The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-17
ROOSEVELT BITTERLY
ATTACKS FREE SILVER


Nish 20 retain their self respect. refrain
from doing their duty as a great nation
in the world. The history of the ma
ton is in a large part the history of
the nations expansion when the first
continental congress met in Liberty
nan and the thirteen original states de-
ciared themselves a nation, the west
ward limit of the country was marked
Dy the Allegheny mountains. Even
during che revolutionary war the work
OF expansion went on. Kentucky,
tennessee and the great northwest
then known as the Illinois country
We're conquered from our white and
Indian foes during the revolutionary
struggle and was confirmed TO US by
the treaty of peace in 1888. All the
land thus confirmed was not then given
TO us. 1t was held by an alien foe until
the army under General Anthony
wayne freed Ohio from the red man
while the treaties of jay and Pinckney
secured from the Spanish and British
Natchez and Detroit.
In 1903, under President Jefferson,
the greatest single stride in expansion
that we ever took was taken By the
purchase of the Louisiana territory.
This socalled Louisiana, which in
cluded what are now the states of Ar
kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Iowa, Min
nesOta, Kansas, Nebraska, North and
South Dakota, Idaho. Montana and a
large part of Colorado and Utah, was
acquired by treaty and purchase under
President jefferson exactly and pre-
clSely as the Philippines have been ac-
CURED by treaty and purchase under
President Mckinley The doctrine OF
the consent of the gOVerned' the doc
trine previously enunciated by Jeffer-
son in the Declaration of Independence,
was not held by him or by any other
sane man to apply to the Indian 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
their territory should be annexed. The
great majority of the inhabitants, white
ana colored alike, were bitterly Op-
posed to the transfer. An armed force
of United States soldiers had to be
hastily sent into the territory to pre-
vent 1nsurrection, President Jefferson
sending these troops to Louisiana for
exactly the same reasons and with ex-
actly the same purpose that President
Mckinley has sent troops to the Phil
1ppines- Jefferson distinctly stated that
the Louisianans were not fit or ready
for self government and years elapsed
before they We're given self govern
ment, Jefferson appointing the governor
and other officials without any consul
tation with the inhabitants of the new
ly acquired territory. The doctrine that
the constitution followed the flag was
not then even considered either by
Jefferson or by any other serious party
leader, for It reVer entered their heads
that a new territory should be gov
erned other than in the WaV in which
the territories of Ohio and illinois had
already been governed under Washing
ton and the elder Adams. The theory
known by this utterly false and mis-
leading phrase was only struck out in
political controversy at a much later
date, for the sole purpose of justifying
the extension of slavery into the ter
ritories
Declares Philippine Case Similar
THE parallel between what Jefferson
did with Louisiana and what is now
being done in the Philippines is eX-
act. Jefferson, the author of the Dec
laration of Independence and the con
sent of the governed doctrine, saw
no incongruity between this and the
establishment of a government on COM
mon sense grounds in the new terri
tory, and he rallied at the sticklers for
an impossible application of his prin-
cipleS, saying, in language which at
the present day applies to the situation
in the Philippines without the change
of a word. Though it is acknowledged
that our new fellow citiZelS are as
yet as incapable of self government
as children, yet some cannot bring
themselves to suspend its principles
for single moment He intended that
ultimately self-gOvernment should be
introduced throughout the territory.
but only as the different partS be-
came fit for it, and no sooner. This
is just the policy that has been pur-
sued In no part of the Louisiana
purchase was complete Self-govern-
ment introduced for a number of years;
in one part of it, the Indian Territory,
il has not yet been introduced, al
though nearly a century has elapsed.
over enormous tracts of it, including
the various Indian reservations with
a territory in the aggregate as large
as that of the Philippines. the conSti-
tuition 'fnllaEVPd "a
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 it becomes de-
sirable, and accommodating the de-
tails of our policy to the peculiar needs
of the situation But as soon as the
established, it will undoubtedly be
possible to give to the islands a larger
measure of Seif-goVernment than JEFF
ferson originally gave Louisiana.
The next great step in expansion
was the acquisition of Florida. This
was partly acquired by conquest and
partly by purchase, Andrew Jackson
being the most prominent figure ia the
acquisition. 1t was taken under Pres
ident Monroe, the after-tine president,
John Quincy Adams being active in
securing the purchase. AS in the case
of the Philippines, Florida was ac-
quired by purchase from Spain, and in
Florida the SeminOles, who had not
been consulted in the sale, rebelled and
waged war exactly as some of the Ia
gals have rebeIled and waged war in
the Philippines. The Seminole war
lasted for many years. but Presidents
Monroe, Adams and Jackson declined
for moment to consider the question
of abandoning Florida to the Semi
noles, or to treat their non-cOnsent to
the government of the United States
as a valid reason for turning over the
territory to them.
Cites Acquisition of Texas.
Our next acquisition of territory
was that of Texas, secured by treaty
after it had been wrested from the
Mexicans by the Texans themselves.
Then came the acquisition of Caiifor-
mia, New Mexico. Arizona, Nevada and
parts of Colorado and Utah as the re-
suit of the Mexican war. supplemented
five years later by the Gadsden pur-
chase.
1.-The KIT acquisition was that of
Alaska, ced from Russia by treaty
and DurCt. Alaska was full of
natives. some of whom had advanced
well beyond the stage of savagery and
we're Christians. They were not con-
suited about the purchase, nor was
their acquieScence required. The pur-
chase was made by the men who had
just put through a triumphant war to
restore the Union and free the slaves
but none of them deemed it necessary
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