The Headlight (Augusta, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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THE HEADLIGHT
Published Every Friday by
SALTER SON
AUGUSTA - - 0 T
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
v
A bank at Okarchc has been char-
tered '
A public library is materializing at
Billings
There are three fruit tree nurseries
at Chandler
There is considerable typhoid fever
in the territories
Ten of the thirty-four teachers in
Guthrie are negroes
: Probate Judge ITarvey died very sud-
denly at Chandler
The Adventists’ camp in Oklahoma
City has 857 inhabitants
German Evangelists at Norman prov
pose to erect a new church
3Ten colored persons hold teachers
certificates in Lincoln county
The annual income of the college and
station at Stillwater is §50000
Woodward county has organized
fifteen new school districts this year
Citizens of Ponca City decided in
favor of a city building by 78 majority
Citizens of Granite have contributed
§10000 toward a high school building
The ice factory at Pawnee is burned
It cost §12000 and is insured for $7000
The wife of secretary William Jenk-
ins of Oklahoma territory preaches
sometimes
The Santa Fe took 30 cars of material
out of Perkins for Galveston in one
day
D W Marquart formerly a banker
at Norman died recently in a hospital
at Louisville
Fifty-seven people were led into the
water and baptised at Oklahoma City
on September 9
There is a scarcity of hogs in the
vicinity of Guthrie few shipments are
made from there of late
The late Colonel Stiles at the open-
ing of the strip located the claim which
became part of Ponca City
Citizens of Weatherford and Custer
county have taken a charter for a cot-
ton gin and mill company '
Five thieves with a wagon load of
stolen goods were overtaken at Chil-
locco and the goods recovered
I
W M Thayer living near Glencoe
built a fine sorghum mill and it was
burned the night after it was finished
Edward Jalonick of El Reno was
one of the victims at Galveston He
and his two children were swept away
with the flood
Oklahoma towns arc united upon
one sentiment they each want to be
the terminal of the Fort Smith and
Western railroad
A quarantine of Greer county cattle
is ordered on account of the prevalence
of ticks and shipping from there to the
northward is prohibited
The Oklahoma Historical society has
contracted for the binding of 1500 vol-
umes The State Capital and the Lead
er each does one half the work
Heavy rains in Western Oklahoma
filled the water holes and caused a re-
markable growth of grass Some cat-
tlemen who had prepared to ship out
the bulk of their stock will not do
so
Governor Barnes sent his private
secretary F I Wenner to the Kiowa
Comanche and Wichita country to se-
cure data for his annual report to the
secretary of the interior Wenner will
also investigate the stories of gold
findings in the Wichita mountains
Citizens of the western portion of
Beaver county have been notified by a
government agent that unless the
fence quarrels between farmers cease
the government will tear down all the
fences
’ At the Knid encampment a school o
instruction in charge of Ray V Hoff-
man colonel of the regiment is to bo
maintained The territorial soldier?
will be given instruction and practico
not only in drill and target practice
but in the pitching of tents and other
accessories of camp life
Hunters must seek other fields for
their sport as large portions of Okla-
homa where formerly game abounded
are covered with a farming population
Charles Congdon the conductor who
was killed at Perry was insured for
$1000 for the benefit of his family but
it is not known w here his family is
Miss Clyde L llornaday daughterof
Captain W X llornaday a former
Kansas newspaper man and Ralph
Clauser of Topeka were married at
Ponca City last week They will re-
side in Topeka
IS A FALSE ISSUE
DEMOCRATS HAVING TROUBLE
ABOUT IMPERIALISM
An Interview with Judge McAtee of
' the Oklahoma Supreme Court — Legal
Aspect of the Question — Treaty Ob-
ligations — Dishonorable Inconsistency
An interesting and instructive inter-
view with Judge John L McAtee as-
sociate justice of the Supreme court of
Oklahoma was recently printed in the
St Louis Globe Democrat Judge Mc-
Atee has given close study to the legal
aspects of the issue of “imperialism”
as related to national history and the
past and present attitude of political
parties He has searched the records
of Democratic presidents and shows
that their position is distinctly op-
posed to that taken by Bryan in his
speech of acceptance Bryan’s theory
is traced to Calhoun and the South
Carolinian invented it to carry slavery
Into the territories Benton denounced
it as a new dogma Judge McAtee’s
exposition of the subject is clear log-
ical and convincing Judge McAtee
says that there were a great many
declarations in the Bryan speech of
the principles of liberty with which
all Americans sympathized but that
they were not applicable to the con-
ditions which had been presented to
the government in the Philippine and
Porto Rican questions but they were
worked in rhetorically and not with
direct and logical application' to the
subject “When Mr Bryan undertakes
to deal with the facts” the judge said
“he does not include a consideration of
all the things which should be consid-
ered and he omits to Include some
things which should be included and
he includes some things which are not
correct”
Bryan's False Fosltion
The reporter asked "To what par-
ticularly do you refer?”
