The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31
Senator Hoar Gives Voice to MaSSa-
chuSettS Sentiment.
MAD CAREER OF EMPIRE
SHOULD NOT DEPART FROM THE
DOCTRINES OF LIBERTY.
America Will Not Force Her Trade
Upon an Unwilling People at the
Cannon's Mouth, Nor Join Europe
In Plundering the East-Flag the
Emblem of Liberty.

Boston, July Ex-senator Hoar was
| the guest of honor at the annual out
| ing of the Massachusetts club at Mar
blehead Neck, and made long and
carefully prepared speech, in the course
of which he discussed the question of
our foreign relations growing out of the
war Upon this question he said: 1t
is impossible with our eyes on this
constantly changing Kaleidoscope to
predict with certainty how we are to
solve different problems that are COM
ing on us at the end of the war with
Spain. But this country may be sure
that the vote of every person who now
has legislative responsibility in either
house of congress, by the choice of the
Republicans of Massachusetts, or likely
to have such responsibility hereafter,
will be cast in accordance with the
opinion of Massachusetts. Her opin-
ions on such questions are the result
of nearly 300 years of great and honor
able history. She will not depart from
the Declaration of Independence. She
will not depart from the doctrines OF
liberty laid down in her own constitu-
ton. She will not consent to be the
ruler over vassal states or subject peo-
pie She will enter upon no mad ca
reer of empire in distant seas. She
will not seek to force her trade upon
unwilling people at the lannon's mouth.
She will not exact tribute or revenues
from men who have no voice in regard
to them. She will not consent to enter
with the powers of Europe into part
nership, alliance or contest for the
plumber of China or the subjugation of
the eastern archipelagos, or for COM
polling unwilling people to trade with
her.
IF the American flag appears in the
east it will be as the emblem of their
liberty, and not of our dominion. She
will desire to meet the great RESPONSE
bilities which the end of this war seems
likely to bring to the American people
solely in the interest of the provinces
we may deliver from Spain and not for
our own. The power of the United
States is to be eXerted through exam
pie and influence, and not by force.
1T will be a sad thing for the coun-
try, it will be a sad thing for man
kind, if the people of the United States
come to abandon their fundamental
doctrine. If we attempt to govern great
masses of people, aliens by birth, OF
strange languages, of different rel1g-
ions, our spirit will not, 1 am afraid
God grant that I may be wrong-the
American spirit will not enter into and
possess them. but their spirit will enter
into and possess US. The best thing we
could hope for in such cases is that we
should succeed as England has sue
ceeded with those of her colonies whom
she admits to no considerable self-gov-
eminent. 1t is much more likely that
we may fail, as Spain has failed.
Let us wait until the negro through
out the south can cast his vote and
have it counted in freedom and honor.
Let us wait until the poor immigrant
can come into the northern ports and
be received as a brother and an equal
without being used as an instrument
to debase the elections in New York
or Baltimore or Chicago.
''Mr. Gladstone, in his famous COM
parison of England and the United
States, in which he expressed his adj
miratioh for our constitution, says
also: In England inequality lies at the
very base of the social structure.
Equality, combined with liberty, was
the ground word of the social creed of
the American colonies
IAN aristocracy or monarchy may
govern subject states. 1t never was
done and never will be done success
fully by a democracy or republic"