The age-herald., 1899-01-11
MASON'S THUNDER
 TO THE SENATE In Support of His Resolution
 Declaring THAT TIE UNITED STATES Will Never Attempt to Govern
 the People of Any COUNTRY WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT
 < One 4Se Most Notable Utterances
 c Jus Far This Session.
  SS V RUGGED IN LANGUAGE C.S 
 6 Pointed and Effective in Illustra- - tIon-CommandedA Attention From Be- ginning to Apostrophe to Liberty
 Which Formed Peroration.
One S'e Most Notable Utterances fsTT
 $ 6 Jus Far This Session.
RUGGED IN LANGUAGE

Washington, January 1O.-senator Mason,
 of Illinois, occupied the attention of the
 senate for nearly an hour and a half today with his speech in support of his resolu-
 tion declaring that the United States will never attempt to govern the people of any country without their consent. In many respects the speech was one of the most notable utterances in the senate thus far this season. Rugged in language. pointed and effective In illustration, MT. Mason commanded the attention of the senate and of the galleries from the first sentence of his speech to the apostrophe to
 liberty, which formed his peroration.
 Several times spontaneous applause swept
 over the galleries, but under the stringent rules of the senate it was quelled quickly. It was several minutes after the concld- sion of the speech before, the senate could | proceed with it's business on account of the | confusion incident to the congratulations | which many of Mr. Masons colleagues | hastened to extend to him. The Nicaragua | canal bill was discussed by MT. Hurley. of | Tennessee, who opposed the pending meas ure An agreement was reached to con- | slider the bill Tuesday with fifteen min | utes to discuss such amendments. At the beginning of the session Mr. Chandler introduced a senate resolution for
 the distribution of the appropriation bills, and indicated he would preeip.tate this fight soon.
 The senate passed bills authorizing the construction ot a bridge across the Missouri river at Chamberlain, B. D., and authorizing
 the secretary of agriculture to prepare re- port showing the average fluctuation from year to year of farm products. Mir Mason, of ilIlnOiS took the floor for | his announced speech upon his resolution | declaring that all just powers of the gov ernment are derived from the consent of | the governed, and that the United States will not make any attempt to govern any people against their will
 MT. Mason spoke from manuscript and | confined himself closely to his notes. ''It is easy to drift with the tide,' began | MT. Mason, but is not always safe The l simple resolution 1 have introduced has | nothing necessarily to do with any treaty, nor do l intend to speak of any proper | treaty.
 Not Question of Law
 "The resolution does not involve a ques- | ton of law, but is a question to the fu- ture policy of this republic l willing to | trust the people, and l want the people to | hear both sides ot the case before the yer | dict is rendered.
 Distinguished editors and statesmen say 1 the republican party favors governing na- | tions without the consent of it's peop4e. Who l dares speak in advance for the party that speaks only in its convention? That party sprang like young giant from the womb of conscience and made its first fight for human liberty. It has never bowed to the storm of eXpetrency, and if l may be al- lowed to prophecy, l predict that if the delegates will go in again, and the rafters will ring again and again when they de- mand the same independence for the citi- zens Of the Philippines they did two years ago for Cuba.
 Do you say l am speaking for the | Philippines? Yes, one word for them and two for ourselves A black man said to senator the other day: I thank you for speaking of my race, and the senator re- piled: T am speaking one word for your race and two for my own, nothing ever dwarfed the white race so much as stoop- ing for a hundred years to keep the black
 man down.
 ''I may appear to speak one word for the Philippines, but two for my own country
 and people when plead for the broad man. hood of the man who wrote: " All just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed You cannot govern the Philippines without taxing them you have not got their con- sent, and the proposition of taxation with out representation is made again. Look out
 for tea parties; those little semi-sociaI functions are likely to break out even
 there, for Hall Columbia and Yankee
 Doodle have been heard in the archipelago. "The other day when the distinguished
 senator from Massa chusetts eIoar) asked
 the senator from Connecticut (Platt) what
 he was going to do with this sentence,
 that all just powers of government are
 derived from the consent of the governed'
 he answered.:
 ".From the consent of some of tho
 governed
 Win Not Live Long
 MT President. when any great cause
 which is agitating the minds of the people needs for its defense such shallow and un-
 American evasions this that cause wifi
 not live long in the minds of intelligent people. We cannot amend that sentence
 now and when we all shall have mouldered in forgotten dust this sentence will live and Continued on Sixth Page)