The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-24


afaliations and remembering only that
they were Americans. They should
now stand side by side for the preser-
vation Of the fruits Of their victory;
not alone for tho territory we annexed,
but also and especially for the advance
ment they accomplished Of our good
name throughout all the earth.
Our prestige and our power are now
everywhere conceded. We stand easily
end pre-eminently irst In the council
Of nations. Our diplomacy as we'll as
our arms played the most conspicuous
ana most creditable part in the great
worlds work Just completed in
CHINA. i
Who would blot out that chapter Of
American history? We are all Justly
proud Of 1t, and yet, II the Democratic
party had been in power, 1t could never
have been written, because, under their
Interpretation of the Constitution, the
government would have been unable
to even join--much less lead--the col
umn Of relief as 1t marched on Peking.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The great trouble with Democracy
IL inherited and radical. It is afflicted
with a transmitted heresy from the
doctrine Of secession and state rights
that makes its leaders unable to appre-
ciate the place or the power or the
duty of our nation.
with them the states are every
thing; the nation is nothing, except
only as they find power expressly dele
gated. When our fathers framed the
Constitution. they could not foresee
all the great events that have since
come to pass, and, therefore, our Dem.
ocratic friends search in vain for some
specific mention of the emergencies
we have been called upon to meet.
Finding nothing there written, they do
nothing 1t was for this reason they
could do nothing to suppress the re-
belliop, to reconstruct the states, to
abolish slavery. to foster our indus.
tries or to change our standard of val
ues; and it was for that reason that,
at the close OF our war with Spain,
Spain, they could go no further than
the treaty of peace. That was as far
as they found anything written.
The way was clear to acquire terri.
tory by conquest because that was an
undisputed incident of the power TO
make war; and the way was clear to
take title to such territory by treaty,
because that power was expressly CIV
en--but that far and no farther. At
that point the path ended. There they
stuck, and there they stick, and will
continue to st!ck-until they take an
other departure
They could do nothing that has been
done in Cuba, because the Constitu.
ton was silent about Cuba. 1t gave
no directions for such a case. They
could take title to Porto Rico and the
Philippines, but they could not give
them government, except only as It
might low from the Constitution,
which they admitted did not fit the
case.
The Constitution expressly provides
that "the congress shall have power
to dispose Of and make all needful
rules and regulations respecting the
territory or other property belonging
of the United States" But 1t doesn't
! say anything about islands, and hence
they deny its application, and seem
unable to comprehend that not only is
the provision general but that without
any provision the power is inherent in
every independent sovereignty to ac-
quire territory, wheresoever situated,
and, as q necessary corollary, 1t must
have power TO govern II. And II II
have power to govern, 1t must govern
according IL the necessities of the
: people governed.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
has no such trouble. It believes in the
nation and believes that the natiana
government mas power to do all any
other sovereign power can do.
We believe that we not only have
power to take, but power to hold and
; power to govern. We have acted ac
cordingly.
Our work has been upheld by the
s1oreme court and vindicated and jus
tilted by the results of practical op
Grafton. The lines of procedure have
! thus been clearly marked, and law, or
der. prosperity, contentment and hap
piness, with love and loyalty for oul
} flag, are the constantly occurring re
suits wherever 1t floats.
In consequence America Is more re
spected for her power. her wisdom
and her humanity than ever before IL
, all our history.
It Is in the presence of all this, will
.. all eyes turned upon US. that we arr
now told to turn Lack.
> Are we to obey?
Are we now to tell the world tha
we have come to the conclusion tina
> all these brilliant achievements arr
> beyond the constitutional power Of ou
government; or that we have come t.
doubt the wisdom of the policies W,
have been pursuing and that, in conse
: Quence, we have determined to aban
! don the great tasks so happily begun
] so successiu ~ conducted, and =,
. nearly completed?
And, II e., -ge we ever again to hav,
; the respect of anybody on earth
, Could we ever again respect our
selves? Could We ever again claim
! place in the conduct of the worlds al
7 fairs, or exrcct any nation to heed ou
! advice?
. 1t was C!eat thing for this countr,
: when the republican party restore'
7 the protcctiT, policy and established
! the gold stcrd2rd, for, without thi
4 legislation. cur unprecedented pros
perity, wealth, power and happines
would have been imDossible