“Well take his proposition that ‘the
Porto Rico tariff law asserts that it is
the doctrine of the Democratic party
that the operation of the constitution
la confined to the forty-five states
The Democratic party’ Mr Bryan says
‘disputes this doctrine and denounces it
as repugnant to both the letter and
spirit of our organic law’
“If Mr Bryan's view Is correct the
consequences would be very serious
and embarrassing to the government
because it would result that the inhab-
itants of those territories whethei1
cannibal or otherwise would have to
be admitted to citizenship and the
right of suffrage It would necessarily
follow also that a large portion of
our federal revenue would disappear
without remedy by the free admission
of vast quantities of the products of
very cheap labor to which the ports
of the United States would by such
an interpretation open and would
come Into immediate competition with
the products of American labor
“The United States if this view were
in fact correct would probably have to
drop the Islands no matter what mo-
tives of duty or obligation to other na-
tions or to the Filipinos who have been
friendly to us would dictate
“Nevertheless all the great leaders
of the Democracy are on record on the
other side of this question Several
acts of congress were passed in 1SC3
1804 and 1803 providing a territorial
government for Louisiana It was pro-
vided that ‘the military civil and ju-
dicial power shall be vested in such
person and persons and he exercised
in such manner as the president should
direct’ ‘for maintaining and protect-
ing the inhabitants of Louisiana in
the free enjoyment of their liberty
property and religion’ The acts of
congress passed for the territorial or-
ganization of Michigan and Illinois in
1S05 and 1S09 were in like terms
Jefferson Against Bryan
“These acts all approved by Thom-
as Jefferson as president excluded the
idea that the people of the territories
were entitled to any constitutional
guarantees The same course was pur-
sued under the administrations of
James Madison and James Monroe for
In 1812 1817 1819 and 1822 acts were
passed for the establishment of terri-
torial governments for the territories
of Oregon and Florida The first act
of congress organizing the territory of
Florida provided that ‘all military
civil and judicial powers shall be vest-
ed in such person as the president
should appoint’ In 1836 congress
passed an act providing a government
for the territory of Wisconsin It was
thought that the ‘laws of the United
States so far as they were applicable’
might be extended to that territory
and this was accordingly done Presi-
dent Jackson approved the act of or-
ganization “Acts were afterward passed provid-
ing in like terms governments for the
territories of Iowa and Minnesota dur-
ing the terms of President Van Buren
and President Polk who approved and
signed them in 1843 and 1849
t'lrMItatloa and Territories
‘These acts and approvals of or-
ganization are in flat contradiction of
Mr Bryaa’Y proposition that the con-
stitutional guarantees were operative
In the territories and tbit that is Dem
ocratic doctrine In- several instances
in these territorial organizations the
whole power of government with the
power to give to the people and with-
hold all political and civil rights were
deposited in the president himself The
great men who founded the Democrat-
ic party and conducted its policy from
1800 up to 1S50 including Thomas Jef-
ferson1 James-Madison James Monroe
Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
and James K Polk approved of that
interpretation of the constitution
which ‘confines the constitution to the
states’ and which Mr Bryan says the
present Democratic party ‘disputes
and denounces as repugnant 'to the
letter and spirit of our organic law’
and it is ‘up to’ men who have fol-
lowed the Democratic leadership as I
have to say whether they will -take
the acts of these great men who formed
the Democratic party as the proper in-
terpretations of what the policy and
doctrine of that party have been or
whether they will take Mr Bryan's
best guess as to what those great Dem-
ocratic leaders propounded”
The theory which Mr Bryan now
declares to be Democratic doctrine was
never invented until Mr Calhoun un-
dertook to announce it in the senate
in 1847 for the purpose of carrying
slavery into ’ the territories Senator
