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 LETTER FROM THE HON. GEORGE F. HOAR. 
 
 Boston, Feb. 24, 1899. 
 To the Hon. George F. Hoar : 
 
 Sir : Many of your fellow-citizens are anxious for an 
 opportunity to give expression to their sense of obliga- 
 tion to you for your courageous and patriotic defence in 
 the Senate of the United States of the principles on 
 which our government was founded. 
 
 We, therefore, beg that you will do us the honor of 
 being present at an assembly of the people to be called 
 for that purpose in the city of Boston, and trust that it 
 may be agreeable to you to name an early day for the 
 occasion. 
 
 George S. Boutwell. 
 
 Charles S. Kackemann. 
 Eliot N. Jones. 
 George M. Reed. 
 James R. Hodder. 
 William E. Hutchins. 
 D. C. Delano. 
 Benjamin J. Loring. 
 Francis L. Hayes. 
 Sanford Joyce. 
 Cbas. H. Hemenway. 
 Matthew Binney, Jr. 
 Arthur R. Potter. 
 Joseph A. Denison. 
 W. Allaltbain. 
 William T. Sedgwick. 
 Theodore Hough. 
 Samuel C. Prescott. 
 F. W. Chandler. 
 N. W. Weysse. 
 Davis R. Dewey. 
 Robert H. Richards. 
 Moorfield Storey. 
 Arthur Layler. 
 A. Lawrence Rotch. 
 Edwin D. Sibley. 
 Francis M. Edwards. 
 P. M. Keating 
 
 John Lowell. 
 James Murray Marshall. 
 Alvin F. Sortwell. 
 Francis L. Coolidge. 
 Thomas 1ST. Watson. 
 John W. Threshie. 
 John F. Sullivan. 
 John G. Miller. 
 Henry Martyn Clarke. 
 Samuel W. Reed. 
 William C. Smith. 
 Birney C Parsons. 
 H. H. Wilder. 
 Frank B. Fay. 
 Albert B. Harris. 
 Maurice P. Spillane. 
 William M. Noble. 
 Edwin Sweetser. 
 S. Gannett Wells. 
 Henry W. Darling. 
 Ralph W. Gloag. 
 Wallace L. Pierce. 
 Joseph W. Stevens. 
 H. 0. Hofman. 
 Francis C. Gray. 
 Nathaniel H. Henchman. 
 George T. Tilden. 
 
Robert J. Edwards. 
 Thornton K. Lothrop. 
 David Green Haskins, 
 
 Jr. 
 Francis Burke. 
 Walter C. Cogswell. 
 Charles E. Stratton. 
 John M. Corbett. 
 J. G. Lyman. 
 William B. Herrick. 
 Z. L. Arnold. 
 Dudley C. Pickman. 
 Erancis W. Adams. 
 George M. Amerige. 
 Erederic B. Holden. 
 Charles B. Cummings. 
 GeoTge H. Davenport. 
 Joseph J. Corbett. 
 Samuel Cabot. 
 E. I. Eustis. 
 Charles P. Parker. 
 Erank Linscott. 
 A. Presbrey. 
 John Homans. 
 
 Z. F. Coone. 
 
 Arthur E. Thayer. 
 
 E. N. Lacy. 
 
 Harvey W. Shepard. 
 
 George G. Field. 
 
 Cyrus G. Beebe. 
 
 Fred. T. Willey. 
 
 Charles S. Sullivan. 
 
 John P. S. Churchill. 
 
 Fiske Warren. 
 
 Henry B. Cabot. 
 
 Henry W. Cunningham. 
 
 Eliphalet E. Philbrick. 
 
 F. Alcott Pratt. 
 
 Benj. Delano Sweet. 
 
 John Kent. 
 
 Henry W. Putnam. 
 
 Joseph H. Curtis. 
 
 Daniel C. Linscott. 
 
 D. E. Presbrey. 
 
 John C Palfrey. 
 
 John V. Beal. 
 
 John E. Harrington. 
 
