The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-06
HOAR FOR ANNEXATION
But Against Territorial Expan-
sion by War.
A PASSING INCLINATION
We Should Not Join With Europe in
the Plumber OF China and the Pill
lage OF ~Africa-Should shun
the Proposition.

Washington, July 5.-The debate on
the Hawaiian resolutions continued in
the senate to-day. MIR. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts, i'm advocating annexation,
made another appeal against any pol
icy of general territorial expansion as
a sequence to the war. Mr.. Lindsay of
Kentucky opposed the resolutions. d.
recting his attack principally against
their constitutionality. Mr.. White of
California resumed his speech in oppo-
sition.
Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts had the
foo on the Hawaiian annexation reso-
luton to-day. He found a ground for
objection in the arguments advanced
by the advocates of annexation, and in
this connection stated his general an
tagonism 10 any policy of territorial
expansion. If this is to be the first step
in a policy Of dominion over barbarous
archipelagoes, If We are to join with
Europe in the plumber of China and in
the pillage of Africa: IL we are to be
governed in part by the people to whom
the Declaration OF Independence is a
stranger, or il we are TO govern peo-
pie with whom life and property are
not sacred, then we should shun the
proposition. He denied, however, that
the proposition involved the evils to
which he alluded. The desire now for
holding all countries taken Incident to
war, was but a passing inclination
ana would pass away when the war
should end.
Mr.. Hoar said the sole question so
far as ii WAS vital was simply whether
the United States would admit into i'm
DnadnafA aIn N
pie already in a situation that made
them a part OF the union. BY a long
established policy Hawaii could not
be taken with or without the will of
the islanders by any other power. The
United States already had Pearl har-
par, the pending proposition only
proposed TO make that possession more
secure and extend to the people of
Hawaii blessing which we have ex-
pressly declared they should not secure
from any other power.
Il believe" said Mr.. Hoar. that if
we came out OF this war without en-
tertng upon the fatal policy of retain
ing far distant lands the world would
be so Impressed with our strength that
no nation will attack us for 100
years" He ridiculed the
that the annexation of the islands and
the population into the United States
would debase the country's institutions
dhu NOTh INJURY 10 american LABOR,
and pointed out hat the territory of
the islands was well nigh indefinite as
compared to this country's domain,
and the population OF Hawaii was not
equal to that of a third rate city.
Mr.. Hoar was proceeding to discuss
the danger of making the war one Of
conquest and was sounding a warming
note against ii. He spoke of the wal
being the act of a great nation bearing
relief To an OnnrpggpH npnnla in aponRd
with the spirit Of a great nation that
was actuated by a broader humanity
than that which regards only self.
AS an authority" aid Mr.. Pettus
OF Alabama, does the senator from
Massachusetts believe this country can
Cuba as its own, or does the SEN
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
to be the United States"
He said IL would be a crime of the
in the present war TO go far
her than the annexation of the Sand
wich islands-a matter substantially
upon by the people OF the
States long before the war was
thought remotely probable.
The starry emblem is no emblem OF
dominion he cried. In time of peace
ct IL not fly over conquered territory.
Il is the emblem of peace and free
iom."
Mr.. Hoar said that he did not want
armies or a great navy or an enor-
debt or increased taxes, and the
president, who had earned the love of
he country for his frmness in his
'efusal TO rush prematurely into war,
would, Mr.. Hoar said. show the same
and resolution when peace
.hould come, to prevent the change OF
he character of his country and in the