Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-04-19
SENATOR H0AR
speech Against Expansion by the
Senator From Massachusetts.
A EULOGY OF AGUINALDO.
Speaker Maintains That the Ei1fpi-
nos Have Achieved Independence
and Proved Themselves Capa-
Bile Of Self Government.

Washington, April Ex-senator Hoar
made IA long speech to the senate on the
Philippine question. lie began his adj
I dress by speaking of the prosperous con-
dition of the American people at the close
of the war with Spain. He told of the
glory of that conflict and of a victory in
the interest of liberty. He praised Pres
ident McKinley's course at that time.
saying in his Judgment he was the best
beloved president who ever sat in the
chair of Washington. Continuing, he
said:
1.-The American people, so far as |
know, We're all agreed that their victory
brought with it the responsibility of pro-
tccting the liberated peoples from the
| cupidity of any other power until they
could establish their own independence
in freedom and in honor.
81 stand here today to plead with you
not to abandon the principles that have
brought these things to pass. l implore
You to keep to the policy that has made
the country great, that has made the Re
publican party great, that has made the
president great.
"If. when we made the treaty of peace,
we had adhered to the purpose we de-
! clared when we declared 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 sol
diers, other thousands of wrecked and
shattered lives, the sickness of many
more, the expenditure of hundreds of mil
lions and what is far worse than all, the
trampling under foot of its cherished
ideals
II do not expect to accomplish any
thing for liberty in the Philippine Is
lands but through the Republican party.
Upon it the fate of these islands for
years to come is to depend. l cannot
look with any favor upon Mr.. Bryan as
an alternative.
His Views ON POlicy's Results.
Il believe not only that perseverance
in the present policy will be the abandon
ment of the principles upon which our
government is founded. that it will
change our republic into an empire. that
our methods of legislation, of diplomacy,
Of administration must hereafter he those
which belong to empires, and not those
which belong to republics. but | believe
persistence in this attempt will result in
the defeat and overthrow of the Repuh-
lican party"
Touching upon the consttuiionality of
the question at issue. Mr.. loar said:
II hold that this acquisition Of terri
tory. holding and governing. can he only
Il means for constitutional end. And |
maintain that you can no more hold and
govern territory than you can hold and
manage cannon or fleets for any other
than Il constitutional end
Following this, Mr.. Hoar travcrsed The
constitutional and international field of
the Philippine controversy, covering
much of the same ground he and others
have covered heretofore in the pending
discussion.
.Ad,erting to the authority to be found
in the Declaration of Independence for
expansion. Mr.. Hoar declared;
"Thcre is expansion enough in it, but
it is the expansion of freedom and not of
despotism; Of life, not of DEATH Never
was such growth in all human history
as that from the seed Thomas jefferson
planted. 1t has covered the continent.
1t is on both the seas. 1t has saved
South America. 1t is revolutionizing Eu-
rope. 1t is the expansion of freedom.
1t differs from your tinscl, pinchbcck,
pewter expansion as the growth Of Il
healthy youth into IL strong man differs
from the expansion of an anaconda when
he swallows his victim. Ours is the cX-
pansion of Thomas jefferson. Yours is
the expansion of Aaron Burr. 1t is
destined to as short life and to like
fate.
Mt ne tho (.nVPrnN1
I'm every accession Of territory to
this country over made we recognized
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 own at home for Il hun
drcd years. You have dealt with the
Indian, you have dealt with the negro,
close at hand, knowing all about them.
And now you so forth to lay your yoke
on 10,0000OO of them. | suppose you
feel encouraged by your success. There
are 10,00O,0OO more, 1000 miles away.
of whom you know nothing. You go
forth jauntly and boastingly, as Louis
Napoleon went to meet his doom at
Sedan"
Mr.. Hoar discussed at great length the
Filipino rebellion and the causes which.
in his opinion, led up to it. He made an
earnest and vigorous defense of the Fill
pinos, especially of Aguinaldo, who, he
declared, was "bravc. honest and pa
triotic" In the course of his eulogy of
Aguinaldo he said:
HE deserves to be remembered with
that small band who have given life and
everything dearer than life to their coun-
try in losing cause. lie shall live with
Kossuth. with Dom Paul. with Joubcrt.
with Emmett. with Egmont and Horn.
with Nathan Hale. with Warren, with all
the great martyrs of history whose blood
has been the seed of the church Of lib
erty."
Mr.. Hoar maintained his well known
position that the i'ilipinos had achieved
their independence, that the United
States had made them its allies and was
bound to recognize their independence,
and that they had proved themselves fit
for such independence and capable of
self government.
The senator presented an elaborate de
Tense of the Filipinos against the charge
that they were responsible for the pres
cnt war. fully justifying their action in
resisting the American forces.
The Queens Visit to Dublin.
Dublin, April 1S.-.Aftcr her morning