 Joseph B. Moors. 
 Redington Fiske. 
 Edward R. Maker. 
 William S. Leavitt. 
 Laurence Minot. 
 Frederic Cunningham. 
 David A. Hincks. 
 Jerome Jones. 
 J. S. Bust. 
 W. J. Ham. 
 John Wyldes. 
 Charles C. Nichols. 
 Frank H. Jones. 
 Frank Higginson. 
 C. E. Macullar. 
 James H. Mellen. 
 T. A. Seile. 
 H. B. Pitts. 
 A. L. Jewell. 
 C. E. McDougall. 
 Henry W. Bragg. 
 John B. Newhall. 
 Charles S. Lincoln. 
 John Lathrop Wakefield. 
 Josiah H. Quincy. 
 Alban Andren. 
 Charles L. Abbott. 
 T. B. Parsons. 
 David P. Kimball. 
 Walter E. Robie. 
 Francis 'P. Sears. 
 Charles Warren. 
 Chas. S. Tuckerman. 
 E. J. Keating. 
 Horace Dennie. 
 1ST. P. Murray. 
 James W. Stillman. 
 John Boyle O'Brien. 
 Fred H. Williams. 
 Fred Pope. 
 John F. Morss. 
 E. A. Rich. 
 Charles T. Gallagher. 
 Samuel H. Wentworth. 
 P. B. Runyan. 
 George T. Angell. 
 Rhodes G. Lockwood. 
 
Henry E. Page. 
 Charles B. Brooks. 
 R. W. Thompson. 
 James Dillon. 
 Robert Fitch. 
 Julian Codman. 
 Gardner Perry. 
 William S. HalL 
 T. Raymond Pierce. 
 
 C. E. Harris. 
 Arthur H. Vinal. 
 
 E. V. Banks. 
 Michael Meehan. 
 
 D. F. Kimball. 
 
 F. M. Caine. 
 P. H. Colain. 
 John F. Martin. 
 Edwin B. Hale. 
 William I. Monroe. 
 
 G. U. Crocker. 
 T. E. Kendall. 
 Charles H. Fiske, Jr. 
 Laurentz X. Moller. 
 John H. Blanchard. 
 Edward A. Kelly. 
 William H. Hidden. 
 Winslow Warren. 
 Charles P. Greenough. 
 Arthur Lincoln. 
 
 F. Simpson. 
 Isidor M. Hirsche. 
 H. W. Morton. 
 Uriel H. Crocker. 
 Nathaniel X 1 . Thayer. 
 Albert Stevens Parsons. 
 Franklin A. Cobb, Jr. 
 William Roger Greeley. 
 Louis Prang. 
 Charles M Cox, Melrose. 
 J. Pickering Putnam. 
 George E. Rogers. 
 William W. Putnam. 
 George H. Abbott 
 Alan Arthur. 
 John J. Curley. 
 A C. Burnett. 
 William Gushing Wait. 
 
 ' W. T. Salter. 
 
 Silas H Lord- 
 , William M. BlatL 
 \ J. G. Francis. 
 
 Salisbury Tuekerman. 
 
 Charles D. Fullerton. 
 
 William H. Adsit 
 
 T. A. Richardson. 
 
 George W. White. 
 
 M. C. Avers. 
 
 Hartley Demett. 
 
 .James F. Cobb. 
 
 L. I). Robbins. 
 
 Charles J. Lord. 
 
 Edwin L. Gerrick. 
 
 George 11. Sheehan. 
 
 James M. Curley. 
 
 Otto Sharp. 
 
 Edmund A. Whitman. 
 
 F. E. Everett. 
 
 Jerome A. Bacon. 
 
 Ed. J. Bromberg. 
 
 Chester L. Stoddard. 
 
 P. W. Smith. 
 
 J. Edwin Jones. 
 
 Parker X. Jenkins. 
 
 Chas. H. MeCauley. 
 
 Thomas J. Barry. 
 
 Sumner Dresser. 
 
 Edwin G. Champney. 
 
 Chas. Fleischer. 
 
 Samuel Richard Fuller. 
 
 Frank 0. Hall.. Cambridge. 
 
 Thomas A Rowe. 
 
 Alfred F. Macdonald. 
 
 J. Alfred Anderson. 
 
 Edwin M. Bacon. 
 
 George H. Reed. 
 
 Samuel D. Hannah. 
 
 M. Austin Belcher. 
 
 Edwin C. Holman. 
 
 Charles B. Choate. 
 
 George K. Clarke. 
 
 C. P. Phelps. 
 
 H. Olenitis. 
 
 M. D. Flattery. 
 
 Wolff Brown. 
 
H. L. Jones. 
 Moses Williams. 
 James Dennie. 
 Horatio N. Glover. 
 Henry G. Nichols. 
 Andrew Fiske. 
 A. E. Pillsbury. 
 William B. Sullivan. 
 Frederick Hehan. 
 Charles I. Quirk. 
 J. W. Turner. 
 
