The morning news., 1899-12-21
HoAR ON OUR OBLIGATIONS.
INTRODUCED RESOLUTION AS TO
NEW POSSESSIONS.

Sets Forth in General what the Du-
ties of the United States Are-NIust
See That All Those Under the Flag
Are Guaranteed Their Freedom.
Difficult Problem Is Presented by
the Presence in Our Country OF
Different Races.
Washington. Dec. Ex-senator Hoar of
Massachusetts to-day introduced the fol-
lowing resolution in the Senate:
Whereas. the American people and the
several states in the Union have in times
past, at important periods in their his
tory, especially when declaring their in
dependence, establishing their constitu-
tions, or undertaking the purpose for which
the nation or state was founded, and the
important objects the people intend 20
pursue in their political action; and
Whereas, the close of great war, the
liberation by the United States of the
people of Cuba and Porto Rico in the
Western Hemisphere, and of the Philip
pine Islands in the Far East, and the re-
duction of these peoples to a condition of
practical dependence upon the United
States, constitute an occasion which makes
such a declaration proper; therefore. be it
Resolved, That this fepublic adneres
to the doctrines which were in the past
set forth in the Declaration of Independ-
ence and in its national and state constitu-
tions:
THAT the purpose of it's existence and
the objects to which its political action
ought to be directed are the ennobling of
humanity, the raising from the dust its
humblest and coarsest members, and the
enabling OF persons coming lawfully un-
der its power or influence to live in free
dom and in honor, under governments
whose forms they are to have share in
determining, and in whose administration
they have an equal voice. Its most inn
portant and pressing obligations are:
First To solve the difficult problem
presented by the presence Of different
races on our own soil with equal consti-
tutional rights. To make tile negro safe
in his home, secure IN his vote, equal in
his opportunity for education and employ
ment and to bring the Indian to a civili-
zation and culture in accordance with his
need and capacity.
Second. To enable great cities to govern
themselves in freedom, in honor and in
purity
Third. To make the ballot box as pure
as a sacramentaf vessel, and the election
return as perfectly in accord with the law
anu the lfutn as lne judgment oil Ine Su-
preme Court.
Fourth. To Danish illiteracy and igno-
rance from the land.
Fifth To secure to every workman
and for every working woman, wages
enough to support a life of comfort, and
an old age of leisure and quiet, as BELTS
those who have an equal share in a self
governing state.
sixth 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 these ideals and help to
make them reality
Seven. 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.
Eight. 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 wrong; and that the
American people have no right to take
from any other people the birthright of
freedom because of a fear that they will
do wrong with it,"