El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-15

tration to the beginning OF PRESIDENT
McKinley's.
LIMITATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Our friends in South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana who stand
snivering with fear lest the FILIPINO s,
by becoming citizens, will have the
constitutional right to vote, or by be-
ing deprived of that vote will become
the victims of a despotism more auto
cratic than Russia, have found no diff
fioulty in excluding from the ballot a
South Carolina, by the new constitu-
tion of the state, made the requisite
for voting the ability to read under
standingly the constitution of the
United States, and the possession of
$500 worth of property. If this test
were imposed on the Philippines it
would effectually deprive the whole ma
tive population Of the suffrage. They
make for their denial OF the consent OF
the governed the ingenious plea that
neither by the declaration Of indie
tendance nor the constitution did the
negroes acquire rights or recognition;
that the fathers never meant to In
clude them. Certainly, If this be true,
it applies with greater
force to the alien races who inhabit
the Philippine Islands. whose ex-
the declaration, the trainers of the
constitution, or, in the language of that
instrument, to We, the people of the
United States, who to secure the bles-
sings of liberty to ourselves and to our
pos5erity do ordain and establih this
constitution for the United States OF
America
''By uniform legislation from the
formation of the republic aud by re-
II Of ha ctpy,
RENE court these principles are estab-
lished. First that the constitution thus
formed was meant for the states OF the
union as they severally adOdted 1t.
Second, that it becomes operative up
on every state subsequently, admitted
into the union. Third, that it does
not extend by its own force over ter
ritory acquired after the adoption of
the constitution, but that congress has
the power to grant so much OF Its pro-
visions as 1t deems wise.
PERILS OF DESPoTISM
SIT has been repeatedly said here
that government by the United States
in these islands will be q despotism.
Such q belief shows singular ignor-
ance or misrepresentation OF the consti-
tutional limitations upon our powers
and the spirit OF our insti-
does not extend over the territories
of it's own force and without
legislation, its prohibitions are
binding on congress-. In those prohibit
tions, which are also privileges en-
joyed by the people wherever our
Jurisdiction extends, is a complete
charter of rights which congress can
neither limit nor impair. All personal
privileges and immunities, such as re-
ligious freedom, property rights, free
dom of speech and of the press and
equality before the law, must prevail
wherever our flag floats. But outside
of the constitution and laws is an I'M
written law created by the genius OF
the institutions of the paramount pow
er and controlling it's acts and officials,
in all colonial governments.
"We know from Cicero's grafton
that even Roman prOconsul was sub
ject to this idea. England received
her lesson in the danger of violating
this spirit when she lost her American
colonies by our successful revolution,
and she has today the greatest and
most loysl colonial empire the world
has ever known by granting such meas
ures of self-government as each colony
demonstrates its ability to maintain.
AMERICA AND EUROPE.
America and Europe are the beue-
Charles and the victims of the marvellous
development OF the nineteenth CEN
fury. Electricity, steam and inven-
tion have stimulated production be-
yond living limits, unless new markets
can be discovered. The great migra-
lions of ancient and modern times ap-
pear Insignificant when compared with
the exodus from Europe in the last
seventy five years of human beings
whose exile from home and country
has been mainly enforced by conges-
ton from over prod uction and revolu
ton in employnents, by invention and
development in the arts and indus
tries. Our fertile lands have attracted
most of them, but they are practically
exhausted, and now the worlds pro-
blem of markets for the surplus of
farms and factories, or low wages,
want of employment, idleness and want
Is near our own door.
ORIENTAL MARKETS.
1.-THE markets for the products of
our farms and factories accessible by
the Atlantic ocean will soon be filed.
But across the Pacific are limitless
Within distance
from Manila not much greater than
Havana from New York live 900, OOO,-
600 of people purchasing now annually
from all nations, of the things which
we produce. to the sum of q thousand
million dollars, of which we furnish
per cent. And yet with our Pacific
coast and its enterprising people the
opening of the canal across the
isthmus and an American merchant
marine that 5 per cent should be so.
With railroads opening up these coun-
tries and civilization stimulating their
people, the possible increase in their
trade dazzles the Imagination.
ITO relieve home congestion, starva-
ton and revolution, England, Germany
and France are increasing their armies,
enlarging their fleets and either wag-