 David W. Murray. 
 
 Thomas A. Mullen. 
 
 George E. Howe. 
 
 George L. Shorey. 
 
 Brooks Walker. 
 
 James H. Vahey. 
 
 George D. Alden. 
 
 James H. Aylward. 
 
 Thomas Riley. 
 
 A. A. Pinkham. 
 
 Gamaliel Bradford. 
 
 Horatio Newhall. 
 
 Grenville H. Norcross. 
 
 Osborne Howes. 
 
 A. D. Salinger. 
 Stephen H. Williams. 
 
 B. S. Ladd. 
 Patrick A. Collins. 
 Eben Hutchinson, Jr. 
 John A. Collins. 
 William R. Sears. 
 
 P. J. Platley. 
 William F. Nagle. 
 Samuel M. Child. 
 George W. Wiggm. 
 p. C. Hanscom. 
 William L. Smith. 
 James H. Sweeney. 
 Fred L. Norton. 
 John E. Griffin. 
 J. H. Hodges. 
 Edward Fitzwilham. 
 I. Homer Sweetser. 
 James P- Steams. 
 Charles P. Curtis. 
 John Wells Morse. 
 
 James J. Storer. 
 Francis S. Hesseltine. 
 Willis B. Mendum. 
 Daniel B. Buggies. 
 William F. Paskell. 
 William J. Hennessey. 
 Charles Wood Bond. 
 Joseph D. Dillworth. 
 Arthur B. Dinn. 
 P. H. Cooney. 
 W. Edwin Ulmer. 
 Charles C Bucknam. 
 Charles E. Burbank. 
 Timothy F. McDonough. 
 Francis A. Campbell. 
 H. P. Morris. 
 G. E. Gould. 
 A. B. Gilpatrick. 
 John D. Bryant. 
 Samuel W. Mendum. 
 William Sullivan. 
 
 H. B. Mackintosh. 
 
 Charles F. Kittredge. 
 
 Frederic H. Moore. 
 
 William Keyes. 
 
 F. T. Hemenway. 
 
 Malcolm McLoud. 
 
 Henry Baldwin. 
 
 William N. Storer. 
 
 Samuel H. Hudson. 
 
 Charles Frank Day. 
 
 John J. Collins. 
 
 William B. Blakemore. 
 
 W. T. Sears. 
 
 E. H. Clement. 
 
 Godfrey Morse. 
 
 L. C. Hastings. 
 
 J Williams Beal. 
 
 William B. F. Whall. 
 
 John H. Appleton. 
 
 George 0. G. Coale. 
 
 James F. Joslin. 
 
 Harvey N. Collison. 
 William F. Haskell. 
 A. L. Brainard. 
 Fvdmund M. Wheelwright. 
 Wilbur Macgregor. 
 
B. R. Felton. 
 
 C. A. Sampson. 
 
 C. W. Dodson. 
 Henry Stetson. 
 Roscoe P. Owen. 
 John S. Patton. 
 John P. J. Ward. 
 J. Brooks Penno. 
 Thomas L. Livermore. 
 William H. Hart. 
 Charles E. Shattuck. 
 Arthur Reed. 
 James G. Freeman. 
 James Ballantyne. 
 W. K. Richardson. 
 Prank W. Gaskill. 
 
 D. L. V. Moffett. 
 W. H Osborne. 
 John H. Connors. 
 Allen P. Worthen. 
 F. A. Barham. 
 Thomas W. Byrne. 
 Cheever Newhall. 
 Melville M. Bigelow. 
 Thomas M. Babson. 
 H. L. Rollins. 
 Harry H. Barrett. 
 Selwyn Z. Bowman. 
 Samuel J. Nash. 
 James M. Barnard. 
 Charles C. Jackson. 
 Hollis R. Bailey. 
 Theodore Badger. 
 Charles K. Cobb. 
 Samuel W. Creech, Jr. 
 Leverett S. Tuckerman. 
 Francis Peabody, Jr. 
 Henry S. Mackintosh. 
 John Bartlett. 
 William Read. 
 
 W. B. Lambert. 
 Charles W. Eliot. 
 J. I. T. Coolidge. 
 Robert DeC. Ward. 
 William Brewster. 
 Robert N. Top pan. 
 Coolidge S. Roberts. 
 
