The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-10


Eercised by the nation as a unit is only
that which is necessary for accom-
plishing the purposes of the constitu-
ton and must be either expressly
granted therein or necessary or con-
venient or the judgment of congress &c
accomplish the purposes expressly de-
clared therein All other sovereignty
is reserved to the states or the >eo9le
1.-The power to conquer alien peoples
and hold them in subjugation is no.
where expressly granted The power 10
conquer alien peoples and hold them In
subjugation is nowhere implied as
necessary for the accomplishment OF
the purposes declared by the constltu-
ton
He appealed to senators who are
hesitating as to what their action upon
the question of expansion may be-"the
greatest question that has ever been
or ever will be put to them in their
lives, the question not of a year or OF
a century, not of a generation, but a
question pertaining rather to a great
period of a national life not to COM
NIT themselves in principle TO such
policy by supporting the peace treaty
and then say they will consider here
after how they will act under 1t. In
the course of his appeal TO senator's,
MIR. Hoar said:
when you raise the flag over the
Philippines as an emblem of domain
and acquisition, you take it down from
Independence hall.
He extolled the statement of Louis
Napoleon, made in 1854, that the time
of conquest is past, never to return, for
it is not by extending the boundaries
of its territory that nation can hence
forward be honored and powerful, but
by placing itself at the head of gener-
Gus ideas and spreading everywhere
the empire of right and justice"
Our commissioners come back from
Paris bringing with them the cast-off
clothing of this Pinchbeck Napoleon
and ask us, who have seen his fate, to
discard for them the spotless robes in
which our fathers arrayed the beautiful
genius of America
M'KINLEY ENDORSED.
"a year ago last December the presi-
dent of the United States sent mes
sage to congress. In that message he
said:
ct speak not of forcible annexation,
because that is not to be thought of
and under the code of morality that
would be criminal aggression
The time of conquest is past said
Louis Napoleon, though in louder and
clearer voice.
President Mckinley, when he spoke,
was not thinking even of honor or of
power, inspiring and alluring as are
honor and power. He placed himself
and placed the American people on the
stern, enduring and perpetual rock of
righteousness, that forcible annexation
is not to be thought of, under our code
Of morality; that would be criminal
aggression.
who shall haul him down? Who
shall haul down the code? Who shall
haul down the PRESIDENT"
Mr.. Hoar dwelt with emphasis upon
the large increase in national expendi-
ture which the policy of expansion adj
vocated by Mr.. Platt would entail plac-
ing the amount at $3.50 600, 900 annually.
He argued that the adoption of Mr.
Platt's doctrine would reduce wages.
increase taxation, place an armed SOL
der on the back of the workingman
and by the act of the government ev-
cry Americans dignity would be dis
honored and his manhood discrowned
In conclusion Mr.. Hoar said he would
not agree that the lesson of our first
hundred years is that the declaration
of independence and the constitution
are a failure and that America is to
begin the twentieth. century where
Spain began the sixteenth.
THE Monroe doctrine is gone; ev-
cry European nation, every European
alliance has the right to acquire do
minion in this hemisphere when we ac-
quire it in the other
1t may be, he thought, that in a
tempest of popular delusion a cloud
might for the moment cover the great
truths of our declaration. He had en-
countered such a storm in his expert
ence, but the clouds had passed and the
sunshine had came again.
sPAsM OF FOLLY.
Mr.. President, this spasm of folly
also, in my judgment, will surely pass
by. Whether it pass by or no, 1 thank
God L have done my duty and that 1
have adhered to the great doctrines of
righteousness and freedom which 1
have learned from my fathers, and in
whose service my life has been spent"
Mr.. Plat, at the conclusion of Mr..
Hoar's address, briefly replied to some
points of che speech which had been
directed especially at him. He reiter-
ated his former statement that the
United States had power to acquire and
govern foreign territory and declared
that had this country embraced the
doctrine Of Mr.. Hoar, the Mayfiower
would have been turned back from
Plymouth Rock and the country would
never have expanded to the Pacific
coast
Mr.. Caffery concluded his speech in
opposition to the Nicaraguan canal bill.
but a. effort to fix a time for vote
upon it failed.
Mr.. Mitchell Of Wisconsin reported
from the military affairs commission a
Dill providing that all honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors who served
IN the war OF the rebellion and the
volunteer soldiers and sailors of the
war OF 1872, and of the Mexican war
and OF the war with Spain who may
be. disabled in any way shall be adj
mitted into the home for disabled
volunteer soldiers. 1t was passed.
A bill to authorize the revival of suits
and actions commenced lawfully
against officers of the United States as
such on the termination of the terms