The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-18
The 'nsurgent Leader Likened to Best
Minds of Oriental Race.
NAVAL BILL IN The HOUSE
General Debate Closed Yesterday. and
Today ii Niil.bc Read for Amend
ment Under Fixc-Minutc I;nlc.
Mr. Eixey Severely Criticised
Extravaganza OF the
Meas re.

senior senator from SldSSdtiihStlh9s 49,
pied the attention Of the Senate with
speech in opposition 10 the policy OF i'm
perialism.'' upon which he maintained
this government has embarked AS
prepared, the address was fifty thousand
words in length, but Mr.. Hoar omitted
much of it On account of AN incipient
attack of the grip, from which he was
suffering.
The speech was brilliantly written; was
illuminated with splendid rhetorical
iigures and was rich with citations from
history. One of the notable parts OF tiie
address was the culogy of Aguinaldo.
Mr. Hoar did sol liken the insurGent
leader to Washington, as has been done
heretofore. but TO Kossuth, Dom faui,
Jo1bert, Nathan Hale and other ouifders
of the Church of Liberty IN statecrait
he likened Aguinaldo and his associates
in the leadership of the filipinos to the
best minds ever produced in the Asiatc
race q race which handed down to US
.>the tSs.riptures of the OLD and New
Testa.llerts, the poetry of David the
elouuenee of Isaiah, the wisdom of SOLO
mon and the profound philosophy OF
Paul.
A ROLL-CALL.
One of the most effective parts of the
address was his fancied roll-cali OF some
Of the distinguished statesmen OF the
United States on the question OF reien-
ton of the Philippines. He began VIII VIZ
George Washington, and Closed Win w u
liam Mckinley each in a sentence giving
the reason for his vote All was IN the
negative except Aaron Burr. who votei
..yes- and explained: you're defeating
my expedition down the mississippi
am indicated at last,
When tie name of William Mckinney
was called he replied: There mas peeh
a cloud before my vision for a moment,
but 4 see clearly now. so BACK ~
what / said two years ago-sForcipie ali-
nexation is criminal aggression; govern
ments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed'-not some ..
them, but all of them W1li stah NJ,
With the fathers of the republic "lil
stand with the founders 81 'he i'epAD
lican party-No-
pronounced this peroration the stiffness
an the chamber was intense Applause
swent over the galleries, but it was hush
ed quickly by the President pro tenn.
Mr. Hoar took as his text tne ioeNe-
ridge resolution. declaring the Philippines
1-ri+a5 states territory He cited the
glory of the war with Spain, the pros
MARTY of the American people at lis close.
c,,ioeized President Mckinley's course at
that slime. characterizing him as the pest
beloved President who ever sat IN the
chair Of Washington. He begged the Ike
publican party not to recede from rs
principles, and said if when We made
the peace treaty we had adhered TO the
purpose we welded when we declared
war. if we had dealt with the Philippines
as we promised to deal, have dealt. ana
expect to deal with Cuba, the country
would have escaped the loss of 6,Ne brave
soldiers, other thousands of wrecked ana
shattered lives. the sickness OF many, rae
expenditure of hundreds of millions and,
what is far worse than all. the tramp
ling under foot of its cherished ideals.
THROUGH REPUBLICAN PARTY.
II don't expect to accomplish anything
for liberty in the Philippine Islands but
through the Republican party. Upon it
the fate of these islands for years 10 come
is TO depend. / cannot look with any
favor upon Mr. Bryan as an alternative.
st believe not only that perseverance in
the present policy will be the abandon
,nent of the principles upon which our
government is founded: that it will change
our republic into an empire: that our
methods of legislature, of diplomacy, OF
administration mustshereafter belong to
empires and not those which belong TO
republics. but i believe persistence in this
attempt will result in the defeat and over
THROW OF The hepuDllCdll pii
Touching upon the -constitutionality of
the question at issue, Mr.. Hoar said:
81 hold that this acquisition of terri
tory. holding and governing. can be only
a means for a constitutional END, and
maintain that YOU can no more hold and
govern territory than you can hold and
manage cannon scr fleets for any other
than constitutional end.
EXPANSION OF FREEDOM.
=
In the Declaration of Independence for
expansion, Mr.. IIoar declared: There Is
expansion enough in it, but it is the
expansion ef freedom and not of despot-
ism: of life, mot of death. Never was
such growth in all human history as
that from the seed Thomas Jefferson
planted. II aas covered the continent.
II Is on both the seas, 1t has saved
South America 1t is revolutionizng
E,,rope. Ii is the expansion of freedom.
IT differs from your tinsel pinchbeck,
pewter expansions as the growth of
healthy youth into strong man differs
from the expansion of an anaconda when
he swallows his victim. Ours Is the
expansicn of Thomas Jefferson. Yours
Is the expansion of Aaron Burr. 1t is.
destined to a short life and to a like.
fate.
..You have tried governing men Of other
races than your own at home for a hun
drad wears. You have Gcait Win Inc
indian, you have dealt with the negro.
close at hand. knowing all about them.
suppose You feel encouraged by your
success. There are ten million of them,
and now ycu 30 forth to lay your yoke
on, ten million more, seven thousand
miles away, of whom YOU know nothing.
You go forth jauntily and boastinsly. as
Louis Napoleon went to meet his doom
al Sedan
JUSTIFIED RESISTANCE.
Mr.. 45oar reviewed the insurrechon and
made a vigorous defence of the Fflipinos.
The state papers of Aeninalao, he said.
the discussion of law of nations by his
Encouragement. a mastery appeal. are
the products of the Asiatic mind
The Senator fully justified the INiiipinos'
scion IN resisting the American forces.
AS 10 what he would do with the Philip
pines. Mr. 4Irsr said:
.sDecfare now that VIC will not take these,
islands TO govern them against their will.
Reset cession Of sovereignty which I'M
plies that sovereignty may be bought and
cold without the consent OF the governed.
Require foreign powers TO keep out OF
these islands. offering to the Ftlipinos our
1,0lv Until they have established gpy-s