The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-12-23
THINKS THE PROJECT
FRAUGHT WITH PERIL
DISLIKES IDEA OF ACCEPTING
MILLIONS OF ALIENS IN RACE
AND RELIGION
WARNS HIS HEARERS
OF FUTURE TURMOIL

AHG NtN SOSIGby--fCh-
erabIe Senator Tempers His Re
marks with MOderatIOn-FOre-
fathers Day FittingIy Celebrated.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 22.-The
seventy ninth annual banquet of the
New England society was given at the
Charleston hotel here tonight. The
leading speakers of the evening were
Senator George f. Hoar, Of Massa-
chusetts, who responded to "FOrefa-
Tiers Day" Senator George F. Nc
Laurin, Of South Carolina, who re-
sponded to our Country" and Hon
Joseph B. Cumming, of Georgia, who
responded to The MaylOwer."
Senator Hoar's address, which was
the principal one of the evening, while
largely historical, was in part devoted
to current issues. On the subject of eX-
pansion he said:
1t is well known (or if it be not well known
! am willing 10 make it known that l look
With inexpressible alarm and dread upon the
prospect Of adding to our population millions
OF persons dwelling in tropical climes, aliens
in race and in religion, either TO share in our
sef-government, or, what is worse still, 10
set an example 10 mankind of the subjection
OF one people to another.
We have not yet solved the problem OF
how men Of different races can dwell to-
gether in the same land in accordance with
our principles Of republican rule and repub-
hcan liberty. l am not one Of those who de-
spair Of the solution of that problem in jus-
dce and in freedom. l do not look upon the
dark side when I think of the future of our
beloved land. | count it the one chief good
fortune Of my own life that as I grow older.
l look out on the word with hope and not
despair. We have made wonderful advances
within the lifetime OF the youngest Of u.s.
While We hear from time to time of occur
Tences much to be deplored and utterly to
be condemned, yet the whole we are ad-
Vancing quite as rapidly as could be ex-
pected TO the time when these races will live
together on American soil in freedom, n
honor and in peace, every man enjoying his
Just right wherever the American constitu-
tion reigns and wherever the American flag
ioats-when the influence Of Intelligence, Of
courage, Of energy. inspired by a lofty pa
triotism and by Christian love, will have its
full and legitimate effect, not through dis
order or force or lawlessness but under the
silent and sure law by which the superior
leads and the inferior follows.
The time has already come when through
out large spaces in our country both races
are dwelling together in peace and harmony.
I believe that co:dition of things to be the
rule in the South and not to be the exception.
We have a right to claim that the country
and the South shall be judged by the rule
and not by the exception.
If there be a single lessen which the peo-
pie Of this country have learned from their
wonderful and crowded history it is that
the North and South are indispensable to
each other. They the blades Of mighty
shears. worthless apart, but, when bound by
en- irdissoluble Union, powerful, Irresistible
and terrible as the shears Of Fate; like the
shears OF Atropos. severing every thread
and tangled web of evil, cutting out for hu-
manity its beautiful garment of Liberty and
Light from the cloth her sisters spin and
weave.
For myself I believe that whatever
arrangements may have existed in the past
or many linger among US now. are born OF
ignorance and will be dispelIed by knowl-
edge.
Messrs. McLaurin and Cumming took
occasion to declare in more or less pro-
nounced terms against the theory OF
expansion.