 George A. King. 
 Alfred Munroe. 
 Edward W. Emerson. 
 Edward J. Bartlett. 
 Edward C. Damon. 
 William H. Hunt. 
 Lorenzo Eaton. 
 William L. Eaton. 
 Henry J. Hosmer. 
 Charles H. Walcott. 
 Prescott Keyes. 
 Henry F. Smith. 
 Henry J. Walcott. 
 John S. Keyes. 
 Woodward Hudson. 
 William T. Way. 
 Lorenzo Cowen. 
 Frederick H. Temple. 
 Benjamin F. Trueblood. 
 Edwin D. Mead. 
 Horace E. Scudder. 
 Lysson Gordon. 
 S. Endicott Peabody. 
 Edward Atkinson. 
 William Lloyd Garrison. 
 Charles G. Ames. 
 Eben 1ST. Hewins. 
 Edmund Kent Arnold. 
 A. W. Stevens. 
 Leonard G. Babcock. 
 Leonard A. Saville. 
 G. W. Sampson. 
 Ralph L. Stevens. 
 Fred S. Piper. 
 Edward P. Bliss. 
 James S. Munroe. 
 Charles H. Stevens. 
 Charles Francis Carter. 
 Frank M. Copeland. 
 A. S. Hobart. 
 George R. Stimpson. 
 Charles-Edward A m o r y 
 
 Winslow. 
 Thomas Wentworth Hig- 
 
 ginson. 
 Henry H. Edes. 
 John Ritchie. 
 
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 William Amory Gordon. 
 Henry H. Richards. 
 Irving C- Gladwin. 
 Sherrard Billings. 
 Edwin H. Higley. 
 Arthur H. Woods. 
 Robert P. Clapp. 
 James B. Prince. 
 Henry W. Lewis. 
 Cornelius Wellington. 
 Franklin Alderman. 
 Frank E. Nickerson. 
 Charles E. Lay. 
 Charles M. Hemenway. 
 Francis A. Osborn. 
 Albert S. Eustis. 
 Hugh Cochrane. 
 Lewis F. Weston. 
 Harrison Otis Apthorp. 
 Joseph S. Nowell. 
 Lewis G. Janes. 
 William James. 
 Jabez Fox. 
 F. W. Taussig. 
 Moses P. White. 
 Edwin H. Abbot. 
 Archibald M. Howe. 
 Josiah Eoyce. 
 Ellery Sedgwick. 
 Charles R. Lanman. 
 
 Erring 
 
 Charles F. Dunbar. 
 Francis E. Abbott 
 Samuel A. Eliot 
 Alvin F. Sortwell. 
 Samuel Williston. 
 William Endicott. 
 Thomas Post. 
 Herbert C. Parsons. 
 Willard Howland. 
 Dehon Blake. 
 Charles F. Dole. 
 Charles E. Fay. 
 Rosewell B. Lawrence. 
 William Z. Ripley. 
 R. H. Manson. 
 George H. Whittemore. 
 Francis E. Seaver. 
 William R, Ellis. 
 Watson G. Cutter. 
 Albert F. Harlow. 
 Charles A. Whittemore. 
 Henry B. Davis. 
 Norton Folsom. 
 Wm. B. Durant. 
 Joseph P. Livermore. 
 A. D. J. Bell. 
 George C. Deane. 
 Edward L. Beard. 
 Morrill Wyman, Jr. 
 George G. Wright. 
 Winslow. 
 
 Worcester, Mass., March 29, 1899. 
 
 Gentlemen: I received, just at the end of the late 
 session of Congress, the letters signed by you and other- 
 gentlemen, asking me to be present at an assembly ot 
 the people in the city of Boston, to give expression to 
 your approval of what I have said and done m defence 
 of the principles on which our government was founded. 
 I have taken the liberty to keep back an answer for a few 
 days, and, in the mean time, to consult some persons who 
 agree with you and with me as to the course to be pur- 
 sued by the country in regard to the territory lately 
 wrested from Spain in both hemispheres. The gentle- 
 men whom I have consulted all agree with me in think- 
 in^ that it is not worth while to have such a meeting 
 
iust now. I am certainly mvself entitled to no special 
 credit in this matter. The time has not come when it 
 requires any unusual courage for any servant ot Massa- 
 chusetts to say anywhere what he thinks is right or what 
 she thinks is "right. I have said lately only what I have 
 been saying all my life, what Massachusetts has been 
 saying all her life, what- if I may speak of party to 
 you who belong to all parties — the Republican party 
 im been saying all its life. Some of my colleagues in 
 the other House said the same things during the late 
 campaign, with great power and distinctness, and were 
 reelected bv their constituents by large majorities. 
 
