Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07

! insufficient to meet current Obligations,
and the government was eompe1led in a
time OF profound peace to issue bonds TO
supply the fund necessary therefor The
picture this great, rich country presented
| under the democratic administration was
tull of distress and Humiliation who
that passed through that experience will
ever forget it, or ever be willing. to re-
turn to it? But that is exactly what the
democratic plat1 orm adopted in Ohio this
year proposes If there were nothing more
| involved than this one proposition, Ohio
ject the proposal, which, under all the
circumstances, is but a piece of insulting
effrontery.
| As to Expansion. 3D.
'The treaty of peace with Spain was
the work OF democrats, as yell as repub-
licanS. Without their help. it could not
have been ratified. 1t was not a party,
but an American measure. 1t was a sol
emn, national compact. 1t was enteredint
in the presence of all the nations as wit
nesses. 1t imposed upon us sacred duties
| treaty took effect expansion became an ac-
| complished fact. Since that moment the
| question has been not whether We should
| expand, but whether we shall contract;
not, whether We should go forward, but
! whether. We shall go backward.
| 1T is a conclusive answer TO the propo-
! sition to go backward, that, without act
ing like a nation Of poltroons We could not
! if we would.
1T is easy TO fiippantly talk about civ.
| ing the F'ilipinos their independence, but
! aside from everything else that stands In
the way, such suggestions are impracti-
cable and impossible, II we are to honor
sunleG.~ All who are Informed on the sub
| ject concede that Porto Rico and the Phil
lipines are not only ours by absolute title.
but that they are ours to remain, in any
event. for an indefinite number of years to
come, if not forever, because it will be
an indefinite number of years hence before
we can have discharged all the duties and
| responsibilities we have there under
taken. t
'It is our, duty, therefore, If we are to
remain there SO long, to give them at least
in the meanwhile, local political status.
and provide for them some kind of suitable
government
the United States and provide by act of
congress that the constitution Of the United
states shall be their organic law, and we
can make them citizens of the United
States if we SO desire, or, If We do not so
desire. we can withhold these conditions
and qualities. We have this inherent pow
| er under the constitution, but, in addition.
| the treaty expressly confers all this power
| on congress.
THE republican party after careful con-
| sideration and thorough discussion, re ached
| the conclusion that under the constitution
| of the United States we have power to ac-
quire, hold and govern territory without
making it a part of the United States; and
| that in governing such territory, congress
| is at liberty to provide such institutions
| OF government and to enact such legisla-
| ton the necessities of each particular
case may seem to require, and the supreme
court Of the United States has sustained
| this view.
| There is no question open for discus
| sion, therefore, as 20 the acquisition of
these islands, for they have been acquired;
| neither is there room for any talk or dis
cussion about giving them independence,
| for that Is impossible. in view OF the obliga.
tons we have assumed, for years to come:
nor is there any question open for debate
| as to our power to govern them, as We
are governing them. for the supreme court
has held that we have the power TO do ali
We have done. or are proposing to 70.
| Government by Injunction.
1.-THE third special denunciation of the
democratic platform to- which l have
called attention is of what it terms gov
eminent 1 by Injunction.
This phrase expresses very dangerous
thought.
All the judicial power of our govern
ment is vested by the constitution in our
as congress shall from time to time or
dam and establish. The constitution thus
imposes upon congress the duty of provid
ing for the exercise by suitable tribunals
of all the judicial power that belongs to
the government. For congress in the dis
trbution OF judicial power to fail or re-
fuse to invest some court, somewhere, with
the equitable lower of Injunction, would
be to violate the constitution and commit
an act of revolution. For congress to in
been done, and then divest them of it, as
now proposed, without at the same time
| investing some other court with such DOW
! er, would be equally violation of the con-
stitution, and an act of revolution.
/ But aside from all this, as a mere mat,
| ter Of policy, the proposition is the very
essence of unwisdom.
THE courts Of our country have ever
been the conservative 2nd ,preservative
/ force in our government. They are the
one department. unmoved by the excite
ments of, and the prejudices Of the pass
| ing hour: No man is SO humble that, if
/ he imagines himself aggrieved, mat
ter by whom, he does not know that in
/ and through the courts his wrongs may be
redressed. and who does not have in that
| fact ever present assurance of the pro-
lection Of government for. his life. lib
| erty and property. There have no doubt
been miscarriages of justice in the past,
| and there no doubt will be miscarriages of
justice IN the future, for nothing that is
/ dependent upon human agency can be
at all times perfect in it's operation. But,
taken as whole, our judges have always
met the just expectations of our people,
and in their independence, their honor,
| and their fearlessness in the discharge Of
| guarantee Of the permanency of our insti-
tutions. No greater. calamity could be-
fall US than the serious Impairment of
| the usefulness Of this department of our
government. To deprive our courts Of
any part of their rightful jurisdiction
would be at least step In that direction.
| Only baneful results could follow It
! might be even the beginning of the end Of
| the republic, for men will not long main
a free and untrammeled judiciary. All such
propositions are not only revolutionary
but they are also anarchfstic, and must
| be dealt with, accordingly.
/ To Capture the Labor Vote.
| THERE'S another feature Of this PROPOSE
| ton that makes it still more reprehensible
! and tnexcusable, and that Is the dema-
1 gogy of which it is born. It Is intended
/ to capture the vote Of the labor union
| On that account it is anything but COM
pliment to the intelligence and patriotism
Of lanorng gn men The The true f RE OF labor
truth, and not the demagogue, who, pratt
Ing friendship, holds s. out false promises
unattainable. Every laboring man should
| know that naturally all men are his
| friends. In some form or other all must
labor in this world. and humanity sympa-
| thizes with humanity the world over. But
there are certain limitations in all human
affairs, fixed in the very nature Of things,
beyond which sympathies will not CO. no
matter In whose behalf they may be in
voked. This IS especially true as to all
governmentaf affairs, and accordingly we
find in the nature of our institutions, nat
ural limitations upon legislative remedies.
Doubtless there have been INSTANCES of an
efroneous.nse, or even an abuse. of the