Name: George Hoar
Occupation: Senator of Massachusetts
Position: Anti-imperialist

Senator George Hoar was an anti-imperialist, who had insisted that the acquisition of Philippine was against Constitution, against the whole idea of America.

He reasoned that Philippine is a nation that had been governed by its people. We cannot force a foreign country that has right of self-government to give up their inherent right of the sovereign. It is no difference than pointing a gun at one’s head and say, “We think that our notion of government is better than the notion you have got yourselves.”

He admitted that we have right to acquire territories for the constitutional reason, and to govern the people on the land for the constitutional reason. However,