New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-25

legiance and protection are reciprocal hence ever
Senee also observation-disclosures Colonel Bryan and no
public have subjects. and IN THIS Republic ever
American CITIZENS being subjects. how muck
Filipinos who are not citizens. yet who owe A az
leganee to and are sgSFa9seeSf f lns P5oSsSon Of
According the treaty. the PRINCIPLES OF inSerna-
this Republic can have subjects" and such SUD
jects are the FiliDinos-
NO CHEAP LABOR
The IaboriuR man." says Colonel Bryan "v~fl
be the rst to Suffer II orisntal subjects seek VOL
In the United States" The Filipinos. not being
permission, immigrate to this country. Their
rights will be no more nor Jess man nose Or aliens
The Chinese in the Philippines are excluded abs0-
581) Malays. constituting a considerable Br0por-
ton Of the FilipinOs being neither black nor VEL
II has been repeatedly suggested by the sl55r sSe
Court that the Thirteenth Fourteenth and ne me
teenth amendments apply only 70 whites and
as VAN 49, 100 U s.. s06 12 T. s. 0i: q Fed Rep
Ss; sawy. l55i q Fed Rep -; ~ T. 5. ssTj
White and black inhabitants migrating 70 iris
country be admitted on the same terms and
foreign land. Citizenship and that alone prevents
Hence. unless Congress confers citizensbIo csr
immigTation laws while Mongolians and NI.I oar
be debarred absolutely. and threatened incIiF.
sions of cheap labor Will not imDer the interest.
Of American wOrkmen.
N philippine
Sixth-The Republican policy in the Philippines f,
also attacked on the ground that II violates the
uniform tariff clause in the Constitution. But there
that document does not apply The COnstitutior
and statutes do not operate ex proprio vigore
hence they do not apply. We md ourselves aga1
relegated to Congress II 1t makes operative the
tariff laws those laws will prevail IT. however
under our revenue laws and under the decisions ~
the Supreme Court all Philippine ports must Be re-
garded as foreign until they are established do
nestle by act OF Congress
These principles have been applied on several &C.
casfOns in our history. Florida was ceded 10 rs 4,
1913. After We had taken possession il decided
by the treasury DepaTtIa tndJ goods imported
operative therein liable 70 duty. That is {"
said Chief Justice fancy although Florida bs5 E,
cesslOn actually become part of the United states
and in our possession, yet, under revenue
laws its ports must be regarded as foreign Until
they are established as domestic by act Of Con
gress-" % How, GID
In 1876 the Mexican State Of TaInaulipas was con.
quered by US During t our miSary and eiyil rule
therein and prior to the treaty OF peace IN lss there
arrived at Phladelphla an American vessel cleared
from Tampico, upon whose cargo duties We're ex-
Court sustaining the tariff, said: There MAS no
act Of Congress establishing custom house a
iector The regulations the Collector adopted Eers
his character of Comma Chief The permit
and cOastins manifest granted by officer thus
could not be recognized in any port OF the Unite:
States. nor could they exempt the cargo from ne
generally upon this and other instances Chief Jus
aware Of since the estabiishment OF the Govern
ment. has ever recognized a place in a newly ae-
quired country as a domestic port, unless it had
been Pey t6T aS9 so s 0y c ae OF Gon Ie
utive Department of the Government has been
circuit courts whenever the question came before
them And all Of them maintain that under our
one unless the Custom House from which the yes
slea If iS So Mn s GOe fb 9lsc sS1s1sa
clearance exercise their fnnetl9ns under the au-
s shori'y Of the laws OF the United States How
becoming subject the tariff provisions OF our
products of the Philippines and Ladrones viii not
be admitted duty free unless, and until, Congress
so determines
DEMOCRATIC POLICY CONDEMNED
What solution does the Democratic party onsr
for these momentous problems? As stated In its
platform it is: % A stable form OF government in
the philippines, % Independence for the tnnabi-
tants, and 90 protection from outside interference
For what have Mckinley and Root and Long
Macarthur in the Philippines if not to suppress re-
belicn and establish stable government? For
Spain ever governed IN its rule OF three hundred
wandering and irresponsible TagaIs and Fiiuinos
simply because the semi barbarous rule that suited
issue on this point Both parties agree The Re-
Publieans are establishing stable government and
the Democrats say they want II.
But what of the future? asks Colonel Bryan, and
Independent State sad the aaa coa4 is o
which governs itself without any dependence on
decided Chief Justice MarshaII is no indeBsndencs
@ CranGh,, 1861 An American prOtectorate would
The Republican platform claims that "our author
ny cannot De less than our responsibility; but
thorlty from responsibility, and give the eighty
more tribes aggregatins ten million seEi-5aTbarOUs
Tagals and Malays absolute freedom of govern
ment and vet hold ourselves responsible for such
crimes and vices of the Malay world might pre-
vail TO our shame and the scandal OF the nations.
oe oLe. ySL We WuIll nave 10
natives work out their own destiny" In their for
at Russia. and challenge England at HOns-KOng.
and vet we would be compelled TO remain qUiesceEt
Our duty would simply be to defend while the Fill
pinos would have unlimited power to offend. Such
proposition Is not only ridiculous. but vicious.
and its results would be worse than anarchy And
yet such is the only solution offered by the De
mocracy-an impracticable theory. which should
never have been stamped with the dignity Of
party policy.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS UNCONsTITU-
TTONAI.
The Democratic party is cOnjuriug up legal Cor
CONS and political Hydras Like Don Ouixote il
sees windmiIIs and exclaims 'Monstrous giantsf'
II behOlds the Republic victorious in the Orient.
and cries. Imperialism, Imperialism But there
legal CiOrgOns. there are no political Ffv1ras
there is no Imperialism. The party Is all wrong.
wrong the operation OF the Constitution wrong
on the Declaration OF Independence. wrOng on The
consent OF the governed on citizenship. subjects.
on immigration, on fundamentally and incon-
testably wrong on every expansion issue il
tends Tor In the oacksround OF the century rise
the pOrtentous figures of Jefferson and Jackson
and Polk and Pierce-Democrats all and uncou-
promising eXpansloniSts-and they hurl maledic-
tions on the leaders of to-day for abandoning the
party policy that added more lustre than any other
TO the DeInocratc name ana they warn the De-
moCracy that. in the past. political death has
can expansion, so now the Democratic party, with
its legal bubbles and OVerruled decisions VIII go
Irresistible memorable racial growth and expansion
OF seventy-fve million enlightened sovereigus.
FUTURE REPUBLICAN POLICY.
In conclusion. Colonel Bryan demands that Re-