Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-01-19
Saint Narg's Beacon.
HOAR ON EXPANSION.


mp the teachings OF American his
tory during our century OF consti-
tutional life 10 the dignity of labor.
II 10 an unquesiionable truth that
no tropical colony was ever settled,
BY men not born in tropical chimes,
for the purpose Of finding work.
There was scarcely ever tropical
colony successful at all. There
WAS never tropical colony success
ful except under the system OF con-
tract labor. That 10 to be set mp.
enforced, and administered by the
agencies Of the Republic o. the I'm
tied States, il we are to succeed in
: such administration at all.
"0ur fathers taught as the price
less value of the national credit,
and to keep free from the burden Of
q national debt. We have thought
until lately that our strength came
in large part from our unsullied
and uneqaaled public credit. IL
we were compelled in eelf-defense
to enter into q contest with the
strongest or richest power on earth.
our credit wonld remain Unimpgir
ed until our opponents were bank
rupt. Ifin the time of war or pub
lie danger we were compelled to
contract debt, we have supposed
that the only policy of our dealing
with it in time Of peace was to pay
it.
"But now the Senator from Con-
necticut seems to contemplate that
we shall embark on a permanent
system of national expenditure
which will put this nation under
an obligation the equivalent of
which will be q national debt great
er than that of any other nation on
face of the earth. Have yOu re-
flpcted that permanent increase OF
our expenditures OF $50. 600 900
year-which we cannot avoid, and
from which we cannot withdraw
is precisely the same thing as add
ing to our national debt S., 000,-
600 600, capitalized at per cent,
which is more than the Govern
ment is now paying, aud that a per
manent increase in our expendi
lures of 5000. 600. 900 a year is the
same as increasing our national
debt $40. 900. 600, 900, capitalized at
3 per cent? / think it can be east
ly demonstrated that the policies on
which we are asked to embark in
volve peFmafent national expen
diture much larger than the amount
/ have named. Our civil list, al
ready so enormous, must be enor-
meusly increased. Instead of TAX
ing from the people by fair compe-
tition, or even by fair selection.
men to take their share in self
government, we must have in the
future, as they have in England, u
trained class whose lives are to b.
spent, not in self government, but
in the government IF other men"
A Solemn Exhcrtaticn.
The conclusion Of Mr.. Hoar's
speech was as follows:
| do not agree, Mr.. President.
that the lesson of our first 100
years IS that the Declaration of In
dependence aud the Constitution
are a failure, and that America is
!, to begin che Twentieth Century
where Spain began the Sixteenth.
The Mnroe doctrine is gone.
Evef zropean nation, every Eu.
ropean as sBee, has the right to ac-
quire d0fssi6f8as in this hemisphere
when we acquire it in the other.
The Senator's doctrine put any
where in practice win make our be-
loved country q cheap-jsck coun-
try, raking after the cart for the
leatings Of European ttmnny.
1t may be that in some storm
and tempest Of delusion acloud
maYu8for the moment cover the
II gAaAt stsNths Of oaH Deelaration. I
have Wihhi - pass of my life
encountered such Z storm and tenn
pess-more than once. In 1850, af-
ter the passage of the compromise
measure, the great contest for the
fsve5em of the vast territory be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pa
cifc seemed hopelessly lost. SEN
ate and people, courts and State
Legislatures seemed all bowling in
assent to the overthrow of the great
principles of the Declaration. But
after few short years the cloud