The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-04-07
SENATOR HOAR SAYS THE
MANILA BLOODSHED is
ON THE HEADS OF
THE IMPERIAL
lists.
What President Mckinley
Called Criminal Aggres-
sion" as to Cuba, the Sena-
tor Declares, is Now Being
Carried Out in the Case Of
the Philippines.

BoSTON, March 30.-A letter
signed by one hundred or more of
the most prominent men in and
around this city, headed by eX-
Governor George S. Boutwell,,
commencing Senator Hoar's atti-
tude in Congress and inviting
him to address them at a future
date. were made public to-day.
Accompanying it is letter of
acknowledgements from Senator
Hoar, bearing date of yesterday,
in which he advises against such
gathering until it is known
whether the Philippine war is to
end soon or to keep up long
time. He continues:
can attempt has been made to
persuade the American people
that the resistance to our arms by
the people of the Philippine Is
lands has been due to those who
oppose the attempt to subiugate
them and who opposed the ratiti-
cation Of the treaty by which
sovereignty over them was pur
chased and paid for as an article
of merchandise.
''Therc was never a more nm
founded or more foolish cal
umny. a strict military censor
ship was exercised over the cable
to the Philippines during the
whole period. | have in my pos
session one of he original circu.
lars of the cable company, warn
ing all persons that no dispatch
would he Transmitted having the
least relation to politics, without
the assent of the military authori
ties OF the United States"
After quoting some personal
experiences growing out of his
position, Senator liOar said:
"The blood Of the slaughtered
Filipinos. the blood and the
wasted health and life of our own
soldiers, is upon the heads of
those who have undertaken to
buy people in the market like
sheep or to treat them as lawful
prize and booty of war, to impose
a government on them without
their consent and to trample I'M.
der foot not only the people of
the Philippine Islands, but the
principles upon which the Amcri-
can Republic itself rests"
The Senator refers to the
pledges OF the country toward
Cuba and the Presidents DECLARE
ton that any other conduct on
this country's part would have
been "criminal aggression He
continues:
"The law of righteousness and
Justice on which the great and
free American people should act,
and in the end, | am sure, will
act, depends not on parallels Of
latitude and meridianS of longi
tude or points of the compass.
1t Is the same yesterday, to day
and forever. 1t is as true now as
when our fathers declared it in
l116 1t is as binding upon Will
liam Mckinley to-day as it was
upon George Washington or Alb
raham Lincoln. The only powers
of government the American peo.
pie can recognize are Just powers,
and those powers rest upon the
consent Of the governed.
"N0 man, during this whole
dicusSion, has successfully chal-
lenged and no man will success
fully challenge:
"First-The affirmation that
under the Constitution of the
United States the acquisition of
territory, as of other property, is
not a constitutional end, but only
a means to a constitutional end,
and that while the making of
new States and providing national
defense are constitutional ends.
so that we may acquire and hold
territory for these purposes, the
governing of subject peoples is
not a constitutional end, and
that there is, therefore, no con-
stitutional warrant for acquiring
and holding territory for that
purpose.
"Second-That to leave our
own country to stand on foreign
soil is in violation of the warnings
of our fathers and of the farewell
address of Washington.
"Third-That there was never
a tropical colony yet governed
with any tolerable success with.
out system of contract labor.
"FOurth-That the trade ad-
vantages of the Philippine Is
lands, if there be any, must be
opened alike to all the world, and
that our share Of them will never
begin to pay the cost Of subjugat
ing them by war or holding them
in subsection in peace.
"Fifth-That the military oc-
cupation of these tropical regions
must be kept at an immense cost.
both to the souls and the bodies