Benton who was certainly one of the
most eminent leaders the Democratic
party' has had describes it in his
“Thirty Years in the Senate” as a
“new dogma” He says that Mr Web-
ster completely exposed the fallacy oft
the proposition and that the doctrine
had never been heard of in the coun-
try before
The Drel Scott Case
“In the Dred Scott case decided by
the Supreme court in 1856 Judge Taney
fallowed Mr Calhoun and announced
the same doctrine and the pro-slavery
party persisted in it until 1860 when
it nominated Breckinridge for the pres-
idency and declared in its national
platform that during the existence of
a territorial government ’all citizens
of the United States have an equal
right to settle with their property in
the territory without their rights
either of person or property being de-
stroyed or impaired by congressional
or territorial legislation’
! “The Republican party accepted the
gage of battle thus thrown down by
the pro-slavery Democrats and an-
nounced in its national platform for
the campaign of that year that:
“ ‘7 The new dogma that the con-
stitution of its own force carries slav-
ery into any or all of the territories
of the United States la at
variance with the explicit provisions
of that instrument Itself is
revolutionary In its tendencies and
subversive of the peace and harmony
of the country’
Election of Lincoln
“Upon that proposition Mr Lincoln
was elected president The slave states
seceded because of this proposition
now again announced by Mr Bryan
following John C Calhoun and Judge
Taney
“That the constitutional guarantees
do not go into the territories until con-
gress so provides by express legisla-
tion has been announced by Chance-
lor Kent and by Mr Justice Story in
their commentaries and by the Su-
preme court of the United States both
before the Civil war and since except
as to the Dred Scott case and perhaps
some ceses which followed it while
Judge Taney remained as chief justice
of the Supreme court
“It would seem that the re-
sult of the war would have settled for-
ever that interpretation now sought to
be revived by Mr Bryan Its only ef-
fect would be to interpret the consti-
tution in such a way as to diminish
the power of the federal government
to deal with its enemies in time of war
“Mr Bryan has misstated the doc-
trine It was the doctrine of the Cal-houn-Dred
Scott-Judge Taney pro-
slavery Democrats and for the pro-
motion of slavery alone You can see
the discussion in the second volume
of Benton’s ’Thirty Years in the Sen-
ate’ ”
Ilrynn a Falun Prophet
“What do you think of the other
propositions advanced by Mr Bryan?”
“His principal propositions are all
equally fallacious He asserts that the
administration has wilfully violated
the principles of liberty and has de-
prived the Filipinos of their freedom
and that ‘history furnishes no exam-
ple of turpitude baser than ours if we
now substitute our yoke for the Span-
ish yoke’ All of Mr Bryan’s large
professions of generosity of sentiment
and principle are based upon the as-
sumption that having gone to the
Philippines we can just as easily come
away again or as Chairman Jones is
said to have expressed it a short
time since ‘We went there in 6hips
and I suppose we can come away in
ships’ — or perhaps he said ‘boats
“Those who are not responsible need
not be definite in their plans or propo-
sitions The country has had great
difficulties to deal with and somebody
has had to deal with them not upon
glittering and rhetorical propositions
but upon the facta and the law
“It would be a great gratification to
many curious observers to see Mr
Bryan shuffle together ail the noble
and Irrelevant sentiments which he has
quoted from others and the large and
generous and Irrelevant sentiments
which he expresses on his own ac-
count and be compelled to mix these
up with the actual facts of any given
case and see what would come of it
When Mr Bryan begins to soar if he
wquld only start from the facts and
conditions which have to be dealt with
or when he comes down and lights if
he would sometimes light on the facts
and conditions which have to be dealt
with we might guess how he would
act in a given case if the management
should be actually intrusted to him
Dewey at Maulla
“When Admiral Dewey destroyed
the Spanish navy the Spanish sover-
eignty was obliterated The obliga-
tion to protect persons and property
on the islands and preserve order an!
