The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-31
LEADS ALL NORTH CAROLINA DAMlES I'M NEWS AND GRIATI0M
SEN. H0AR' S TEN REASONS
FOR OPPOSING THE lMPERIkLlSJIC POLICY
OF MCKINLEY.
AguinaIdo Had Practically Won Filipino In
dependence Before we Began to Make
War Upon the fIipinos.

| Boston Mass, March 30.-A letter
bearing the date of February 4th and
signed by one hundred or more of the
most prominent men in and around this
Boutwell,, commenting the attitude in
| Congress of Senator Hoar and inviting
him TO address them ut il future Gate,
was made public to-day. Accompanying
| 1t is the letter of Acknowledgement from
Senator Hoar, Eaaring date of yester-
day in which he says in part
No man during this whole discussion
has successfully challenged and no man
will successfully challenge:
First, the affirmation that under the
Constitution of the United States the
] acquisition of territory, as of other prop
erty, is not a constitutional End, but only
a means to constitutional end and
that, while the making of new States
and providing national defense are con-
stitutional ends, so that we may acquire
and hold territory for those purposes
the governing of subject people is not
a constitutional end, and that there is
therefore no constitutional warrant for
acquiring and holding territory for that
purpose.
Second that to leave our own country
to stand on foreign soil is i'll violation
of the warning of our fathers andSof the
farewell address Of Washington.
Third. that these never was a tropi
cal country governed with amy tolera..c
success without system of contract
labor
Fourth, the trade advantages of the
Philippine Islands. if there be any, must
he 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 subjection
in peace.
Fifth, that this military occupation
of these tropical regions must be kept
at an immense cost both TO the souls
and the bodies of our soldiers.
sixth, that the declaration as 10
Cuba, by the President and by Congress
applies with stronger force 10 the case
Of the Philippine Islands.
Seventh, that Aguinaldo and his fol
lowers, before we began to make war
upon them, had conquered their avn
territory and independence from Spain
with the exception of a single city.
and We're getting ready to establish Il
free constitution.
Eighth, that while they are fighting
for freedom and independence and the
doctrines of our fathers, we are lighting
for the principles that one people may
control and govern another in spite of
its resistance and against its will.
Ninth, that thA language and argu-
ment 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 Eng
lish and American Wings, and the Ian
guage and argument Of those who sup
port it are the language and argument
of George Ill, of Lord North, of Mans
field, of WedderbuTn, of Johnson, and of
the English and American Tories.
Tenth, no orator or newspaper. or
preacher, being Il supporter'0f this policy
of subjugati0n, dares repsat in speech
or i'll print any of the great uttarances
for freedom of Washington, of jefferson.
of John Adams of Abraham Lincoln or
of Charles Sumner