Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-14
EMPIRE" IN LAW AND MORALS.
Senator Hoar Ably Sums Up the Case Against
the Conquest and Domination
of the Fipjnos.

Of the Filipnos.
In reply to letter from more than
one hundred men of eminence in Bos-
ton Senator Hoar said:
"No 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
the acquisition of territory or of other
property is not q constitutional end
but only n means to constitutional
end, and that while the making of new
States and providing national defense
are constitutional ends, so that we
may acquire and hold territory for
those purposes, the governing of sub
ject peoples is not constitutional end,
and that there is therefore no consti-
tutional warrant for acquiring and
holding territory for that purpose.
Second-That to leave our own
country, TO stand on foreign soil, is in
violation OF the warnings of our faith
ers and of the Farewell Address of
Washington.
Third-That there was never a
tropical colony yet governed with any
tolerable success without a system of
contract labor.
Fourth-The trade advantages OF
the Philippine Islands, if there be any,
must be opened alike to all the world,
and that our share of them will never
begin to pay the cost of subjugating
them by war or holding them in SUBJ
lection in peace.
Fifth-That the military occupa-
tion Of these tropical regions must be
kept up at an immense cost both to
the souls and the bodies of our SOL
diers.
Sixth-That the declaration rs to
Cuba by the President and by Con-
gress applies with stronger force to the
case of the Philippine Islands.
Seventh-That Aguinaldo and his
followers, before we began to make
war upon them, had conquered their
own territory and independence from
Spain with the exception of single
city, and were getting ready to estab-
lish free constitution.
"Eighth-That while they are
fighting for freedom and independence
and the doctrines of our fathers, we
are fighting for the principle that one
people may control and govern an
other in spite of its resistance and
against its will.
Ninth-That the language and ar
gument of those who object to this
war are without change, the language
and argument OF Chatham, of Fox, of
Burke, of Barre, of Camden and of the
English and American Wings, and
that the language and argument OF
those who support it are the language
and argument Of George I'LL, OF Lord
North, of Mansfield, of Wedderburn
and of Johnson and of the English
and American Tories.
"The question the American people
are now considering and with which
they are about to deal is not ques.
ton of day or of year or of an Ad-
ministration or of q century.
ave have not as yet taken the ir-
revocable step. Before it is taken let
the voice of the whole people be heard"
THE statistics for the year 1898 will
reveal startling state of affairs-in
fact will knock the props completely
from under the fanatical temperance
lecturers who have in the past claimed
that alcoholism was the cause of more
deaths than any other plague. But
the statistics of 1898 will refute this
idea and place Algerism in the lead
as a destroyer of human life. For
absolute proof look at the record dur
ing the late war with Spain! The
number of men killed in battle in the
army was only 239 and those who
died from wounds was 125. But the
number that succumbed to Algerism--
while in camp, was 5,277! Now who
is responsible for Alger? Solve this
question and then see who is RESPONSE
BILE for all these deaths.