The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-26
AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME
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ed. democratic members of the mill
tary committee yielding their time to
him. The Monroe doctrine, he declared,
would vanish with the annexation of
the Philippines. If we reached out into
another hemisphere we could not with
proprlety resist aggression in this. Mr..
johnson said that the cup Of our ma
stional humiliation was filled to over
flowing, and, in closing, said:
g we have witnessed the splendid
achievements of our soldiers and sail
sors and have inspired in the old world a
teellng or respect. This country, the
beacon light of liberty; this locked and
intrenched continent; this proud and
erect nation which never in its history
was obliged to ask favor of any other
country on earth, now depends upon
the intervention of England to keep
other powers off its back. We have be-
come miserable mendicant, dependent
upon the mother country. We are com
PEELED to abandon the cardinal principle
of protection and submit to the open
door policy At this point the gavel
fell and Mr.. Johnson said he would not
further trespass upon the time of the
other side, but he was urged to go on.
Il thank the other sde,' he said, for
the opportunity to be heard, which I
could not obtain from this side"
There was a whirlwind of applause
when Mr. johnson took his seat and
many democrats crowded up the aisle
to congratulate him.
Delivers Reply.
When Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa rose to
reply there was an outburst of applause
from the republican side. Almost every
seat on the floor. by this time, was oc-
cupied and the galleries were packed to
the doors. Mr.. Dolliver began by say
ing that he had had no intention of
making an elaborate speech on this bill
ana he resented Mr.. Johnsons state
ment that he had been maneuvering for
an opportunity to reply. He had never
heard the epithet "Spaniard' applied to
the gentleman from Indiana (Mr john
SOM or any other member on the floor
and II the gentleman deserved the title
he must get it from some other tongue
than his
Il am not here to speak for the ad-
mlnlstration. l belong to the humble
ranks of my party, and have not been
in the white house since the war with
Spain began. But l might resent the
statement that our president, so accessi-
BILE, is 'intrenched in the white house.
He is intrenched." continued Mr.
Dolliver, lin the white house, in the
higher and better sense and as securely
as the gentleman from Indiana is in
trenched in private life Gaughter)
brought there, as L believe, by his at
tacks and criticisms on the republican
party
He would not make an extended
speech, but he did desire to say some
thing of the large responsibilities
which mad come to us as a result of
the war. He hoped that congress would
approach this question in the larger,
broader spirit in which the war had
been entered upon. The war had
brought all sections and parties togeth-
er in common cause. Now that it
was over, and the treaty signed and
ready for ratification, it would seem
that the same spirit should be presery-
ed. But on the contrary the Congress
sional Record and the magazines were
being filled with views more numerous
and varied than the islands we had
captured from the enemy. 1t had been
so in the war of 1872. A faction had
sought to embarrass the government.
In the Mexican war, our armies never
got beyond the reach of those who
criticised the conduct of the war, and
during the civil war a restless and in
sistent minority in both houses never
ceased its hostility. In the Spanish
war, for the first time in our history,
what was done was done in the spirit
OF common people, in the spir; of
lofty and national life. In his humble
Judgment, the greatest day in our
history was when every member of
congress, without regard to party, vot-
cd confidence in the president and au-
thorized him to use the public treas
ury for the national defense
Too Late to Go Back.
He raised a laugh by an incidental