Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-08
HALE AGAINST EXPANSION.
The Maine senator Punl,ciy Expresses ais
Views. s&

Washington, Dec. B. Senator Eugene
Hale, r., Me- yesterday announced
his opposition to the peace treaty
which is being formulated in Paris.
He is opposed to the acquisition of the
Philippines, and his antagonism to the
treaty will be based upon that section
Of the treaty which deals with the
Philippine question:.
"The negotiation of the treaty, un-
fortunate as it is" said the. Senator
today, "by no means insures the actual
annexation of the Philippine Islands.
1t is uncertain when the treaty viii be
| signed, or when it will he submitted TO
the Senate, and still more uncertain /
whether 1t will ever BIO ratified Inc
| responsibility is so vast and the soliol-
tude Of the public SO great that ample |
time will be given to its discussion |
and to getting the real facts before the
American people.
MANY things will be found out
| which are now not known, and the evils
of the proposed annexation will 80 grow
on the public mind and upon Congress
and npon the President that 1t is by
no means unlikely that within six
months or year everybody, instead of
being for annexation of the islands, will
want to be well rid of them.
1.-THE people of the United States
will find out that the commerce of the
Philippines is very limited in extent;
that they are inhabited by n people
whose habits and wants forbid an in
crease of trade, and that, under the
scheme of annexation presented to US,
this trade is to be shared equally with
Spain and all other competing nations.
What is called the 'open door policy
! 49, 81 1he Init tad
States in tho Philippine trade to a
point where il makes no figure in our
commerce. The entire trade of the
islands, IL we had it nil, not the profit
derived from it but the whole amount
of trade, will not, in any year. pay the
expenses of the army and the navy that
!; the United States will be Obliged to
maintain there.
; 1.-THE people will see at once sprung
upon Congress proposition for a
] standing army of 100, 600 men, costing
yearly more than 500, 100000, and a
naval increase of from $50, 900, 900 to
$40, 100000 a year in addition, all of
which must como by levy of taxation.
: Not only will no war tax be repealed,
! but the present tax must be increased.
/; 1.-THE people of the Pacific coast will
9 find out that if we admit 5000, 600 or
. 100000 of Malays, Tagals and
t Negritos to become q part of our coun-
try and to have some or all the priyi-
t leges of citizenship, we must necessarily
: give to the Chinese who are ALREADY in
t the country the same privileges. The
r people of the South will find out that
: the admission of these alien races to
o the United States will be another
l added intensitication of the race prob.
q lem which is today standing menace
$ in our own borders. The great Irish.
d American element of our population
Q will find out that, notwithstanding
n Lord Salisbury's characteristic sneer,
in his Guildhall speech, at the new
policy Of the United States, the British
Foreign Office is the inspiration of ON
J present diplomacy, and, although
o thousands of these Irish Americans
is have OF late years been voting the Re
% publican ticket, their protest ovo
present conditions cannot fail to b.
:, loud and deep.
n Below ali this, with the business
n men Of the country and with al
thoughtful men, the peril of this de
70 pnrture from the settled policy of tn
is government will be seen more clearl,
rs from day to day. With the exception
j. of the Alaskan purchase, which ho
ID been constant drag to us, all other ex
tension Of our territory has been contig
J. uous and has opened new fields for tn
as pioneer and the actual settler, who hav
of built up communities ard founded ne,
in States. Not one of these will ever &
to the Philippines, which are alread
al thickly peopled with inhabitants wit
s, whom we can never assimilata. Tn
h. President himself will find that, !
b order to secure. a peace, besides tn
u, $40, 0O0, 600 which the United States
to pay Spain. he is simply getting ri
ID of one war which is already substar
Ill TALLY ended only to find the country !
~ condition Of war with tho insurgent
b. and the inhabitants generally of tn
u constantly be obliged to call upon Cor
O.; gress to furnish means for the conduS
u, 81 this war. He will also see that b
and his successors in his great oiiic
or will find themselves involved in ever
}, complication Of Oriental policies an
is- politics, and that as we have for
tai years seen all Europe either engaged
y. war or finishing war, or expectin
Tor and preparing for war, while we ha,
"a, been prospecting in peace, the san
conditions will apply here, and ths
ir- there will be no agitation Of the que
TIL tion Of Asiatio dependencies threaten
ng ing to light the torch OF war in Eurol
IA; in which we will not be as much II
n; volved as are the nations Of Europe.
yer 1.-THE people of the United States Al
ties already beginning to find out thi
nix there is nothing in the trade of the
islands, in the people who inhab
it, them, in the climate in which they a
es, forced to live, that presents any re
es, attraction to US, but, on the contrar
they furnish notification to us
vas keep Our hands Off All these thin
per will steadily grow in the minds Of Il
3 American people, and, as ! said in Il
beginning, it is not an improbah
RS thing that, within one year from mo-
ed, nobody in the United States will wa
a the islands. +"
oo. SENATOR KYLE SPEARS.
ere Chicago, Ill, Dec. a." Preside
res rs Mckinley can never get the membt
est of the present Senate to ratify t
of treaty soon, to be signed at Paris
-. ol the Peace Commissioners of the Unit
~. .er States and SPAIN" said Senator Ky
w., ~. Ind, IS. D., who stopped here yests
~; iee day on his way to Washington. ]
ion continued. "The United States, t
nee victor, should not be bound to D
as $40, 000, 900 to the vanquished, Spai
Such payment establishes dang,
was GUS precedent, to say the least. TIL
sspe 1 do not believe that we want the Phi
~, IN ippines at all. One island with 60
~ ~. harbor would be OF use as ma,
,oof station, but whatever can we do wi
9ar' lot of islands with such a cosmopo
tan pon,1lation aa that nj tho Phil