The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-31
WANTED TO HEAR FROM HoAR.
TOO EARLY FOR ANTI-IMPERIALIST
MEETINGS. HE SAYS.

Our Own Soldiers, He Says, Is on
the Heads of Those Who Under
took to Buy Them.
Boston, March SO.-A letter bearing the
date of Feb. 4, and signed by 100 or more
of the most prominent men in and around
the city headed by ex-Gov. George s.
Boutwell,, commendh the attitude in
Congress OF Senator Hoar and inviting
him to address them at a future date,
was made public to-day.
Accompanying it is the letter of ac-
acknowledgement from Senator Hoar, bear
ing date of yesterday in which he says;
II do not think there is any reason, per-
sonal to- me, for holding such a public
meeting. Undoubtedly there should be and
there are many pubic meetings the coun-
try over to protest against trampling I'M
der foot the rights of a brave people
struggling for their liberties, the violations
of the principles of our own constitution
and of the Declaration of Independence,
and the continuance by American people
in the costly and ruinous path which has
brought other republics to ruin and shame,
which will dshonor labor, place intoler
able burdens upon agriculture, and faster
upon the republic the shame of what
President Mckinney has so lately and SO
truthfully declared to be criminal aggres-
sion But think it will be wiser to have
meetings of that character little later
rather than just now.
An UnfOunded Assertion.
IAN attempt has been made to persuade
the American people that the resistance to
our arms by the people of the Philippine
| Islands has been due to those who oppose
the attempt to subjugate them, and who
opposed the ratification of the treaty TO
pay for them as an article of merchandise.
There was never a more unfounded or a
more foolish calumny. A strict military
censorship was exercised over the cable to
the Philippine Islands during the whole
period. 1 have in my possession one of
| the original circulars of the cable compa-
ny, warning all persons that no dispatch
would be transmitted having the least re
laton to politics, without the assent of III e
military authorities of the United States"
After quoting some personal experiences
growing out of his position, Senator Hoar
says:
The blood Of the slaughtered Filipinos,
the blood and the wasted health and life
of our own soldiers, is upon the heads of
! those who have undertaken to buy peo-
pie in the market like sheep or to treat
them as lawful prize and booty of war, to
impose a government on them without
their consent, and to trample under foot
| - D., ,g,,.,
Islands, but the principles upon which the
American republic itself rests"
Rehearses His Argument.
Continuing, Senator Hoar says:
mo 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 ac-
QUESTION of territory, as of other property,
is not constitutional end, but only a
means to a constitutional end, and that
while the making of new states and pro-
viding national defense are constitutional
ends, so that we may acquire and hold
| territory for those purposes, the govern
ing of subject peoples is not a constitu-
stitutional warrant for acquiring and
holding territory for that purpose.
Second, That to leave our own coun-
try to stand on foreign soil is In violation
of the warnings of our fathers and of the
farewell address of Washington
Third, That there never was a tropical
country governed with any toIerable sue
NIT, 81 l.
Fourth The trade advantages of the
Philippine Islands, if there be any, must
be 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 subsection in peace.
Fifth, That the military occupation of
these tropical regions must be kept at an
immense cost, both 10 the souls and the
bodies of our soldiers.
Stronger Case Than Cuba.
Sixth, That the declaration as to Cuba,
by the President and by Congress, applies
with stronger force to the case of the Phil
| ippine Islands.
Seventh, That Aguinaldo and his fol-
lowers, before we began to make war upon
them, had conquered their own territory
and Independence from Spain, with the ex-
ception of single city, and were getting
ready to establish free constitution.
"Eighth,-That while they are fighting
for freedom and independence and the
doctrines of our fathers, we are fighting
for the principles that one people may
control and govern another in spite of
its resistance and against its will.
Ninth, That the language and argu-
ment of those who object to this war are
without change, the language and argu-
ment of Chatham, of Fox and of Burke
of Barre. of Camden and of the English
and American Wings and the language
and argument of those who support il are
the language and argument of George
III. of Mansfield, OF Wedderburn. of
johnson, and of the English and Ameri-
can Tories.
Tenth, No orator or newspaper, or
preacher being a supporter of this policy
of subjugation, dares repeat In speech or
In print any of the great utterances for
freedom of Washington, Of Jefferson, of
John Adams of Abraham Lincoln, or of
Charles Sumner.
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