The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03

ton of policy. Did not Mr.. spooner see
the grave danger?
Responding laconically Mr. Spooner
said he saw the danger.
Mr.. Hoar interrupted to say that he
made no distinction in the cases. He
took the broad ground that we were
not justified in attempting to govern
any people without their consent.
Resuming, Mr.. Spooner said that there
was no way out of it, that if at the
end of a war an indemnity is to be
taken. it must be taken without the
consent Of the people.
Mr.. Sponer announced his apprehen-
sion of the policy of expansion.
Some people waltz up to this prop
osition of national expansion as gaily
as the troubadour touches his guitar"
said he.
Proceeding. he said he was an expan-
sionist to the extent of wanting to do
everything possible to extend our trade.
but he thought that to acquire distant
and non assimilable people was the
poorest means of getting it.
He shrank, he said, from the policy
of making part of our land tropical
islands thousands of miles from our
shores, land whose peoples were alien
not of our blood, who were foreign to
our institutions, of tropical climate
| in which the white man cannot work
He therefore considered as superficial.
| sentimental and fantastic much of the
| talk concerning the permanent annexa-
| tion of these far away islands
II am not" he said, thrilled by the
! jingle about not hauling down our flag
when it has once been raised. 1t has
been hauled down in former times; it
will be hauled down again. We will not
| keep it afloat in Cuba, but we will take
it down there, leaving behind it liberty
| and an Independent government I hope
this also may soon be true in the Philip
pines and in saying this 1 do not con-
slider l am inconsistent
| If the ratification of the treaty in
volved permanent dominion, he said.
he would not vote for it,. But he had
not been able to find any half
resting place between accepting the
cession and abandoning the islands
| to their fate, as this was not permistsi-
BILE. The president. kind and generous
as he is, would not have to make a
treaty leaving the Philippine archipel-
ago to the lust, the savagery and the
brutality of the Spanish rule To have
attempted this course would have been
to inaugurate a rule of anarchy with
all it's horrors, and while war was cruel
and bitter, anarchy was hell let loose
| on earth
In conclusion, Mr.. Spooner said that
the ratification of the treaty and the
acceptance by this country of the cess
sion from Spain was not a declaration
of principles. He declared that the Ba-
con resolutions and all other pending
resolutions on this subject were rich
with mischief, and ought not to be
| adopted. IT was the business of con-
gress to legislate and to follow the
| lines marked out by the constitution
| and the will of the people
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Spooner S
argument, Mr.. Tillnlan explained why
he had interrupted the Wisconsin SEN
ator. He desired to incorporate with
Mr.. Spooners speech some statements
with respect to Aguinado, made in a
report by Major ]. F. Bell of the en-
| ginneer corps of the army.
Mr.. Spooner gave HE assent to the
insertion of the statements at the pro-
per place in his speech.
Mir. Tlllman, however, insisted upon
! reading them. He said that Aguinaldo
| had a we'll armed force of 10000 men
and would resist every attempt to re-
establish colonial government in the
islands Interrupting Mr.. Tillman, Mr.
Hoar inquired:
! Does not Aguinaldo hold in peace and
in order more than fifty times as much
territory in the Philippines as the
United States?"
Mr.. Tillman replied that Aguinaldo
| held all of the Philippines, except a
small portion of the island of Luzon,
around Manila.
In conclusion. Mr.. Tillman said that
the ratification of the treaty could
only inject into this country another
race question which would certainly
breed war and bloodshed. At S:35 D,
M, on motion of Mr.. Davis, the senate
went into executive session, and at 5:A5
| p. m. adjourned.