The age-herald., 1900-02-02
THE SP|ON KOP EXPEDITION COST
 EULER 1885 OFFICERS AND MEN
Cable Scraps Throw No Light on Military Operation
 Believed BOer Lines Are Again Attacked
for his reflections upon the fair name of the south yesterday.
 Criticised Ills Fellow Democrats

the south yesterday.
 Criticised Ills Fellow Democrats
 Mr. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, fin an hours speech, criticized his fellow democrats for opposing the annexation of the Philippines. He had, he said. heard no argument against territorial enlargement which was lana and Texas.
 "Is there any parallel" asked MT. Coch-' ran of Missouri, "between the territory in the Louisiana purchase, then practically without population. and the Philippines?"
 Nothing has been said about the Phil ippines," replied MT. Sibley, which was not said about the territory now Missouri. You in Missouri were classed as barbar- ians.''
 But are the Philippines, with a popula- tion denser than Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, available for occupation?" asked Mr. Cochran.
 q think they are. When Jefferson nego- t.ated the purchase of Louisiana he was the target of vftuperation rldicule and re- proaoA.'
 "Do you believe the people in the Philip pines are susceptible of the civilization of the inhabitants of the Louisiana pur- chaser"
 T am not placing Limitations upon the powers of Almighty God answered Mir Slbley.
 Proceeding he pointed out that modern methods had brought 'the Philippine nearer than the Louisiana purchase or Texas when they were annexed.
 In reply to MT. Cochran's taunt Shat civ ilizadiom was being shot inro the Philip pines, MT. Sibley slald that the history of civilization had been traced in human Eqood. Wendell Phillips had said that every achievement of Gluman justice had gone from rack to rack and scaffold to scaffold.
 Small we hold Porto Rico and the Philip pine archipeoago?" asked MT. Sbbley w ehould Hold Every Foot s.s
 Every foot; no nation on earth has higher night of bltle to a rod of soil. We hofd lbhe double itftle of purchase and of conquest. and my belief is that where once the shadow of our banner has fallen there will survive race of free men, And I would hold Cuba unti1 stability, order. good government and the protection of life and property were assured. I am going to echo tae presiderst's query, who will haul down the f1ag?' Who planted 1t there? What cabinet council. what warrior what states man, what senator or representatives, what body of men formed any plan of conquest? The keenest sighted statesman, most daring warrior dreamed even of the possi- bilty of great gain, great growth or great ness to come to us nation c.ao aetaolnnn ness to come ito a nation from tGha. war of which the Glowing up of 'aae Maine was the first declaration. God and the valor of American arms gave us that ter r.tory, not because we are nation alto gether free, altogether pure, altogether b.ameless, but because working through Him ats an fundamentally, He has given M to the boldest, the freest, the most pro- gressive, the most enlightened and the most Christian of all the nations of she present time. (App.ause.)
 MT. Sioley believed tnat the United States was destined to carry the arts of peace and the story of the cross to the remotest corners of the globe. He appealed to the democratic party to come back to the teachings of the democratic fathers.
 The Nicaragua canal should be built, le said, and the subsidy bill to encourage American shipping passed. China was 10