 So I do not think there is any reason personal to me 
 for holding such a public meeting. Undoubtedly there 
 should be, and there will be, many public meetings the 
 country over to protest against trampling under foot tne 
 rights of a brave people struggling for their hherties, 
 the violation of the principles of our own constitution 
 and of the Declaration of Independence, and the continu- 
 ance 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 bur- 
 dens upon agriculture, and fasten upon the repubbc the 
 shame of what President McKmley has so lately and so 
 truly declared to be criminal aggression. But 1 tninK, 
 and the gentlemen whom I have consulted all agree with 
 me in thinking, that, so far as Massachusetts is con- 
 cerned, it will be wiser to have meetings of that char- 
 acter a little later rather than just now. We do not yet 
 know whether the present war for the subjugation of the 
 people of the Philippine islands is to continue indefi- 
 nitely, or whether there is to be a speedy submission to 
 the overwhelming power of the United States. I do not 
 think so meanly of the most unscrupulous advocate ot a 
 policy of aggression and subjugation as to doubt that it 
 the case were reversed, and we or he were in the place 
 of Aguinaldo and the inhabitants of the Philippine 
 islands he would resist to the last extremity and would 
 counsel his countrymen to resist to the last extremity. 
 But we are yet to learn of what temper these islanders 
 are made; whether their powers of endurance are equal 
 to their courage and their love of liberty If the war 
 shall shortly be ended, we shall then be able to discuss 
 the question of our national duty free from the disturb- 
 ing influences which exist always when the country is at 
 war If, on the other hand, the war shall long and in- 
 definitely continue, the people will begin to feel the 
 
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 burden of increased debt and increased taxation, the loss 
 of life and health of our youth, and the derangement of 
 trade and of peaceful industries. 
 
 Meantime, I hope every effort will be made to give to 
 the people full and accurate knowledge of the facts which 
 are so carefully withheld or perverted by the organs of 
 the imperialistic policy. The information which we 
 get as to the events in the Philippine islands comes 
 almost wholly from sources interested in the prolongation 
 of the war, or from irresponsible and unscrupulous ad- 
 venturers. 
 
 An attempt has been made to persuade the American 
 people that the resistance to our arms by the people of 
 the Philippine islands has been due to those who oppose 
 the attempt to subjugate them, and who opposed the 
 ratification of the treaty by which sovereignty over them 
 was purchased and paid for as an article of merchandise. 
 There was never a more unfounded or a more foolish 
 calumny. A strict military censorship was exercised 
 over the cable to the Philippine islands during the whole 
 period. I have in my possession one of the original cir- 
 culars of the cable company, warning all persons that no 
 dispatch would be transmitted having the least relation 
 to politics without the assent of the military authorities 
 of the United States. A gentleman of high standing in 
 Hong Kong undertook to send to the Philippine islands 
 an abstract of the remarks made by me in the Senate of 
 the United States on the 9th of January, and its trans- 
 mission was refused. All that the leaders of that 
 people knew of public sentiment in the United States 
 or of the attitude of our government was that we 
 insisted that the language in the treaty relating' to 
 them should be different from that relating to Cuba, 
 showing that our government had a different purpose in 
 dealing with them, and that while we had accepted their 
 military assistance, and our State department had in- 
 formed M. Cambon that the Spanish troops were hemmed 
 in in Manila by the Filipinos on the side of the land and 
 by our navy on the side of the sea, we had thereafter 
 refused to recognize their authority, to hold any com- 
 munication with them, and had demanded their absolute 
 surrender. Was there ever a brave people on earth that 
 under such circumstances would not have resorted to 
 arms in defence of their liberties? Is there an imperi- 
 alist in the country so reckless, so wicked, so far forget- 
 ful of his own ancestry and the teachings of his country's 
 history as to say that under like circumstances he would 
 
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 not have done exactly what was done by Aguinaldo and 
 the brave men under his command? The blood of the 
 slaughtered Filipinos, the blood and the wasted health 
 and life of our own soldiers, is upon the heads of those 
 who have undertaken to buy a people in the market like 
 sheep, to treat them as lawful prize and booty of war, to 
 impose a government on them without their consent, and 
 to trample under foot not only the people of the Philip- 
 pine islands, but the principles upon which the American 
 republic itself rests. 
 
