The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-31
.B()AR ADVISES Delay
Maybe the FiIipinos Will Find
Out They Are Whipped.
IN WHICH CASE, POSSIBLY
Imperialism Won't be Such a
Bad Thing, After All.

Boston, March 30.-A letter bearing the
date of February and signed by 100
or more of the most prominent men in and
around this city, headed by Ex-Governor
George S. Boutwell,, commencing the at
titude in congress Of Senator Hoar and
inviting him to address them at future
date, was made public today. Accompany
ing it is the letter of acknowledgment
from Senator Hoar, bearing date of yester-
day, in which he says:
II do not think there is any reason per-
sonal to me for holding such a public meet
ing. Undoubtedly there should be and there
will be many public meetings the coun-
try over TO protest against trampdng under
foot the rights OF brave people strug-
Cling for their liberties, the violations of
the principles of our own constitution and
I the declaration of independence and the
continuance by the American people in
the costly and ruinous path which mas
brought other republics to ruin and shame,
which will dishonor labor. place intolerable
burdens upon agriculture and fasten upon
the republic the shame of what President
Mckinley has so lately and so truthfully
declared to be criminal aggression. But
think it will be wiser to have meetings
of that character little later rather than
just now. We do not yet know whether
the present war for the subjugation of the
people of the Philippines is to continue
indefinitely or whether there is TO be a
speedy submission to the Overwhelming
power of the United States. If the war
shall shortly be ended, we shall then be
able to discuss the question Of our national
duty free from the disturbing influences
which exist always when the country is
at war. If, on the other hand, the war
shall long and indefinitely continue, the
people will begin to feel the burden of in
creased debt and increased taxation, the
loss Of life and health of our youth and
the arrangement of trade and peaceful
industry"
Senator Hoar says further: 1.-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 a 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 con-
sent and to 'trample under foot not only
the people of the Philippine Isands, but
the principles upon which the American re-
public itself rests.
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The law of Righteousness and justice
! on which the great and free American
people should act and. in the end, am
sure, viii act depends not upon parallels
of attitude and meridians of longitude or
points of the compass. 1t is yesterday,
today and forever. 1t is as true now as
when our fathers declared it in 177c 1t is
as binding upon William Mckinley today
as it was upon George Washington or
Abraham Lincoln. The only powers Of
government the American people can rec
ognize are just powers, and those powers
rest upon the consent of the governed
''No man during this whole discussion
has successfully challenged and no man
will successfully chaneng.
First, the affirmative that under the
constitution of the United States the ac-
QUESTION of territory, as of other property,
is not a constitutional end but only
means to a constitutional end and that,
while the making of new states and pro-
viding a national defense are constitu-
tional ends so that we may acquire and
hold territory for those purposes, the gov
erning of subject peoples is not consti-
tutional end and that there is no const-
tutional warrant for acquiring and hold
ing territory for the 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
country governed with any tolerable sue
cess without a system of contract labor.
Fourth, the trade advantages of the
Philippine Islands. 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 subjugating them by war or
holding them in subsection in peace.
Fifth, that the military occupation of
these tropical regions must be kept at an
immense cost both TO the souls and the
bodies of our soldiers.
Sixth, that the declaration as to Cuba
by the president and by congress applies
with stronger force to the case of the
Philippine Islands.
Seventh. that Aguinaldo and his fol-
lowers before we began TO make war upon
them had conquered their own territory
and independence from Spain with the
exception Of single city and were get
ting ready to establish free constitu-
ton.
Eighth. that while they are fighting
for freedom and independence and the
doctrines of our fathers, We are fighting
FOR the principles that one people may
control and govern another In spite OF
its resistance and against is viii.
Ninth, that the language and argu-
ment OF those who object to this war
are. without change. the language and
/ argument OF Chatham. OF Fox. OF Burke.
/ % Barre. of Camden and OF the English
/ and American wings, and the language
I and argument OF those who support Il are
/ the language and argument OF George III,
! OF Lord North. Of Mansfield CT Wsddsr-
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