Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-31
HOAR ON The PHILIPPINES.
Aged Statesman Sees End of Re.
publican Party.
QUOTES JEFFERSON & LINCOLN
The Senator from Massachusetts OPP
poses the Empire-We Have N" Pre-
cedent for Criminal Aggression.

Speaking to Senator Beveridge's resou
ton to retain the Philippine Islands,
Senator Hoar said in part:
The American people SO far as know,
were all agreed that their victory brought
with it the responsibility of protecting
the liberated peoples from the cupidity Of
any other power until they could tab
ish their own independence in freedom
and in honor.
stand here today to plead with you
brought these things to pass. l implore
you 10 feep to the policy that has made
the country great. have nothing new
to say. But ask you to keep in the old
channels and to keep off the old rocks
laid down in the old charts, and to follow
the old sailing orders that all old captains
Of other days have obeyed, to take your
bearings, as of old, from the nortn star,
and not from the meteoric light Of en-
pire. Especially if could. would per-
suade the great republican party to come
back again to its old faith, to its old re-
ligion, before it is too late.
For so a taper, when it's crown OF
flame is newly blown Oft, retains Il nature
so symbolical to light, that it will with
greedness re.enkinde and snatch ray
from the neighhor fire."
l, for one, believed, and still believe,
that the pathway to prosperity and glory
for the country was also the pathway to
success and glory for the republican party.
thought the two things inseparable. If.
when We made the treaty Of peace, we
had adhered to the purpose we declared
when we declared war; If We had dealt
with the Philippine Islands as We prom
ised to deal, have dealt. and expect to deal
with Cuba, the country would have es-
capped the loss Of 5000 brave soldiers.
other thousands Of wrecked and shattered
lives, the sickness Of many more, the
expenditure Of hundreds Of millions, and,
what is far worse than all, the tTampling
under foot Of its cherished ideals. There
ii In The East, sitting docile at our feet, re-
ceiving from us civilization, laws, man
ners, and giving in turn everything the
gratitude Of free people could glve-Iove'
obedience, trade. The Philippine youth
would throng our universities; our Con.
stitution, our Declaration, the lives OF
Washington and Lincoln, the sayings oil
jefferson and Franklin their schools.
do not underrate the Importance OF
this issue. 1t is greater than parties,
greater than administrations, greater
than the happiness or prosperity OF a
single generation.
Ibelieve not only that perseverance IN
this policy will be the abandonment Of
the principles upon which our governs
memt was founded. that it will change our
republic into an empire, that our methods
OF legislation, OF diplomacy, OF admins
tration must hereafter be those when
belong to empires, and not those when
belong to republics; but believe persist
ence in this attempt will result IN tue
defeat and overthrow OF the republican
party. That defeat may not come THIS
year, or next year. ! pray God 1t may
never come. Iwell remember when the
old wing party in the flush Of de'lrlum
and anticipated triumph, gave up me
great doctrines which it had SO often
avowed and undertook to abandon the
great territory between the Mississippi
and the Pacific TO it's fate. 1t held its
convention ut Philadelphia. 1t selected
as it's candidate q great military chieftain.
Amid the tempest and delrium quiet
delegate from my own state arose and
declared to the convention that the wing
party was dead. 1t seemed that a more
audacious, a more foolish, more as
founding utterance never fell upon human
ears, And what was the result? The
party carried the country and elected its
president. But within less than four
wears thereafter Daniel Webster, rs he lay
diving at Marshtield, said: "The wlia
party ~ q political organization il gone
and il il we'll" Let no such fate attend
the republican party. In my judgment, il
not now, II will retrace it's steps IN time.
The constitutional question is: Has
congress the power, under cur constitu'
ton, TO hold in subsection unwilling vas
sal states?
The question Of international law is
Can any nation Iial,tfully convey to an
otht Z sovereignty over an unwilling people
who have thrown oil its dominion, as
serted their Independence, established
government Of their own. over whom II
has ut the time no practical control. from
whose territory il has been disseixed, and
which it IL beyond Its power to deliver?
The question Of justice and righteous
ness is: Have We the right to crush AM
hold under our feet an unwilling ant
subject people whom We had treated q
allies. whose independence We are bount
in good faith to respect, who had estab
lished their own tree government ant
who had trusted us?
The question Of public expedicncy is
Is it for our advantage TO promote on
trade at the cannon's mouth and at tn
point Of the bayonet?
All these questions can be put in wa.
OF practical illustration by inquirin
whether We ought to do what We hav
done. are doing, and mean to do in III
case Of Cuoa or what We have done, ar
doing, and somc Of you mean 10 do il
the case OF the Philippine Islands:
Is it right, is it just to subjugate thi
J people? To substitute our government
Tor their self.government, for the constitu