The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-19


of the gentlemen who are trying 10
keep the Insurgents in. Cuba Every
man VINO had rather fight than to buy
peace at the d;Shonor of his wife or his
child has been called jingo from the
Gays ot early republics until now.
am for liberty, for the independence of
Cuba on a better and broader ground.
l propose better environments, not for
trade or commerce. not for the extern
sion of teITitory-and that is the dis
tinction between the ordinary English
Lawmakers and ourselves.
NONE DARE DO IT.
Mr. President" exclaimed Mr.. Ma
son, IF we did not have a ship in the
world. and every gun was melted into a
plowsbare: if every bayonet was
buried; if every ship we ever had was
sunk in the middle of the sea, there is
no nation in the world, much less
Spain. that would ever dare strike our
colors on American SOIL applause in
the galleries)
Referring 20 the Cuban plank in the
st. Louis platform, he said:
You remember how the great hall
rang. The great struggling, liberty
loving people of the world said: AT
last the Republican party is on the
high road to success. Mckinley sure,
liberty for Cuba will come. the Re
publican party spoke and from the
days of Lincoln to the days of McKin-
ley they have never stepped backwards
from one plank of their platform, and
they shall not do it now
WAS It not true? In the name of
God and the light of prophecy have you
read the message of Mckinley? Then
go back and read the first chapter OF
Revelations or the last chapter of Elk
odus and see whether, in the light of
prophecy, taking Mr.. Mckinley's mes
sage. cur splendid president, it is not
true. Did he tell YOU that 500 Ameri-
can citizens starving there? Did not we
tell you in our convention that they
had so lcct coatrcl of Cuba that thew
could not protect American citizens?'
Mr. Mason closed as follows:
Mr. president, no one wants war.
! but if to keep our promises 10 Cuba
and to protect her means war, let it
come. If, to protest against the butch
/ cry of women and children means war.
/ let Il come. If, to defend the honest
/ Daughters Of brave patriots means an
insult to Spain and war. then, in the
/ name of God. let it come and come
quickly. Liberty shall prevail and the
! island of Cuba, under the providence of
/ God, shall be free"
'EXUBERANT ORATORY."
Mr.. Hoar OF Massachusetts replied to
Mr. Mason. He referred 20 the speech
Which had preceded as ''exuberant ora
tory" and said sarcastically that, not
withstanding it, the power of inter-
national law would prevail The only
effect of recognition would be to give
Spain the right to search our ships at
sea and to take away from American
citizens in Cuba all hope of recon-
pense for injury done them. He al
luded sarcastically 10 Mr. Mason's IN
nocent and youthful ardor.'
Thereupon Mr. Mason asked him,
will the gentleman yield for a ques-
tion?'
six of them,p replied Mr. Hoar,
seemingly in an angry mood.
Are we going TO have vote on
this question:" Mr.. Mason queried-
Il expect to have one was the an
swer.
win you help to get one?e Mr.. Ma
son persisted.
4 expect to help to- get a more in
telligent one than some of the senators
seem to want" Mr.. Hear replied.
Then he proceeded to express sur
prise that "all this great brass band
of talk about ouerages on women and
children prated at our doors shod he
followed by this squeaking moTssl of
a resolution.
Parodying the opposition, Mr.. Hear
explained: Whereas cur ancestors
loved liberty, and whereas we are the
greatest nation on earth and similar
whereases. and remarked parentheti-
cally, When we are the greatest ma
ton we will stop talking about II. No
great nation brags of it,
He continued: Whereas we are not
afraid of any nation on earth, we will
say to Mrs. Spain. We are not afraid
of you, and if your mobs destroy the
property of our ci,izels, We'll aot ask
damages for it. p"
BRAG AND SPLITTER.
The senate, he said, should ask the
president 10 use his good offices With
Spain to secure peace and the irGe-
pendence OF Cuba, and that was what
the Republican platform proposed. He
would have the facts found as a court
would find them before entering judg-
ment, and would then say TO Spain.
We have found such and such facts
on which We propose to act, and if YOU
don't stop that war, We'll stop it, and
he would not stand in the senate and
brag and splutter.
MIR. Hoar said with some feeling that
he supposed he was one of the bar
nacles" to which Mr.. Mason had re-
ferred and spoke of the reckless intro
duction OF resolutions based on idle re-
ports.
4 am sick Of this kind of action in
the United States senate" Mr. Hoar
declared. I think il is disgraceful.
Tine senator tMason) wants to put
down a war with Spain and he would
put it down with mosquito-a mos
quito of much buzz and very little
sting"
"A New Jersey mosquito?" queriel
Mr.. Mason, gaily amid laughter
Mr.. Hoar closed with the somewhat
contemptuous remark that he believed
little could be accomplished for Cuba
by speeches or buncombe from Chi
cage, to be followed by no practical
or sensible action"
NO BUNCOMBE.
Mr. Gallinger of New Hampshire *
pressed surprise that senators should /
be accused of speaking for the ap-
plause Of the galleries and of furnish !
ing buncombe for constituents. The
senators had sought for months to
secure consideration of a Cu0an reso-
luton, but had been cut off by fiibus- !
teTirg methods.
Mr.. Hale earnestly protested against !
this reference to filibustering. He gave /
in detail the time consumed by the adj |
vccates and the opponents of the pend !
ing resolution showing that most of the !
speeches had come from those favor |
a BILE to the resolution.
In view of this proceeded Mr.. |
Hale. 1T is the height of audacity and /
inpudence-
Mr.. Gallilger, who still held the floor. /
declined to yield further.
Then withdraw the 'impudence'
proceeded Mr.. Hale, 1T was at least !
a sort of colossal check
M (1alinger perenr,torily declined /