I denounced with all the vigor of which I was capable the Treaty, and the conduct of the war in the Philippine Islands, in the Senate, on the platform, in many public letters, and in articles in magazines and newspapers.
Hoar expresses his strong opposition to the Treaty and the conduct of the war in the Philippines, demonstrating his commitment to his beliefs.
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However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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