The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-09

Spain, whether such invectives were just
or unjust. But I do not feel inclined to
judge these utterances severely. Some
thing, as Burke said, must be pardoned
to the spirit of liberty, and those utter
ances, though in my judgment unfor-
tunate, came from brave, humane and
liberty-loving SOULS
Continuing, the senator says that down
to Jan. 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 political connection that binds
1t to another people. In dealing with
Cuba" says the writer, 1--WE acted upon
those principles, but the treaty Of peace
disclosed a different purpose as to the
Philippines, 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"
writes Senator Hoar, had been brought
over to the islands in United States
ship, by the United States authorities, and
was in arms at the head of his forces,
with our full concurrence and co-opera-
ton. 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 We're ac-
tually made, their leader had been offered
the high office of colonel in the regular
army of the United States, an offer which
in itself is sufficient REPUTATION of all the
charges against him. They had framed a
provisional constitution, a model of its
kind, and established a dictatorship like
those established by Bolivar in South
America, to give place to a republic as
soon as the military condition should
make it 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 SOW
ereignty, to keep off all foreign nations
and to aid the islanders in establishing
their own government according to their
own desire?"
THE EPITHET TRAITOR
The senator refers to the epithet
traitor" and other harsh words applied
to those who voted against the peace
treaty, and asks:
When the president said that forcible
annexation, according to our American
code of morals, would be criminal agrees
sion, was he copperhead? Was there
ever an utterance 50 calculated to give
courage to Aguinaldo and his people as
that?"
AS to our future attitude towards the
Filipinos, Senator Hear writes:
The time has come to make up your
minds II you are to declare that YOU
do not mean to subjugate them or to en-
slave them, that you will yet act toward
them on the principle and in the spirit OF
your own Declaration of independence,
the war can be ended in an hour The
refusal to make this declaration in the
beginning brought on this war, and your
refusal now to declare yourselves, is
what is alone responsible for its continu-
ance.
Now we have got to settle the oues-
ton, which the president has repeatedly
declared is for congress or for the people
to do, whether we will complete the SUBJ
lection of the Filipinos whether we will
undertake 20 govern them as subjects or
serfs; or whether we will aid them to
become self-governing nation, either
as a republic, as they seem to desire, or
as a limited monarchy, like Japan or
whether they shall exist hereafter as an
absolute monarchy. after the fashion in
which we are maintaining in power to-
day the Sultan of Sulu, with his slaves
ard his harem"
Senator Hoar then writes this great
question has been discussed with levity,
with intolerance, and with an appeal to
low motives and cheap passions, rarely
paralleled in political history. A notable
exception, he says. is Gov. Roosevelt
whose late address, in which he main
tains that expansion is the way to peace,
was "a thoughtful and able argument,
worthy of serious consideration"
SECOND SOBER THOUGHT.
In conclusion the senator saws:
1.-THE American people, the brave and
just people. who made the immortal
declaration, and who maintained it with
life, and fortune. and sacred honor, who
built cur wonderful constitution, to whose