The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-09
SENATOR HOAR ON
THE PHILIPPINES
He Attacks the Policy Of the
Administration
REVIEW OF The SITUATION
Violation of Principles of Decla-
ration of independence
SHOULD LEAVE FiLlPlN0S ALONE
| The War Can Be Ended in an Hour
if the Proper Steps Are Taken
By the Authorities-Scor
Expansionists.
Violation of Principles of DecIa-
ration of independence
SHOULD LEAVE FiLlPlN0s ALONE

New York, November S.-Senator Hoar of
Massachusetts,, has contributed an article
| on "Our Duty to the Philippines to the
Independent which will appear tomorrow.
He begins with a review of the circum-
stances leading up to the war and con-
tinues:
Down to January 1, 1S99 the American
people and 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 it to
another people. In dealing with Cuba, says
the writer, we acted upon those principles,
but the treaty of peace disclosed a differ
ent purpose as to the Philippines, the in
habitants of which were much nearer inde-
pendence when the treaty of peace was
signed than had ever been the people of
Cuba.
"Their leader" writes Senator Hoar, "had
been brought over to the Islands by a
United States ship by the United States au-
thorities and was in arms at the head of
his. forces with our full concurrence and
In operation. If the statement attributed
to a high official in one of our departments
who is sometimes called up to sit in the
cabinet with the president were actually
made, their leader had been offered by
President Mckinley the high office of colo
mel in the regular army of the United
States an offer which itself is a sufficient
refutation of all the charges against him.
They had framed a provisional constitu-
ton, model of its kind and establishing
dictatorship like those established by Boli-
var In South America to give place to
republic as soon as the military condition
should make 1t possible.
should Free Filipinos
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 sovereignty; to keep
off all foreign ma ations and to aid the island
ers in establishing their own government
according to their own desire?'
The senator refers to the epithet TRAITOR
and other harsh words applied to those who
are against the peace treaty, and asks:
"When THE president said foreible annexa-
tion according to American code of morals
would he criminal aggression, was he a
coppeInead? Was he disloyal to the flag :?
vas not lhe a republican? Was there ever
utterance so calculated to give courage to
Aguinaldo and this people as that?"
AS to our future attitude toward the Fill
ipinos, Senator Hoar writes
1.-THE time has come to make UP our
minds. If you are to declare that you don't
mean to subjugate them or to ensIave
them; that you will act toward them the
principles and in the spirit of our 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 de-
clare yourselves is what is alone responsible
for its continuance"