The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-06
HOAR SPEAKS FOR Hawaii
But Opposes Any Policy ON General
Territorial Expansion.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-The debate on
the Hawaiian resolutions continued in the
Senate. Three speeches were made. Mr.
Hoar, in advocating annexation, made q
notable appeal against any policy of general
territorial expansion as a sequence to the
war. Mr.. Lindsay opposed the resolutions,
directing his attack principally against their
constitutionality. Mr.. White resumed his
speech in opposition. Mr.. Hoar said, in part
IF this is to be the first step in a policy
of dominion over barbarous archipelagos; if
we are to join with Europe in the plumber
of China and in the pillage of Africa; If we
are to be governed in part by people to
Wnom the Declaration of independence is a
stranger, or If we are to govern people with
whom life and property are not sacred, then
we should shun this proposition" He de-
MED, however, that the proposition involved
the evils to which he alluded. The desire
now for holding all countries taken, incl
dent to war, was but a passing inclination,
the child of excitement-and would pass
away when the war should end.
Mr.. Hoar said the sole question, SO far
as 1t was vital, was whether the United
States would admit into immediate relation
ship territory and people already in a sit
uatlon that made them really a part of the
Union. By long-eStablished policy Ha-
wall could not be taken with or without the
will Of the islanders by any other power.
The United States already had Pearl Ear-
Dor, and the pending proposition only pro-
posed to make that possession more secure
and extend to the people of Hawaii bless
| ingS which we expressly declared they
should not secure from any other great
power He contended annexation would ex-
tend the domain of peace. Il believe" Mr..
without entering the fatal folly of retaining
far-diStant posses sions, the world will De so
impressed with our strength that no nation
viii attack US for hundred years" He
rioiculed the argument that the introduce
ton of the islands and their male popula-
ton into the United States would menace
WI n
to American labor, and pointed out that the
territory of the islands was well-nigh inf
nitely small compared to the country's pres
ent domain, and the population of Hawaii
was not equal to that of a third-rate city
Mr.. Hoar proceeded to discuss the danger
of making the war one of conquest, and
sounded a warning against it. He spoke Of
the war being the act of a great nation
bearing relief to an oppressed people in &C
was actuated by a broader humanity than
that which regards only self:
Alabama, does the senator from Massa-
chusetts believe this country can take Cuba
as its own, or does the senator not think
that the United States is bound in honor
to not do SOP
The United States" replied Mr. Hoar,
cannot take Cuba unless il ceases to be
crime for the country in the present war to
go farther than the annexation of the Sand
wich islands, matter substantially decided
before the War was thought remotely proba-
BILE. THE starry flag is no emblem of do
minion," he cried lin time of peace let it
not fly over conquered territory. 1t is the
emblem of peace and freedom
Mr.. Hoar said we did not want large
armies or a great navy, or an enormous
debt or increased taxes and the President,
who had earned the love of the country
for his firmness in his refusal to rush pre-
maturely into war, would, Mr.. Hoar said
show the same devotion and resolution when
peace should come to prevent the change
of the character of his country, and, in the
course of time, a change in the character
of its Constitution.