The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
effective remedy would be TO appro-
priately modify the offending law.

cueCUlVe remedy WCulQ De TO apprO-
priately modify the offending law.
THE COURTS NOT TO BLAME.
Tue 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 a
complete legal remedy against mono
plies. The fact that they have null
tiplied In number and Increased in
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, &C oupled 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
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 it Is q mistaken one, then
l favor such further legislation within
constitutional limitations as will give
the people just and full measure of
protection.
FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE.
1t is Nditlicult to understand how
any citizen Of the United States,
much less a descendant of Revolutions
ary stock, can tolerate the thought of
permanently denying the right Of self
government to the FilipinOS. Can we
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 re have acquired
either by purchase Or by force? Can
we say 10 the Filipinos, "Your lives,
your liberty and your property may be
taken from you without Cue 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 well 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, CIR 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 send to them to be their governors?
We shall certainly rule it as nation
it 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 0000,-
900 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-
sponsibility will be best subserved by
preparing the islanders as rapidly as
possible for Selfgovernmenta 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
late, that we have now become world
power, will then be without support.
Ours is world power, and as such it
rnnct ha intainaH h,1t Hanv ~
it Is at ell recently that the United
States has attained that eminence.
Our country became world power
over a century ago, when, having
thrown Off foreign domination, the
people established free government,
the source of whose authority sprung
and was continuously to proceed, from
the will of the people themselves. 1t
grew as a world power as it's 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 .S;rr,;
the land, reduced the prcGffif1ts and
forests to cultivation, E5tfiit cities. con
sulucteu highways and railroads, till
nov d llation WITCH at the formation
61 6h1ihe 5!.e GovernnIfent numbered only 3
0OO, 900 iff regulation, has become so,
100000 and from ocean to ocean and
the lakes TO the Gulf, the country is
I he abode Of free and prosperous peO-
pie, advanced in the highest degree i 4
the learning and arts of civilization.
t is the liberty, the advancement and
the prosperity of its citizens, not any
career OF conquest that make the coun-
try 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 pEOpL f
bent ON conquest, or engaged in ex-
tending our domains in foreign lands,
or deSlrous of securing natural advan-
IageS, however great, by force: but Il
people loving peace, not only for our
selves, but for all the nations of the
earth.
The display of great military arma-
ments may please the eye and, for the
moment, excite the pride of the
citizen, but it cannot bring TO the
country the brains, Drawn and muscle
OF single immigrant, nor induce the
Investment here of dollar of capital.
vi course such armament as may be
necessary for the security of the cOun-
trJ 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
puSilanimOuS. protest however