The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-01
A SPEECH BY Chiffon
HE SAYS THAT THE UNITED STATES
SHOULD HAVE A DIG NAVY.
Advocates Policy of Moderate EN-
punstOn" In Taking in Cuba
and Porto Rico.

Center Point, Texas, September 30,--Sen-
ator Horace Chiffon, the speaker of the
day, came up from San Ar.opio accom-
panied by Hon, J. +. onion, Congressman
Slayden and number OF San Antonio
democrats The officers of the Guadalupe
Far association met the senator at the
udin and after an introduction to the
people with whom he came In contact the
association gave its guest an informal stu
ner at the Center Point hotel The dinner
WAS purely informal and speech making
was INDUCED in,
After iecittus events leading up to the
war, Senator Chit,on said: First. there
is one great central fact--we mus buiid
the Nicaragua canal, justified from
strigetlc and business standpoint. Not
only that. but the var has demonstrated
the necessity of navy equal TO that of
any other rirst-class European coulerS,
except Great Britain except Great
Britain because it is the settlsl policy OF
that county To have a navy equal 10 that
OF dhe two strongest naval powers OF the
wtfd. GIsat Britain is one country when
We can cope through our vast military Ie
sources by land. We csn attack her
through the Canadian frontier, but as 10
the other nations. II is row Recognized as
tue American statesmanship mat We
snould have navy as Urge as that of any
other single iirst-ciass power
In regard to expansion, we need
policy OF moderation. If | had any douu,
as to what were the tue policy TO pursue.
should say, not 10 move from our Old
ground ans not look for new fields. | have
no doubt as to the true policy, however,
1t is a policy CT moderate ard cautious eS-
pansion as the necessities OF the country
may require.
Now we should take In Porto Rico; that
country does not desire an independent
government ana 1t Is Just prize OF the
war. Then there Is Cuba. the best pos
sible acquisition to this country except
that or LOUISIANA and our OWE great State
OF Texas. We have spent vast sums or
money on deep water on our coast port aad
yet we can not tloit bale Of cotton on
Galveston ana haven't reached the Atlantic
on ship out of the Mississippi river and
havL it reach the Atlantic without passing
under the gurs of the foreign power that
might control Cuba Take our forSfathers
there was no waterlogglng about them.
| 1nt! did not stop at the Mississippi, hu,
took in Louisiana and Texas. They did not
get the hyjrorhoba every time they
hooked ut tbs Gulf of Mexico. So. When
Cuba wants to come in TO the Union !, for
enc. will vote in favor of IT,.
Bus you sly oh, they are crossing the
Rubicon, They said that before, but II
was not the fact that the Rub!cor was
crossed that destroyed Rome, but the spirit
that crossed it
| The speaker then look up the matter OF
expansion as affecting the Philippines and
c.tod the pfoblbie dangers of this country
mixing up with the Eastern question and
coming in conflict with the European con-
cert as important reasors for not acquiring
these Stands. The Importance commercially
of that group, he said, was greatly exsg-
| gerated by sensational journals
| oh yes" he said. I'VE can get cur
finger into that pie; but the fact is We
Rave go, better pie right here on this con-
tinent than the Philippines"
| He contended that the acquisition of The
| Philippines meant the re- uneiation of ;hg
Monroe doetrfre. He explained the mean
| ing of the doctrine and said: "If we &c
| into the Eastern hemisphere and eutsr into
| greedy rivalry for territory over there
90 We not give up the Monroe doctrine
We cat no. do It without giving up thu
principle Of justice underlying that doc
/ trire. We can not afford to pl ~ such
| diplomatic game OF heaCs WIN and tails
! you lose. Then there is the enormous tax
| alton 10 keep up an army OF 100 900 sol
ders there ana don't believe the gair
will warrant the grave responsibility. WI
Will hold the republican, party responsible
/ for this war: not for the making OF It, bui
| for It's measure to raise the money for 81. y