The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-25

the rights of American citizenship
To make Porto Rico. WITH its cense
rouulst!on. ard the Philippines with
their many millions. territories OF sns
limited States is TO adopt policE
which cannot be contemplated without
the mosf profound apprehensi0r- Yet
this is the step TO which the admins
tration's imperialistic policy has now
brought the aation--Chicago Record
InGl
Until 1899 Mr.. Harrison's speech
would have passed unchallerged any
where in the United States There
would have been nobody TO take issue
With him on any of the points he has
raised. He would have been open only
TO the charge OF making an ordinary
Fourth O. July speech with none OF
the highfalutin language that char
acte-izsd the Fourth OF July orator
Of an earlier time. But the indictment
at can be framed against the for
uer President now IS more than damn
ing. He is accused By his own words
OF holding human liberty ADORE mar
kets: OF exaiting principles above ex-
padie7cv: OF being in sympathy with
the ideals OF Washington and Jeffer-
son and Madison and Franklin and
Adams and Webster and Clay and
E.iucoln-in short. ne has questioned
the new higher law" re has cast
doubts upon the doctrine OF the divine
right of the President and Congress
20 govern ANYBODY that falls into their
clutches 10 suit their own sweet Will
II Mr.. Harrison is not guilty Of trea-
son, he is obviously guilty of lese
majestic. and with ten years more of
benevolent assimilation he might en-
pect to be punished for thus invoking
the spirit of the fathers.-Detroit Free
Press Gnd. DEM
II is refreshing 10 listen to such a
commanding voice when We are told
that the shibboleths OF American lib
ertv do not mean what they meant ar
the beginning Of the century, and when
il is taught in high places that prin-
ciples that were pregnant with pa
triotism as asserted against Great
Britain are mere bubbles OF rhetoric
ii quoted against ourselves. President
Harrison saws that the provisions our
fathers fought for were rights. mot
privileges" and he REJECTS the oppor-
tunis; idea that tqe flag shall stand
in the new possessions only for com
mercial benefits and for the "bensvo-
lent policies" o. the administration.
however benign they may be. No one
can dispassionateiv read the address
and still believe that our canturv-eid
mayims as to the rights of man" are
Idle babble. - Philadelphia Ledger
CR.p)
Mr.. Harrison has just returned from
Washington While there two din
ners We're given in his honor bv judges
of the Supreme Court. He was much
with them. Very soon they are to de
eide this great constitutional question
They are considering it now Knowing
Harrison as we do, we are quite sure
that he would not publicly Law down
this opinion of constitutional law if
he had reason to think that soon the
Supreme Court would declue the other
way He might still have the same
opinion. but he would not openly put
himself in antagonism to the Supreme
Court. Let Us hope that its opinion
will agree with mis-. II win be the
shortest and best wav out of ve-v'
had situation give TO the PhiliDnines
their inGeDendence ana nut an end II
this svndicating COLONY business. that
is obnoxious 70 our institutious.-
Boston Evening Record (ReDD
Ex-President Harrison's clear and
comprehensive statement of the case
will have great weieht in determining
opinion that has heen in suspension.
and will he a potent influence unon
the future course 0f tho Republican
rartv. which has arrived a. the part
ing OF tho was and must choose the
~oad il will take-the path of plain
duty and LOYALTY to Amorioan ideals
or the other road 70 imneriailsm and
tvrannv-Philada North Ameri-
can fRep)
Elk President Hsrrison's address. de-
livered 70 tho students of tho Univer-
citv Of Michigen on Fridav last. was
the most significant Of tho MANY re-
cont proofs of the recovery of the
American nnonle from tho irtovi~ati~r7
~areod ny their easv victory over a
Second class ri'tarv 2nd naval mower.
II is nor verv long since II wes re-
0arded pc little short OF treason for
"n~hodv.to exnress doubt that this
nation he'd sndherlv ACQUIRED new
'-~eo'necs and had new duties thrust
unon it as a world mower. Indeed the
foremost representative of the "streua-
ous ffo" was going un and down the
COUNTRY c0lv few weeks ago. pro-
claiming that VERY doctrine. and some
official orders issued hv cabinet
member during the current year i'm
led as much PHILADELPHIA Record
1nd. Dem1
This is an appeal alike TO conscience
and to reason. II puts IN concrete and
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