The San Francisco call., 1899-12-27
THE HOAR RESOLUTIONS.
I HEN on the assembling OF Congress after t
w holiday recess the Hoar resolutions are CALI

\ HEN on the assembling OF Congress after the
w holiday recess the Hoar resolutions are called
up for consideration in the Senate there will
be furnished to the debaters OF that body as noble
theme, as great occasion and as important an issue
as excited the ardor of patriots, the study OF
statesmen or the eoquence OF orators
The resolutions, after setting forth that the pur-
pose for which Government was established and
to which its political action ought to be directed is
the ennobing OF humanity and the elevation OF all
who come lawfully under its power or influence de-
clare its most important and pressing obligations to
be these:
l. To solve the difficult problem 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 with equal opportunity for
education and employment, and to bring the Indian
to civilization and to culture in accordance with his
need and capacity.
- To enable great cities to govern themselves in
freedom, honor and purity
g. To make the ballot-box as pure as sacramento
vessel and the election as perfectly in accord
with the laws and the truth as the judgment Of the
Supreme Court.
4 To Danish iteracy and ignorance from the
land
5 To secure for every workman and for every
working woman wages enough to support life of
comfort and old age OF leisure and quiet. as be6ts
those who have an equal share in a sef-governng
State
90. To grow and expand over the continent andover
the islands OF the just FAST and no faster as we
can bring into equality and egovernment under our
constitution peoples and races who will share these
ideals and help to make them realities.
= To set peaceful example of freedom which
mankind will be glad to follow, but never to force
even freedom upon unwilling natives at the point of
the bayonet or at the cannons mouth
g To abstain from interfering with the freedom
and Just rights OF other nations and peoples and to
remember that the liberty do right necessarily in
wolves the liberty to do wrong and that the American
people have no right to take from any other people
the birthrght OF freedom because OF fear that thev
will do wrong with it"
The splendid principles set forth in that declaration
are not to be dismissed as glittering generalities"
mere academic distractions OF vague import, having
no pertnence to practical politics. Every one OF
them has direct bearing upon some great issue Of
the time. They refer to problems now before the
Senate and make plain the only rule OF national policy
by which those problems can be rightly and saga
ciously solved
1t is gratifying to have in the Senate statesman
capable OF recalling attention these great principles
and applying them to the issues OF the time at this
crisis in our national affairs. The people OF the
United States have seemingly to the parting of
the ways, where the choice to be made between the
genuine republicansm OF the founders OF the Govern
ment and the spurious mixture OF republicanism and
Imperialism OF the jingo statesmen who have at
tanned such power in the ranks OF both parties
Are we to devote energies to the work before
uS IN our own country or are to waste our ener-
ges, our wealth and the lives OF our heroic brave in
a pursuit OF imperial dominion in Asia? That
will
every act OF legislation at this session. and il is
therefore well to have the general principles of our
governmental policy declared at the outset. The
Hoar resolutions set the issues definitely before the
people, and the public will wait with eagerness to see
how many OF the statesmen in the Senate are capable
OF discussing them with dignity and sagacity