The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-20

ion over them.
You cannot buy the liberties
of a people from a dispossessed
tyrant, liberties they have bravely
won for themselves in arms. You
cannot buy sovereignty like mer-
chandise and men like sheep.
THE Declaration of Independ-
nee is not so much a declaration
of rights as a declaration of du-
ties. There is one question l
should like to put to the Republi-
can majority in the Senate and to
the Republican party in the coun-
try: Is this doctrine true or is it
false!
"ThOmas Jefferson dc clared it,
this precise doctrine now at stake
here. John Quincy Adams reaf-
firmed it again and again. Abra-
ham Lincoln said he was willing
to be assassinated for it. Charles
Sumner was almost assassinated
for it in his place in the Senate
chamber. If it be true, the coun,
try is dishonored when we depart
from it.
"There are 200 islands in the
Philippine group. They have a
population variously estimated at
from 5000, 900 to 10000, 900.
Among them are the people of the
island of Luzon, numbering
100000, and the people of the
Visayau Islands, numbering
$500, 900 more. They are a Christ
ian and civilized people. They
wrested their independence from
Spain and established a republic"
Here Mr.. Hoar paid a glowing
tribute to AguinaldO.
Gle shall live with Kossuth.
with Dom Paul, with Joubert,
with Emmett, with Egmont and
Horn, with Nathan Hale, with
Warren, with all the great martyrs
of history whose blood hath been
the seed of the church of liberty
The Senator presented an elab,
crate defense of the Filipinos
against the charge that they were
responsible for the present war,
fully .justifying their action in re
sisting the American forces. Mr..
HOar added:
1.-THE trouble with our imperial
istic friends is that they cannot
understand that conscience, pa
triotiSm or love of liberty can
exist in other men,"
Mr.. HOar said the war had
already cost over $1,000 600 in
money, and added:
''But all this is the mereSt trife.
1t has cost us the lives of 5000
men who are dead. 1t has wrecked
the lives of other thousands, vic
tins of disease and of wounds.
1t cOmpels us to maintain in the
future a large and costly military
and naval force.
''YOu are to keep certainly here
after $4,000 private soldiers, in
the Ylower of their youth, in that
tropical cline. What is to be
their fate?
"Mr. President, a republic with
out constitution is like a man
without conscience. In it is the
great principle of the equality of
men and manhood; from it citizen
ship gets its value and labor its
dignity. You have lost now the
character of the great liberator,
and are to take for the future the
character of the great enslaver.
CHOW, what have you to show
for all this? You have imported
two or three cargoes of hemp from
Manila and you have benevo-
lently assimilated the Sultan Of
Sulu."
AS to what he would do with
the Philippines, Mr.. Hoar said !:
II would declare now that we will
not take these islands to govern
them against their will.
81 would reject the cession of
sovereignty, which implies that
sovereignty may be bought and
sold and delivered without the
consent of the people.
81 would require all foreign
governments to keep OCT Of these
islands.
81 would offer to the people of
the Philippines our help in main.
tanning order until they have a
reasonable opportunity to estab.
lish a government of their own.
81 would aid them by advice.
if they desire it, to set up a free
and independent government.
81 would invite all the great
powers of Europe to unite in an
agreement that that independence
shall not be interfered with.
81 would declare that the United
States will enforce the same doc.
trine as applicable to the Philip
pines that we declared as to
Mexico and Haiti and the South
American republics.
81 would then, in not distant
future, leave them to work out
their own salvation, as every
nation on earth, from the begin