Show UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION It seems then that by the constitution congress IngraM might s sellout sell ll out and out Porto PortoRico PortoRico PortoRico Rico or the Philippines and tho con eon constitution would go with the sale that thatis i it is it would be entirely constitutional to tomake tomake tomake make the s l Tribune What balderdash What childish prattle The constitution is intended to extend wherever government extends It should follow the flag and anda where here a the constitution cannot go the flag should not remain The flag is but buta a symbol of ot the tree free government which rests upon our federal constitution The fundamental law hew of this republic should not nt n t be trampled under foot toot and repudiated repudiated repudiated that the flag may be exalted This is or 01 should be a government of the p founded and maintained I for or their happiness and content rather Tather I Ithan than for the glorification pr aggrandizement aggrandizement of or the executive and his satellites sa Wherever tit tile constitution n extends this of or by br and for the poo peo pip pl is reasonably secure Begin to tb to Ignore to abrogate the con constitution constitution constitution and the liberties of or the peo pee people pie pl are in grave danger Why Who do d w we av e a federal constitution tion tinn H Ue In a government which de Se derin rhes rire Its ita just power from the consent of th the K a code of ot principle I must govern joern the general conduct of f public trant The people r pl cannot kip kep kC p constant watch atch over their Inter Interests ests Ste and their liberties There Ther must i DP DC a foundation for the one which may serve erve ns as bulwark for the other The 4 institution Is Ig that foundation of ot our welfare altare that bulwark of or our OUt liberties The n provide for a re republican publican rm vf If gO it like lIkewise likewise wise Aise indicates indicate not specifically sp alto altogether altogEther altogether gether but it h in general s terms what federal may ma doand cIo do and what they not do it specifically does dOeR say however that public officiate may ma not do anything which the constitution does not expressly give them permission to todo todo todo do doThe The constitution cons forbids tho il hi levying l if t f tariff duties n goods sent from froni one part of ot th this 3 republic to another This is exactly what It says and moans means contend that it doe nt ap apply ply DIy to colonial dependencies ep n 4 Possibly thy they th Y were n considered er db by bythe the t hE founders of or title this government go Ii Is 11 Ismore more than likly that tha they y never dreamed d of or the free republic they th y established embarking in jn a ca career reer reel similar In system ni 14 to that from which they had rebelled teb But what was wag their notion of oC such matters mattere mattere What was wa the splint spirit t of or the framers framers of M the constitution that we ae may the better Interpret inter the document Itself Go to American Amerlan AmerI an history for your jour re reply reply reply ply Ask Ask Aak any tn school boy buy what was wa the chief cause of oi the American revolution resOlution tion Ask him what the American rev revolution revolution was a 3 protest against He will tell teU you U Taxation n without representation tion Did the framers ot of our constitution the founders QC four our government be believe lieve In the sort of tariff tarin the adminis administration proposes to levy laY upon the peo pee people people plc of ot Porto Rico Read your answer in the story of Boston nos ton harbor and tile tSie tossing overboard of tea upon pon which colonial colonl l importers importer were ere asked to l ray raya ay aya a tax The curtailment of or the constitution is a menace to the republic it is Isan an act of usurpation by public en On encroachment upon the sovereignty OO of the people The attempt to vest veat the offic officials officIals at Washington with a power that thatis is denied the people to extend eJ e tend tile the do dominion dominion dominion I minion of or the president where that of the republic cannot and an d Is tG not allowed I to extend is Imperialists Imp claim lalm that these Islands f l nd which once belonged to Spain are not territories but dependencies of this I that they the are to be ruled I and taxed as England En ruled and taxed I the American colonies prior to 1776 that they are to be governed outside the t e constitution as Senator Lodge de declares declares clares dares the policy of the administration to tobe be What does this mean me n Where does d es this lead the republic It means moans outside of the aw w in the discretion of the money power at the mercy mery of the trust trusts which dominate the present administration It I means an exercise of power by the servants of the people that thit has never neer been delegat delegated ed to them and ad which still belongs to the people This policy poley leads the republic to mili militarism mU commits it to English colonial colonialIsm Ism lam taints it with wih m involves It in disgrace and exposes it to dis disaster disaster aster ater |