The age-herald., 1900-04-20
SENATOR MORGAN
 AND SENATOR HOAR
BY uucIEN JuLrEN WALKER.

has appeared to this people since Jefferson
 re-made the map of the world. If expan- | sion offend then is Senator Morgan the | head and front of all such offending. Yet
 the arch-expansionist, the great leader in | whom is centered the aspirations of mill l lions of Americans, receives the emphatic
 endorsement of the greatest number of 1 intelligent white men who ever went to 1 the polls in Alabama for any purpose. And
 whilst his genius and his statesmanship | belong to the nateH and to the universal
 cause of good government and human 1 liberty, he is an Alabamian and has
 dwelt here for more than two generations.
 Hence, the mighty tribute paid him comes | from a multitude of men who know him famliarly and who were least likely to be influenced by the glemor of his greatness.
 This opportunity was the first which
 permitted any great body of voters to pass
 judgment directly upon tho cause ot ex- l pansion; and the decision delivered last | Saturday sustains that cause, and Is writ
 in letters bright enough to illumine all | minds. The great mass of Alabamians | send greetings to the unconauerapie | legions of Americans who are sustaining | expansion.
 l Happily .lHc QueSliOIl ol SAPethSiNii 'o ] rot now a party issue Neither of the
 great political parties of the union has 1 spoken, and therefore, even the most par tisan of party men may feel free to l act as well as think independently, and
 for the real good and glory of the Amer ! ioan union It is true that there are ele-
 ments in both the leading parties that | would appear to confuse the issue by loud
 sounding of catch phrase imperialism, meaning thereby the substitution of mon archism for republcanism. But it is well nigh impossible to believe that any serious J minded, enlightened American actually 1 believes that this country is in any de- l gree threatened with a change in it's form
 of government Change in minor details 1 has been taking place ever since the adoption of the constitution, but the form l of government remains virtually the same
 and will so remain. The good men and
 bad who call themselves "anti-imperial- ists," are a small part of that large ele-
 ment clamoring for the "eection of sena- { tors by the people," If that had not been | in fact always the law. When they say
 elect they mean choose by direct pop
 ular vote. This method is even now open ! E
 they demand by way of amendment to the constitution will never be brought about
 until Chaos come and then it can be of l no moment.
 When the accaiming of Morgan's un equaled victory was sounding loudest, MT
 Hoar, the venerable senator for Massa- i chusetts, was piping an old mans futile
 lay against expansion, which he would ! make the absurd bugbear of Imperialism" , It was as the whistling of reed in the roar of hurricane. The senator was yio- lent in some of his utterances thoughtless
 in others; noble in a few But Senator
 Hoar has given the American people fifty years of more or less violence, and they
 are used to it. The most towering wrath
 Of his prime was poured out upon ragged, defenseless, monstrously oppressed ''reb- els in this country Within the shadow of that hour when even his passion must pass from the earth, he pours his wrath upon those in authority whom duty re- quires to take issue with patriots" in Asia. Outlawed, helpless, imprisoned, fee
 ble old Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was
 in the language of young Mir Hoar's wrath the incarnation of every damned deyiltrv
 against the body polite. Young Aguinaldo
 of Luzon is in the language of aged MT.
 Hoar's wrathful adoration the black in-
 carnation of all the bright virtues. MT. Hoar should forgive his countrvmen for
 remembering some of the previous out bursts of his wrath
 They tell us that MT Hoar's last speech
 in the senate was dramatic" One can well believe it was so He not only lost ! lie hut
 guiding hand of his scholarship, his great ! learning. Even unlettered senators, if i there be any such, have respect for schol- | arly attachments. We are informed that
 MT Hoar spoke thus of Aguinaldo:
 | He deserves to be remembered with that 1 band who have given life and everything 1 dear to life to their country in a losing | cause. He shall live with Kossuth with | oom Paul, with Joubert, with Emmett with Egmont and Horn, with Nathan Hale
 with Warren-with all the great martyrs l of history whose blood has been the seed | of the church of liberty"
 Not only is this absurd; 1t is in part i'm
 pious. Hard dealing it is with even such
 benighted bgots as Kruger and Joubert
 to liken Aguinaldo to them.
 Here MT. Hoar quite bubbled over: 'The state papers of Aguinaldo, the dis cussion of the law of nations by his attor- ney-general, the masterly appeal of Ma i pini, are products of Asiatic mind, the ve- | hicle through which came to Us the scrip lures of the Old and N~-> Testaments, the l poetry Of David, the eloquence of Isaiah | the wisdom of Solomon, the profound phil | osophy of Paul."
 l MT Hoar, scholar, is we'll aware that 1 the Jews are not "Asiatic'' in the real
 meaning of that term; that there is no record of their ever having been "Asiatic'
 in our conception of the designation: and | that David Isaiah, Solomon and Paul were | no more of the "Asiatic mind" than is a | Cape Cod fisherman The Jews are of Asi-
 atic origin. So also were MT. Hoars Puri- | tans, and all other white races. It is of no 1 consequence in this discussion what Agu;- | naldo's religion is, or whether he has re- | ligion at all; but in seeking to make a
 saint of this patriot the venerable sena- l tor might have spared the prophets of the | Jews and the apostles of the Christians. r. i- hot -nr1b bnr xxrritt tan