Show i I b ED f rL R i 1 ebbft plainly that they expect nothing by asking for more than fools could hope to gain ThOdOat nonsensical not to say 5m S pucjent proposition iatheir platform S t ia Bf Bagfeffibn thst the people be i divested of legislative power which is to bo supplanted by a tribunal to be provided for by Congress and the I jjnationaljexecutive The territories I have been accorded a lew of the rlghta enjoyed by states and the rTglftf under certain restrictions to t I J mako laws for their government is i one of them That will continue despite all the resolutions that cant can-t I adopted The day has gone by if I it ever existed when a majority of r congrusa could eerLualy think of I being guilty of so gross an infamy aa the Libeiaa a k for The rights of the territories will never be abridged j S fjiTnJamay ba set down as a certainty S Tbs system as it at present exists is so i unrepublican that the leading minds of the nation areS are-S r ashamed of itand would gladly eee it changed S for one more harmony with tho principles I upon which the republib is founded I The territorial system would long ago S have passed out of existence it S not jfurnished BO many places in if lwhi h to quarter political hacks and playedout partisans who were unable t to gain an honest living at home The score or more federal offices in each S territory furnish asylums for a host of Broken down fellow Of cousins unclei and nephews who have eome I J claims upon the party in power and I who would starve did government not T provide them a teat to suck Oar I S liberal friends are idlydreaming when they think the rights of people in the i territories will be shortened in the least Those rights will rather be S r enlarged and extended until the disgraceful dis-graceful system is wiped out aa it should be being nothing more than L relio of tyrannous imperialism |