The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19

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effective remedy would be to appro.
priately modify the offending law.
THE COURTS NOT TO BI LAME.
The growth of monopoly, OF which
complaint Is justly made, cannot be
laid at the doors OF the Courts of this
country The decisions Of the Supreme
Court OF the United States, the Court
Of Appeals Of this State and the
Courts OF last resort In many other
States warrant the assertion that the
common law as developed affords
complete legal remedy against mono
plies. The fact that they have null
tiplied in number end Increased lii
power has been due, not to the failure
OF the Courts to apply the law when
properly moved be administrative Of
ticials or private individuals, but to
the failure Of officials charged with
the duty of enforcing the law to take
the necessary procedure to procure the
judgments Of the Courts in the appro-
pirate Jurisdiction, coupled with the
fact that the legislative departments
of some of our State Governments, as
we'll as Congress in the manner already
referred to, have, by legislation, en-
cOuraged their propagation. What is
needed-in addition to the passage of
statute revising the tariff duties to
reasonable baSiS-is not so much
other and different laws as officials
having both the disposition and the
courage to enforce existing law. While
this is my view of the scope of the
common law, if it should be made to
appear that 1T is mistaken one, then
f,,, 11rr claf tl>s
constitutional limitations as will give
the people just and full measure Of
protection.
FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE.
1t is difficult to understand how
any citizen of the United States,
much less descendant of Revolution
ary stock, can tolerate the thought of
permanently denying the right Of self
hope to instill into the minds Of our
descendants 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 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 become incOrpOrat-
ed in substance and effect, into the
Constitution of every State, as we'll as
into the Fourteenth amendment to
the Constitution of the United States?
Can we hope for the respect Of the
civilized world, while proudly guaran-
teeing to every citizen of the United
States that no law shall be made or
enforced which shall abridge the privi-
leges or immunitieS of citizens of the
United States, or deny to any person
the equal protection of the laws. and
at the same time not only deny SINH
lar rights to the inhabitants of the
Philippines, but take away from them
the right of trial by jury, and place
their lives and the disposition of their
property in the keeping of those whom
We shall certainly rule 1T as nation
il we make any such attempt.
Viewing the question even from the
standpoint of national selfishness,
there is no prospect that the twenty
millions Of dollars expended in the pur-
chase Of the islands and the $3.50, ,0O0,-
600 said to have been since disbursed
will ever come back TO us. The acci-
dent of war brought the Philippines
into our possession and we are not at
liberty to disregard the responsibility
which thus came to us, but that re-
SponSibilty will be best subserved by
preparing the islanders as rapidly as
possible for selfgovcrnment and giving
TO them the assurances that it will
come as soon as they are reasonably
prepared for it. There need be no fear
that the assertion so often made Of
lot ta l,o, Ia ,pnr1I
power, will then be without support.
Ours is world power, and as such it
must be maintained, 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
people established a free government,
the source of whose authority sprung,
and was continuously to proceed, from
the will Of the people themselves. 1t
grew as world power as its sturdy
citizens, to whose natural increase
were added immigrants from the Old
World seeking to obtain here the liter-
ty and prosperity denied them in their
own countries, spread over the face; -;IGf1
the land, reduced the ps9d.fl11s and
forests to cultivation, built cities, con-
structed highways and railroads, till
now nation which at the formation
Oi The cc-GovernWent numbered only 3
000,00 iii population, has become So
100000 and from ocean to ocean and
the lakes to the Gulf, the country is
the abode OF free and prosperous pec-
pie, advanced in the highest degree 4
the learning and arts of civilization
1t is the liberty, the advancement and
the prosperity of its citizens, not any
career of conquest that make the cOun-
try Il world power. This condition we
owe to bounty of Providence, unfolded
in the great natural resources of the
country, TO the wisdom Of our fathers
manifested in the form of government
established by them, to the energy,
industry, moral character and law
abiding spirit of the people them
selves.
WE ARE NOT A MILITARY PEOPLE
bent on conquest, or engaged i'm eX-
tending our domains in foreign lands,
or desirous of securing natural advan-
tages, however great, by force; but a
people loving peace, not only for our
selves, but for all the nations of the
earth.
The display Of great military arma-
moment. excite the pride of the
citizen, but ii cannot bring TO the
country The brains, brawn and muscle
OF single immigrant, nor induce the
Investment here of Il dollar of capital.
OF course such armament as may be
necessary for the security Of the coun-