The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-11

a complete legal remedy against me
nopolies, The fact that they have
multiplied in number and increased
inpower has been due, not TO The fall
urH Of the courts to apply the law
when properly moved by aiminisEa-
tive officials or private individuals,
but to the failure Of officials charged
with the duty Of enforcing the law 70
take the necessary procedure
ito procure the judgments Of
the courts In the appropri-
ate Jurisdiction. coupled with the
fact that the legislative departments
of some Of our state governments, as
wen as congress In the maner al
ready referred to, have, by legisla-
tion encouraged their propagation.
What Is needed--in addition to the
passage of statute revising the tar
if duties to a reasonable basis---is
not so much other and different laws,
as officials having both the dsposi.
ton and the courage to enforce ex.
listing law While this is my view OF
the scope of the common law, II II
should be made to appear that 1t Is
a mistaken one, then favor such fur
Their legislation within constitutional
limitations as will give the people a
Just and full measure Of protection.
1t is difficult to understand how
any citizen of the United States, much
less a descendant of Revolutionary
stock, can tolerate the thought of per.
manently denying the right OF self
government to the Filipinos. Can we
hope to instill into the minds of our
descendants reverence and devotion
for a 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 Mag
ma Charta, which has become incor
porated. in substance and effect, into
the constitution of every state, as
well as into the Fourteenth amend
ed States? Can we hope for the re-
spect of the civilized world while
proudly guaranteeing to every citizen
of the United States that no law shall
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abridge the privileges or immunitie8
of citizens of the United States, or
deny to any person the equal protec'
ton 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
trial 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 nation
if we make any such attempt. View
ing the question even from the stand
point of national seltishncss, 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
1isbursed will ever come back TO us.
The accident of war brought the Phil
ppines into our possession and we
are not at liberty to disregard the re-
sponsibility which thus came TO us,
nut that responsibility will be best
by preparing the islanders
Is rapidly as possible for self-govern
nent and giving them the assurances
hat 1t will come as soon as they are
prepared for it. There
need be no fear that the assertion so
)ften made of late. that we have now
become a world power, will then be
without support. Ours is a world
power, and as such ii must be main
aimed, but | deny that it is at all re.
emily that the United States has at
aimed that eminence. Our country
became a world power over a cen
ury ago, when, having thrown off for
ign domination, the people estab-
ished free government, the source
# whose authority sprung. and was
to proceed. from the
will of the people themselves. II !
rev as world power as its sturdy
itizens, to whose natural increase |
we're added immigrants from the old /
rorld seeking to obtain here the lib |
rty and prosperity denied them in |
heir own countries, spread over the /
ace of the land. reduced the praries /
nd forests to cultivation, built cities. /
highways and railroads, !
IN now a nation which at the forma-
ion of the government numbered /
My three millions In population, has
ecOme eighty millions. and from
cean to ocean and the lakes TO the
ulf. the country is the abode Of a
zee and prosperous people. advanced
the highest degree in the learning
nd arts of civilization. II is the lib
-ty. the advancement and the pros
eriiy of its citizens. not any career
conquest. that make the country a
orld power This condition VIC owe
the bounty of Providence, unfolded
the great natural resources of the
,untry. to the wisdom of our fathers
suifestcd in the form of govern
ent established by them. 20 the en-
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