The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-04-28
as short a life and to a like fate.

This country ever made we recognized
fully the doctrine of consent of the
governed and the doctrine that terri
tory so acquired must be held to be
made into states.'
"You cannot buy the liberties of
people from dispossessed tyrant, lib-
critics they have bravely won for them
selves in arms. You cannot buy SOW
ereignty like merchandise and men like
sheep. The king of England kept,
down to 1900. the title of Duke of Nor
mandy and King OF France. Could
any other country or all Europe to-
gether have bought France Of King
George? 1 wonder what would have
happened if, instead of acknowledging
our independence, any time before the
French treaty France had bought Eng
land out and undertaken to assert her
title to the United States. These ques-
tions have to be answered, not amid
the shouting and applause of polit-
ical campaign, not in party platforms,
not alone in single campaign or a
single generation. They have got to
be answered to history, to the in
structed conscience of the civilized
world, when the passions and the greed
and the ambitions of a single genera
tion have gone by and are cold. And
ttoro will ho +r tIo,, l,,,+ opo o,,cu,o,,
Mr.. Hoar presented the following
outline of his policy:
"First. 1 would declare now that
we will not take these islands to gov
ern them against their will.
Second. would reject cession of
sovereignty which implies that sover-
eighty may be bought and sold and de-
livered without the consent of the peo-
pie. Spain has no rightful sovereignty
over the Philippine Islands. She could
not rightfully sell it to us. We cannot
rightfully buy it from her.
"Third. I would require all foreign
governments to keep out Of these is
lands.
"Fourth. 1 would offer to the people
of the Philippines our help in main
tanning order until they have a rea-
sonable opportunity to establish gov
ernment Of their own.
"Fifth. 1 would aid them by advice,
if they desire it, to SET up Il free and
independent government.
''Sixth. would invite all the great
powers of Europe to unite in an agree
ment that that Independence shall not
be interfered with by us, by them
selves, or by any one Of them with the
consent Of the others.
Seventh. 1 would declare that the
United States will enforce the same
doctrine as applicable to the Philip
pines that we declared as to Mexico
and Hayti and the South American re-
publics. 1t is true that the Monroe
doctrine-a doctrine based largely on
our regard for our own interests-is
not applicable either iayharms or in
principle to a distant Asatic territory.
But undoubtedly, having driven out
Spain, we are bound, and have the
right, to secure to the people we have
liberated an opportunity, undisturbed
and in peace, to establish a new gov
ernment for themselves.
Eighth. l would then, in a not dis
tant future, leave them to work out
their own salvation, as every nation on
earth, from the beginning Of time, has
wrought out it's own salvation. Let
them work out their own salvation, as
our own ancestors slowly and in long
centuries wrought out theirs; as Ger
many, as Switzerland, rs France, in
briefer periods, wrought out theirs; as
Mexico and the South American re-
publics have accomplished theirs, all
Of them within century, some Of
them within the life of a generation
To attempt to confer the gift of free
dom from without, or to impose free
dom from without on any people, is to
disregard all the lessons of history. 1t
is to attempt
A gift Of that which is not to be given
By all the blended powers Of earth and
heaven.
"Ninth. would strike out of your
legislation the oath of allegiance to us
and substitute an oath of allegiance to
their own country"
"Mr. President, know how imper-
fectly have stated this argument. 1
know how feeble is single voice amid
this din and tempest, this delirium Of
empire. 1t may be that the battle for
this day is lost. But have an assured
faith in the future. have an
assured faith in justice and the love
Of liberty of the American people. The
stars in their courses fight for freedom.
The Ruler of the heavens is on that
side. If the battle to-day 60 against
it I appeal to another day, not distant
and sure to come. appeal from the
clapping of hands and the stamping of
feet and the brawling and the shout
ing to the quiet chamber where the
fathers gathered in Philadelphia. 1
appeal from the spirit Of trade to the
spirit Of liberty. 1 appeal from the
empire to the republic. I appeal from
the millionaire and the boss, and the