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Law Books Forthe Second Semester and Text Books For all the departments. SECOND-HAND BOOKS Bought and Exchanged. Best Linen Paper, 15, 20 and 25o perh1b. WAHR45 ANN ARBOR Up rown Down Town Stat St. Opp. Court ouse ibm St DEFENDS. IMPERIALISM. Prof. B. M. Thompson Answers Cochran, Bryan and Totne ADVOCATES A MILITARY GOVERN- MENT FOR OUR COLONIES. Prof. Bradley M. Thompson lec- tured last night in University Hall on the subject, "What shall we do with the Philippines. The hall was well filled, the law students predomi- nating and occupying the greater part of the main floor. They made Rome howl with their rival yells and calls until Prof. Thompson was intro- duced. At the opening of his ad- dress the lecturer modestly put aside all pretense to claim for oratory and askedl t have his argnmentscerely compared with those of his distin- guished opponents. His address was substantially as follows. The actual question has not beeni stated by the anti-expansionists but must be considered in the light, the situation and condition of the people of the Philippines. The islands are now a part of the United States and the question of their disposition is an internal one. This territory is 1000 miles long and 600 wide. One third of this area is land, consisting of a large number of islands inhabited by more different races than all Europe. The three largest of these are in- habited by distinctly different races, from the sluggish harmless Tagula to the blood-thirsty Mohammedan Morro pirates. These races are so divergent that entirely different forms of government would be necessary, re- quiring at least three forms for the largest islands alone leaving out of consideration all the smaller ones. The antis ask us to take up these various infant governments and say to them, go ahead rule yourselves and we will defend you against foreign aggression. We must either govern them or abandon them. There can be no partnership. Either we must govern them effectively or stay out. If we don't throw them away we must keep them. We are wed to them for better or worse. Our right to keep them is denied. The right to acquire and govern territory is and always has been incident to sovereignty and the United States has it in common with all other nations. The right to the disposition of the "territories and other property," is expressly givent to congress by the constitution, and congress has exercised it. It is now exercising it in the District of Columbia as the inhabitants have no voice in the government. Arizona was secured by conquest and has been governed ever since. But it is said it is done with the consent of the governed. This was not so in the case of Utah, because congress passed laws not consented to by the people of that territory. West Virginia, carved out of Virginia without the consent of the latter, was admitted as a state because it was territory con- quered from the confederates. Senator Hear, who now denies the power of the government to rule the Philip- pines said in congress in 1870, that Virginia "should not yet be repre. / PENNSYLVANIA'S DEBATING TEAM. Tomorrow evening Michigan meets Pennsylvania in inter-collegiate debate in University Hall. Inasmuch as a Pennsylvania team defeated Cornell in a like contest but a few days ago an increased interest in our own debate is manifest. It is reported from Philadelphia that the team which comes to Ann Arbor, and of which we show a cut, is superior to that which downed Cornell. Vhether this be true or not Michigan's team will have to work to svin and the students at Michigan must help by their presence. sented in house or senate, but be kept we govern in the provitees we will under military government." be under the eye of the whole world, But the opponents of expansion and our work will be compared with say that, taking it for granted that that of our peers. The people of we have the right to govern these the United States will never permit islands and have exercised it, we any president to cover America with ought not to do so from a moral infamy by having boss rule in any standpoint. The antis concede the colony. We should govern our Filpinos cannot govern themselves. colonial possessions because it will They cannot protect life or property enable us to govern ourselves. If unassisted. But because they want New York or Pennsylvania now has to, and don't want to be governed, a boss it is no concern of ours. But they ought to be allowed to establish if he be sent to Porto Rico or Cuba a governmment, say the anti expan- it is our business. 'he present war sionists. "No people who have not criticism has demonstrated the ten- the power to establish a government dency to demand honest government that can protect life and property abroad. And the people will never have the right to do so." Ite satisfied with a better government We not only have the right to in the Phihippines or i Cuba than govern our Pacific possessions, but they have at home. it is our moral duty to do so. When Bourke Cockran declared we should Jefferson said "governments derive not keep the Philippines because it their justpowers from the consent of would bring their cheap laborers the governed" he did not mean that into competition with our laborers. we could not govern colonies justly I am in favor of their retention be- without their consent. For he him- cause it will help the American lab- self had slaves. He meant by that oring man. The Filipino does not that no Anglo-Saxon had a right to compete with the American. No govern any other Anglo-Saxon with- Philippine product is produced in out his consent, for under the Eng- this country save sugar. But be- lish constitution each English sub- cause of this cheap native labor our ject is no better or worse than any manufacturer gets the raw tropical other. The framers themselves product so much cheaper, expends affirmed this position by putting into his labor on it and can then success- the constitution a provision prohibit- fully compete with the finished prod- ing interference with the slave trade. uct in the markets of the world. We could not govern the Philippines Our economic trouble is not lack of without their consent, but should power of production, but lack of leave them to the mercy of the Morro power of consumption. So trusts pirates? "I am in favor of cutting spring up to keep down the produc- loose from them if they are harm. tion and raise the price. Now as a ful." Why not? We are told be- result of this war all Spanish Amer- cause we have vital questions at iea has become aware of our enter- home. Bossism in America is the prise and energy, and immigration greatest menace any government from those countries has already in- ever had. creased 100 per cent. This immi- Providence has interfered to help gration will fill up and revive the us get rid of boss rule. The good old parts of the south and greatly government men were losing ground, increase our power of consumption but now the tables are turned. When lontinaed on Page 2.]