Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-04-27
THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY.
DENIED BY THIS COUNTRY TO
A STRUGGLING PEOPLE.
The BLOOD of tho Slaughtered Natives
and OF our own Soldiers IL Upon the
Heads OF Those who Have Undertake
en- 20 buy People Like Sheep,

en- 70 buy FooPio LINZ o"'eF
A letter bearing the date OF Febru'
Rry 4, and signed by 100 or more OF the
most prominent men In and around
Boston, headed by Ex-Governor George
s. Boutwell,, commencing the altitude
in Congress OF senator Hoar and inyit-
ing him TO address them at future
date, has been made public, Accom-
pnnying II Is the letter OF acknowledge
ment from Senator lloar, bearing date
OF March 20, in which he says;
~ do not think there Is any reason
personal to me for holding such a pub
lie meeting, Undoubtedly there should
be and there will be many public
meetings the country over to protest
against trnmping under foot the rights
OF brave people struggling for their
liberties, the violations OF the princi-
pies Of our own Constitution and OF
the Declaration Of Independence, and
the continuance by the American peo'
pie IN the costly and ruinous path
which has brought other republics to
ruin aud shame, which will dlshonor
labor place ntolerable burdens upon
agriculture, and fOstcn upon the re-
public the shame OF what President
Mckinley has so lately and so truth
fully declared to be criminal agrees
sion.
"But think II 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 indcfn-
itely or whether there Is to be n
speedy submission TO the overwhelm-
ing 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 bur
len of increased debt and increased
taxation, the loss Of life and health OF
our youth, and the arrangement Of
trade and peaceful industry.
"An attempt has been made to per-
sunde 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 oppose the
ratification Of the treaty by which
sovereignty over them was purchased
and paid for rs an article OF merchan-
disc. There was never more IN
founded or more foolish calumny. A
strict military censorship as exercised
Dver the cable to the Philippine Is
lands during the whole period. have
IN my possession one Of the original
circulars of the cable company warn
ing all persons that no dispatch would
be transmitted having the least rela-
ion to politics, without the assent Of
he military authorities Of the United
states"
After quoting some personal expert
,nces growing out of his position, SEN
ltor IIoar says;
"The blood OF the slaughtered Fill
pinos, the blood and the wasted health
and life of our own soldiers, is upon
the heads of those who have undertake
en- to buy people in the market like
sheep, or to treat them as lawful prize
and booty of war, TO impose n govern
ment on them without their consent,
and to trample under foot not the peo-
pie of the Philippine Islands, but the
principles upon which the American
Republican itself rests"
Continuing, Senator Hoar refers Ia
the pledges of the country toward
Cuba and the Presidents declaration
that any other conduct on our part
would have been Criminal agrees
sion" aud continues:
1.-The law of Righteousness and jus.
tice on which the great and free Amer.
lean people should act, and in the end
am sure, will act, depends not on
parallels of latitude and meridians Of
longitude or points Of the compass. II
is the same yesterday, today and for
ever. 1t is as true now as when ouI
fathers declared 1t in 1776, 1t is as
binding upon William Mckinley today
as it was upon George Washington OF
Abraham Lincoln. The only powers
of government the American people
can recognize are just powers, and
those powers rest upon the consent Of
the governed.
mo man during this whole discus
sion has SUCCESSFULLY challenged, and
no man will successfully challenge:
First, the affirmation that under
the Constitution Of the United States
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