The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-13

- nut 50 MAANA NAAEA anu AANAN-t Avs
as officials having both the disposition
and the courage to enforce existing laws
While this is my view Of the scope or
the common law, II IL should be made to
appear that Il Is a mistaken one, then 4
favor such further legislation within con-
stitutlonal lines as will give the people
a just and full measure Of protection.
1t is difficult TO know how any citizen Of
the United States, much less a descend
ant Of revolutionary stock, can tolerate
the thought Of permanently denying the
right Of self-government to the Fflipinos.
Can we hope to instil into the minds OF
our descendants reverence and devotion
for a government by the people while
denying ultimately that right to the in
habitants of distant countries, whose
territory we have acquired either by pur-
chase or by force? Car We say 70 the
Filipinos your lives, your liberty n
your property may be taken from you
without due process of law for all time"
and expect we will long glory IN that
feature Of magma charta which has be-
come Incorporated. in substance and eff
feet, into the constitution Of every state,
as we'll as into the Fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States?
Can We hope for the respect Of the CIV
ilized world while proudly guaranteeing
70 every ClllAen OF the OulAtu 0AdAGa Tia
no law shall be made or enforced which
shall abridge the privileges or immuni-
ties of citizens Of the United States or
deny any person the equal protection OF
the laws and at the same time not only
, deny similar rights 20 the inhabitants Of
: the Philippines, but take away from them
/. the right Of rial by jury and place their
lives and the disposition Of their property
! in the keeping OF those whom we send to
: them to be their governors? We shall
certainly rue 1t as a nation If we make
= any such attempt. Viewing the question.
a even from the standpoint Of national
selfishness, there is NO prospect that the
= SO,O0O,OOO expended in the purchase Of the
; islands and the S650,O00,O00 said to have
been since disbursed will ever come back
y to us. The accident of war brought tho
N Philippines into our possession and we
Y are not At liberty to disregard the re-
D sponsibility which thus came to US, but
70 that responsibility win be best subserved
le by preparing the islanders as rapidly as
10 possible for self-government and giving,
W to them the assurances that It will come
i as soon as they are reasonably prepared
rs for it.
- There need be no fear that the assertion
en- so often made of late, that we nave now
20 become a world power, will then be with
- out support. Ours is a world power anda
eR SUN a. AAAa ~
an deny that it is at all recently hat the
United States has attained that emil
er hence. Our country became a world
power over a cetury ago, when, having
lts ..lrown off foreign domination, the peo-
.es pie established a free government, the
as source of whose authority sprung ana
20 was continually to proceed, from the WIN
'e- Of the people themselves. 1t grew as
OF a world power as its sturdy citizens, to
OF whose natural Increase We're added im-
ice migration from the old world seeking To,
CT obtain here the liberty and prosperity de-
Oh MED them In their own countries, spread
a over the face of thel and, reduced the
I'm prairies and forests to cultivation, built
so cities. constructed highways and rail-
Is roads, till now a nation which at the
Use formation of the government numbered
on only 100000 in population has become
100000 and from ocean to ocean and
the lakes to the gulf the country Is the
ce, abode of a free and prosperous people adj
art vanced in the highest degree In the learn
EN- ing Of arts and of civilization. 1t is the
its liberty, the advancement and the pros
ter perity Of it's citizens, not any career OF
the conquest. that make the country a world
OF power. This condition we owe to the
ere bounty Of Providence, unfolded In the
at great natural resources of the country,
is to the wisdom Of our fathers manifested
in the form of government established
Of by them, to the energy, Industry, moral
ion character and self-abiding spirit of the
nat people themselves.
its The government of the United states
co. was organized solely for the people Of
the United States. While It was contem-
lc- plated that this country should become
not a refuge for the oppressed OF every land,
ate who might be fit to discharge the duties
nee of our citizenship, and while we HAYS
d. always sympathized with the people Of
ich every nation in their struggles for self
lay government, the government was not ere
bic ated for a career Of political or civilizine
pie evangelization in foreign countries OF
len among alien races by Intervention II
uld their affairs. The most efficient work We
ca can do in uplifting the people of othel
we countries is by the presentation Of q
est happy, prosperous, self-governing nation
on as an ideal to be emulated, a model to b.
re- followed, The general occupation of oul
ned c.tzens In the arts Of peace or the alb
ess sence Of large military ornaments tend:
to impair neither patriotism nor physica
courage.
her 1 accept. gentlemen of the COMMITTEES
De the nomination and IL the action of CHI
ca convention shall be Endorsed by an cleo
cen ton by the people. 1 will, God helpinl
ute me, give to the discharge Of duties Of tina
us exalted office the best service of which
I'M am capable and at the end of the tern
retire to private life. 1 shall not be
the candidate for. nor shall accept a re
80 nomination. Several reasons might b
le- advanced for this position, but the con
the trolling one with me is that I am full,
ope persuaded that no incumbent Of tina
.ep- Office should rNeU te placed In a situation
1--WE of possible temptation to consider wha
uo- the effect of action taken by him In a
ana administrative matter Of great impor
2 OF fapaa p,tubf lnFa upOn his ~Dolifieal for