Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-31
McKlNLErS GENIAL HUMBUG.

There is something astonishing in the supreme
impudence with which President Mckinley makes
statements that cannot possibly be believed by his
hearers. In his address to the Knights Templars at
San Francisco, which find published in full in the
San Francisco Call, and to which newspaper de-
sire to return acknowledgements, he made the
following assertions:
What noble conception it was of the fathers
the founding of this Government not upon the will
and judgment of the few, but upon the will and
judgment and conscience of the many, Government
in which all the people of every State participate in
citizenship that is equal everywhere, equal citizen
shipin equal States in Union that has never been
eqnaied. And, whether American manhood and Am
erican liberty go to Cuba to Porto Rico, or to
Hawaii or to the Philippines it raises the stan
dard, proclams the same principles that for
tury and quarter this self-governing people have
enjoyed"
There is no doubt that American manhood and
American liberty ought to carry the same standard
and the same principles wherever they 60 and they
should not go to any place to which those principles
cannot be carried But who is there that does not
know that these principles have not been carried into
any OF these possessions? As a matter of fact
they are shut off at the start by prohibition of
port President Mckinley and congress have de-
creed that American principles shall not be carried
into these possessions 1t is the open and avowed
policy of the administration that they shall not be-
come States but shall remain colonial dependencies
and every step of Legislation for them has been taken
with that purpose in view. The position has been
openly taken that they are not part of the United
States, in the levyng of special tariff duty for
Porto Rico in defiance of the constitutional provision
that all such taxes shall be uniform throughout the
United States" What mockery then to talk about
carrying to these islands "a citizenship that is equal
everywhere"
Moreover, President Mckinley is we'll aware as
everybody else is that in none of these islands is
there "a sefgovernng people" government rest
ing on "the will and judgment and conscience of the
many" In both Hawaii and Porto Rico there were
conditions favorable to giving the people the fullest
measures of self government that the administration
might desire to give but the government that was
given practically bars the people from any authority
Today the people-the enfranchised part of them
OF Hawaii are in open protest against the autocratc
authority of Governor Dole. At the same time the
Governor of Porto Rico is oongratulating himself
that little authority has been granted to the people
of that island In his last report, recently fled,
Governor Allen of Porto Rico says:
feel, the result of years close study on
the spot OF all the conditions surrounding the pro-
blem, that Congress went quite far as it safely
could venture in the form of Government already ex
isung on the island As the result OF such expert
epce and observation, [ fully believe, with good
men devoted tothe work. the island will develop
faster under such form. It's people, through expert
ence and education will advance more rapidly in
their knowledge of civic virtues under the guidance
OF present methods than they could in any other
way.
And this is the administration sentiment con-
cerning Government in which the people have
practically voice beyond the election of lower
Legislative house, which is shut off from right to
Legisate on any OF the important affairs of the
island Even as to local affairs its powers cur
tailed by putting the whole power of granting fran
chises in the hands of an executive board, and this
board appointed by the President 1t must be-
very ignorant American who can be deluded by any
talk Of such Government having "the same princi-
pies that for century and quarter this sef-gov-
erning people have enjoyed"