The San Francisco call., 1898-11-02
H0AR SPEAKS AGAINST
 TERRITORIAL EXPANSION

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. 1.-Sena- tor Hoar in a public address tonight, after making reference to local issues In the campaign. said:
 This year has been crowded with his tory and crowded with glory. Itfi also, to my mind, crowded with danger The flag of Spain, formerly the proudest power on earth since the day of the Roman, has gone down in darkness and in blood be- fore the victorious navy and army of the United States. The flag of the United States has arisen in the eastern sky like a new constellation. Let Us not accept the duties and responsibilities of this vic tory in any temper of vulgar yainglory, still less of a vulgar greed of power and gain The United States comes to these oppressed people,, east and west. as great deliverer. To deal with this great occasion by talking about coaling sta- tions and trade advantages degrades and Spain, we have not periled the precious lives of our sons that we may add to money out of our new relations
 But yet the first duty of the American people Is to themselves, and when I say or of indifference to the welfare of man kind on the contrary, I believe that the highest service the American people can render 10 mankind and to liberty is to preserve unstatned and unchanged the republic as It came to us from the fath- CTS. It is by example and not by guns or by. bayonets that the great work of Americans for humanity Is to be accom- plished- And in my opinion we are to-day in great danger-a greater danger than we have encountered since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. The danger is that we are to be transformed from a republic founded on the declaration of independ- ence, guided by the counsels of. Wash ington, into vulgar, commonplace em- pire founded upon physical force.
 l for one am not daZzled by the example or England. The institutions of England which have enabled her to govern sue cessfully distant colonies and subject states are founded, as Mir. Gladstone II We are to outstrip England In national poWer pov It must be by pursuing our own path and not by following in hers
 o, n IS said that Porto Rico is already t. It may be that Porto Rico is to 99ecoIle ours. but there Is no authority un- traa u atluIre t any foreign territory save by ttG5y tGa5y approved by the Senate by two- Gbioh s2ee I or by. an act of legislation in ,asnlt. mss1Si tte Presldent, the House of Rep It IS said that the Philipnine Islands are a1ileaus ours by the right of conquest. roI one4 deny this alleged right of con 99. 9as,se dauIIhah Deings-men women chil- of war or prizes In battle r. ,,a, . 1 Sa ttTae such & doctrine finds a nIaea ry sy 4I Jo 'nal clenI ana DaTbarous laws of war buf if has no place under the American consti- tutlon. 1T nas no place in the code of morals of the people of the TInitad S1o+as I have stated elsewhere the condifsons which, in my Judgment Warranted the a . ~ s quisticn of Hawaii. Hawaii carve s,tc +o aS ,,s with the consent of her own Governmeut9 the only government capable Of nainfain- ing itself there for any considarsh hIe length of time. In the case of the Philino l pines we are asked to subject . natJon and to hold it in subjection We got fheno by conquest and hold them by force. in