 I am not without strong hope that the government of 
 the United States will do what I believe an overwhelm- 
 ing majority of the people of Massachusetts wish to 
 have done — permit and help the people of the Philip- 
 pine islands to establish for themselves their own govern- 
 ment in freedom and in honor. We have delivered them 
 from Spain. Now let us do what we pledged ourselves 
 to do for Cuba — compel other nations to keep their 
 hands off, and keep our own hands off as well. The ter- 
 rible mistake of refusing to assure the people of the 
 Philippine islands that we meant to respect all their 
 rights ; that we came to them as deliverers, and not as 
 conquerors ; that their future government was to de- 
 pend on their desire, and not on ours, upon their inter- 
 est, as they conceived upon it, and not upon our interest, 
 or even upon their interest, as we conceived it, unhappily 
 has been made. To that mistake has been owing the 
 loss of many lives among the Filipinos, and of the 
 cJ precious life and precious health of many of our own 
 % sons. But even now it is in our power to retrace our 
 Jl steps, and to act upon what was American doctrine and 
 Republican doctrine and Democratic doctrine, even down 
 to and including the twentieth day of April, 1898. The 
 two houses of Congress on that day declared, with 
 the approval of the President, that the people of the 
 island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and 
 independent. If the people of Cuba then were, or 
 whether they were or not, vf they of right ought to be, 
 free and independent, the people of the Philippine islands 
 were, and of right ought to be, free and independent They 
 had come much nearer the accomplishment of their free- 
 dom and independence than the people of Cuba. They 
 had hemmed the Spanish forces into a small territory 
 where they could control but 200,000 or 300,000 of their 
 10,000,000 people. They were better fitted for self-gov- 
 ernment, by the testimony of our two great commanders 
 
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 in the East, than the people of Cuba. "We resolved at 
 the same time that "the United States disclaims any 
 disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdic- 
 tion, or control over Cuba except for the pacification 
 thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is ac- 
 complished, to leave the government and control of the 
 island to its people." And the President, reciting that 
 action nearly a year afterward, declared that any other 
 conduct on our part would have been " criminal aggres- 
 sion." The law of righteousness and justice on which 
 the great and free American people should act, and in 
 the end, I am sure, will act, depends not on parallels of 
 latitude or meridians of longitude or points of the com- 
 pass. It is the same in this eastern archipelago as in 
 the Antilles. It is the same in the islands of the sea 
 as on the continent. It is the same yesterday, to-day, 
 and forever. It is as true now as when our fathers de- 
 clared it in 1776. It is as binding on William McKinley 
 as it was upon George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. 
 The only powers of government the American people can 
 recognize are just powers, and those powers rest upon 
 the consent of the governed. 
 
 No man, during this whole discussion, has successfully 
 challenged, and no man will successfully challenge, 
 
 First. The affirmation that under the constitution of 
 the United States, the acquisition of territory, as of other 
 property, is not a constitutional end, but only a means to 
 a constitutional end, and that while the making new 
 States and providing for the National defence are con- 
 stitutional ends, so that we may acquire and hold terri- 
 tory for those purposes, the governing subject peoples is 
 not a constitutional end, and that there is therefore no 
 constitutional warrant for acquiring or holding territory 
 for that purpose. 
 
 Second. That to leave our own country to stand on 
 foreign soil is in violation of the warnings of our fathers 
 and of the farewell address of Washington. 
 
 Third. That there was never a tropical colony yet 
 governed with any tolerable success without a system of 
 contract labor degrading to the dignity alike of labor, of 
 citizenship, and of manhood. 
 
 Fourth. The trade advantages of the Philippine islands, 
 if there be any, must be opened alike to all the world, 
 and that our share of them will never begin to pay the 
 cost of subjugating them by war or of holding them in 
 subjection in peace. 
 
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 Fifth. That the military occupation of these tropical 
 regions must be kept at an immense cost both to the 
 souls and the bodies of our soldiers. 
 
 Sixth. That the declaration as to Cuba by the Presi- 
 dent and by Congress applies with stronger force to the 
 case of the Philippine islands. Who can doubt that Con- 
 gress, if it had dreamed of the present condition of 
 things when it made its declaration as to Cuba, would 
 have extended it to all other Spanish territory? 
 
 Seventh. That Aguinaldo and his followers, before 
 we began to make war upon them, had conquered their 
 own territory and independence from Spain, with the ex- 
 ception of a single city, and were getting ready to estab- 
 lish a free constitution. 
 
