| Show OUR ZULU SLAVES New N w York Journal Mr Bryan has succeeded by means of his answer to Assistant Secretary on the Sulu treaty in draw drawing drawing i ing from the Republican press pr ss and from Mr himself the unqualified admission that the thirteenth amend amendment amendment ment meat to the constitution applies to the Sulu islands These authorities point to the fact that this amendment de declares declares clares dares that neither slavery nor involuntary involuntary involuntary tary servitude shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction as proof that the president could not have confirmed th the slavery provision of the Bates treaty We are glad the wording of the amendment has finally forced itself upon the Republican consciousness It has been hammered in often enough by Democrats But now new that our Re tie Republican Republican publican contemporaries are willing to recognize the existence of the thir thirteenth thirteenth thirteenth amendment let us ask asic them to think a little harder The amendment does not say that the president shall not make a treaty trea y recognizinG slavery It says that slavery shall not exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction There are only two questions to t be bea asked a ked therefore L 1 Are the Sulu islands subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States The Republicans themselves avow that they are 2 Does slavery exist in the Sulu isi islands islands ands Unquestionably it does That makes maltes the case complete Tie The McKinley administration is convicted out of the mouths of its own friends of violating a solemn prohibition put into the constitution by the Republican par pal party pali party I ty itself i cl |
