The age-herald., 1898-11-02
SENATOR HOAR'S
 ELOQUENT WORDS Principal Speaker at Great Meeting Held
 in Worcester. PORTO RICO NOT YET OURS Senate Must First Ratiiy the Treaty Dg
 TVo-thirdS Vote. THE YEAR CROWDED WITH HISTORY Flaglof Spain Has Gone Down and Stars and Stripes Have Arisen in the
 Eastern Sky Like a New
 Constellation.
PORTO RICO NOT YET OURS
THE YEAR CROWDED WITH HISTORY

Worcester. Mass, November LA large and enthusiastic audience greeted Senator Hoar, Congressman w. H. Moody and Speaker John T. Bates tonight Three hundred republican leaders occupied seats upon the platform with the speakers.
 Senator Hoar presided, and was the prin- cipal speaker.
 After making reference to the local issue in the campaign, Senator Hoar said:
 This year has been crowded with his tory and crowded with glory It is also to my mind crowded with danger. The flag of Spain, formerly the proudest pow CT on earth since the day of the Roman empire, has gone down in darkness and in blood before the victorious navy and army of the United States. The flag of the United States has arisen in the eastern sky like new consultation. Let us not ac- cept the duties and responsibilities of this victory in any temper of vulgar, vain glory, still less of vulgar greed of pow CT or of gain. The United States comes to these oppressed people. east and west as a great deliverer To deal with this great occasion with talking about coaling sta tions and trade advantages degrades and belittles it. We have not overthrown Spain, we have not perilled the precious lives of our sons, that we may add to our possessions or that we may make money out of our new relations. But yet the first duty of the American people is to themselves, and when say this I say it in no spirit of selfishness or of indifference to the welfare of mankind.
 Work for Humanity
 "on the contrary, I believe that the highest service the American people can render to mankind and to liberty is to pre- serve unstained and unchanged the repub- lie as 1t came to us from the fathers. It is by example and not by guns or by bayo- nets that the great work of America for humanity is to be accomplished. In my opinion we are today in a great danger-a greater danger than we have encountered since the pilgrims landed at Plymouth. The danger is that we are to be transform ed from a republic, foundered on the de- claration of independence and by the coun- sel of Washington, into a vulgar common place empire, foundered upon physical force.
 "I for one am not dazzled by the ex- ample of England. The institutions of England which have enabled her to govern successfully distant colonies and subject states are founded, as MT Gladstone point ed out, on the doctrine of equality. If we are to outstrip England in national power it must be by pursuing our own path and not by following in hers.
 Ut is said that Porto Rico is already ours. It may be that Porto Rico is to be- come ours. But there is no authority un- der the constitution of the United States to acquire any foreign territory save by a treaty approved by the senate by two- thirds vote, or by an act of legislation in which the president, the house of repre- sentatives and the senate must unite. It is said the Philippines are already ours by right of conquest For one I deny the al- legged right of conquest. Human beings men, women and children-are not to be won as spells of war or prizes in battle.- It may be that such doctrine finds a place in the ancient and barbarous laws of can constitution.
 Won by Conquest
 'It has no place in the code of morals of the people of the United States. I have stated elsewhere the conditions which, in my judgmnt, warranted the acquisition of Hawaii. Hawaii came to us with the con- sent of her own government, the only gov ernment capable of maintaining itself there for any considerable length of time. In the case of the Philippines we are asked to subject nation and to hold 1t in sub nd hold them by force. In the case of the Hawaiian Islands we get by compact made with their lawful government.
 Some of our good friends have said thoughtlessly in their zeal that where the American flag goes iG must stay. But sure- ly they cannot wish to commit the country to that doctrine. It was planted in the Guy of Mexico, but no man demanded that 1t should stay there. If the war goes on we shall plant it on the coast of Spain, but we have no desire to hold permanent do- minion there.
 If the Philippine Islands become ours. theny under the late decision of the su- preme court, every child hereafter born in them becomes an American citizen, free to come, free to go. Are you going to hold them as subjects? Are you going to have a trained and governing class? Are you go- ing to have the national tax-gatherer, the most frequent and the best-visitant to every American house? Are you going to increase manifold the national debt?
 These things are involved in this wild and impassioned cry for empire. For my self, disbelieve and hate the notion that the American people will submit to such a transformation" f-
 Congressman Moody assured his hearers that the management of the war would be thoroughly investigated at the coming ses- sion of congress, and if blame were found. no official would be spared, high or low.