 Eighth. That while they are fighting for freedom and 
 independence and the doctrines of our fathers, we are 
 fighting for the principle that one people may control 
 and govern another in spite of its resistance and against 
 
 its will. , 
 
 Ninth. That language and argument ot those wno 
 obiect to this war are, without change, the language and 
 argument of Chatham, of Fox, of Burke, of Barre, ot 
 Camden, and of the English and American Whigs ; and 
 the language and argument of those who support it are 
 the language and argument of George ILL, ot -Lord 
 North, of Mansfield, of Wedderburn, and of Johnson, 
 and of the English and American Tories. 
 
 Tenth. No orator, or newspaper, or preacher, being a 
 supporter of this policy of subjugation, dares repeat m 
 speech or in print any of the great utterances for free- 
 dom of Washington, of Jefferson, of John Adams, ot 
 Abraham Lincoln, or of Charles Sumner. 
 
 The question the American people are now consider- 
 ing and with which they are about to deal is not a 
 question of a day, or of a year, or of an administration, 
 or of a century. It is to affect and largely determine 
 the whole future of the country. We can recover from 
 a mistake in regard to other matters which have inter- 
 ested or divided the people, however important or 
 serious. Tariffs and currency and revenue laws, even 
 foreign wars, all these, as Thomas Jefferson said, are 
 billows that will pass under the ship." But if the 
 Bepublic is to violate the law of its being, if it is to be 
 converted into an empire, not only the direction of the 
 voyage is to be changed, but the chart and the compass 
 are to be thrown away. We have not as yet taken the 
 
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 irrevocable step. Before it is taken let the voice of the 
 whole people be heard. 
 
 I am, with high regard, 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 Geo. F. Hoar. 
 
 To Messrs. George S. Boutwell, Charles W. Eliot, A. E. 
 Pillsbury, T. L. Livermore, Edward W. Emerson, 
 Charles H. Walcott, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 
 Edwin D. Mead, A. Lawrence Rotch, David F. Kim- 
 ball, Edwin B. Hale, Frank B. Fay, Wallace L. Pierce, 
 William T. Sedgwick, John C. Palfrey, Samuel Cabot, 
 G. U. Crocker, Josiah H. Quincy, Uriel H. Crocker, 
 Charles G. Ames, Francis Peabody, Jr., Osborne 
 Howes, E. H. Clement, C. P. Curtis, William Endicott, 
 Winslow Warren, Charles Francis Adams, Francis A. 
 Osborn, Erving Winslow, and others. 
 
PUBLICATIONS OX ANTI-IMPERIALISM 
 
 For Gratuitous Distribution until Editions are Exhausted 
 
 Address ERVING WINSLOW, Secretary Anti-ImperiaHst 
 League, 44 Ki&y Street, Boston. 
 
 Address to the People of the United States. 
 
 A form of petition on sheets and cards- 
 Circular explaining the method of distributing the cards. 
 
 Letter to Labor Unions. 
 
 Leaflet containing letter by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, entitled, 
 44 Commercial Expansion w. Colonial Expansion." 
 
 Leaflet with extract from Senator Hoar's speech at Wor- 
 cester, July 29, 1898, 44 The Opinion of Massachusetts 
 on Imperialism." 
 
 Four of Governor Boutwell's speeches, entitled, " Prob- 
 lems Raised by the War," " Imperialists or Republi- 
 cans," " Isolation and Imperialism," ami " Peace or 
 War." 
 
 Letter to American Conference on International Arbi- 
 tration. 
 
 Hon. George F. Edmunds's letter to the New York 
 44 World" : " What the Philippines are." 
 
 Letters to Senators urging them to stand firm against the 
 treaty. 
 
 Circular appeal for funds. 
 
 Speeches at a Fanenil Hall meeting, June 15, 1898. 
 
 Speech at Lexington by Hon. Chas. Francis Adams, en- 
 titled, "Imperialism and the Tracks of our Fore- 
 fathers." 
 
 Pamphlet by Mr. F. A. Brooks, entitled, " Objections 
 to the President's Proposed Subjugation of the Fili- 
 pinos." 
 
 Address of Hon. Carl Schurz. entitled, " American Im- 
 perialism." 
 
 Rev. Henry Van Dyke's sermon, entitled, " American 
 Birthright and Philippine Pottage." 
 
 Address by Dr. Lewis G.Janes, entitled, "The Short 
 Way with the Filipinos." 
 
 Voice of the Farmer; selections from agricultural papers. 
 
 Three pamphlets by Mr. Edward Atkinson, entitled, 
 44 The Hell of War and its Penalties," and " The Cost 
 of a National Crime," and " Criminal Aggression, by 
 Whom Committed?" Also Appendix to "The Hell of 
 War and its Penalties." 
 
