The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-20
HoAR ON EXPANSION
DENOUNCES THE POLICY OF
THE ADMINISTRATION.
For -Four Hours He Riddled the
Arguments Of the Opposition and
Declared That He Stood in Line
With the Policy Of Thomas Jeffer-
son.

Senator HOar, the great anti
expansion and anti-imperalist Re.
publican, whose attitude in oppo-
sitiOn to the cause of the present
administration caused widespread
interest, delivered powerful
speech on Tuesday last, in which
he handled Mckinley and his
party without gloves and stood
up for the staunch and cOnserva-
tive policy of Washington, JEFF.
fersOn and other founders of our
country.
Mr.. Hoar began his memorable
address by declaring that in July,
1898, the people of the United
States were at the high water
mark of prosperity and glory. The
glory of great liberator had been
won in two hemispheres.
The American flag had APP
peared as a liberatOr in both hem.
ispheres; when it hOated over
Havana or Santiago or Manila
there was written on its folds,
where all nations could read it,
the pledge of the resolution of
Congress and the declaration of
the President" said Mr.. Hoar.
The Senator continued:
e" stand here today to plead
with you not to abandon the prin,
ciples that have brought these
things to pass. The old, safe
path, the path alike of justice and
of freedom, is still easy. 1t is
path familiar of old to the Repub-
lican party.
elf when we made the treaty
of peace we adhered to the pnr
pose we declared when we de
clared war; if we had dealt with
the Philippine Islands as we
promised to deal, have dealt and
expect to deal with Cuba, the
country would have escaped the
loss of 5000 brave soldiers, other
thousands Of wrecked and shat
tered lives, the sickness of many
more, the expenditure of hundreds
of millions, and, what is far more
than all, the trampling under foot
of its cherished ideals.
81 do not underrate the impor-
lance of this issue. 1t is greater
than parties, greater than admin
istratiOns, greater than the hap
piness or prosperity of single
generation. If we subjugate the
PHILIPPINES We are, if you have
your own way, Mr.. President, to
govern 10000, 900 people in the
East and 1000, 200 in the West
Indies without any constitutional
restraint. The perseverance of
this policy will be the abandon
ment of the principles Oh which
our government is founded"
Mr.. Hoar, in entering upon a
discussion of the constitutional
phases of the question, said:
elf to think as | do in regard
to the Interpretation of the Con.
stitution in regard to the man,
dates. of the moral law or the law
of nations be treason, then Wash.
ingtOn was traitor; then Jeifer.
son was a traitor; then Jackson
was traitor; then Franklin was
a traitor; then Sumner was a
traitor; then Lincoln was traitor;
then Webster was a traitor; then
Clay was a traitor: then Corwin
was a traitor; then Kent was a
traitor; then Seward was a traitor;
then Mckinley, within two years,
was a traitor.
'"The constitutional question is:
Has Congress the power, under
our Constitution, to hold in sub.
lection unwilling vassal States9"
Referring to the authority to
be found i'll the Declaration of In.
dependence for expansion, he said:
"There is expansion enough in
it, but it is the expansion of free.
dom and not of despotism; of life,
not of death. Never was such
growth in all human history as
that from the seed Thomas Jeffer-
son planted. 1t has covered the
continent. 1t is on both the seas.
1t has saved South America. 1t
Is revolutionizing Europe. 1t is
the expansion of freedom.
" 1t differs from your tinsel
plnchbeck, pewter expansion as
the growth of a healthy youth
into a strong man differs from the
expansion of an anaconda when
he swallows his victim. Ours il
the expansion of Thomas Jeffer.
son; yours is the expansion of
Aaron Burr. 1t is destined to as
short a life and to a like fate.
In every accession of territory
to this country ever made we rec
Ognized fully the doctrine of the
consent of the governed and the
doctrine that territory so acquired
must be held to be made into
States.
You have tried governing
men of other races than your o,r.,