The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-18

and children suffer, for the actual necss
siiies Of life. The one absolutely vifal
need OF our whole Industrial system i
sound money.
Aliases Of the Trsst system.
one Of the serious problems with which
we are confronted under the conditions az
our modern Industrial civilization is that
presented by the great business combina-
,ions, which are generally known under
the name OF trusts.
The problem is an exceedingly difficult
one. and the dlfnculty Il immensely sr-
gravstet both by honest but wrong-head-
Cd attacks on our whole Industrial system
in the effort 20 remove some OF the evils
connected with il. and by the mischlevous
advice OF men who either think croOkediy
or who advance remedies knowing them 10
Be Ineffective, but deeming that they
may, by darkening counsel, achieve for
themselves a spurious reputation for wis
dom. No good whatever 'iE suhserved by
indiscriminate denunciation OF corpora
tions generally. and OF all forms Of in
dustrial combination In particular; ara
when this public denunciation Is accom-
panied b. private membership ia the
great corporations denounced, The effect
is, OF course, to give an air OF insIneerity
to the whole movement Nevertheless,
there are real abuses. and there Is ample
rason for striving to remedy these abuses
A crude or ill-considered effort 10 remeIy
them would either be absolutely withou;
effect or else would simply do damage.
The first thing 20 do is 10 find out the
facts: and FOR this purpose publicity as
TO capitalization, profits. and all else Of
Importance 10 the public. IL the most use
ful measure. The mere fact OF this pub
licity would in itself remedy certain evils.
and as TO the others, il would in some
cases point out the remedies. and would
al least enable US TO tell whether or not
certain proposed remedies would be use
ful. The state. acting In its collective
capacity, would thus first find out the
facts. and then be able to take such meas
Jfres as wisdom dictated. Much can be
done by taxation. Even more car be
done by regulation. by close supervls.O OF.
and the unsparing excision Of all w
healthy. destructive and anti-sOcidl ele-
ments. The separate State governments
can do a great deal and where they de-
cline 10 cooperate the national govern
ment must step In.
Our Place Among the Nations.
While paying heed TO the necessity Of
keeping our house in order at nome. The
American people cannot. If they Y ish to
retain their self-respect, refrain from
doing their duty as great nation In the
world The history Of the nation is in
large part the history of the nations ex-
pansion. When the first continental Con
gTess met in Liberty nall. and tire thin
teen original States declared themselves
a nation, the westward limit of the coun-
try was marked by the Allegheny Noun
tains Even during the Revolutionary
/ War the work of expansion vent on.
Kentucky, Tennessee and the great
! Northwest, then known as the Illinois
country. were conquered from our Write
and Indian foes during the Revolution
ary struggle, and were confirmed 10 US
by the treaty of peace in 1883. Yet the
land thus confirmed was not then given
10 US. II was held by an alien foe until the
army under Gen. Anthony Wayae freed
. Ohio from the red man, while the treaties
/ of Jay and Pinckney secured from the
| Spanish and British Natchez and Detroit.
In 1893, under President jefferson, the
greatest single stride in expansion that
/ we ever took was taken by the purchase
OF the Louisiana territory. This so-calle
Louisiana, which included what are now
the States Of Arkansas, Missouri, Louis
lana, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebras-
ka. North and South Dakota, Idaho, Mon
tana, and large part of Colorado and
| Utah, was acquired by treaty aud pur.
chase under President jefferson exactly
and precisely as the Philippines have
been acquired by treaty and purchase
under President Mckinley. The doctrine
| of The consent of the governed" the
doctrine previously enunciated by JeTer-
| 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 ac.
! quired, and there was no vote taken even
| OF the white Inhabitants not 10 speak oi
| the negroes and Indians, as To whether
| they were willing that their territory
should be annexed. The great majority
| OF the inhabitants, white and colored
| alike, were bitterly opposed TO the trans
| fer. An armed force OF United States
! soldiers had 10 be hastily sent into the
territory to prevent insurrectioa Prssi
dent Jefferson sending these troops tC
Louisiana Tor exactly the same reasons
and with exactly the same purpose tha'
President Mckinley has sent troops tc
the Philippines.
sef-sOScrBment Withheld by Jefferson.
jefferson distinctly stated that the
Louisianians were mot fit or really fo,
self-government," and years ELAPSED be-
fore they were given seIf-govern
mentr Jefferson appointing The gov
ernor and other officials without
any consultation with the inhabitant,
OF the newly-acquired territory The doe.
trine that the Constitution follows the
flag was not even considered either by
JEFFERSON or by any other serious party
leader for IL never entered their head-
that new territory should be governed
other than in the way in which the Ter.
ritoTies Of Ohio and Illinois had already
been governed under Washington and the
e:der Adams: the theory known by this
utterly false and misleading phrase was
Only struck out in political controversy
at a much later date. for the sole pur.
pose of justifying the extension of slavery
into the Territories.
The parallel between what Jefferson did
with Louisiana and what is now being
done in the Philippines is exact. Jefferson
the author of the Declaration of Indepen
dence and of the consent of the govern.
ed doctrine, saw no incongruity betWerr
this and the establishment of a govern.
ment on common sense grounds in tht
new territory; and he rallied at the slick
lers for an impossible application of hi,
principle. saying. in language which a
the present udE HppilcS 10 the situation II
the philippines without the change of
word, though IL is acknowledged thai
our new fellow-citiZens are as vet incapa.
BILE of self-government as children, We
some cannot bring themselves To suspend
its principles for a single moment" II,
intended that ultimately self-governmen
should be introduced throughout the ter
ritory, but only as the different parts be
came fit for it. and no sooner. This i.
Just the policy that has been pursued.
NoI Yet Under the Constitution.
In no part of the Louisiana Purchas,
was complete self-government introduced
for a number OF years; in enc part OF il
the Indian Territory, it has not yet beer
introduced. although nearly century Ia.
elapsed. over enormous tracts of IL, in
Guiding the various Indian reservations
with territory in the aggregate as larg,
as that of the Philippines, the Constitu
ton has never yet followed the flag" III,
army officer and the civilian agent still