The age-herald., 1899-01-11

i, der at their fear of ours? Shall we shoot [ them and burn their homes because God Almighty has planted in their hearts, to
 their lips the sweet song of liberty? Forbid l it. Almighty God.
 1 But Mir President we are told that we
 must civilize them; which part of our civil
 ization shall we give them first? Shall We show them how to run municipalities with poodle? Shall we send them to teach the untaught Filipinos cleanliness and muniei- | pal politics? Shall we teach them to worsh p money or the man who has it? Shall We | have special instructors to teach them how | to kill postmasters and their wives and | children because of their complexion? Shall we have illustrations showing enlarged | pictures the works of our mobs within the | last ninety days in North Carolina, South l Carolina and Illinois? Shall we teach them | how to organize trusts so that one or two | men can raise the price of the necessities | of life to all the people? Shall we amend l and print Lincon's Gettysburg speech so
 that it will read: "A government of all the
 people. by part of the people, for few | of the people?
 Beam in Our Own Eye
 "Gentlemen may say I belittle our own | institutions Oh, no; l simply call atten-
 tion to the beam in our own eye to prevent | if possible our breaking our neck ,rying to
 Ind the mote in the eye of the Filipinos, 1 10000 miles away
 Have we the right to purchase sover- | eighty? And if we have such right, have
 we the right to purchase it from Spain, | who had no right, and whose title we have | already discredited among the nations of l the world? If we purchase the Spanish tite | Of sovereignty, would we tnen have the | trues. title? Who wants to govern the | Philippines? Who among us wishes to vote ! for laws here to govern them l0'O00 miles
 away? I never saw their homes, never | spoke with one of them and l don't know
 their language; could not live in their | climate; 1 don't know their institutions. | Who is there here on this hill in Washing | ton who can write laws to govern those peo- l ole whose very life we do not understand?
 "Ah, MT. President, the fever has been l upon us Thank God, I believe the crisis | is past. The people have been lashed into | fury by the press, the glorious achieve ments of our army and navy have set the national pulse beating high, but the land- i grabbing fever is gradually receding and
 the unnatular r,un-Amer-can desire to govern
 another people without their consent thank l God, Is not so strong today as IL was put a | few days since.
 | MT President, l am through. l do not l expect to escape bitter criticisms. l have | seen so much of sacrifice on the part Of | others in the past for the cause of liberty : I would for it sacrifice my seat among you, ] in which l take great honor, as cheerfully
 as 1 would part with a crust of bread. | have wished for that magnetic strength | that would help me to burn within your | hearts the sacred word of liberty-not Span- 1 ish liberty for Cuba; not liberty for you
 prescribed my me- not liberty for me pre- l scribed by you; not English liberty Tor l America; not American liberty for the l Philippines, but universal liberty for which
 our fathers died.'
 MT. Mason occupied the attention of the | senate for an hour and twenty minutes. l His keen saies and unconventional, but | ful ttyln of held the atten- | tion of his hearers throughout. Once he
 was interrupted by MT. Tillman. MT. Ma l son had said that war with the Philippines | was likely within ten days.
 Tiliman Interrupts Mir Tillman iniuired: q want to know | by what authority the president will begin | war? Until the treaty of peace has been 1 ratified and the cession of the Philippines | is completed, does not the protocol stand?' l MT. Mason: II so understand it." | MT Tillman "Can the president fire a | single gun in such a war until this con- l gress shall have taken action? Legally, l | mean"
 | Mr Mason: q do not think so." | MT Mason was discussing the statement | of possible bombardment of Iloilo which | he said was currently reported as in con- l temptation.
 l MT. Gallinger said MT. Mason's state | ment was very serious. He would like to kDOW upon Wndt IL was DdSeu "I have some information, replied the Illinois senator, (which I cannot here and now communicate to the senate. What I | have said, however, Is reported and has | day after day been in the despatches of the | Associated Press. l may say that I base my statement upon the report of the Asso- ciated Press"
 Mr. Gallinger expressed regret that MT. | Mason could not give the source of his most | important news, but so far as he was con- 1 cerned, he could not accept his unsupported l statement nor that of a press association. This statement" interjected MT. White,
 of California, "has been published through | out the country. We all know that when | untrue statements are so published they
 are denied by the administration. Instead 1 of denial it is met with a silence that is alike ominous and convincing" At the conclusion of MT. Mason's speech
 he was accorded the usual compliment in | the senate of cordial congratulations from
 many of his colleagues and members of the l house of representatives who heard the l speech.
 | MT Bacon of Georgia, secured the pas | sage of bill for the construction of a l bridge over the Sewanee river in Chatham | county.
 At the request of Mr. Morgan the senate
 unanimously agreed to the limitation of the | debate on the Nicaraguan canal bill to fif- | teen-minute speeches after 8 o'clock next 1 Tuesday.
 MT. Hurley was then recognized to speak | on the Nicaragua canal bill He announced 1 himself as an advocate of a canal but said | that he was opposed to the pending bill. l He based his objection largely upon the 1 fact that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is in | full force at the present time. 1 At the conclusion of MT. Turkeys speech | the senate went into executive session and l shortly aftrward adjourned.
 | HOUSE.
 | Washington January 10.-The house de- | voted it's undivided attention again today to | the bill for the codification of the criminal 1 laws of Alaska and when adjournment was | had all but ten pages of the bill had been 1 disposed of.