The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-08-18

ing the tariff duties to q reasonable basis
is not so much other and different Laws.
as officials having both the disposition
and the courage to enforce existing laws.
While this Is my view OF the scope OF
the common law. II It should be made TO
appear that IL is a mistaken one, then I
favor such further legislation within con-
stitutional lines as will give the people
q Just and full measure of protection.
It 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 Ftlipinos.
can We hope to insti1 into The minds OF
our descendants reverence and devotion
for a government by the people while
denying ultimately THAI right 10 the in
habitants OF distant countries, whose
territory we have acquired either by pur-
chase or by force? Can we say to the
Fflipinos 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 be-
come Incorporated. In substance and eff
feet, 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 CIV
ilized world while proudly guaranteeing
to every citizen OF the United States that
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 to 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 governor? We shall
certainly rue II as nation II We make
any such attempt. Viewing the question
even from the standpoint of national
selfishness, there Is no prospect that the
S20.0o0,QOO expended In the purchase OF the
Islands and the S5Q.000,O00 said TO have
been since dlsbursed will ever come back
to us. The accident of war brought the
Philippines into our possession and We
are not at liberty to disregard the re-
sponsibility which thus came to us, but
that responsibility will be hest subserved
by preparing the islanders as rapidly as
possible for self-govcrnlncut and giving
TO them the assurances that II will come
as soon as they are reasonably prepared
for II.
There need be no fear that the assertion
so often made Of late, that we have now
become a world power, will then be with
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source az whose outhori,v snrrn,r and
was continunllv IA nroceed from the will
Of the nconlc themselves II grey as
a world mower as lis sturdy citiyens. TO
whose natural increase wore added i'm
mirration from tbo olI world seeking 10
obtain bara ,ba ljhartv ana nrosnpritv do
MED them In their own countries snread
over the face of tbel and reduced the
nrairies and forests IN cultivotion built
citias. constructed biphwavs and rail
roads till now n nation which al the
form. tio,,..oe tho .yoverry,ept numbered
-.
only SWo'Vn In population has become
100000 and from ocean to ocean and
INC iakes 10 the gun 'he country Is tiie
opo"e y, nv anu prosperous p,op,e au-
ing ar AIRS ana or ,,,1ts,,,,,,, ~ Wv
liberty tho advoncemnnt md tho nros-
peritv of its citizens NOT any career Of
eonnuest that make the country a world
power. This condition we owe to the
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 self-abidins spirit of the
people themselves.
The government of the United States
was organized solely for the people of
the United States. While II was contem-
plated that this country should become
a refuge for the oppressed of every land,
who might be fit to discharge the duties
of our citizenship and while we have
always sympathizcd with the people of
every nation in their struggles for self
government, the government was not Gre
ated for a career of political or civilzng
evangelization in foreign countries or
among alien races by Intervention in
their affairs. The most efficient work We
can do in uplifting the people of other
countries is by the presentation Of q
happy. PROSPEROUS SELF Governing nation
as an ideal 10 be emulated n model to be
followed The general occupation of our
citizens in the arts of peace or the alb
sence Of large military armaments tends
to impair neither patriotism nor physical
courage
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