The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-10
HQAR ATTACKS EXPANSION
GIVEN UNUSU4L INTENTION IN THE
SENATE.

SENATE.
His Speech an Answer TO That Delivered
by Senator Plat of Connecticut-Mc-
hfniey LiIzcned to Emperor Louis
Napoleon, Styled by the Speaker ga
PtnchbecIx"-By Taking Philippines
the Principles of the Constitution an d
of the Declaration of Independen &c
Are Violated VIII Not Accompany
Party to Its Henrse.
washington, Jan. 9.-This proved to
be an interesting day in the senate, the
principal subject under discussion be-
Ing the constitutional right of the Unit
ed States to carry into effect the policy
of expansion. The leading speaker was
Mr.. Hoar, rep, of Massachusetts, who
delivered a speech in support of the res
olution introduced by Mr. Vest, dem,
of Missouri, declaring it to be in oppo-
sition to the constitution for this coun-
try to acquire foreign country to be
governed permanently as colonies. AL
though Mr.. Hoar occupied more than
two hours with his speech, he was ac-
corded the unusual compliment of close
and undivided attention by his col
leagues on the floor and a large audi
ence in the galleries. He confined him
n m
address was delivered with all the fire,
earnestness and animation of the ora
tor that he is. Mr.. Hoar is master of
the subtleness of the English language
and a rhetorician of notable ability, and
his keen sarcasm and wit We're thor
oughly enjoyed by his auditors His
speech was in answer to that recently
delivered by Mr.. Platt, rep, of Connect
lieut. and had been most carefully pre-
pared He took strong ground against
the position assumed by the Connect
cut senator, maintaining that it was in
violation of the constitution and of the
Declaration of independence for this
country to acquire territory to be gov
erned as colonies. Senator Hoar said:
I am quite sure that no man who will
hear or who will read what I say to-day
to say it but a commanding sense of
public duty. I think 1 dislike more
than most men to differ from men with
whom I have so long and so constantly
agreed. l dislike to differ from the
president whose election I hailed with
such personal satisfaction and such ex
ulting anticpations for the republic. I
dislike to differ from so many of my
aa;o ~, o1,o ,Inr wit
whom I have for so many years trod
the same path and sought the same
goal. / am one Of those men who be-
lieve that little that is great or good or
permanent for free people can be ac-
complished without the instrumentality
of party. And have believed relig
iously, and from my soul, for half
century in the great doctrines and prn-
ciples of the republican party I stood
in a humble capacity by its cradle. I
do not mean, if 1 can help it, to follow
it's hearse. I am sure I render it SER
vice; I am sure I help to protect and to
prolong the life of that great organiza-
ton, if 1 can say or can do anything to
keep it from forsa1ing the great princi-
pies and doctrines in which alone it
must live or bear no life. I must in
this great crisis, discharge the trust
my beloved commonwealth has commit
ted to me according to my sense of duty
as I see it. However unpleasant may
be that duty, as Martin Luther said,
God help me. can do no otherwise"
l am to speak for my country, for its |
whole past and for it's whole future. l
am to speak to a people whose fate is
bound up in the preservation of our |
4, II tI,n,.t
1 am to speak for the dead soldier who
gave his life for liberty that his death |
might set seal upon his country's his |
toric glory. 1 am to speak for the re-
publican party, all of whose great ira |
ditions are at stake and all of whose |
great achievements are in peril.
Certainly, Mr.. President no man can
ever justly charge me with lack of
faith in my countrymen, or lack of
faith in the principles on which the re-
public is founded. If during thirty |
years. service within these walls or dur
ing fifty years of constant, active and
absorbed interest in public affairs there
has ever come from my lips an utter
ance showing lack of faith in the peo-
pie, in the republic, in country, in liber-
ty. or in the future, let them be silent
L
er Christian virtue, ] have at least in
the fullest measure that which stands
as the central figure in the mighty
group which the apostle says is for ever
to abde--hope. I thank God that as
my eyes grow dim they look out on a
fairer country, better people, bright
er future.
I have in my humble way poor
enough, [ know, but it was my best, de-
Tended the character of the American
people, their capacity for self-govern-
ment, the character of the great legisla-
tive bodies through which that govern
ment is exercised, whenever and by
whomsoever assailed. ! do not distrust
them now But the strongest frame
may get mortal sickness from one ex-
posture, the most vigorous health or life
may be destroyed by a single drop of
poison and what poison is to the hu-
man frame the abandonment of our
great doctrine of liberty will be to the
republic.
After all, am old-fashioned enough
to think that our fathers, who won the
and who framed the con-
stitutiOn were the wisest builders of
states the world has yet seen. l think
that they knew where to seek for the
best lessons of experience and they
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