Show DEMOCRACY OR EMPIRE Ag Senator Forakcr wild In openlnff the debut in the Senate the really important im-portant point In thl whole dispute la lo filabllxh the principle that Congreiu has n right to withhold ibm Constitu tion from our new Possessions 1i o long KS that may be demanded by public welfare Beyond Porto Rico ald the Senator lie the Philippines It hasi been suggested that In our Kontcrn poasmdons wc hall have the opn 4 door If wi open the PhUlpplne0 to the IraJc of all the world vt MltMlt have time products of lh world poured Into the United StittpL and our whole protective tariff system will fall to the ground He might immive added that Gn Wllaon who JB In command of Matanzaa and Santa Clara Is already urging free trad even with Cuba while Secretary Root la wid to have agreed to favor a reduction of our duties on Cuban sugar This IB exactly the logic of the whole line of policy which proposes to begin with free trade for Porto Illco The point will be decided It is 1 safe to predict not en much by weight of I prvcfdint aa by unlght of what our I tnl lru T 4ts vui Hrrm t ihittar In I till r UMTrJ Kf H iHUIlllMh vim in n > i t t in T t IH z > i t t I i i i h i v t i I i f ii u I it i I te 5 one of the alternatives to which expansion expan-sion has brought us the other being to cndangvr the safety and success of our Democratic Institutions here at homy by admitting to equal l Industrial and political opportunity groups of popula Lion In no wise fitted for such a privilege privi-lege however capable they might be of Independent government Clearly the lesser evil Is to have tlufnrmoC em plr with ref rwiw to these Islands lth thVHiJrflt of nbcrty and practical effcvj of dfyonoenuy The xuceeps of our democratic exiHrlmcnt horjniuat IIP afeaurad at all hazards rheyoji cmpIrO not pleasant but of the two A unpleasant horns of the dllenmm ox pansl9n has forced upon us this ono involves the least of real danger to sue ccssful povernmtnt by the people Prom Review of the Month Gun tons Mdgaxlne for April |