West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-09-27
A REPUBLICAN STATESMAN


In the United States Senate April
II, 1900, Senator Hoar, Republi.
can leader from Massachusetts,
said (see Congressional Record,
Page 4sS6):
believe that. il not to-day or
tomorrow, yet at an early day,
better knowledge of the facts, the
light of experience, the love of
liberty and justice which still burns
in the hearts of the Republican
masses in this country, will bring
that party back to the principles
and policy upon which it planted
itself in the beginning.
We are told that If we oppose the
policy of our imperialistic and ex.
banding friends we are bound to
suggest some policy of our own as
substitute for theirs. We are asked
what We would do in this difficult
emergency. 1t is a question not
difficult to answer. / for one am
ready to answer it.
%. l would declare now that
We would not take these islands to
govern them against their will.
(a). / would reject cession of
sovereignty which implies that
sovereignty may be bought and
sold without the consent of the
people. Spain had no rightful
sovereignty over the Philippine
Islands. She could not rightfully
sell it to US. We could not right
fully buy it from her.
go. l would require all foreign
governments to keep out of these
islands.
CD. i would offer to the people
of the Philippines our help in main
tanning order until they have a rea-
sonable opportunity to establish
government Of their own.
60 would aid them by advice,
if they desire it, to set up a free
and independent government.
CO... ! would invite all great
powers of Europe to unite in an
agreement that that independence
shall not be interfered with by us,
by themselves, or by any one of
them with the consent of the others.
AS to this I am not SO sure. /
should like quite as well to tell it is
not to be done whether they consent
or not.
Cd. ! would declare that the
U. S. would enforce the same doc
trine as applicable to the Philippines
that We declare as to Mexico and
Hayti and the South American Rep
ublics. 1t is true that the Monroe
doctrine, doctrine based largely
upon our regard for our own inte r
ests, is not applicable either in terms
or in principle to distant Asiatic
territory. But undoubtedly, having
driven out Spain, we are bound, and
have the right to secure for the peo-
pie we have liberated an opportun-
ity, undisturbed and in peace. to
establish a new government for
themselves.
(S) would then, in not dis
tant future, leave them to work out
their own salvation. AS every
nation on earth from the beginning
of time, has wrought its own saliva
ton. Let them work out their own
salvation, as our own ancestors
slowly and in long centuries wrought
out theirs as Germany, as Switzer-
Ind, as France, in briefer periods,
wrough out theirs all of them with
in century, some of them within
the life of generation. To at
tempt to impose freedom from with
out on any people is to disregard
all the lessons of history. 1t is to
attempt
ga gift of that which is not to be
given
BY all the blended powers OF
earth and Heaven"
CD WOULD STRIKE OUT OF QUE
LEGISLATION THE OATH OF ALE
GLANCE TO US AND SUBSTITUTE An
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THEIR OWN
COUNTRY.