The Irish standard., 1899-04-08
HOAR'S ELOQUENT OBJECTIONS.
In his reply to letter from promine


case against the conquest and domino
ton OF the Filipinos. whom he referred
to as "a brave people struggling for
their liberties" His unanswerable logic
brought abuse on his venerable head
from the Mckinley organs in the Twin
Cities. the Pioneer Press calling him an
old fossil and the Minneapolis Tri-
bune saying that the virile American
nation is not palsied by the senile fears
OF the statesman OF the Old Bay State. y
The editors make very lame attempt
to challenge Senator Hoar's conclusions
by argument; they find it much easier
to call him ugly names by way of refl-
tation. In his summary OF the case
against imperialism Senator Hoar has
nine counts in his indictment against the
administration. and he boldly asserts
that mo one has successfully challenged
and no man will successfully challenge
his statement OF facts. Unnecessary to
say that the Republican organs referred
to have not successfully challenged any
OF the counts set forth in the Indictment
of the Massachusetts senator. The ven
cradle statesman stands almost alone in
the Republican party, OF which he was
one OF the founders He finds that the
party which emancipated the black maj,
OF the South under the leadership OF
Lincoln has changed its principles and
is now subjugating the brown man OF
the Orient under the leadership of Nc
kinley. MIR. Hoar has risen above his
party and by so doing has proved his
genuine Americansm. He is too much
OF patriot to sanction wrong perpetrat-
ed i'll the name Of humanity, and cour-
ageously opposes the sophistries and
cant OF designing knaves who control
his party to-day
In the course OF his letter the grand
old man OF Massachusetts says: The
blood OF the slaughtered Filipinos, the
| blood and the wasted health and life OF
our own soldiers, is upon the heads OF
those who have undertaken to buy a
people in the market like sheep. or to
treat them as lawful prize and booty OF
war; to impose government on them
without their consent and to trample
under foot. not only the people OF the
Philippine islands, but the principles
upon which the American republic itself
rests
The law of righteousness and justice
on which the great free American people
should act, and in the end, | am sure
will act, depends not upon parallels OF
latitude and meridians of longitude, or
points OF the compass. 1t is the same
yesterday, to-day and forever 1t is as
true now as when Our fathers declared
! it in l776, 1t is as binding upon William
Mckinley to-day as it was upon George
Washington or Abraham Lincoln. The
only powers Of government the Ameri-
can people can recognize are just pow
crs. and those powers rest upon the con-
sent OF the governed"
In the summing up OF the entire case
Senator Hoar views the imperial policy
from the standpoint OF both law and
morals. and declares that the question
the American people arc now consider
irg and with which they are about to
deal is not the question Of day or OF a
year, or Of an administration or of a cen
fury. He says that the declaration as
to Cuba by the president and congress
applies with stronger force to the case
OF the Philippines, as Aguinaldo and his
followers had, before our waging wal
upon them, secured their independence
from Spain by force OF arms, with the
exception OF Manila, and were preparing
to establish free constitution. As il
defending his own attitude in antagoniz,
ing the policy OF imperial conquest
the noble senator truthfully says: "The
language and argument Of those who
object to this war are without change
the language and argument OF Chatham
OF Fox. OF Burke. Of Barre. OF Camder
and OF the Englisl, and American
Wings; and the language and argunien
OF those who support it are the Language
and argument of George I'LL, OF Lore
North of Mansfield. OF Wedderburn, O
Johnson. and OF the English and Ameri
can Tories"
Senator Hoar stands on the same plat
form OF human rights when he advocate
the cause OF the Filipinos against tn
tyranny of America as did the grea
Earl of Chatham when he raised hi
voice in behalf OF the American colonist
oppressed by England and exclaimed
"Were an American, as l am an Eng
isfman, while an English soldier re
manned in my country, l never woul
lay down my arms, no, never-never-
never The day may come when II,
, name OF Hoar will be venerated in til
e Philippines as the name OF Pitt is sti
, renerated in this country.
UNITY MEETING A FAILURE.