The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-10-20

neople TO believe that he and Mckinley had
no thoughts Of exercising imperial powers,
but he will not deceive the observers OF events
and the intelligent voters. imperialism is
not to comet is here.
A Republican Congress placed S5o'ooo,ooV
at the command of President Mckinley to
use as he pleased in conducting the war against
Spain. The Constitution says that no money
can be drawn from the treasury but in conse-
auence of appropriation by law, and a pubic
statement of how il is spent shall be published.
Has Mckinley told the people what he did
with the fifty millions?
The Republican Congress did not take any
action regarding the Philippines, but ieit
il tn the President, and the President chose
to make war upon the Filipinos. Any I'm
perialism about that?
Without any Congressional action on the
subject, Mckinley is governing Cuba, and he
told the Cubans they could have self-govern-
ment when they adopted a constitution that
was in accord with his ideas of fitness. lie
has been directing Cuban affairs through mil
itary officers and carpet baggers for two years,
and has set time six months hence when the
Cubans can submit their Constitution 10 his
INSPECTION. Any imperialism about that?
Porto Rico was annexed TO the United
States. denied the benefits of the Constitution
and its trade hampered by a fifteen per cent.
tariff. Any Imperialism about that
Mr.. Hanna may deny imperialistic tenden'
cies and intents upon the part OF the llama
Mckinley Administration, but there are other
prominent Republicans more frank. Spea 'er
Henderson of the House Of Representatives
said, in a speech in Chicago, that he favored
Mckinley. because he was carrying out the
Alexander Hamilton ideas of government.
Mr.. Hamilton was the very opposite of Jetfer-
son. Mr.. Hamilton distrusted the people,
and desired strong government. He wanted
the government to go dorm to and regulate
the people and restrain them. Mr.. Jefferson
wanted the largest liberty for the people con-
sistent with good order. He believed all
power should be lodged with the people and
the government should come up from them.
fer the people and by the people. Jeffer-
son favored government of the people.
Hamilton desired government by class,
supported by strong force, and MIR. Hen
derson favors the election of Mr.. Mckinley
because Mr.. Mckinley believes in the Hamil-
ton ideas of government
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, one of the
leaders of the Republicans the Senate, IN
a speech at Music Hall, Baltimore. last week,
said
81 would not be progressive American did
I desire this country in the great future before
it to be bound by the precepts and the Con-
stitution of our fathers as If this country was
now as then. They wrote it by the candle
light and twilight OF the eighteenth century,
but it will be Interpreted and construed and
enforced by the electric splendor of the twen-
tieth century"
This is frank admission. No Constitution
can bound the plans and polici of the Re-
publican party The advice of Washington,
the teachings of Jefferson, the words of Clay
and Lincoln count for nothing.
In his Farewell Address Washington wrote:
.sThe great rule of conduct for us IN regard
TO foreign nations is in extending our COM
mercial relations, to have with them as little
political connection as possible. So far as
we have already formed engagements lei them
be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let
us STOP"
That was written in the 'candlelight of the
18th century, and the Mckinley Admins
ton has ignored it and formed an alliance
with England and entered European politics.
President John Adams, in his message to
Congress in 1897, said-''we ought not to
involve ourselves in the political system o.
Europe, but to keep ourselves always distinct
and separate from it,
In his third Annual Message 10 Congress
jefferson said:
Separated by wide ocean from the ma
tons Of Europe and from the political inter
ests which entangle them together, with pro
auctions and wants which render our com
merce and friendship useful TO them ant
theirs to us, it cannot be the interest of an,
TO assail us, nor ours to disturb them. w,
should be most unwise, indeed, were we {,
cast aside the singular blessings of the position
in which nature has placed us, the opportu
nity she has endowed us with of pursuing, a
distance from foreign contentious, the path
of industry, peace and happiness, of cultivat
ing general friendship and of bringing coils
ions of interest to the umpirage of reasol
rather than of force.n
Eighty years ago, when discussing in Con
gress the question of recognizing the newt
ernancipated South American republics
Henry Clay said;
'The fact is not therefore true that the i'm
puted ignorance exists; but if it does, re
peat, dispute the inference. 1t is the doc
trine of thrones that man is too ignorant
govern himself Their partisans assert hi
incapacity in reference to all nations; if the
cannot command universal assent to the pre-
position, it is then demanded as to particula
nations, and our pride and our presumptio
too often make converts of US.
81 contend that il is TO arraign the DISPOSE
tons of Providence Himself TO suppose tina
He has created beings incapable of goyernin
themselves, and to be trampled on by kings
Self-government is the natural government q
man, and for proof refer to the aborigine
Of our own land
We might go on and fill columns of extract
to show that the Mckinley Administrator
has departed from the teachings of the found
ers of the Republic and gone outside of tn
Constitution, but, according to Senator Thurs
ton they wrote by the ''candlelight' of earl
days, and are out of date, along with tn
Declaration of Independence and the Consti
ton and the Monroe Doctrine
A majority of the voters of this country
however, hold no such views as expressed b,
Speaker Henderson and Senator Thurston
They still revere the memory of Washington
and heed his Advice. They still believe tina
all just governments derive their powers from
the consent of the governed. They believe il
having no eniangling alliances with Grea
Britain or any other imperial power They
oppose government by injunction and The
rule of the Trusts.
MarkHanna may deny there is any Imperial
ism just as he denies there are any Trusts, bu
he viii not misaad the intelligent and think
ingpeople of this country.