Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-02
SENATOR HoARs REVERSED ATTITUDE.

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SENATOR HOAR'S REVERSED ATTITUDE
Perhaps no speech of recent years
delivered in congress has attracted SC
much editorial attention as Senator
Hoar's on Filipino liberty. Mr.. Hoai
took the ground that under the Ameri-
can principle of government thru tie
consent of the governed the United
States has no right to make laws for
the Philippines or impose a constitute
ton upon the islands. To support Sen
ator Hoar's argument he assumes that
majority OF the Filipinos are opposed
to the government inaugurated by the
United States. This assumption Mr..
Hoar and his fellow obstructionists
have failed to prove true. The fact that
certain guerrilla bands of semi-savages
arc in instruction against the eStab-
lished government of the Philippines is
in no wise proof of widespread disaf-
lection among the intelligent and civil
lied classes ana business lHteIe9tS'
which are practically all that should be
considered in this connection. These
representative classes are the Philip
pines; the vagrant bands of insurrcc-
tionists to whom Senator Hoar's SYM
pathies go forth represent anarchy,
with its consequent raplne and muir
der.
1t has occurred to an eastern wrttei'
that there can be no better answer to
Mr.. Hoar than his afforded by his per-
sonal attitude toward the southern
states during the stormy sessions of the
foIty-first to the forty-fifth congr ,sse5
upon the legal and moral rights Of the
federal government, even to denial
of the constitutional right to the writ
of habeas corpus, to impose drastic
legislation against the savage protests
of the entire white population of the
south The writer referred to asks
where did the Force bill of 1871, and
subsequent legislation on the same line,
! 1lIlu u 1HoIS Supfti'C i Siitt-A Wv
Hon. George f. Hoar of Massachusetts
Who was more frequently eloquent N
demanding that the powers of federal
government be exercised in the south
without regard to the consent of the
governed? Who was more ingenious
and persistent in detecting and exhibit
ing these kuklux and whitecap dis
orders which he held to justify federal
interference to an extent which oppres-
sed guilty and innocent alike? Who
canned in the seventies reputation
more extensive than Mr.. Hoar's as
shaker of the bloody shirt?'
And when, in August, 1876. protest
was made by the late Lucius Quintus
Cincinnatus Lamar of Mississippi
against all this government without
the consent of the governed--a protest
couhed in language which, If 1t had
come from Aguinaldo or Sixto Lopez,
would have made Mr.. Hoar's heart
bleed at each sympathetic throb-who
turned upon the southerner with these
1erroachful words:
THE attempt of the government Of
the united States to exercise its const
tutional authority to preserve to the
majority in any southern state the
right of free and fair elections is to him
kMr. Lamar) but the exertion of a hos
tile and alien power to keep down in
the dust what he terms his people, by
which suppose he means the white
democrats of the south. The murders
and outrages committed upon weak,
inoffending, defenceless American citi-
Eens are to him but the attempt of a
downtrodGen people to turn itself in its
agony under the heel Of an oppressor.
The vital difference between the
gentleman and the republican party Is
that he seems to think that the remedy
for what he dislikes in government is
resistance by force
Thus and then did Senator Hoar re-
Duke L. Q. C. Lamar and the southern
people who opposed the reconstruction
policy of the government. That quar-
ter of century later he is In his old
age defending the resistance to law and
government he then SO strongly con-
demned and rebuked will be taken as
proof of insincerity or senility.