 Speech of Hon. George F. Hoar, " No Constitutional 
 power to conquer foreign nations and hold people iu 
 subjection against their will." 
 
Speech by Hon. William E. Mason. " As to the govern- 
 ment of foreign nations without their consent." 
 
 Letter by Hon. Winslow Warren, entitled, " The White 
 Man's Burden." 
 
 The Imperialist's Creed. Leaflet. 
 
 Pamphlet by Mr. William M. Slater, entitled, " Imperial- 
 ism." 
 
 Address to the People, Feb. 10, 1899, and report of the 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 Address to the People signed by twenty-nine prominent 
 persons, March K5, 1899. 
 
 Letter from the Hon. George F. Hoar, Much 29, 1899, 
 declining invitation to a public reception. 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, 
 tracts from 
 
 No. 1. Containing ex- 
 
 Washington's Farewell Address, 
 The Monroe Doctrine, 
 Jefferson, 
 President Oilman. 
 Albert Gallatin, 
 
 President MeKinley's Message?, 
 Senator George F.Hoar, 
 Ex-Secretary John Sherman. 
 Ex-Senator George F. Ed- 
 monds, 
 
 Peace Commissioner Whitelaw 
 
 Kei !, 
 Andrew Carnegie, 
 James Bryce, 
 Prof. David Starr Jordan, 
 liev. Dr. T. J. Conaty, of Catho- 
 lic University, Washington, 
 Simeon E. Baldwin, 
 Rev. Edward Everett Hale, 
 David Greene Haskins, Jr. 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 
 tracts from 
 
 Containing ex- 
 
 Hon. John G. Carlisle, 
 
 Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, 
 
 Samnel Gompers, 
 
 Bishop Henry C. Potter, 
 
 Herbert Welsh, 
 
 Prof. Edward Starr Jordan, 
 
 Edward Atkinson, 
 
 44 Mr. Dooley," of Chicago, on 
 
 the Philippines, 
 Ex-Senator George F. Ed- 
 
 mnnds, 
 ' ' A Parable " Poetry) . 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 
 tracts from 
 
 Containing ex- 
 
 Speeches of Moorfield Storey, 
 
 Esq., 
 Gamaliel Bradford, 
 Rev. Charles G. Ames, 
 George E. McNeil ; articles by, 
 Edwin D. Mead. Editor New 
 
 England Magazine, 
 Felix Adler, 
 Gen. Patrick A. Collins, late 
 
 Consnl-General at London, 
 
 Prof. Theodore S- Woolsey, 
 President Scharnian, of Cornell 
 
 University. 
 Raymond L. Bridgman, 
 " Colonel Yellowstone Yell," 
 Hon. Carl Schurz, 
 Senator Eugene Hale, 
 Senator George F. Hoar, 
 Hon. John Sherman, 
 H. W. Peabodv, and others. 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 4. Containing ex- 
 tracts from 
 
 Paper by Mr. Carman F. Ran- 
 dolph, 
 
 Sermon bv Henry Van Dyke, 
 1).D.,LL.D., 
 
 Short Catechism, by W. H. W.. 
 
 Morning Star, 
 
 Boston Herald, 
 
 Edward Atkinson, 
 
 Macauley. 
 
 Letter bv Dr. Lewis G. Janes. 
 
ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 5. Containing ex- 
 tracts from 
 
 Sermons by Rev. William R. Rev. Chas. F. Dole, 
 
 Huntington, Prof. George P. Fisher, of Yale 
 
 Rev. Daniel Merriman, College, 
 
 Rev. Cbas. G. Ames, , Rt. ReT. Henry C. Potter, 
 
 Rot. T. C. Druley, bishop of New York. 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 6. Containing ex- 
 extracts from 
 
 Rer. Charlet H. Parkhur.t, Rev. William H. P. Faunce, 
 
 D.D. D.D.. 
 
 Rer. Isaac M. Atwood. D.D., Rer. Thomas J. Conatv, D.D., 
 
 Rt. Rev. A. N- Littlejohn, Rector Catholic University, 
 
 bishop of Long Island. Washington. D.C. 
 Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D., 
 
 ANTI-IMPERIALIST BROADSIDE, No. 7. Containing ex- 
 tracts from 
 Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Rev. James L. Barton, 
 
 Moorfield Storey, " The Lion's Whelp." Poetry.) 
 
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