The times., 1899-04-01
SENATOR Honr,s Abuse.

discouragng things about the scandal.
Senator Hoar's Abuse.
Unless we are to look upon Senator Hoar
as a decayed statesman a man with his
brain dried by increasing years and mis-
use, man lacking in noble political prin-
ciples because of a lifetime of subservience
to the narrow and selfish interests of the
Republican party, it is patriotic duty to
execrate and repudiate his scandalous and
slanderous abuse of the privilege OF free
speech. The fact that he belongs to the
New England aristocracy and affects an
eminent respectability and benevolence
and poses as a friend of human liberty
does not exempt him from the penalty
the recognized demagogue and political
charlatan is required TO pay when he out
RACES the sense of propriety, justice, and
duty of the American people.
George Frisbie Hoar is not and never
has been an able and high minded and
patriotic statesman. The small faction
which praises him today has been most
keen and contemptuous in its comments
on his public course. He never had the
courage and independence to antagonize
the Republican party until he reached an
age where he could hope for no further
gain from its favor. In all the years of
his public career, beginning with the i'm
position of high thieves on the de-
feated Southern people, TO the outrage of
every principle of honest government and
every dictate of wisdom and humanity,
down to the upholding of the robber laws
that bleed the people for the enrichment
of favored class-chief among them the
immediate friends and supporters of Sem
ator Hoar-he could always be trusted by
the Republican leaders to lend a benevo-
lent smile to their schemes
Today. when the greatest danger of our
national life rises dark and dread and
threatens TO shaciile the limbs of people
consecrated to freedom-when the multi
plying trusts have begun a revolution in
our political and social life that is in
flnitely more appalling and disastrous
than rampant and successful anarchy
George F. Hoar withdraws attention
from the monster by demanding the
independence of a few million bar
barians to whom independence would
be curse more dire than their
present slaughter He has no word to say,
no prayer to utter, no warning cry TO
raise, in behalf of the liberties of the
American people. The trusts may increase,
and reduce this country to a condition
worse than feudalism, where the masters
at least had some care for the feeding of
their subjects; they may stife domestic
competition as the party of George F. Hoar
has already prohibited foreign competi-
tion; they may limit production TO run
up prices while reducing the power OF the
people to buy the necessaries of life: they
may decrease the number of men en-
ployed, lower the rate of wages. buy up
the brains of the bar to serve their robber
interests. buy up Legislators and the
courts. as they have long since bought up
the men who dictate the Republican party
policy, and George F. Hoar can find no
nobler cause to serve than the ruinou,
independence of an ignorant, barbarous
people used only to oppression-an inde-
pendence that would mean submission to
the tyranny of a selfish dictator like the
adventurer and bribe taker, Aguinaldo.
The one thing in all our career as a ma
tion that has given to the American people
a permanent high ideal-the opportunity
as well as the inspiration to take up the
white mans burden''-this abusive poll
tician denounces as a costly and ruinous
burden and a crime. To that stupendous
crime which means the destruction of re-
publican institutions and which he has
done his utmost to foster-the crime of en-
Shaving this free people TO the trusts-his
attention is called in vain. The American
people deny his right TO decide any ques-
tion of political morals. He has shown his
lack of political moral sense. His senti-
ment concerning Aguinaldo is maudlin if it
is sincere. We doubt its sincerity. Coward
ice. the fear OF meeting our duty to civ
ilization, is the handspring OF his slander-
Gus assault ON the American intelligence
and conscience. Let him go think on his
share in the crime of his party which has
covered us with the darkest cloud that has
ever shadowed a free race.