The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-08
REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE.


Senator George F. Hoar in Golfers
Weekly)
The issue to be submitted to the people
Of the United States in the western hem
isDhere was submitted to the arbitra-
ment Of war in the far east.
The people Of the United States have
not as yet, fully understood it. They have
thought. some of them, that we were
dealing with barbarous and savage race.
incapable Of governing themselves. They
thought that an unproYOked attack had
been made upon our flag. They haze been
would be excited, by the fact that their
country was engaged in war. But the
truth OF the fact and the Righteousness Of
the law which has been denied are alike
stated between the republic and the en-
pire; between liberty and slavery; be-
tween the Declaration of Independence
and Imperialism. between the doctrines of
trlnes OF George III and Napoleon Bona
parte, VIII be settled. They wiz be settled
sooner or later. by the American people.
ana they VIII in the end be settled right
BY presidents, through presidents or over
presidents, by congress, through congress-
or over congress; by political parties
through political parties or over political
parties. tire irresistible current viii IND
its way.
Some of our friends, who Justify this
SubjugatiOn, are fond Of taking on their
lips the name of deity although 1 think
most of them like better to sneak of
destiny. This invocation Of the name of
God seems to me to be imDious Did God
decree the partition of Poland? Did God
Keep the fair isles Of Greece under the
teet Of Turkey Did God keen ItQlv Under
the armed heel of Austria and NanIes and
Sicily under King Bomba? Did Cod
thrust the Italian patriots into their hope
less prisons? Was it God that murdered
I0uSSa1nJ LOuVerture by starving him
in a dungeon when Napoleon deceived MIN
on board a French ship and carried him
to France2 Did God plunder our mission
aries IN Armenian Did God torture the
CHRISTIANS IN turkey Did G6d enact the
Fugitive slave law? 1 have read the
scripture otherwise. Il must needs be
that offences come. But woe unto that
man, and woe unto that nation by whom
the offence cOmeth.
The doctrine for which I stand and for
which L speak has triumphed so far in
every conflict in war and in peace
lhf00ushout our history, from the landing
at Plymouth of the pilgrims. who brought
II across the sea. down to the resolutions
when we declared war with Spaln-nsssed
by Doth houses of congress and signed by
frt'sldent mckinley II kept in its grasp
against statesman and court and pTeIsts.
the charters OF Massachusetts and Con
hsctlcut- II stood in arms at Lexington
ana concord IN the morning of the reyo-
al Bunker Hill. 1t cheered Marion and
Sumter and Greene in the southern
sWamps. Ii was written in blazing words
m the great Declaration. II cheered
= asiilils Sgn !, ana ms army in the gloomy
days of Valley Forge. Ii has bufff the
eternal foundations Of the nation in The
constitution and is the eternal founda
non on which every state rests II stood
Tor sailors rights in 1872. 1t saved the
union in the day of its Supreme De~ii Nv
1t Washington lived. and for il TfnnoI1
died. 1t was that which JUSTIFIED US In
noeraIing CUBA, and which justified us
IN sinking tRe fleet of Spain at Manila
Under II We had become the strongesf
Irdest, rlcnest nation on the face of fhs
EARTH II IS written, invisible 10 the boSiIs,
eve. YET Vtslple TO the spiritual discern
ment on every fold. over every sfrine ~, ~.
over every star Of the American fsg
Tnat man little understands. In my ir5S-
snent, the temper of the American peonle
to desert IT. ~ "a