Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-04-07
ON IMPERIALISM
Mr.. Hoar IN His Res
ponse to Invitation.

lng-Better to hold them
Later-Who is Responsible
for the Slaughter in Luzon.
Boston, March 30-A letter bear
ing date of February 4, and signed
by one hundred or more of the most
prominent citizens in and around
this city, headed by ex Governor
Geo. S. Boutwell,, commenting the
attitude in Congress of Senator
Hoar, and inviting him to address
them at future date, was made
public today. Accompanying it is
the letter of acknowledgement from
Senator Hoar, bearing date of yester
day, in which he says:
II do not think there is any rea-
son personal to me for holding such
public meeting. Undoubtedly
there should be and there will be
many public meetings the country
over to protest against trampling
under foot the rights of b.ave peo.
pie, struggling for their liberties, the
violation of the principles of our
own Constitution, and of the Declar.
alton of independence, and the con-
tinuance by the American people in
the costly and ruinous path which
has brought other republics to ruin
and shame, and which will dishonor
labor, place intolerable burdens upon
agriculture, and fastcn upon the re-
public the shame of what President
Mckinley has so lately and so truth.
fully declared to be criminal ag-
gression. But / think It will be
wiser to have meetings Of that char
acter little later on, rather than
just now.
"An attempt has been made to
pursuade the American people that
the resistance to our arms by the
people of the Philippine islands has
been due to those who oppose the
attempt to subjugate them and who
opposed tae ratification of the treaty
and the pay for the islands as an ar.
ticle of merchandise. There was
never more unfounded or more
foolish calmny. A strict military
censorship was exercised over the
cable to the Philippine islands dur
ing the whole period. I have in my
possession one of the original circu
lars of the cable company, warning
oil persons that no dispatch would
be transmitte having the least rela.
tion to politics, without the consent
of the military authorities of the
United States.
After quoting some personal ex.
periences growing out O. his posi-,
tion, Senator Hoar says:
'rhe blood of the slaughtered
Filipinos. the blood of the wasted
health and life of our own soldiers,
is upon the heads of those who have
undertaken to buy a people in the
maret like sheep, or to treat them as
lawful prize and booty of war, to
impose government on them with.
out their consent, and to trample
under foot not only the people of the
Philippine islands, but the princi
Piles upon whice the American re
public itself rests"
Continuing, Senator Hoar says:
.'No man during this whole dis
cussion hes successfully challenged,
and no man will successfully chal
lenge:
First, the affirmative, that under
the Constitution of the United States
the, acquisition of territory. as OF
othAe property, is not Constitu
tional end, that, while the making
of new states and providing for the
National defense are Constitutional
ends so that we may acquire and
hold territory for those purposes, the
governing of subject peoples is not
"a Constitutional end, and that there
lis, therefore, no Constitutional war
rant for acquiring and holding terri
tory for that purpose.
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