The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-21
HOAR'S RESOLUTION
To Solve Problems Confron-
ing The Nation.
We Haya no Right 10 Rob People Of Freedom
For Fear Of Their Doing Wrong
With II.

Washington, Dec. 20.Senatar Igoar,
If Massacnnseyts. rolay introduced the
following resolution in the Senate:
whereas, the American people md
the several States in the Union have in
times past, at important periods in their
history, especially when declaring Their
independence, establishing their cJnsti-
tutions, or undertaking new and great
responsibilities, seen fit to declare the
purposes for which the Nation or State
was founded, and the important OBJ
jects the people intend to pursue in
their political action; and,
Whereas, the close of great war,
the liberation BY the United States OF
the people OF Cuba and Porto Rico in
the Western Hemisphere, and OF the
Philippine Islands in the Far East. and
the reduction Of those peoples to a con-
dition Of practical dependence upon the
United States constitute an occasion
which makes such a declaration proper.
therefore, be it
s'ResoEved, that this Republic adheres
to the doctrines which were in the past
set forth in the Declaration Of Iude-
pendence, and in it's National and State
Constitutions:
THAT the purpose Of its existence
and the objects to which its political ac-
tion ought to be directed are the en-
nobling Of humanity, the raising from
the dust its humblest and coarsest mem
bers, and the enabling Of persons coming
lawfully under its power or influence to
i've in freedom and in honor, under
governments whose forms they are to
have share in determining, and In
whose administration they have an
equal voice. Its most important and
pressing obligations are:
Ito solve the difficult problem
presented by the presence of different
1 races on our own soil with equal consti-
tutIonal rights. 70 make the negro safe
IN ms home, secure i'll his vote, equal
ID ms opportunity for education and
/ employment; and to bring the Indian tu
/ A civilization and culture in accord
ance with his need and capacity:
ITO enable great cities to govern
themselves in freedom in honor and in
| purity.
''3-To make the ballot box as pure as
| Il sacramental vessel, and the election
return as perfectly in accord with the
law and the truth as the Judgment OF
4 lnE boul}lSl1e Nbuils
ITO Danish illiteracy and ignorance
from the land.
ITO secure for every workman anC
| for every working woman, wages enough
60 support life of comfort and an old
age Of leisure and quiet, as BELTS
hose who have an equal share in a
/ self-governing State.
/ Ito grow and expand over the
continent and over the Islands of the
| sea, just SO fast, and 10 faster, as VT
can bring Unto equality and self-govern.
/ ment, undar our Constitution, peoples
and races who will share these ideals
| and help to make them realities.
I-To set a peaceful example oi
| freedom which mankind will be glad to
/ follow, but never to force even free,
dom upon unwilling nations at the point
| Of the bayonet or ar the cannon's mouth
.'S-To abstain from interfering with
/ the freedom and jllst rights Of other
| ations or peoples and to remember THAI
| the liberty to do right necessarily III
| wolves the liberty to do wrong: and that
| fhe American people has no right Il
/ take from any other people the birth
/ right Of freedom because of fear thai
| they will do wrong with it."