force obedience to law upon 'them
passed over under the law of nations
and devolved upon the United States
“This country became by conquest
and by the treaty which Mr Bryan ad-
vised responsible to all law-abiding
citizens upon the islands It is a sim-
ple principle of international law that
the sovereign is bound to protect ev-
ery person who obeys the laws and re-
mains in the country Any neglect to
do so is a breach of International law
and gives to the nation of which the
person is a citizen just ground of com-
plaint and satisfaction being refused
for war
“And in case of mobs and popular
violence public faith requires that full
satisfaction should be made by the gov-
erning power in cases in which the
government could by the exercise of
proper care have prevented them
“The law as I have stated It is to
be found in all the standard authori-
ties upon international law from Vat-
tel to the present time
Aguinaldo and Bryan
“It would no doubt have suited
Aguinaldo to have caried on the In-
ternal government of the islands In-
cluding the unrestrained collection and
the unrestrained expenditure and ap-
propriation of taxes while the power
and resources of America Were em-
ployed in sustaining a navy to protect
him and to pay the indemnities In-
curred by their Ignorance viciousness
or savagery at the cost and out of tax-
es collected from the American peo-
ple By that arrangement Aguinaldo
and his particular Tagalo followers
would have had all the pleasure of
domination while the United States
would have had all the responsibility
to make compensation in damages for
injuries suffered by citizens of other
nations residing in the Philippines as
well as for the Injuries suffered by
law-abiding Filipinos themselves by
reason of mobs riots Insurrections or
any of the multitudinous violence lia-
ble to be perpetrated under any affecta-
tion of government which Aguinaldo
and his followers would’ have sot up
there
“Mr Bryan has entirely Ignored
these obligations and liabilities”
Bryan Becomes Ridiculous
“What do you think about Mr Bry-
an's statement that the ’consent’ of
the people should have been procured
first?”
“The practice of the United States
has been to take possession of the ter-
ritories which have come under our
jurisdiction In the confidence that we
may secure the ‘consent’ of their oc-
cupants by extending to thenl our in-
stitutions and tho protections of our
government
“How would Mr Bryan proceed to
obtain the consent of these multifar-
ious tribes of different races and or-
igins and speaking so many different
languages and with so dwarfed and
undeveloped a capacity for political
intelligence? '
“There are about 1000000 members
of the Visayan tribe upon the island
of Luzon and about 1000000 of the
same tribe upon other Islands They
are hostile to the Tagals Would Mr
Bryan Indicate to which of these two
tribes the government of these Islands
should be surrendered? Shall it be
given to Aguinaldo who incited the In-
surrection and brought on the blood-
shed or shall it be surrendered to the
Visayans who are equally Intelligent
equally numerous almost entirely
friendly toward our government and
peaceful or shall it be surrendered to
the Moros who are almost as numer-
ous and much more savage and war-
like? And when the management and
government of these islands is sur-
rendered and the United States troops
are withdrawn what tribe will pre-
vail what government and institutions
will be established and what will be
the condition of ascendancy subordi-
nation or equality of the fifty or more
tribes who are not in rebellion?
