The aegis & intelligencer., 1900-04-20
that conscience, patriotism or love Of
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that conscience, patriotism or love Of |
liberty can exist in other men,"
Mr.. Hoar said the war had already
cost over $3.50 100000 i'll monev, and
added:
"But all this is the merest trifle. 1t
has cost us the lives of 5000 men who
are dead. 1t has wrecked the lives of
other thousands, victims of disease
and of wounds. 1t cOmpels us to
maintain in the future Il large and
costly military and naval force.
You are to keep certainly here
after $4,000 private soldiers, in the
flowsr of their youth, in that tropical
cline. What is to be their fate?"
Toward the close of his address Mr..
Hoar, with great solemnity of man
ner, said:
1.-The couEsels Of Washington are
for us no longer; the truths of the
Declaration of Independence are no
longer our Inaxims Of government; the
Monroe doctrine, to which one hemis-
phere owes its freedom, is gone. The
counsels of Lincoln, to give effect to
which he repeatedly declared he
would welcome assassination itself,
are not to be listened to hereafter, or,
if listened to, it will be by other ears
than ours.
Another thing we have lost by the
last winters terrible blunder. We
lost the right to speak with authority
in favor of peace at The Hague. The
world took, l hope and believe, Il for
ward step in that great conference.
But think what might have been!
1--WE have lost the right to offer
our sympathy 10 the Boer in his
wonderful and gallant struggle
against terrible odds for the republic
in Africa.
"Mr. President. a republic without
a constitution is like man without
conscience. In it is the great prin-
ciple of the equality of men and man
hood from it citizenship gets its value
aud labor it's dignity. You have lost
now the character of the great liberia
tor, and are to take for the future the
character of the great enslaver.
Now, what have you to show for
all this? You have imported two or
three cargoes of hemp from Manila
and you have benevolently assimila-
ted the Sultan of Sulu."
As to what he would do with the
Philippines, Mr.. Hoar said: 81 would
declare now that we will not take
these islands to govern them against
their will.
II would reject the cession of sover-
eighty, which implies that sovereign
ty may be bought and sold and de-
livered without the consent of the
people.
81 would require all foreign govern
ments to keep out Of these islands.
81 would offer to the people of the
Philippines our help in maintaining
order until they have a reasonable
opportunity to establish govern
ment of their own.
81 would aid them by advice, if they
desire it, to set up free and independ-
ent government.
81 would invite all the great powers
of E europe to unite in an agreement
that independence shall not be inter
fered with.
II would declare that the United
States will enforce the same doctrine
as applicable to the Philippines that
we declare rs to Mexico and Haiti and
the South American republics.
81 would then IN not a distant
future, leave them TO work out their
own salvation, as every nation on
earth, from the beginning of time, has
wrought out its own salvation"
lis there any man SO bold as to utter
in seriousness the assertion that where
the American flag has once been raised
it shall never be hauled down? lhave
heard it said that to haul down or to
propose to haul down this national
emblem where it has once floated is
poltroonery.
"Will any man say it was pol
troonery when Paul Jones landed on
the northeast cost of England that he
took his flag away with him when he
departed? Was Scott q poltroon or
was a Polk a poltroon? Was Taylor
poltroon? Was the United States q
nation of poltroous when they retired
from the City of Mexico or from Vera
Cruz without leaving a flag behind
them2 Were we poltroons when we
receded from Canada?
HAS England been engaged in the
course of poltroonery all these years
when she has retired from many a
field of victory? According to the
doctrine, she was bound to have held
Belgium forever after the battle of
Waterloo and Spain forever after
Coruna and Talavery. She could not,
of course, have retired with honor
from Venezuela if the arbitration had
not ended in her favor.
"Mr President, this talk that the
American flag is never to be removed
where it has once floated is the silliest
and widest rhetorical flourish ever
uttered in the ears of an excited
populace. No baby ever said any
thing to another baby more foolish.
"lt is claimed what do not believe
that the iInperialistic appeals have
the sympathy of the American people.
1t is said that the statesman who will
lay his ear to the ground will hear his
voice. l do not believe it. The voice
of the American people does not come
from the ground. 1t comes from the
sky. 1t comes from the free air. 1t
comes from the mountains, where
liberty dwells. Let the statesman
who is fit to deal with the question of
liberty or to utter the voice of free
people lift his ear to the sky-not lay |
it to the ground"
The United States House of |
Representatives on Friday last adopt |
ed resolution for a constitutional |
providing for the election |
of United States Senators by direct |
vote of the people. The vote was 240 |