Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-20

IRON CONSCIENTIOUS m0tIVeS, and Will
j liam Jennings Bryan, who denounced It
because he was sshypocrite. Both
bof these eminent men denounced the
policy of the Republican party in this
regard, but because Senator Hoar did
! rot break from his party allegiance,
because this year he is to be reelected
Y to the Senate, and must, therefore,
I look out for his p's and as, he IS
absolved by Mark Hanna from any,
! thing savoring of party disloyalty,
l and his words of denunciation are set
\ down as due to conscience. Mr..
Bryan, however, although standing
upon ali tours with Senator
Hoar as regards the admins
tration's course in the Philip
pines, is 'hypocrite." Why? Simply
( because he is antagonizing the Repub-
lican party. The Hanna idea is as
i plain as pike-staff. 1t Is TO gloss
over the criticisms of those who antag-
onize the administration if they can be
| persuaded or are compelled by force Of
] circumstances, to act with the party III
| power, but to denounce those who,
! holding identical views, are open IN
their opposition. Senator Hanna
/ knows full well, as does every other
i thinking man, that If George F. Hoar
! OF Massachusetts,, had two years longer
/; tc serve, he would have followed up his
\ denunciation of the administrator
! course in the Philippines by coming
4 out openly against William Mckinley.
: But the fact that this was election year
| for him, as well as for Mckinley, COM
pelled'fim to hedge upon his denuncia-
| ton of the administration. Mr.. Hoars
position as to imperialism IS clear cut.
| It was irrevocably fixed in his address
before the Massachusetts Club, on the
10Th day of July, 1898, when he said, as
reported in the Boston Journal
at is impossible with our eyes on
this constantly changing kaleidoscope
to predict with certainty how we are to
solve the difficult problems that are
coming upon us at the end of this war
with Spain. But of this you may be
sure, that the vot. of every person who
now has legislative responsibility in
either house of Congress, by the choice
of the Republicans of Massachusetts,
or is likely to have such responsibility
| hereafter, will be cast in. accordance
with the opinion of Massachusetts. Her
opinion on such questions are the fruit
OF near 300 years of a great and honor
| able history. She will not depart from
| the Declaration of independence. She
will not depart from the doctrines of
/ liberty laid down by her own Constitu-
| ton. She will not consent to the ruler
| over vassal States or subject peoples.
! She will enter upon no mad career Of
| empire in distant seas. She will not
seek to force her trade upon unwilling
I peoples at the lannon's mouth. She
| will not exact tribute or revenues from
men who have no voice in regard to
| them. She will not consent to enter
with the powers of Europe into par
tisanship, alliance or contest for the
plumber of China or the division of
|
ern archipelagoes, or for compelling
unwilling peoples to trade with her. If
| the American flag appear in the East,
it will be as the emblem of their liberty
and not of our dominion. She will de-
sire to meet the great responsibilities
which the end Of this war seems likely
| to bring to the American people solely
| in the interests of the provinces we
may deliver from Spain and not for our
own use. The power of the United
States is to be exerted through example
and influence, and not by force.
''It will be a sad thing for the coun-
| try it will be sad q ing for mankind,
| If the people of the United States come
to abandon their fundamental doctrine.
/ We are giving it hard strain in our
! dealing with the negro at the South.
We are giving it a hard strain in our
dealing with the great problem of immi-
| grafton. But it cannot stand if this
| country undertakes also to exercise do
minion over conquered islands, over
vassal States, over subject races; If in
addition to the differences of race and
| differences of education we attempt to
/ govern great masses of people, aliens
in birth, of strange language, Of differ
ent religions. If we do it, our spirit
will not, am afraid-God grant that
may be wrong-the American spirit
will not enter into and possess them,
but their spirit will enter into and
possess us.
'The best thing we could hope in
such case is that we shall succeed only
as England has succeeded with those
OF her colonies whom she admits 20 no
considerable government. It is
much more likely that we may Fail ms
| Spain has failed. Let us wait until the
negro throughout the South can cast
his vote and have it counted In freedom
and in honor. Let us wait until the
poor immigrant can come into the
northern port and be received as a
brother and as an equal, without being
used as an instrument to debase the
| elections in New York or Baltimore or
Chicago.
Mr.. Gladstone, in his famous COM
| parison of England and the United
States. in which he expresses his ad-
miration for our Constitution, says
also: In England inequality lies at
the very base of the social structure
Equality combined with liberty was the
groundwork of the social creed of the