We should have had little difficulty in dealing with the Negro or the Indian, or the Oriental, if the American people had applied to them, as the Golden Rule requires, the principles they expect to apply and to have applied to themselves.
Hoar argues that applying the Golden Rule universally would help resolve issues with marginalized groups.
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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.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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