Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-21
HOAR WOULD FREE FILlPINOS
4 Resolution Against what lie Terms
Interference in the Phillip
pines.
Dec.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O--Senator Hoar
of Massachusetts today introduced this reso-
luton in the senate
Whereas the American people and the
several states i'm the union have in times
past at important periods i'm their history,
especially when' declaring their independ-
ence, establishing their constitutions or
undertaking new and great responsibilities,
the nation or state was founded and the i'm
portant objects the people intend to pursue
in their political action; and,
Whereas, the close of n great war, the
liberation by the United States Of the
people of Cuba and Porto Rico in the west
erh hemisphere and of the Philippine
Islands In the far east and the reduction of
those peoples to a condition of practical
dependence upon the United States, con-
stitute an occasion which makes such a
declaration proper; therefore. be IT
Resolved, That this republic adhercs to
the doctrines which were in the past set
forth in the Declaration of Independence
and in its state and national constitutions
That the purpose of its existence and the
objects to which its political action ought
to be directed are the cnnobling of human
ity, the raising from the dust of its hum
best and coarsest members and the enab-
ling of persons coming lawfully under its
power or influence to live lives of freedom,
and honor the governments whose forms
they are to have a share in determining
and i'm whose administration they have an
equal share. Its most important and press
ing obligations are:
1. To solve the difficult problems presented
by the presence of different races on our
soil, with equal constitutional rights; to
make the negro safe in his home secure in
his vote, equal in his opportunity for edu-
cation and employment and to bring the
Indian to a civilization and culture in ac-
cordance with his need and capacity.
:. To enable great cities TO govern them
selves in freedom, honor and purity.
3. To make the ballot box as pure as
sacrament vessel and the election return
AS perfectly IN accord with the law and the
truth as the judgment of the supreme court.
4. To Danish illiteracy and ignorance from
the land.
). To secure for every workman and for
every working woman wages enough to sup
port a life of comfort and an old age of
leisure and quiet. as BELTS those who have
an equal share in a self-governed state.
6. To grow and expand. over the continent
and over the islands of the sea, just so
fast and no faster as we can bring into
equality and self-government, under our
constitution, peoples and races who will
share those ideals and help to make them
realities
T. TO set a peaceful example of freedom
which mankind will be glad to follow. but
never to force even freedom upon unwilling
nations at the point of the bayonet or at
the Cannon's mouth.
s. To abstain from interfering with the
freedom and Just rights of other nations
or peoples and to remember that the liberty
to do right necessarily involves the liberty
to do wong, and that the American people
have no right to take from any other people
the b;rthright of freedom because of fear
that they will do wrong with it.