Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-17

of his nomination by the Republican
party to succeed himself, Mr.. Cannon
said: BY blood, by inheritance, by ed
ucation and by practice, we are self
governing people, Are we to believe
! that Mr.. Cannon meant to intimate, e
converse, that nobody was of self-gov.
erning capacity unless by blood, edu'
cation or successful practice? If so, it
is feared that he is getting back to
our ancestors blunder and may incur
the danger of receiving the approba-
ton of some of those beknighted crea-
lures known as Southern Democrats.
We wonder if our ancestors in New
England, New York and Virginia had
been stupid enough to have some no.
tion the converse of Mr.. Cannon's ut
terance in their heads, and if they had
based their actions on the fact that
the noble red man had none of the
blood of self-governing races in his
veins, none of that subtle force of
'heredity,' which accounts for so much
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for itself, if they thought that he had
not for any sufficient length of time
been educated for the task of govern
ing white men, or had no practice in
it, except such as seemed to lead to
the conclusion that he was not cap.
able of it.
'The next great blunder in our early
history consisted in their taking up
arms against King George and his fore
es, when the latter were actuated, as
they themselves confessed, only by
the kindest designs of 'benevolently
assimilating' to themselves our re-
sources and our opportunities. You,
sir who have Republican son-in-law
and, therefore, possess culture by af.
finity at least, will hardly believe that
our ancestors were stupid enough to
fight against the principle, which we so
frankly recognize in the Philippines,
viz: that it is perfectly right, self-evi.
IDENTIFY proper, for flag to cover and
two entirely different sorts
of government, one for ourselves at
home protecting individual, civil and
political liberty and pretending to fur
nish another for others in the colonies
and discretionary in it's
character and avowedly limiting indus.
trial development there by the neces-
sity of commercial exploitation for the
benefit of the home manufacturer.
We know now, of course, that all our
ancestors talk about inalienable
right of self-government, mo taxation
without representation habeas corpus
and right of trial by jury, freedom of
the press, freedom of speech and free
dom Of assembly, were only pretext
resorted to by ranting insurgents in
order to throw off the 'civilizing influ-
ences of the best government, which
the world had that far witnessed. We
have not been stupid enough to confine
to mere words our apology for this
mistake in our history; we have apollo
gized by deeds of confession. 1t seems |
strange that we could, as a people,
have prospered industrially and other
wise, as we have prospcred, so mar
velously, sir, in all our history, both
as Colonies and as States, in spite of
the monstrous error-this unholy re-
bellion.
Coming on down the current of
time, We found another period of pop
ular Mysteries, that is incomprehensi-
BILE to us of wiser generation, in view
of some enlightening facts in our re-
cent history. Some men in the trouble
some little town of Boston, masquerad-
ing as Indians, seized and threw into
the sea certain cases of. tea belonging
to certain merchants of the East India
Company. That this was violation of
law, no man in England or America |
had any doubt; that the violators of the
law were amenable to punishment un-
der the law, through it's usual process
es, amongst which were indictments
by a grand jury and trial by a petit
jury, none doubted. With a wisdom,
however, eQualled only by that of the
United States, these usual remedies by
law, against law-breakers, were ig-
nored by that sapient statesman, King
George, as being reeds too weak to de-
pend upon in an extreme like that. The
was that the entire popu-
lation OF Boston, men, women and
children, observers Of the law as we'll
as law.breakers, were punished and
the Boston port bill was passed, thus
in a fashion royalty communicating
the little town, commercially and in
dustrially. Then came that strange
and unaccountable outbreak of popu-
lar hysteria to which I have referred. |
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