The Porto Rico Bill

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1900

The Porto Rico Bill

By the signature of the President, April 12, the Porto Rico bill became law. By it the Porto Ricans are not citizens of the United States, and have no representation in the United States; and yet are taxed by the United States, though the money thus raised is to be spent upon Porto Rico itself. Friday, April 13, the New York World recalled the fact that, “one hundred and thirty-five years, one month, and fifteen days ago to-day, the British Parliament passed an act for the taxation of the American colonies, the money thus raised to be expended in and upon the colonies themselves. The whole world knows what followed.” In view of current events of daily happening, can any one fail to see that this nation is steadily repudiating every principle of its Constitution as a republican government? And how much further must she go before she shall have actually repudiated every such principle? And then what?