ident, or his governor-general, for their ap pointment and for the length of their term of service. "Such are a few of the revisions of the declaration of independence made by the President, who also denies to the Philippine people the 'right of trial by jury.' What is done to the Filipinos may be done to the American at home. As Senator Mason said: 'I am speaking one word for the Filipino and two words for my own country.' "Lincoln said: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.' Colonel Handy-"So important is the declaration of independence to the human race that Lincoln declared he would not save the Union itself if its preservation should involve the sacrifice of the principles of that only really great document of the American people. On his way to Washington to assume the reins of government he made a speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in which he said: 'All the political sentiments I entertain * * * * have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in or were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence. Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon this basis? If it can, I shall consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.' "By that declaration he wanted to live, and by it, if it pleased God, he was willing to die." CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH PRIVATE SMITH ANSWERS SOME SOPHISTRIES OF THE IMPERIALISTS. APTAIN BEVANS "To the want of consent by the Filipinos, great import ance is given. As Senator Lindsay says, 'The United States did not ask the consent of the inhabitants of Louisiana or Florida or New Mexico or upper California to the cessions made by France and Spain and the republic of Mexico; nor was it understood when we assumed sovereign jurisdiction over these peoples that we were violating the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov erned."" Private Smith-"The cessions referred to by Senator Lindsay were of contiguous territory and with an ultimate view to statehood. Chief Justice Marshall described the territories as being 'in a state of infancy, advancing to manhood, looking forward to complete equality so soon as that state of man 170 QUESTIONS ANSWERED. hood shall be attained?' Not so with the Philippines. When the Paris treaty was ratified a resolution was passed by the United States Senate declaring it. against the policy of the United States government to admit to statehood any territory not a part of the North American continent. Unless it was the Mexicans in the territory ceded by Mexico, the people in the territory that has been acquired by cession have not objected to becoming a part of the United States. To reconcile the hostile views of the resi dent Mexicans the following provision was made in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo: 'Article VIII.-Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, defined by the present, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.' "The treaty further declared that the Mex |