Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-09
UOAR on THE PHILIPPINES.
what IL 10 he Our Future Atfi'""e
Toward Fnipinos!

NEW YORK, November s.-Senator
George r. Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, has
contributed an article on "Our Duty to
the Philippines" TO the Independent,
which will appear tomorrow. He begins
with q review OF the circumstances lead
ing mp 10 the war with Spain, of when
he says:
Il think II might have been averted,
and that cuba could have been liberated
by peaceable means, If the counsel OF
Grant and Fish had been followed, ana
IL our public men In the Senate had re-
membered that they were part OF the
Diplomatic power OF this country. and IL
was unbeooming In them TO indulge In
hitter and singing invectives against
spain. whether such invectives were just
or unjust.
But | do not feel inclined to judge
these utterances severely. Something, as
burke said. must be pardoned to the
spirlt OF liberty, and those utterances'
though in my judgment unfortunate
came from brave, humane, and liberty
loving souls
CONSENT OF GOVERNED.
Continuing. the Senator says that down
10 January I. 1899. the American people
ted TO the doctrine that just governments
rest upon the consent of the governed,
and that every people has the right 10
dissolve at will the political connection
that binds it 10 another people. In DEAL
ing with Cuba. says the writer. we act
cd upon those principles, but the treaty
If peace disclosed different purpose as
10 the Philippines the inhabitants oil
which were much nearer independence
v.bon the treaty Of peace was signed than
ever had been the people Of Cuba.
"Their leader" writes Senator Hoar
''had been brought over to the lslands
i'm a United States ship by the Unlteu
States authorities, and was In arms at
the head OF his forces, with our full con-
currence and cooperation. IT the state
ments attributed TO a high Official in one
Of our departments, VINO Is sometimes
called upon to sit in the CABINET WIN
tho President. were actually made, this
leader had been offered by President Nc
Kinlev the high office of colonel In the
regular army Of tha United states, an
offer which I'm itself is a sufficient refu-
tatlon Of all the charges against him.
They had framed a provisional constitu-
ton. a model of it's kind, establishing a
dictatorship like that established by
Bolivar i'm South America. to give place
TO a republic as soon as the military con-
ditions should make it possible"
As to our future attitude toward the
FillpinOs Senator Hoar writes:
OUR FUTURE ATTITUDE.
"The time has come 20 make up our
minds. If we are to declare that we
do not mean to subjugate them or TO
enslave them; that we will act toward
them on the principle and In the spirit
Of our own Declaration of Independence.
the war can be ended IN an hour. The
refusal 10 make this declaration in the
beginning brought on this war, and our
refusal now TO declare ourselves is what
is alone responsible for its continuance
Now we have got 10 settle the ques-
ton which. the President has repeatedly
declared. is for Congress or for the peo-
pie. whether we will complete the sub
iugatiOn OF the FilipinOs-whether we
viii undertake 10 GOVERN them as sub
iects or serfs; whether we VIII
aid them 10 become a self governing
nation. either as a republic, as they seem
TO desire. or as a limited monarchy. Ike
Japan: or whether they shall exist here
after as an absolute monarchy, after the
fashion in which we are maintaining In
power to-day the Sultan Of Sulu, with his
slaves and his harem.'