| Show HUAROENOUNCtS PHILIPPINE WAR 4 Administration Is Responsible For the siaughter WILL BRING REPUBLIC TO RUIN AND DISHONOR t Principles of Liberty Are Being rrampled Under foot t I A Blistering Arraignment of Imperialists Imper-ialists and the Administration Blood of Our Soldiers Is Upon the Heads of Those Who Bought the Filipinos Like SheepFilipi abs Achieved Their Independence Before the War Began Boston March 30A letter bearing the date of Feb 4 andsigned by 100 or more of the most prominent men in and around this cIty headed by ex Governor George S Boutwell commending com-mending the attitude in congress of I Senator Hoar and inviting him to address ad-dress them at a future date was made I publIc today AccompanyitJI it is the letter of acknowledgment ac-knowledgment from Senator Hoer bearing date ot yesterday in whIch he I says saysr r do not think there is any reason personal to me for holding such a public pub-lic meeting Undoubtedly there should be and there will be many public meetings meet-ings the country oven to protest against trampling under foot the rights of a brave people struggling for their liberties lIber-ties the violation of the princiJles of our own constitution and of the declaration declar-ation of Independence and the con tin uance by the American people in the costly and ruinous path which has brought other republics to ruin and shame which will dishonor labor place intolerable burdens upon agriculture and fasten upon the republic the shame of what President McKinley has so lately and so truthfully declared to be criminal aggression But I think it will be wiser tohae metIngs of that character char-acter a little later rather than just now We do not ret know whether the present war for the subjugation of the people of the Philippines is to continue Indefinitely or whether there Is to be a speedy submission to the overwhelm log power of the United States If the war shall shortly be ended we shall then be able to discuss the question of our national duty free from the disturbIng disturb-Ing influences whIch exist always when the country Is at war If on the other hand the war shall long and indefinite ly continue the people will begin to feel the burden of Increased debt and increased taxation the loss of lIfe and I health of our youth and the derangement derange-ment of trade and peaceful indutsry BOUGHT LIKE SHEEP Senator Hoar says further The blood or the slaughtered FIlipinos the I blood and the wasted health of life of our own soldiers Is Upon the heads of those who have undertaken to buy a people in the market like sheep or to 1 treat them as lawful prize and booty I of war to impose a government upon them without their consent and to trample under foot not only the people bf the Philippine Islands but the princIples prin-cIples upon which the AmerIcan repub Hc itself rests S The law of righteousness and justice on whIch the great and free American people should act and In the end ram r-am sure will act depends not upon parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude 01 points of the compass It is the same yesterday today and forever for-ever Itis as true now as when our fathers declareditin 1776 It Is as bind t f lug upon William McKinley today as it I was upon George Washington or Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln The only powers of roy eminent the AmerIcan people carl recognIze rec-ognIze are just powers and those powers pow-ers rest upon the consent the governed gov-erned No man during thIswho discussion has successfully lhnlfenged and no man will successfully challenge FirstThe affirmation that under the constitution of the United States the acquisition of territory as of ther property is not a constitutional end but only a means toa constitutional end and that while the making of new states and providing a national defense I de-fense are constitutional ends so that we may acquIre and hold territory for those purposes the governing of subject I sub-ject peoples Is not a constitutional end that there is therefore no CQnstitutIon al warrant for acquiring and hOlding terrItory for that purpose Second That to leave our own country coun-try to stand on foreIgn soil is in vie lation oi the warnings of our fathers and of the farewell address of Washington Wash-ington ThirctThat there was never a tropical trop-Ical county governed with any tolerable toler-able success without a system of contract con-tract labor ti FourthThe trade advantages of the Philippine Islands ff there be any must be opened alike to all the world and that our share of them will neier begin to pay the cost of sublulatb them by war or holding them IIi subjection sub-jection in peace IMMENSE COST I FifthThat the military occupation lof these tropical regions must belept I at an immense cost both to the soUls and the bodies of our soldiers SbthThat the declaration as to Cuba by the president and by congress con-gress applies with stronger force to the case of the Philippine Islands SeyenthThat Aguinaldo and his followers before we began to make war upon them had conquered theIr own territory and Independence from SpaIn with the exception of a single cIty and were getting ready to establIsh a free constitution I EighthThat while they are fighting fight-ing for freedom and independence jmnd the doctrines of our fathers we are I fighting for the principles that one peo pIe may control and govern another in spite of its resistance anti against its mviiiNinthThat nnthThat tjme langUage and ar guments of those who object to this I war are Ithout change the langUage and arguments of Chatham of Fox of I Burke of Barre of Camden and of the EnglIsh and American whigs and I the langUage and argument of those who support it are the language and argument of George III of Lord Nortlm of Mansfield of Wedderburn of Johnson John-son and of the English and American Tories TenthNo orator or newspaper or preacher being a supporter of this policy of sUbjugation dares repeat in speech or In print any of the great utterances of freedom of Washington of Jefferson of John Adams of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln or of Charles Sumner The question the American people are now consIdering and with which they are about to deal Is not a question ques-tion of a day or of a year or of an I administration or of a century It is to affect and largely determine the whole history of the country We can I recover from a mistake in regard to other matters which have Interested or dIvIded the people however important or serious Tariffs and currency and revenue laws even foreign wars an these as Thomas Jeffersm said are I billows which will pass tiT r the shIp I But dI ie republic i is to violate the law of its being if It Is tb converted into an empire not only the direction of voyage is to be changed but the chart and the compass are to be thrown away We have not as yet taken the Irrevocable step Before it is taken let the voice of the whole people be heard r am with high regard faithfully yours GEORGE P HOAR |
