Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-11

l izen oh tne Oniteu states much less a descendant of revolutionary stock. | can toelrate the thought of perman- |, entiy denying the right of self govern ment to the Filipinos. Can we hope to instill into the minds of our des- cendants the reverence and devotion for government by the people while | denying ultimately that right to the inhabitants of distant countries whose | territory we have acquired either by purchase or by force? Can we say | to the Filipinos Your lives, your liberty and your -roperty may be ta- 1 ken from you without du. process of law for all time" and expect we will long glory in that feature of the magma charta which has become in- corporated 's substance and effect. into the constitution of every state. as well as into the fourteenth amend ment to the constitution of the United States?
 Can we hope for the respect of the civilized world. while proudly guaran- teeing ;o every citizen of the United States that no law shall be made or enforced which shall abridge the priv ilege of immunity of citizenship of the United States ordinary to any per son of equal protection of the laws and at the same time not only deny Ing similar rights to the inhabitants of the Philippines but take away from them the right of trial by jury and place their lives and the dispos- l ition of their property in the keeping of those whom we send to them to be governor We shall certainly rule it as a nation if we make any such at tempt. Viewing the question even from the standpoint of national sell hshness, there is no prospect that the twenty millions of dollars expended in the purchase of the islands and the six hundred and fifty millions said to have been since disbursed will ever come back to us. The accident of war brought the Philippines into our possession. and we are not at liberty 10 disregard the responsibility which thus came to us. but that responsibil- ity will be best subserved by prepar- ing the islanders as rapidly as possible for self government and giving to them the assurances that it will come as soon as they are reasonably pre- pared for it. There need be no fear that the assertion so often made of late. that we have now become world power, will then be without support. Ours is a world power. and as such it must be main tained, but deny that it is at all recently that the United States has attained that eminence. Our country became a world power over century ago. when. having thrown off foreign domination, the president es- tablished a free movement. the source of whose authority sprung and was continually to proceed. from the vii: of the people themselves. It grew as q world power as its sturdy citizens. to whose natural increase was added immigrants from the old world seek ing to obtain here the liberty and prosperity denied them by their own countries. spread over the face of the land reduced the prairies and forests to cultivation. built cities, constructed highways and railroads till now a na- ton which at the formation of the government numbered only 3,0e0,0OO in population has become S0.000,00O and from ocean to ocean and the lakes to the gulf the country is the abode of a free and prosperous people advanc- ed in the highest degree in the learn ing of arts, of civilization. It is the liberty, the advancement and the pros perity of its citizens not any career of conquest that make the country world power. This condition we owe to the bounty of providence, un- folded in the great natural resources of the country, to the wisdom of our fathers manifested in the form of gov ernment and out of the established by them to the energy and industry moral character and law abiding spirit of the people themselves.
 We are not a military people bent on conquest, engaged in extending our dominions in foreign lands, and securing natural advantages, however great, by force: but a people loving 1 peace not onlp for ourselves. but for l peace not only for ourselves, but for | all nations of the earth.
 The display of great military arma- | ments may please the eye and for the ] moment excite the pride of the citi- 1 zen, but it cannot bring to the coun- try the brains. brawn and muscle of | single immigrant, nor induce the in- vestment here of a dollar of capital. ! Of course, such armament as may be | necessary for the security of the coun- | try and the protection of the rights of it's citizens at home or abroad, must be maintained. Any other course ; would be not only false economy, but pusiIanimous. I protest however, | against the feeling. not for too pre- ! valent, that by reason of the com manding position we have assumed in the world, we must take part in the disputes and broils of foreign countries: and that because we have grown great we should intervene in every important question that arises in other parts of the world I also protest against the erection of any such military establishment as would | be required to maintain the country | in that attitude. We should confine our international activities solely to matters in which the rights of the country or of our citizens are directly | involved. That is not situation of isolation but of independence.
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