fonaent of (ioverned
“One of the two largest Islands of
the Philippines is Mindanao It is
governed by an accomplished savage
named Datto Mandy He is the head
of the Moros and has unquestioned
powers of life and death Recently a
newspaper man who was visiting the
island expressed a wish to see him in
the attitude of striking down an ene-
my and when he wa6 made to under-
stand the wish he bad a sword
brought to him together with one of
his servants and was only prevented
by way of exhibiting bis martial ca-
pacity from clearing the skull of his
subject by the ' Intervention of an
American officer who was present In
obtaining the ‘consent’ of this portion
of the Philippines would it be the
wish of Mr Bryan to have the ‘con-
sent’ of Datto Mandy or of the slave
whose skull he was about to split for
amusement a few days ago or do we
understand him to say that now that
the United States has taken these Is-
lands by conquest and by treaty
which he himself advised that the op-
portunity of ameliorating suffering re-
lieving the helpless from the brutal
and establishing the institutions of
civilization and Christianity among
these people should be abandoned and
thrown away while Datto Mandy and
his like sacrifice the lives of their de
pendent subjects at their will
Bryan Ignores Truth
“Mr Bryan may ignore the condition
of things which prevails in the Philip-
pines and declare what the great party
which he lias come to speak for In so
singularly controlling a manner shall
believe on this subject but to leave
the mass of these people in the hands
of these half-civilized semi-barbaric
and barbaric rulers seems to plainer
minds simple cruelty or as Mr Bryan
would probably say ‘brutality’
“The Ameracon commissioners have
certified to the American people that
the people of those Islands are incapa-
ble of self-government The American
commissioners who speak concerning
facts coming under their immediate
observation is superior in moral and
logical force to the inferences of poli-
ticians speaking forth political docu-
ments for campaign purposes
“We have been dealing for filty years
with the Orientals and to-day a
myriad of the Chinese race surround
our honored and beloved representa-
tives and fellow-Amerieans In Pekin
clamoring and thirsting for their blood
It is not charity and there is no ob-
ligation upon us to deal with these
people or with those who are In an
analogous condition by either leaving
them alone in their barbarism or by
attempting to deal with them upon the
supposition that they are civilized and
capable of self-government until we
have evidence that they are so And
the United States ought never to give
up the control which it has acquired
over the Philippines by conquest and
treaty until it fan be 'assured of the
safety of its own citizens and of all
law-abiding citizens of the Filipinos
themselves in every square foot of the
Philippine archipelago His plan
ignores and denies all national re-
sponsibility and obligation
“Mr Bryan makes statements about
the government taking away the free-
dom of those people Tbo?e peop’e
were never free They do not know
what freedom means Our freedom
consists of free institutions They
never had them and they cannot have
them now except by American aid and
all Intelligent Americans certainly
know that this Is true”
Bryan Really for McKinley's 1’oltcr
“What do you think of Mr Bryan’s
declaration that the Filipinos ought
to have a stable government?”
“It is a belated promise The Presi-
dent in February of 1899 declaicd
that:
“ ’It is our duty to emancipate and
redeem them and set them in the path-
way of the world’s civilization
The treaty now commits the free and
unfranchised Filipinos to the guiding
hand and liberalizing influence the
generous sympathies tho uplifting
education not of their American mas-
ters but of their American emancipa-
tors’ “And when the treaty of Paris was
ratified by the Senate on the 14th of
February 1899 the Senate declared
that
“ ’It is the Intention of the United
States to establish on said islands a
government suitable to the wants and
conditions of the inhabitants of said
Islands to prepare them for local self-
government’ “You understand what I mean then
by saying that Mr Bryan’s promise
and the promise of the Democratic
platform are belated They are only
promises and they are promises made
a year and a half later than better
promises made by the President and
the Senate
“Besides the President Is well on
the way toward establishing a ‘stable’
government in the Philippines and la
supplementing his promises and the
promises of the Senate by perform-
ance not only in the Philippines but
in Cuba where the administration is
rapidly preparing the people-to live
under a constitution of their own de-
vice which will give to them complete
self-government”
Student I’rlucex '
The German crown prince is to com-
plete his education at Bonn and his
brothers will aUo study at the uni-
versity there in due course The em-
peror has purchased Prof Finkler’s
villa a fine large house with a pleas-
ant garden as a residence for any
Prussian princes who may be study-
ing at Bonn and it will be occupied
next winter and spring by the crown
prince
Men net the' powder to Mast wom-
en's reputations but it H other women
who fire the blast
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