St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-17

N"' 'AN~ PNh@J III tCSdIu ~ III
Philippine Islands was formal
opened in the United States Senat
mt last week under very interesting cir
as cumstances. Senator Beveridge. o
Indiana, "the boy orator." who
- spent some time in the Philippine
g Islands last summer, made hi.
70 maiden speech in the Senate, and that
n conservative body never listened TO a
more spread-eagle effort. Mr.. Bev-
d eridge depicted in glowing colors the
II great advantages this country was
. to derive from possessing the islands;
how the Pacific was bound to become
! the great highway for the worlds
commerce; how our trade in China
was to develop beyond conception;
that the islands themselves contain
untold resources which need only the
touch of the hand guided by the in
telligence of the American to cause
countless millions to flow to our
shores; that by holding the islands
we will become the paramount DO wer
in the Pacific and control the desti-
MES OF China, India, and the entire
Orient. In speaking of our military
policy, he said that we should fight
until every armed force and every
guerilla band is dispersed or exter
minated, and that we should not
treat with them until they are entire.
ly subdued.
Mr.. Hoar, the venerable republican :
leader, in a mastery speech, and
voice that trembled with emotion,
replied to Mr.. Beveridge. He began d
by saying, LAS l heard his eloquent d
description of wealth and glory and d
commerce and trade, listened in vain d
or those words which the American "
'eople have been wont to take upon l
heir lips in every solemn crisis of III
heir history. | heard much calcu- %
lted to excite the imaginatio of the W
outh seeking wealth or the youth II
harmed by the dream of empire. But m
he words Right, Justice, Duty, Free az
ON were absent. | could think as &c
us brave young Republic of ours pc
stoned to what he had to say of but III
ne occurrence: Then the devil re-
'keth Him up into an exceeding sa
gh mountain and showeth Him all III
he Kingdoms of the world and the Isl
DRY of them. And the devil said We
1to Him, All these things will l TO
We unto Thee if thou wilt fall down vie
I'D worship me- Then saith Tesus tn
ito him, Get thee behind me we
ltan." no
Senator Ross, whose conservative We
49," ""~ s.~sH oUun~- -
here between the extremes, sym. sol
tn yes aslttle with Mr.. Beve ridges the
"a OF conquest, of glory, of untold pea
'alth, and of paramount power in VII
East, as he does with Mr.. Hoar's ma
a that the FIlipinos should imme. II
tely be given independence. He tlct
nks that we have assumed a great trlt
possibility to the inhabitants of ent
islands and that to give them in. ans
now would be to shirk wei
It responsibility and invite Oar
irchy; that good government is sofa
npIlcated process and a character Ma
c OF high civilization; that it can Coo
earned only after long and patient Jers
ming and much experience; that Ter {
inhabitants of the Philippine viii
ndS, mixture of many races, ancf
'ressed, deceived, and i'll treated TO
three hundred years by Spain, Unit
entirely incompetent to govern earle
nselves; that this nation should and
It them as a father treats b;s New
d, teaching him the great lessons the
lie By kindly example and precept. otV'
thinks that if this nation train redo
Ftllplnos in the art ofself.govern- Dep'
1t, produce there an intelligent, tinc'
1stian people and develope them nous
condition that will some day sym
Bile them to take an honorable mod
&c among the nations of the earth, thril
Will be worth many times the ator
t. of II
Though Mr.. Ross thinks that our has
t, and for time our only, object sign
the Philippine Islands should be stat
nanitarian, yet he is not oblivious ernn
he commercial advantages. He Oper
ks that by as much as we estab. been
peace there, as we train the in A
itants in Christianity, morality, into
hdelity; as we educate them mem
ching them the art of government inc t
management of finance, industry II the
trade, by so much will thew soldi
It upon our government and orr Cong
pie: that NOT nnIy ,,;Ii 49, the r