The age-herald., 1901-06-23
She 0ld Slme Greed NOA NNn
 Democvat\c SuccgSs ln 1904
SENATOR JOHN T. MORGAN IN KANSAS CITY TIMES.

at liberty ito make bargains with other countries for the disposal of her sugar and tobacco. To accomplish all this, we are required to retain the right to rule Cuba inIher foreign relations, and to in- terfere{ at our option. in her domestic af- fairs.
 Cuba changes masters and we become successors to Spain without the risk of assuming the debt which Spain claimed was mortgage on Cuban revenues This is adroit policy, but 1t is constitutional neither is 1t Democratic. On the same appropriation bill the Spooner amend ment" was voted by the Republicans, which abdicates every power of legisla- ton over the Philippine Islands and ev- cry judicial and executive power by ex- press declaration into the hands of the President He Is a worthy and patriotic man, but he did not have the self-denial to refuse to accept this imperial and ab- solute power that George Washington had when he was rendered crown in plape of the Presidency. Indeed, he de- 1nahded the consent of Congress to this coronation of imperialism when he did mot enforce the civil laws needed for the government of those people.
 His motives could not have been simply ambitious to enjoy regal authority in defiance of the constitution as mark of blind confidence. He did not need an Endorsement, for no one had censured or seriously criticised his government of the Filipinos.
 His purpose must have been to postpone the time when the tariff and internal rev enue laws of the United States would be extended to those islands and to avoid the plain duty' that he saw so distinctly and was so quickly forced to abandon by the great trust leaders of the Republican party, whose profits were at stake in the provisions of the Dingley law as was the case in Porto Rico. All this was done under the leading tenet of the Republican party, that 1t is right to use the powers of taxation for the benefit of men in po- Iitical authority and their chief support ers no matter what injustice such usur- patton may infiict on the country. The Republican party did not capture or an- nex the Philippine Islands either through their votes in Congress or their sacrifices in war, or through the wishes or the pol- icy of their President.
 The result was unexpected and unsougnt by all parties. It came as necessity of war and as a great duty devolved upon Us by civilization, humanity and Christian ity.
 As a Democrat I found that the prece- dents of a party action and the grand re- suits of a party creed were in full har- mony with our personal duty to God and to suffering people, and l accepted sit- uation from which there was no escape. except through a disreputable retreat. l welcomed the opportunity to again dem onstrate that the enlargement of our bor- ders only added the blessing of liberty, security, peace and prosperity to down trodden races of men and the earnest de- sire to oppose the just and powerful strength of the Republican institutions to the worst form of Bourbon despotism.
 Again, as a Democrat, I welcome the opportunity to show these millions, re- deemed from Spanish rule, that they have gained the real benefits of a constitution that wil secure supreme equal rights and privileges to all, with no exclusive privi- leges to any class through the abuse of the powers of taxation or otherwise
 Some Democrats wish that the Philip pine Islands had never been acquired by the United States, as some objected to the purchase~o Louisiana, Florida and Alaska. the annexation of Hawaii and Texas, and the capture of Porto Rico; and some object to the annexation of Cuba Their reasons are cogent, but they have not and will not prevail.
 In one thing we all agree, namely, that our acquisition of all these countries has been for the uplifting and civilization and beterment of the condition of their in habitants In another thing all Demo- crats are agreed, which Is that these peo- pie and the lands they occupy shall enjoy it's full blessing of constitutional liberty, such as we have, and that they shall not be kept as appendages and reservations to enrich those who wish to govern them as colonies, attached to the Presidential office, as the crown colonies belong to the crown of Great Britain The Demo- cracy will save those islands and their people from becoming mere kitchen gar dens to feed the hungry classes that are always alert to subject men and states to their personal service and enrichment through the abuse of the power of taxa tion. Without turning over differences that are settled by events which we can not recall or reverse, it seems to me that our duties are plain, and the pathway Is clear and the opportunity is wide, open to us and extremely inviting to all Demo- crats to assemble on the old foundation creed and again bless the country with an old-fashioned Democratic triumph. The old creed organizes the party so that any honest, capable and sound Democrat, from any section of the country, can lead them to victory
 That time is not far off If we will lay aside idle fickerfngs and quit our irri- tating heart-burnings and put forth the aggressive feature of our creed to com bat with the evils that afflict and en-
 
 found the demand for the payment of the national debt; for free markets, with out payment of tariff taxes because each and every port of the world that Is in- cluded within the sovereign ownership and possession of the United States for the old specie basis, as broad and solid as 1t can be made by all the treasures of gold and silver that we can cantrol, at the ratio of IS to l, or something equally as good" for the annexation of Cuba, with the free consent of those people; for the government of the Philip pines through acts of Congress. and of- fices created by law, with salaries fixed by law, and appointments to office when made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and not by legislators and judges, whose of ficial conduct shall be fin such manner as the President shall direct" as the Spooner amendment requires the collec- tion of the income taxes, as required by the Dingley tariff law. which is in force, according to the official admission of the President, and by unrelenting opposition to all abuses of the powers of taxation.
 Many things of importance could be add ed to this brief summary. but the storm is upon us and we have more need of sheet anchors and sails close hauled than we have for sky-scrapers and a bright display of bunting. It is not allies that we need, but Democrats who are true to the creed, of which there are enough always to elect a President, if they are not dis concerted and scattered by the discordant clamors of those who are only half ripe, but will make good Democrats when they l.