Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-01-11
HARRISON VS.. MCKINLEY.

: which he took issue with the prcscn
Republican administration in rathc
strong terms. lie said that recent an
ncxation of territory by the Unite,
States was somewhat ont Of line will
American history. He said it hat
been the policy of this country to an
mex contiguous territory, land sparscl,
settled by civilized people and adapted
to the use of free America.
But lately we have annexed insula
territory, situated in the tropics ant
unfit for American habitation, even i
the land was not already closely set
tied.
General Harrison declared that The
constitution applied alike to the State.
and to the Territories, and that il
must apply equally to all people. ii,
rldlculed the argument that has beer
advanced to the effect that only the
direct prohibitions in the constitution
are obligatory on the United States
government. lie said that aflirma.
lively State powers were just as oblig.
atory.
If part OF the powers granted by the
constitution are carried out i'm regard
to Porto Rico and the Philippines, he
said, then all must be fulfilled.
Arguing on the assumption that
Congress could go outside of the con-
stitution in the government OF an-
nexed lands, Mr.. Harrison declared if
that were possible then it could make
laws for Puerto Ricans that would
I suspend the right OF habeas corpus
declare the right OF attainder against
any one exposing the Spanish flag
declare an act of treason disrcspect of
Congress by Puerto Rican make the
Presbyterian Church the established
| church; establish n censor and forbid
public meetings; prohibit the carrying
OF arms; put garrisons in private
houses; confer the right to search
without warrant; try for life without
witness or jury; deny the right to de-
mand trial by jury and make the fed
eral taxes and tariffs fifty per cent.
higher at San Juan than at Ponce,
and fifteen per cent. higher at Ponce
than at New York.
The man who has to rely upon be-
nevolence for his laws, is slave, is
the opinion OF Mr.. Harrison. He said
he did not like to believe that the
trainers of the constitution were care
iul only OF their own liberties; that it
was his opinion that the fathers had
broad views Of liberty, believing that it
came from God. 1t was left to baser
generation, he said, to limit the right
of Gods laws to white men.
He asserted that condition had
been created contrary 10 liberty for a
commercial profit; that he had been
told that the Puerto Rican tariff law
had been passed to protect beet sugar
interests.
All property rights are unprotected
] without a law of uniform taxation,
said Mr.. Harrison. 1t is to be free.
dom or benevolent slavery; rights and
not privileges. He said that the Pres.
ident had seemed to assume that the
people of the Philippines had no con-
stitutional rights.
He wanted to know if there is to be
one law Of treason for the States and
one for the Territories, and one tariff
law for the States ard one for the Ter
ritories. He asked if the policy of
this country was to be that of coloni-
zation without regard to eventual in
corporation; whether there were to be
crown colonies and crown laws;
whether this country wished to be-
come world power.
General Harrison became sarcastic
when he talked of the alleged duties
that Providence had imposed on this
country. He said that we are carry
ing the white mans burden, but that
he had noticed that meant to carry
the black mans gold.
He declared that executive and
Congressional duties that are not in
the constitution are menace; that
the flag cannot stand for the benevo-
lent acts Of any administration, but
for permanent things. He asserted it
was Il mockery to raise the flag in Pu-
erto Rico, while the Governor stood
under it and read proclamation that
the island is outside the constitution
and under Congress.
He argued that if the act of annex
alton did not put Puerto Rico under
the constitution, nothing else would,
but to make it State; that law ex-
tending the constitution to the island
would not be a fundamental law and
might be repealed. He said that a
government of absolute power is a
terrible thing and under the constitu-
tion an impossible thing.
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NIKoLA TESLA predicts that in the
Goth century electricity will be trans
mitted from station to station without
wire.