leo; in the middle Hawaii, the District
of Columbia, Alaska and Porto Rico. They
are all in the same class because the ulti-
mate government of them lies in a body
outside of themselves in which they are
not represented and in whose acts they do
not participate. A territorial delegate un-
recognized by the Constitution and vote-
less is not a part of Congress, does not
constitute representation in Congress- and
is merely petitioning agent of the terri
tory, with the privileges of the floor of the
national legislature. The actual status of
the territory in its relation to the Union
does not turn upon the possession or nom
possession of delegate, or Of any privilege
granted by a legislature in which it is not
represented. If any territory is in slavery
all are slaves. notwithstanding variations
in the number and weight of their re-
spective shackles.
1t is an honor to be entered in the repub-
lies school. even in the primary class and
at its foot. No one who understands what
the Flipinos have gained in escaping TO
Uncle Sans premises from Spanish monas-
tic rule. from the bloody dictatorship Of
Aguinaldo. from anarchy. or from the
European military despotism. has any tears
to shed over the alleged unhappy lot of the
people of the Philippines.
To be a territorial citizen of the United
States is to enjoy dignity less only than
that of being a state citizen or national
citizen of the United States.
Injustice to Uncle Sam and deception OF
this newcomer to his own injury in
volved in the efforts which have been made
to foster discomfort in the republics latest
pupil, and to convince him that he is the
victim of outrageously unfair treatment.
He is taunted with entering the national
kindergarten under compulsion, and with
being Inundated and degraded among his
associates by this neglect to secure his con-
sent.
Consent of the Governed.
In establishing the jurisdiction of Com
gress over the Philippines as territory be-
longing to the United States the same
Consent of the governed will have been
obtained from the Filipinos was secured
from the inhabitants of the land contained
in the Louisiana purchase. Of Florida when
annexed, of the territory conquered and
purchased from Mexico, of Alaska, and
from the Indians who were the first occu-
pants of the original thirteen states. The
which the District of Columbia and Alaska
now give will be given by the Fflipinos. IN
all of these cases the benefits OF the pros !
posed government are held to be SO obvious
that the consent of the governed is
sumed. Forcible resistance, contradctins
this assumption, is immaterial. Nevcrthe-
less and Notwithstanding and in accordance
with the precedents the consent of the re-
belIous Tagalogs to government by tho
United States will be presumed was
that of the people Of the south after the
civil war, and that Of the rebelling Mcxi-
cans in California and New Mexico after
our acquisition of that territory.
1t appears that all the members of Uncle
Sans primary class Were entered therein
without their consent, and that there is at
least nothing peculiar or discriminating IN
the course pursued toward the Philippines.
Let us see how the treatment proposed
for the Philippine newcomer will compare
with that to which some of the old pupils
have been subjected in the severe discipline /
of the republics school Let us discover how
much agonized sympathy is reasonably to .
be lavished upon the Fflipinos as the VIC
tins of a sudden and startling Develop .
ment of despotic cruelty in Uncle Sam.
Uncle sam n Hardened Offender.
If to acquire territory pS puitietse os
conquest without consulting the inhab-
itants as to their wishes, and then to gov
ern 1t arbitrarily without their consent, !
make of the republic a despot, overthrow
the Constitution, cast republican prin-
ciples to the dogs, and threaten national .
chaos and ruin, then Uncle Sam is hoary, .
hardened offender in this class of political .
crime, and the Constitution has been out .
ragged and the country ruined as often IN /
the national history the opportunity has
been afforded. ,
Our first acquisition was that OF LOUIS !;
lana. OF the circumstances Of its entrance
into Uncle Sans kindergarten the histo- !
rian (Henry Adams) has this to say: /
within three years of his Inauguration
Jefferson bought a foreign colony without |
its consent and against it's WILL annexed .t |
to the United States by an act which he ,
said made blank paper Of the Constitution; :
and then he who had found his predeces- .
sors too monarchical and the Constitution
foo liberal in its powers made him.
self monarch of the new territory ana
welded over it against its protests the pow
ers of its old kings.
The republicans and federa'sts, the po-
litical parties of that day, disputed over
the relation Of Louisiana to the republic
and over the powers Of Congress in respect
to the acquired territory. but they agreed
in placing very 1eW iuhlts upol oheAo
Sans despotic tendencies.
1.-The federalists." says Adams. ''main-
tanned that the central government reprer
senting the states in union might II IL
pleased as a consequence OF Its inherent
sovereignty, hold the rest Of America IN lts
possession and govern IT as Englana sov-
erned Jamaica or as Spain was governing
Louisiana. but without the consent ;. OF the
states could not admit such new territory
into the Union. The republicans seemed
rather inclined to think that new territory
acquired by war or conquest would become
at once a part Of the general territory mem
toned in the Constitution, and as such
might be admitted by Congress as state
or otherwise disposed OF as the general
welfare might require, but that in either,
case neither the people nor the states had
anything to do with the matter. At bottom
both doctrines were equally fatal to the old
status of the Union. In one case the states
formed or to be formed east OF the Missis-
sippi had established a government which
could hold the rest Of the world in despotio
control and which bought foreign people