The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-09
-FOUR DUTY IN PHILIPPIN ES
SENATOR HOAR STRONGLY STATES
 HIS SIDE OF THE QUESTION.

Action Toward Them in Spirit o1 Declaration of Independence Would End War i'm an Hour.
 New York, Nov. S.-Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, has contribut- ed an article on Our Duty to the Phil ippines," to the Independent which will appear tomorrow. He begins with a re- view of the circumstances leading up to the war with Spain of which he says: T think 1t might have been averted and that Cuba could have been liberated by peaceable means if the counsel of Grant and Fish had been followed and if our public men in the senate had remem- bered that they were a part of the diplomatic power of this country and it was unbecoming in them to indulge in bitter and singing invectives against Spain, whether such invectives were just or unjust. But I don't feel ipclin- ed to judge these utterances severely. Something, as Burke said, must be pardoned to the spirit Of liberty, and those utterances, though in my judg
 
 humane and liberty-loving souls"
 Just Governments.
 Continuing. the senator says that down to January 1, 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 politl- cal connection that binds it to another people. Tn dealing with Cuba" says the writer, I've acted upon those prin- ciples but the treaty of peace disclosed a different purpose as to the Philip pines, the inhabitants of which were much nearer independence when the treaty of peace was signed than ever had been the people of Cuba. Their leader had been brought over to the islands in a United States ship by the United States authorities, and was in arms at the head of United States forces with our full concurrence and cooperation.
 The Offer to Aguinaldo.
 If the statement attributed to a high official in one of our departments, who is sometimes called upon to sit in the cabinet with the president, was actual ly 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 sufficient refutation of all the charges against him. They had framed a pro- visional constitution, model of it's kind, establishing a dictatorship like t1pca oesto a ltcb h,r ;,, America, to give place to a republic as soon as the military condition should make 1t possible. Looking back. can any sane man doubt the wisdom of those who desired to amend the treaty and to deal with the Philippine islands as we did with Cuba, to compel Spain to renounce her sovereignty; to keep off all foreign nations and to aid the is- landers in establishing their own gov- ernment according to their ow desire?"
 Was cKinIey n Copperhcad.
 The senator referring to the epithet Traitor" and other harsh words ap- piled to those who voted against the peace treaty, asks: When the presi- lent said that forcible annexation, ac- ,ording to our American code of morals, Npuii Dt VI llilildl dSSlcSSlOlI, WdS Ite Il | Was he dlsloyal to the | lag? Was not he republican? Was | here even an utterance so calculated | 0 give courage to Aguinaldo and his l people as that?"
 Time tO Act Is Now.
 As to our attitude toward the Philip pine people Senator Hoar said: "The ime has come to make up your mind | low. If you are to declare that you To not mean to eubjugate them, to en- lave them, that you will act toward hem with principle and the spirit of 1 'our own declaration of independence he war can be ended in an hour. The efusal to make this declaration in the low to declare yourselves, is what is lone responsible for it's continuance.
 settlement of Question.
 "Now we have not to settle the ques- ion, which the president has repeated y declared is for congress or for the eople, whether we will complete the of the F'ilipinos; whether ,e will undertake to govern them as objects or serfs, or whether we will i'd them to become a governing ation either as republic, as they eem to desire or as a limited mon rchy. like Japan, or whether they shall Xist thereafter as an absolute mon rchy after the fashion in which we are i'll power to-day the sultan SuIu with his slaves and his harem" Senator Hoar then writes that this reat question has been discussed with levity, with an intelligence and with Il appeal to low motives and to cheap assions rarely parallelled in political , istory. A notable exception he says, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, whose i Lte address in which he maintains that xpansion s the way to peace with 1 ] eautiful argument worthy of consid- 'ation.'
 Americans Have Not Changed. In conclusion the senator says: "The merican people, the brave and just eople, who made the immortal decla- ltion and who maintained it with life ( nd fortune and sacred honor who es- lblshed our wonderful constitution to ( hich the Monroe doctrine is due and [ le freedom of the American continent on the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, ave not changed their church or their 'inciples, in the twinlzling of an eye lder the temptation of any base mo- t ve or personal advantage or under ( le excitement of war. They are sub ( pf doubt1eSS aS all Tn9SSas of men ] f