ABSTRACT
The Republican party, which has been in power ever since the war, has justified its acts on the ground of political necessity. Its policy has been that of giving the people of the Islands good administration, just treatment, and all practicable self-government. From the earliest times, the political philosophy of the people of America was directly connected with the religious and political philosophy of the Reformation. Were anyone asked to sum up in the most concise form possible the ultimate doctrine of the Reformation, he could, perhaps, epitomize it no more correctly than by the single proposition, 'All men are created equal'. The alleged superior was sometimes a private citizen, sometimes a noble, sometimes a monarch, sometimes a government, sometimes a state, sometimes a nation. There is necessarily implied in the statement that 'all men are created equal', the conception of the right of human equality as a divine right.
