The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-09
Same Treatment Should Be Given tho Fill
pInos as Was Given Cuhans.
HAD NEARLY WON INDEPENDENCE.
Had fcrmsd a Provisional Government Which Was
q Model Of lis Kind This Country Has Always
Been Opposed 10 furcbls Anns1alon.

New York, Nov. 9.--Senator George
1a-ffoar OF Massachusetts has commu-
nicated AN article on Our Duty TO the
Philippines" to the Independent, which
appeared today. He begins with re-
view of the circumstances leading up
10 the war with Spain, OF which he
says:
Il think it ma ht have been averred
and that Cuba could have been liber-
ated by peaceabse means II the counsel
OF Grant and Fish had been followed,
and IL our public men in the Senate had
remembered that they We're a part OF
the diplomatic power OF This country
and 1t was unbecOming in them To In
dulge in bitter and singing inyectives
against Span, whether such invectives
Were just or unjust. But / don't feel
incl med to judge unese utterances Sc
Nerely. Something as Burke said, must
Doe pardoned TO the spirit of liberty, and
those utterances, though. in my judg-
ment. unfortunate, came from brave,
humane and liberty-lOVing souls
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.
Continuing, the Senator says that TO
Jan. /, 1899, the American people and
the Republican party were committed
to the doctrine that just Governments
rest upon the consent OF the governed,
and that every people has the right to
dissolve at will the political connection
that binds IL TO another people"
I'm dealing with Cuba" says the
Mrster I'VE acted upon those principles
hut the treaty OF peace disclosed a diff
ferent purpose as To the Philippines,
the inhabitants OF which were mucn
nearer Independent when the t: .aty az
peace was signed than ever had been
the people of Cuba. Their header had been
brought over to the islands in United
States ship, by the United States au-
thoritles, and was in arms at the head
of his forces with our full concurrence
and cooperation. If the statement at
rributed 10 a high official In one OF our
departments, who Is sometimes called
upon to sit in the Cabinet with the
President. was actually made. their
leader had been offered by President
Mckinley the high office Of colonel in
the regular army Of the United States.
an offer which itself is "a sufficient refu-
tation of all the charges against him.
They had framed "A provisional Con-
stitutiOn a mouel of it's kind establish
ing dictatorship like those established
by Bolivar in South America. 10 give
place TO a Republic as soon as the mill
tary condition should make IL possible.
Looking back, can any sane man doubt
tfIe wisdom OF those who desired TO
amend the treaty and 10 deal with the
Philippines as we did with Cuba, to
compel Spain to renounce her sover-
eighty; to keep off all foreign nations
and to aid the ISLANDERS in establish
ing their own government according to
their own desire?"
The Senator refers TO the epithet.
''traltor" and other harsh words applied
10 those who voted against the peace
treaty and asks:
QUESTIONS ASKED.
when the President said that forci-
ble annexation, according to our Amer
ican code of morals would be criminal
aggres SIS on, was ne a COpper-head?Was
he disloyal TO the flag? Was mot ne
Republican? Was there ever an utter
ance so calculated to give courage to
Agulnaldo and his people as that?"
AS To our future attitude toward the
Filipino people Senator Hoar writes:
THE time has come to make up your
mind now. IL you are to declare that
you do not mean TO subjugate them or
to enslave them. that you Will act to-
wards them on the principles and in
the spirit Of your own Declaration of
independence. the war can be ended in
an hour. The refusal to make this de-
claration in the beginning OF this war,
and your refusal now To declare your
selves, is what is alone responsible Tor
its continuance.
Nov we have got 10 settle the ques-
ton which the president has repeated
" declared is for congress or for the
people. whether we will complete the
subiuCat'on of the Filipnos. or wheth
er we will undertake 70 govern them as
subjects or serfs; or whether We Will
aid them to become n self-governinS
nation. either as republicans as they
seem to desire: or as q limited mon
archy like japan, or whether they shall
exist hereafter as an absolute mon
nrchv. after the fashion we are main
tanning I'm mower today the sultan OF
sulu with his slaves and his harem."
Senator Hoar then writes that this
great question has been discussed with
n levitv. with an Intolerance and with
nm an0aal 20 low mr'ives and TO cheap
pacsions. rarely paralleled I'm political
history a notable eXceDtion. he saws
is Governor Theodore Roosevelt whose
late address in which he maintains
that axpaus'nn Is the wav TO peace was
"o thoughtful and able argument
worthy of serious consideration"
In conclusion the senator saws: "'rhe
American peonle. the brave and inst
,,oonie who made the Immortal peola-
ratior and who rnaintaired IL with l'fe
,rd fo~tune and sac~sd hcrc~ who
es.ob,irhcd our wonderful constitution.
a. vbose Monroe doct~ine is due the
,rocdcr, ~ the American continent
80, tho pio Crnnfe TO Cane Horn.
So. not chanped ihe'r character or
,tcir princinies IN the twinlding OF an
ayo under the te-nDtpfion ~ any base
,ny,ive or personal advantage. or un-
For over Fifty yssr.