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Show THE CITIZEN 9 Territory under our Great Britain at the close the Spanish and Mestizo caste system States in refusing to enter into diplois only slowly being extirpated. The matic relations with Russia, it is posty vvith SuConstitution of the United States is sible, even probable, that not only 0f the American revolution. The Western Europe, but Asia, would have rnremr Court of the United States has binding upon all those who hold office under the When Constitution. it is our insular that possessions decided fallen under the sway of a system of to confer States." of the United upon proposed independence are 'territory government which is at open war with or the Alaska to Maine to . cede were California, Philippines, proposed it If civilization. owe to who this those the it Mexico to suggest California the or iCanadi Those who say the United States course be immediately people of the United States to tell point vould of government has no foreign policy raised that no power has been con- - them where the right is conferred choose to overlook the beneficient inupon either the legislative or on our "servants in authority"' to give fluence the American policy of nonaway what does not belong to them, execut ve branch, or both combined, either personally or officially. This interference with European politics. to mal 3 such a cession. If the state of decision clearly belongs to the people The influence of our example in repreto follow a plebiscite jjear Y :rk were sentative government has been worth in-of this country whose opinion can be on prohibition with a plebiscite on I a plebiscite, or by ac. infinitely more to the world than the dependence it would be the duty of the learned only by use of our army and navy in an attion of the forty-eiglegislatures. federal government to declare such actempted settlement of old world disDearborn Independent. ition ur. constitutional and void. Presi- putes. Today the German people are (dent Lincoln decked that his official seriously studying the American Conoath required him to defend the territstitution as a model for their future orial integrity of the Union. He recoDenial that the United States is government. The new government of gnized the fact that he had no conwithout a foreign policy is made in Greece frankly announces a purpose stitutional right to "let the erring sisters go in peace," as was proposed by the National Republic, by George B. to remodel the Greek government on the American pattern. What Europe Horace Greely. Lockwood, who sets out in an interestThe Philippines have today a far ing editorial the things which America most needs is the unification of her has accomplished by its present policy multiplied nationalities into a smaller greater measure of independence than for the good of the world. Mr. Lock-woo- d number of federated groups. This iwas possessed by the inhabitants of fcountry has shown how this can be the Northwest Territory for a number says in part: states of years after the revolution, more au-- i Internationalists complain that the done in the union of forty-eigin one federal government. Steps totonomy than was accorded to our sevAmerican government has 'had no ward such union in Europe would reeral territories before they were foreign policy' since the World War. into the Union. In the sense that the United States present a real advance toward Euroand world peace. Our involveIt may be argued that territory may has had no new forign policy, that is pean be alienated by treaty following an un- true. But America has maintained the ment in the European system would " not help while Europe neglects this sucessful war. "In the midst of arms, foreign policy that has been funda- - immediate means of composing the laws are silent, "but the United States mental with the American governd age-olrivalries, hatreds and prejuhas suffered no defeat by arms makiment from the beginning. dices which are at the root of Eurong such a treaty necessary, nor are It is as good a policy to keep out conflict. the Philipine islands, lacking in the of unnecesary trouble as to find a pean attributes of sovereignty, in position way out of trouble once one is in it. to make such a treaty. Indeed that may be, and often is, the The inhabtiants of the Philippines very wisest policy. It is that one the American government has followed. (have no rights not possessed by the people of Alaska, or which were not Sometimes it is a wiser policy to (possesed by those of our states which do nothing in the face of demands have passed through the territorial that dangerous things be done, than stage while that status existed. They It used to be that the next thing to do these things. That also has been to demand indej hare on more right the policy of the American govern- - after the primary was the November lection. But nowadays the next thing pendence than have the people of the ment. state of New York, nor has the governIn one particular matter of vital after the primary is the Senate ment of the United States, short of importance, the United vestigation. j authorization by a national plebiscite States has had a policy that has wardI or consent the state several Pacifists sometimes assert that war legisla-- l ed off a danger of world-wid- e by chaos, tures, to recognize that demand for ininvolving all governments, in the old has never settled anything. Wonder dependence. if they ever heard of what happened world as well as the new. This reThe "promise" of on account of the Revolution and the independence held lates to Soviet Russia. out in the Jones act is a mere idle Civil War? The American government has regesture, unconstitutionally made, fused to recognize Soviet Russia. It snd without the Beaver City New building being slightest binding has declined to give that much sancforce on succeeding Congresses. tion to a government which openly erected for post office and telephone Aside from the constitutional asdeclares its purpose to destroy all company, rapidly nearing completion. of this question, the United other governments, and which today pects States has no moral right to wreck has a web of revolutionary intrigue Monticello Big Indian Copper Co. I the great work that has been accom-- I spread over the entire world. But starts to overhaul big copper plant, for Plished in the Philippine islands for for the persistence of the United operation. uthe benefit of the people of the islands. 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