The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-21

WorId-Problems TO be Solved and
Reforms Effected in This Country
True Field for Expansion.
Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Hoar,
rep, of Massa chusetts, to-day intro
senate:
Whereas The American people and
the several states in the Union have in
times past, at important periods in their
history, especially when declaring their
independence, establishing their consti-
tutiors or undertaking new and great
responsibilities seen fit to declare the
purposes for which the nation or state
was founded, and the important objects
the people intend to pursue in their po-
litical action; and,
Whereas, The close of great war,
the liberation by the United States of
the people of Cuba and Porto Rico in
the western hemisphere, and the Philip
pine Islands in the far east and the re-
duction of those peoples to condition
of practical dependence upon the Unit
ed States, constitute an occasion which
makes such a declaration proper; there
fore, be it
Resolved That this republic adheres
to the doctrines which We're In the past
set forth In the Declaration of indie
pendence, and in its national and state
constitutions: That the purpose if it's
existence and the objects to which It's
political action ought to be directed are
the ennobling of humanity, the raising
from the dust it's humblest and coarsest
members; and the enabling of persons
coming lawfully under it's power or in
fuence to live in freedom and in honor.
under governments whose forms they
are to have share in determining, and
in whose administration they have an
equal voice. It's most important and
pressing obligations are:
"G) To solve the difficult problem
presented by the presence Of different
races on our own soil with equal con-
stitutional rights; to make the negro
safe in his home, secure in his vote,
equal in his opportunity for education
and employment; and to bring the In
dian to civilization and culture in &C
cordance with his need and capacity.
"(2) To enable great cities to govern
themselves in freedom in honor and in
purity.
"(3.) To make the ballot box as pure
as a sacramental vessel, 9nd the cleo
ton return as perfectly n accord with
the law and the truth as the judgment
of the supreme court.
"4) To Danish illiteracy and ignor-
ance from the land.
90 To secure for every workman
and for every working woman wages
enough to support life of comfort, and
an old age of leisure and quiet, as BELTS
those who have an equal share in self
governing state.
"(6) To grow and expand, over the
and over the islands of the
sea, just as fast, and no faster, as we
can bring into equality and self-govern-
ment, under our constitution, peoples
and races who will share these ideals
and help to make them realities.
"G) To set a peaceful example of
freedom which mankind will be glad to
follow, but never to force even freedom
upon unwilling nations at the point of
the bayonet or at the lannon's mouth.
"(S.) To abstain from interfering with
the freedom and just rights of other ma
tons or peoples, and to remember that
the liberty to do right necessarily in
wolves the liberty to do wrong; and
that the American people has no right
to take from any other people the birth
right of freedom because of a fear that
they will do wrong with it."