The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-12
Senator IIoair.,.s Mistakes,

election with ANYTHING but pleusurable
anticipation. 5iis X
Senator Iloar's Mist u l;cs.
The most exhaustive criticism Of SEN,
ator Hours sp4ech In the senate on
Monday Is founEl in the, kindly refer
cnces; to that effort In the Philadelphia
Press. IT combs with Rall# the more
force because II is presumed TO be an
administration organ, but. at the same
time friendly TO he Massachusetts SEN
ator. 1nsrcgrettlng that every Republl-
can newspaper must part company
with the Nestoit OF the senate on the
Issue now before the country, the Press
pays Mr.. Hoar The compliment of as
sorting that when corruption came In
like q flood thirty years ago he did not
hesitate Mt It's Exposure. When re-
forms. which NIL mon now praise. need
ed voice md, vote he gave both when
the act cost courage and lost personal
support. He speaks to-day With an
equal courage and sincerity II he
stands alone It's because not even SEN
ator Hoar can persuade the American
public to neglect the duty OF Ameri-
cans 5\5 j; n IA I n :i,3j
The same paper! In analyzing Senator
Hoar's arguments, goes on to say: III
SIIis speech. Which recalls days OF de.
bate now partin It's earnestncss, Its clio.
quencei and his dignity, denies any ple-
nary power to govern subject territor-
Hes. ind asserts that the principles OF
the declaration of Independence forbid
the government and controller any
body Of men without their consent. The
best and clearest proof that on the con-
stitutional plea Senator HonrS knows
that his reasons fail lies in the absence
of55a single, citation from any decision
llimltingsthe p!eEary power OF, Congress
TO rule acquired territory underline
clause empowering 1t to make all
needful rules and regulations respecting
the territory. and other property Of the
United States, and in the omission OF
all discussion of past; territorial govern
ment and administration. Fl G (. y &
54If Senator Hoar were not a man for
whom every American must feel pro-
found respect I'VE would bluntly & say
that, 1t, Is nonsense at this late date TO
place limits to a. power the courts have
pronounced plenary and to pass over In
| Its discussion, a century OF legislation
| governing an area to which the Philip
pines are a patch without local consent.
Historically Senator Hoar tempts the
patience OF his readers when he asserts
that this clause bore no reference TO
what was later our territories. The
clauce is where It Is. apart from the or
dered authorities Of Congress. because
1t looked to expected grants to the, new
nation of areas held as the territory
or property" of the states. =
Senator Hoar,steps on firmer ground
when he cites the declaration OF indie
pendence. but on It lies no path and can
be laid no path which leads to his con-
illusions. The luminous exposition OF
Chief Justice Marshall in Chishoim's
purchase has probably7convinced every
reader-as it'myst have convinced SEN
ator Hoar, or he would not, conscien-
tious man that he is. have voted for
scores OF acts governing our Indian
tribes Without their consent and often
against their will-that II civilization is
to j expand and freedom to, increase
tribes and people are not equal TO gov
eminent and self-rulc must be govern
| cd by nations Which are. For a cen-
fury, at every stage. there has been no
question in the minds Of sane, lovers of
freedom that the area OF liberty and
self-Eovernment could only be enlarged
by holding peoples like our indian tribes
In tutelage. II they become ready for
self-rule. self-rule and citizenship come;
and II not, not. iIl ~ ~ =.
Senator Hoar's plea that II tho United
States were to withdraw from the Phil
ipnines the people on the islands would
Immediately beg in a free and orderly
administration OF government, Is hardly
true. The Press points out some facts
controverting tn $ position, 1t says: II
Take Panuy. It Is n tri-
angular tsIandI about eighty miles
on "a side. has in all rather
more than the urea OF Berkshire and
the next cou4y In Massachusetts.
/ There are onritl flour Negrito tribes at
the level Of Pnp1 ans. holding half-naked
mountain valleys. lower In LIES scale
than any Indian in Massachusetts when
Senator Hoars ancestors seized their
flnnds. The interior mountains are held
IN four tracts by Mundas, savages not
much above our Indians. The level
land is occupied by thick population
or NisaSas. most OF whom are on the
I level OF the Mexican peon. A few are
educated. On the island Is Iloilo, the
center OF trade Tor wide island area.
Leave this islanF to its fate and It de-
sends by sure Etnd fatal steps to tile
barbarlsm of evdry Malay island about.
Govern 1t In peace and order, as pro-
posed BY President Mckinley, through
native officials dud with NIL the, auto
nomy possible, ind 1t will ascend to
complete liberty self-rulc and self-or-
der. At. ttas.
The alternative Is not, as Senator
t1oar inslsts, between our rule or lib
crty, but between savage anarchy or
American preparation for self-govern-
ment. The duty OF saving the Philip
pines from 4 lapse to bnrbarism. Great
ing there self-governing rule and cfrac-
ing tie efforts OF savage oppression was
not sought by the United States. It has
been imposed by the Issue of battle and
this obligation the Notwithstanding
race, to which Senator 1Ioar belongs,
| VIII discharge, though he and others
like him desire 10 turn back from the
duty of the nation to civilization and
future liberty and self-rule -,
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Bad Precedent. I,
1t Is the grotesquc in politics as we'll
as everything else that appeals most
strongly to Henry Watterson. and he
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