of self-preservation,
also, must, it would seem, be explained the permanent relationship of
dependency which exists between the District of Columbia and the
American Union--such dependency being necessary to the preservation of
the life of the Union.

Thus, if our interpretation of the Declaration is correct, there was
evolved in it, out of the original proposition that "all men are
created equal," a complete system of the philosophy of government,
directly the opposite of the system of Europe which was based on the
proposition that 'all men are created unequal,' or that "some are
created equal and some unequal," and the Declaration of Independence
was a declaration of an American System, as opposed to the European
System. If this interpretation be correct, it was to preserve this
American System that President Washington advised against 'political
connection' with Europe, and that President Jefferson warned America
against "entangling alliances," it was this American System which
President Monroe and President Adams declared to have extended itself
throughout this hemisphere; it was this American System to preserve
which the Civil War was fought and to the maintenance of which
President Lincoln rededicated the American people on the field of
Gettysburg, it is this American System which President Roosevelt has
upheld against the forces in our midst, which on the one side have, by
the wrongful use of accumulations of wealth, sought to establish a
doctrine of inequality based on the possession of property, and on the
other side, by denying the rightfulness of all accumulations of
wealth, have sought to establish a doctrine that the inequalities of
physical wealth and intellectual ability are to be destroyed, instead
of being employed, by those endowed with great wealth or great
ability, as the common wealth, in helping each and all to secure their
unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and
thus to realize the divine right of equality, it is this American
System which the American Congress under the leadership of President
McKinley and President Roosevelt, has actually applied in the
determination of our relations with the Insular regions, so that they
are to-day free states _de facto_ connected and united with the
American Union as the Justiciar State, and so that it needs only our
recognition to convert them into free states _de jure_ and to bring
into legal existence a Greater American Union o