Connecticut western news., 1900-01-11
DEBATE ON EXPANSION.
Opened With Strong Speech by
 Senator Beveridge.
ANSWERED BY SENATOR HoAR.
MasnachusettsM Man Takes Exceptions to Many Statements Concerning Fil- ipino.-ssys omciaI Records show
 Their Fitness For Self Government.

Massachusetts Man Takes Exceptions
 to Many Statements Concerning Fil-
 ipinos-Says official Records show
 Their Fitness For Self Government.
 Washington. Jan. 10.-The senate was treated to a genuine bit of expansion de- bate yesterday. X strong and able argu- ment. setting forth the advantages of re- tention of the Philippines, was made by the young senator from Indiana, Mir. Beveridge, and it brought out lively re joinder from the patriarch of the Repub- lican side, Senator Hoar of Massachu- setts.
 '"rhe times call for eandor," said Sen ator Beveridge in beginning his speech. ''The Philippines are ours forever, and just beyond are China's nlimitable mar kets. We will not retreat from either.
 This island empire is the last land left in all the oceans. If 1t should prove a mistake to abandon it the blunder once made would be irretrievable. If 1t proves a mistake to hold it the error can be cor rected when we will
 Resuming, he said:
 That man little knows the common people of the republic, little understands the instincts of our race, who thinks we will not hold it fast and hold it forever,
  plest methods.
 Tagals Must He Crushed.
 "The military situation is no reason for abandonment. Our campaign has been as perfect as possible with the force at hand. We attempted a great task with insufficient means: we became impatient that it was not finished before it could fairly be commenced. and pray we may tl,n. tl,s.u .Nls ~ 5l pausing in the work before it is thorough ly and forever done
 ''I am prepared to vote either to make our work thorough or even now to aban- don it. A lasting peace can be secured only by overwhelming forces in ceaseleSs action until universal and absolutely final defeat is inflicted on the enemy.
 Reluctantly am 1 Forced to say" he continued, that American opposition to the war has been the chief factor in pro longing 1t. Had Aguinaldo not under stood that in America. even in the Ameri- can congress, even here in the senate, he and his cause were supported, his insur- rection would have dissolved before it entirely crystallized.
 "It would be better to abandon the is lands" he declared. than apply any academic arrangement of self government to these children.
 "They are not capable of self govern ment. They are not of a self governing race. They are orientals. Malays. in structed by the Spaniards in the latter's worst estate. How shall they, in the twinkling of an eye. be exalted to the heights of self governing peoples, which required 1000 years for us to reach?'
 He then entered upon a general de- fense of the policy of expansion.
 'The Declaration of Independence does not forbid us to do our part in the regen- eration of the world" he said. "It was written by self governing men for self governing men.
 Senators in opposition are estopped from denying our constitutional power to govern the Philippines as circumstances may demand, for such power is admitted in the case of Florida. Louisiana and Alaska. Does thousand miles of ocean diminish constitutional power more than a thousand miles of land? No. no. There is in the ocean no con stitutional argument against the march of the flag, for the oceans, too, are ours. The great republic before I die will be the acknowledged lord of the worlds high seas.
 Our flag has never paused in its on- WaEu uldEcn. " no uaFeS Halt IL now now, when history's largest events are carrying it forward; now, when we are at last one people, strong enough for any task. great enough for any glory destiny ean bestow.
 Blind indeed is he who sees not the hand of God in events so vast, so har- monious, so benign"
 Senator Hoar Makes Reply. Senator Hoar in reply said he had lis- tened in vain for those words which the American people have taken on their lips In solemn crises-"right," justice" "du- | ty" and freedom"
 Mir. Hoar declared that practically ev-