| Show HQAR WRITES A lETTER Massachusetts Senator issues a Manifesto HE STANDS BY FILIPINOS Denies that Ho is Skulking from Duty Charged by ExCongress man Quigg The Lengthy Document Docu-ment Which He Sends Out is Addressed Ad-dressed to tho Editors of Four Boston Journals Ho Tells Them and the Country What He Would t Do with tho Archipelago Washington Jan 9 Senator Hoar of Massachusetts made public a long letter let-ter he has addressed to the editors of the Journal Advertiser Herald and Globe of Boston In answer to a speech made by exRepresentative Quigg at tho Essex club the last Saturday In December De-cember In this speech Mr Quigg referring re-ferring to Senator Hoars attitude on the Filipino question declared that the Senator wants us to skulk from our duty Senator Hoar takes the words quoted as his text and nays In part lOr wish to put against this statement my emphatic denial What I want the American people to do Is to do In the Philippines exactly what we have done are doing and expect to do In Cuba We I have liberated both from Spain ando and-o have had no thoughtat least I have had no thought of giving either back to Spain I should as soon give back a redeemed soul to Satan as give back the people of the Philippine Islands to the cruelty and tyranny of Spain Indeed since they got arms an L army and an organization I do not believe be-lieve In the power of Spain to subdue them again But the Unlled Slates never in I my Judgment should allow her to make the attempt IIn ing delivered de-livered them from Spain we are bound L in i all honor to protect their newly acquired liberty against the ambition L of greed of any other nation on earth And we are equally bound lo protect them against our own Wo were bound I to stand by them a defender and protector pro-tector until their new government were established in freedom and in L honor until they had made treaties with the powers of the earth and wore m as I secure In their national independence mm m as Switzerland is sure or as San Domingo Do-mingo u or Venetiiola is sure Now if this be a policy of sltulking from duty I fall to see It POLICY REGARDING CUBA i We based our policy in regard to Cuba did we not on the ground that it was the policy of righteousness and I liberty l We do not tempt the cupidity of any millionaire or even the honest desire for employment of any workman I by the argument that If we reduced L the people of Cuba to our dominion we should make money out of her and she I could not help herself In those days IWO I I-wo were appealing to the great noble heart h of America and not to tlnj breeches porket I If we were bound In honor and 1 righteousness as a matter of principle to abstain from depriving Cuba of the liberty we had given her because It was right we are In my judgment all 1 the more bound to abstain from depriving depriv-ing the people of the Philippine Islands of their liberties because It Is right If I am right In affirming Ihlo asa matter of principle then the question becomes a question of fact ASKS SOME QUESTIONS Are tho people of the Philippine islands as well entitled to their freedom and Independence aa the people of i CubaHave Have they contributed as much to achieving their Independence as had l the people of Cuba Do they desire their Independence as do the people of Cuba Are they fit to govern themselves as arc the people of Cuba Ilav they forfeited their right lo Independence by any misconduct such as an attack upon the army of the United States wantonly and without provocation CALLS DEWEY AND OTIS Now the facts which enable us to I hear all the questions about which the people have been so much misled during the last summer come to us at length from the reports of the commanders of our army and navy In the Philippine Islands I have two witnesses to call L Gen Otis and Admiral Dewuy While I may not adopt all their conclusions as to policy and It Is not the special 1 business of soldiers and sailors to de ermIne the policies of tho country I have no desire to do beyond them and the men for whom they vouch In the matter of fact WHAT HE WOULD DO But before citing the evidence let roe stale what I would do today us I have stated what I desired to do be fore the war broke out The Philippine armies arc scattered Agulnaldo la a fugitive and in concealment Whether they will disperse like foam where they are attacked coining together l again like a thunder cloud and In the end wearing out the patience of the con querer it Is not worth while to specu late It is not from any f > ai nr mi foeman powerful or insignificant tit the American people are to determine their duty If lie thing be right they mean to do It If it be wrong hey will not do It I would send Gen Wood or Gen Miles or Admiral Dewey to Luzon I would have him jjrather about him a cabinet of the best men among the < I Filipinos who have the confidence of the I people and desire nothing but their j WQlfaro Tn all provinces and municipalities munici-palities where civil government is now established possessing the confidence of the people I would consult with their rulers and renrescntatlveH I would lend the aid of the army to keep order I would permit the people to make laws and to administer laws subject to some supervision or Inspec tion till the disturbed times are over and peace has aellled down again up on that country insuring the security of the people against avarice ambition or peculation WOULD WITHDRAW FROM ISLE So aoon as It seems that govern ment can maintain itself peacefully I > and In order I would by degrees with draw the authority of the United States making a treaty with them that wu would protect them against the cupidity of any other nation and would lend our aid for a reasonable time to nmlnlaln order and law I would not hesitate If It were needful although I havo not tho slightest belief that It would bo needful to vote to make them a loan of a moderate sum to replenish their wasted treasury WHAT HE ASSERTS Senator Hoars letter then asserts that the dispatches of Admiral Dewey and Gen Otis some of the latter