Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-05

suit you lave certainly slain mary times
that number Of parents.
John Quincy Adams, as everybody
knows, was the father of what we call the
Monroe doctrine. He secured it's adoption
through the weight of his great influence
by a hesitating president and a reluctant
cabinet. 1t is not so we'll known that he
placed the Monroe doctrine solely upon the
doctrine that just government must rest
upon the consent of the governed. That he
declared to be its only foundation, and that
SO ounded it rested Upon the eternal princi-
Pile of Righteousness and justice.
Moral Equivalent of Policy.
MI. President, if you have your own way
and keep on in the path you are treading
you have not only repealed the declaration
of independence, but you have left for the
Monroe doctrine only the principle of
brutal s~elfishness. You have taken from
that doctrine, which is the chief glory of
this country, from the time Of the treaty
of peace in 1888 till the Inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln in 1861, its foundation in
Righteousness and freedom, and you found
1t only upon selfishness.
when we ratified the treaty of Paris we
committed ourselves to one experiment in
Cuba and another in the Philippine islands.
We had said already that Cuba of right
ought to be free and independent. So when
in the treaty Spain abandoned her sover-
eighty the title of Cubab became at once COM
plete. We were only to stay there to keep
order until we could hand over Cuba to a
government her people had chosen and es-
tablished.
"By the same treaty we bought the Phil
ippine islands for $40, 900, 900 and declared and
agreed that congress shall dispose of them.
So, according to those who held that treaty
valid, it became the duty of the president
to reduce them to submission and of con-
gress to govern them.
Here the two doctrines are brought into
sharp antagonism.
SIN Cuba, of right, just government, ac-
cording to you, must rest on the consent of
the governed. Her people are to institute
a new government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers
in such form as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness
I'm the Philippine islands a government Is
to be instituted by a power 1000 miles away,
to be in the beginning a despotism, estab-
lished by military power, and to be such,
to use the language of the McEnery reso-
luton, as shall seem for the interest of the
United States
you nave given both doctrines a three
years trial. Three years is sometimes a
very long time and sometimes a very short
time in human affairs. believe the whole
life Of the Saviour after He first made His
divine mission known lasted but three
years. Three years has wrought a mighty
change in Cuba, and it has wrought a
mighty change in the Philippine Islands.
we have had plenty of time to try both ex-
periments.
Real Cost of War.
Nov, what has each cost you and what
has each profited you?
"I should naturally begin where our IA
Tiers used to begin. But somehow the
things get so ineXtrlcably blended that We
cannot keep them separate. This world
Is so made that you cannot keep honesty,
and sound policy, and freedom, and ma
terial property, and good government, and
the consent of the governed apart. Men
who undertake to max money by cheat
ing pay for 1t by failure in business. If
you try TO Keep order by military despot-
ism you suffer from II BY revolution and
by barbarity In war. If a strong people
try to govern a weak one against its will
the home government will get despotic too.
You cannot maintain despotism in Asia
ard a republic in America. II you try to
deprive ever a savage or a barbarian Of
his Just rights you can never do it with
out becoming a savage or a barbarian your
self.
"What have your ideals cost you, and
what nave they bought for you?
81. For the Philippine islands you have
had to repeal the declaration of indepen-
dence.
"For Cuba you have had to reaffirm 1t and
give 1t new luster.
"2. For the Philippine islands you have
had to convert the Monroe doctrine into a
doctrine of mere s~elishness.
For Cuba you have acted on It and vindi-
Gated 1t.
'3. In Cuba you have got the eternal graft
tuoe or a free people.
I'm the Philippine Islands you have got
the hatred and sullen submission Of a sub
jugated people.
"a. From Cuba you have brought home
nothing but glory.
From the Philippines you have brought
home nothing Of glory.
IS. In Cuba no man thinks OF counting the
cost. The few soldiers who came home