The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-09-28
HOAR'S TICKLE REASONING.

On August 10Th Senator Hoar, referring
to Mr.. Bryan's pledge at Indianapolis to
Immediately convene Congress, if elected,
with a view to declaring the independence
of the Philippines, said:
He says if he is elected he shall call an
extra session at once and propose to Con-
gress to give up the Philippines to their
own people. He is too intelligent not to
know very well that this talk is the idlest
and most ridiculous nonsense.
By this language Senator Hoar makes 4
confession of weakness and tickle reason
ing. for he gave to that body the same
eldest and most ridiculous nonsense in
the following language on April 18th, 1900,
five months ago:
81 believe that if not today or tomorrow,
yet at an early day, better knowledge Of
the facts, the light of experience, the love
of liberty and justice which still burns in
the hearts of the Republican masses in
this country will bring that party back to
the principles and policy upon which it
planted itself in the beginning.
I've are told that if we oppose the policy
of our imperialistic and expanding friends
we are bound to suggest some policy of our
own as a substitute for theirs. We are
asked what we would do in this difficult
emergency. 1t is a question not difficult
to answer l, for one, am ready to an
swer it:
81. | would now declare that we would
not take these islands to govern them
against their will.
''2. | would reject a cession of sover-
eighty which implies that sovereignty may
be bought and sold without the consent of
the people. Spain had no rightful sover-
eighty over the Philippine Islands. She
could not rightfully sell it to US. We
could not rightfully buy it from her.
''3. l would require all foreign govern
ments to keep out of these islands.
Il. | would offer to the people Of the
Philippines our help in maintaining order
until they have reasonable opportunity
to establish a government of their own.
20. l would aid them by advice, if they
desire it, to set up free and independent
government.
sc. l would invite all great powers of
Europe to unite in an agreement that that
by US, by themselves, or by any one of
them with the consent of the others. AS
to this am not SO sure. | should like
quite as well to tell them it is not to be
done, whether they consent or not.
81. | would declare that the United
States would enforce the same doctrine as
applicable to the Philippines that we de-
clared as to Mexico and Haiti and the
South American Republics. 1t is true that
the Monroe doctrine, doctrine based
largely upon our regard for our own in
terest, is not applicable either in terms or
in principle to distant Asiatic territory.
But undoubtedly, having driven out Spain,
we are bound and have the right to secure
for the people we have liberated an oppor-
tunity, undisturbed and in peace, to estab
fish a new government for themselves.
''S. would in a not 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.
Let them work out their own salvation as
did our own enthusiastically and in long
centuries; as Germany, as Switzerland, as
France, in briefer periods wrought out
theirs, all of them within a century, some
of them within the life of generation.
To attempt to impose freedom from with
out 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
80. | would strike out of our legislation
the oath of allegiance to us and substitute
an oath of allegiance to their own coun-
trV"