New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-10
SENITOR HO1HS SPEECH.

Senator TToar has made one Of the best
spccchcs which have been delivered dur
ing the present session of Congress. Moth
ing more powerful has been heard in
Washington for many years than his ar
raicnment of the Democratic majority, which
has flung aside the Wilson bill. wantonly af-
frontcd the Finance Committee by Offering four
hundred amendments TO the revised measure
and violated every sound principle Of legislation
and every policy to which the party was uncon-
ditionally committed. Senator Gray is ordl-
narily the coolest and least cxcitable leader on
the Democratic side but he had completely
lost both his composure and his head long be
fore the Massachusetts Senator had closed MS
argument. As for the other Democratic Sen
ators. they were in state bordering upon de-
moralization when the proof was offered that
they could not vote for the German compromise
bill without violating their oaths to support the
Constitution as they understood it. Both Sen
ator Gray and his colleagues by their excite
mcnt and wrath paid the highest possible
tribute TO the destructive force of Senator
Hoar's mastery speech.
Not only was it a splendid debating perform
ance Of sustained argumentative power illumi-
mated by flashes of sarcasm but ii was ad-
in epigrams and sentcntious phrases, keen and
brilliant as polished steel. When he declared
that the Senate was asked ito enact into law
spasm that the people have got over he com
pressed into single sentence the logic of "A
complex political situation. Equally enectVe
was his description Of the German bill as hav-
ing no legitimate parcntaSe. born OF an un-
natural union between two hatrcds. that Of sec
ton against section and that OF class against
class" 1.-THE passion born Of Rebellion. which
has never forgiven the Union for IFS victories,
combining with the passion Of hlcneSs ana
ignorance against honest labor and honest gam
and honest property" Nothing could be more
trencbant than this exposure OF Democratic
hypocrisy: There is no logical escape Tor
man who says that duty for Protection Is ROD
berry and is a violation Of the Constitution. ana
who then comes in and takes an oath that ne
will support the Constitution as so understood
by him. He violates that pledge and that oath
when he puts into legislation new duty or an
increase of an old duty-both OF which thls Dill
does in abundance-for the mere purpose OF
Protection
Senator Hoar is merccss In his dissection OF
the Tariff bill as the contrivance Of sectional
ISM the product Of hatred, representing II" prlh-
ciple. dlsapprovcd alike by Proteciionsts ana
Free Traders hostile 10 capital and labor. al
horred by the country and enacted. II AT all by
legislators who have no faith in 1t even while
they repudate their pledges in voting for II.
He describes il as measure which Is already
| Enthusiastically condemned by the country, ana
which is respected only in some remote ana
benjghted regions where they have not yet
heard from Appomattox, or where they SIM
blaspheme the doctrines OF Jefferson in the
name of Jefferson and still cruelty Jackson on
the Sth of January" There are he ADDS
with acrld humor. doubtless STILL in some great
cities. NEWSPAPERS subsidized by foreign import
| ers speaking 10 men bred under foreign poll
| cies controlled by some Englishman or by some
ovomnle Of that rarest Of mOnstrOstics-
| Irishman without the love Of liberty In his
| bosom-lhat still preach Free Trade and fancy
| the American people do not know the difference
| between the rising and the setting sun. But
! where American sentiment coming from Amcri-
| can hearts and spoken by American lips. finds
any utterancc there Is one unbrokcn chorus Of
| loathing and adherence for this Wilson BILL
for The men who bcgot it and the men who are
| its godfathcrs in baptism
| Denominations like these come from the heart
| of q natriotic statesman whose righteous indig-
nation has been aroused by Bourbon appeals
TO sectional hatred. and by the pandcring of
| Democratic dcmagOgucs TO the prcjudiccs and
I passions of discontentcd and restless classes
| Senator Hoar has never rendered the coun
| fry more effective service than he has in turn
| ing uDon the group Of Democratic intrlguers
and charging them with being false 10 lheir
oaths Of office as well az 10 all principles OF
legislation and party pledges. His speech is one
that will make profound impression upon the
| country.