read by him he says having been withheld thus far from public knowledge estab I huh beyond reasonable doubt First That Agulnnldo is an honcnt I r patriotic I and bravo man Inuced that Is the express teotlmony of Mr Schur I man president of the Philippine commission com-mission SecondThat Agulnaldo wan tho chosen leader of the peoplO of the Phil ippine Islands Third That tho people l have from the beginning desired independence and desire it now FourthThat this desire was communicated com-municated lo our commanders when they gave them arms accepted our aid and brought Agulnaldo from his exile when he was put In command of 30000 Filipino soldiers who were already In arms and organized I Fifth That the people of the Phil tt t Spplno Islands before we fired upon I hell I troops have delivered their own land from Spain and that they hemmed I in the Spanish troops on land by it line extending from water to water Sixth That we could nol have ac I oopled the Spanish garrison which was done by an arrangement heforehnnd upon a mere show of resistance but for the fact lhat they were so hemmed In by Agulnaldoa forces und eould not retreat re-treat beyond the range and fire of the guns of our fleet DESIRED FREEDOM r SeventhThat during all this period to the final conflict the Filipinos were repeatedly Informing our Government that they desired their freedom and that they were never Informed of any purpose on our part to subdue them I Eighth That they were fit for Independence In-dependence They had churches libraries libra-ries works of art and education They were better educated than many American communities within the memory of some of us They wore governing gov-erning their entire island except Manila Ma-nila In order and quiet with municipal I governments courts of Justlcv schools and a complete Constitution resting I upon the consent of the people They were letter fitted for selfgovenrmcnt than any country on the continent south of us from the Rio Grande lo Capo Horn San Domingo or Halt when they received their Independence and are belter filled for selfgovern ment than any of them are now They are ns fit for selfgovernment ua wa I Japan when she waj welcomed Into tho family of nations I OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES NinthThat the outbreak of hostilities hostili-ties was not their fault but ours A patrol not a hostile military force approached ap-proached a small village between the lines of the two armies a village on the American line of demarkatlon to which some of our soldiers had been moved in disregard of the rule applicable appli-cable to all cases of truce When this patrol approached this town it was challenged How far the Filipinos understood I un-derstood our language and how far our I pickets understood the reply thai they I made In their own language does not appear But AC fired on them first The fire was returned from their lines Thereupon It was returned again from us and several Filipinos were killed As soon as Aguinaldo heard of It he sent a message to Gen Otis saying that tho firing was without his knowledge and against his will that he deplored land l-and he desired hostilities to cease and would withdraw his troops to any distance dis-tance Gen Otis should desire to which I the American General replied hint as the fighting had begun it must go on I SlKINLEYS PROCLAMATION Tenth That on the ISth of December I Decem-ber 1S9S tha two sides being at peace although great uneasiness and Irrlla lion had already manifested Ilself on the part of the Filipinos who were afraid we meant to subjugate them President McKinley sent Gen Oils a proclamation which he commanded him to issue Gen Otis on reading it concluded I con-cluded that there were certain words and expressions therein such as sovereignty I I sov-ereignty I right of cession and those who directed Immediate occupation though most admirably employed and tersely expressIve of actual conditions might be advantageously used by the Tagalo war party to Incite widespread I hostilities nmonpr the natives whereupon whereup-on Gen Otis proceeds to amend the Presidents proclamation by striking I I from It everything which contains a I purpose to assume sovereign or protection pro-tection and which was significant of future fu-ture plltical domination and Instead thereof he Issued a proclamation In which he suppressed nil these utterances utter-ances and assured them that It Is the purpose of the people of the United States to give them in every possible way the Cull measure of Individual liberty lib-erty which is the heritage of a free pooDle PROCLAMATION FRUSTRATED That assurance which Gen Otis gave lo the people of Manila Is Just whatI have always wanted and all I have always al-ways wanted to give them But unhappily unhap-pily Gen Otlss proclamation was frustrated In the meantime he had I sent a copy of lie Presidents proclamation procla-mation to Gen Miller who was lying opposite Iloilo burning for a fight and I who much to Gen Otlss distress as his I dispatches show published It So he m had the commander denying all purpose pur-pose of domination or of Interfering with their Independence on the one m hand and the President of the United I Stales on the other asserting that purpose pur-pose and the Filipinos wore naturally alarmed and shocked Now put yourselves men of Essex In the places of these people What would your fathers have done If Gen Gage and Lord North had been the actors act-ors What would any people on the face of the earth whose bosoms are capable of holding the sentiment of liberty lib-erty have done It Is nol Infamous for anybody to turn around and tell I YOU that the men who believe that Ihe Filipinos should have been assured Just 1 what Gen Otis tried to assure them of are responsible for the outbreak of the war Gen Otis says that tho proclamation proclama-tion which actually cnnie out through Gen Millers departure from his intentions inten-tions vns calculated to cause and did cause hostilities and excite alarm and Indignation In the bosoms of that free domseeking people |
