The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-11
PROBLEMS
OF The
NATION" {"
Senator Hoar Addressed Essex
Club on That Subject Touched
on Tariff and Race Problems

Salem. Mass. Sept li--United States
Senator George F. Hoar and Won l..
Meyer. United States minister 10 italy.
were the principal guests yesterday af-
ternoon al the annual summer outing OF
the Essex club Of Massachusetts, on
Bakers Island. The members OF the club
and their guests dined at the Winnie
Egan hotel
Senator Hoar. the chief speaker. dis
cussed Problems OF the Nation" lie
eaid: Il see that one OF the morning
papers said day or two ago that this
meeting is TO sound the keynote for the
coming eamPa4sh" certainly am not
here on such an errand We have a
great advantage over our Democratic
brethren this year. as we have had In
nearly every year we can remember
Democracy is hunting and scourging
the country just now for two things
FIRST. for a candidate. and, second. for
principle. When they have got those two
things they will be ready 10 go into their
campaign. national and state, and will
be very happy 10 administer any Offices
with which the people are willing 10 trust
them. On the other hand we have got
candidate for governor and we have a
candidate for president and we have got
eome very satisfactory principles.
1--WE hear a great deal nowadays Of
reciprocity and OF foreign trade and Of
revision Of the tariff. revision OF The
tariff is as necessary as IL is for the
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts 10 re-
wise the statutes The time 10 make those
changes is not in the year before a presi
dental election. but after a presidential
election"
Discussing the race problem in the
south the senator said: Il know, my
friends. that there are special difficul-
ties in this problem as It AFFECTS our col
ored fellow citizens ! know how deeply
moved are the feelings OF our southern
brethren. would not utter toward them
a word of reproach. l know how near
10 their homes and how close to their
social and political life come this cloud
and shadow
NEGRO HERE TO STAY
IT see that one enthusiastic Southern
gentleman has renewed the proposition
that we shall send 100000 negroes out
OF the country. This rs totally imprac-
tfca bfe-Het -us not delude ourselves
We have got this question TO meet
eouarely at home The negro will stay
The European and Asiatic will come
You cannot turn them out, and you can
not keep them out.
my friends, you know, suppose. that
/ have never fancied very much what is
known as imperialism II there be any
man who does not know Il, I am willing
thing AZ least that imperialism has set
tied for us. That is that hereafter the
interest which the fathers OF this re-
public and the influence which the
fathers OF this republic expected would
be confined within our borders. except
80 far as ~ was mere example will
have to take in the whole world.
THE American citizen--free. brave.
educated humane. iirst--is 20 meet here
after, at home and abroad. men OF other
races and OF other quality He can deal
with them az an equal or as a tyrant
There will be no middle ground His
r,rle must be the Golden Rule and the
rule OF the Declaration OF Independence
or II ts 10 be the rule OF the emperor
and the sultan.
''By whatever name YOU call II. II Is
20 be. sooner or later. the republic or the
empire-Chisf Justice Marshall or Chief
Justice Lynch. Mankind are to live to-
eether in this world and they must take
their fate together.
TRADE and commerce. steam and cleo
fricity. the telegraph and the telephone.
or II not the wireless telegraphy and the
eirship. are 10 bring next door 20 each
other all the inhabitants OF this little
spinning bullet OF ours that we call the
earth. You cannot help II II you would.
There II but one question for the SUI
perior class and for the superior race.
VIII you raise your fellow man up 10
your level, or wiil he drag YOU down 10
Af-1~s