The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-11
BEVERIDCE ANDHOAR
Senate Listens to Eloquence
on Philippine Question.
BOY SENATOR OF INDIANA IMPRESSIVE
Senator From Masanchusetts Says
Courts. schools. Churches, Peace
and order Were Maintained
by the Filipinos.

by the Filipinos.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1O.-"That man
little knows the common people of the re-
public, little understands the instincts of
our race, who thinks we will not hold it
(the Philippine archipelago fast and hold
1t forever, administering just government
by simplest methods"
This sentence was the keynote of the
speech delivered in the senate yesterday
by Mr.. Beverdgc, the junior senator from
Indiana. IL was the maiden speech in
the senate of about the youngest member
of the body. The announcement that he
would deliver an address embodying his
observations in the Philippines attracted
an unusually large number of auditors
to the galleries. On the floor of the SEN
ate every member in the city was in his
seat, and scores of representatives came
over from the house The occasion was
inspiring and Mr.. Beveridge rose to it
brilliantly. His oration-for properly it
was an oration-was deeply interesting.
It was repete with striking sentences
and well arranged information. He spoke
with all the earncstness, vigor and elo-
quence of q fine orator enthusiastic in his
subject, who rose at times to his subject
with the power of passionate dramatic
utterance. The speech created a pro-
found impression upon all who heard it.
Mr.. Beveridge is scholarly and refined
in appearance, with striking face and
figure. Throughout his speech he was
easy and natural and entirely free from
mannerisms. He spoke rapidly and with
great earnestness. When he declared
with deep solemnty to those "whose
voices in America have cheered those
misguided natives on to shoot our soldiers
down that the blood of those dead and
wounded boys of ours is on their hands.
and the flood of years can never wash
that stain away" there was n deep al
though suppressed sensation among his
auditors.
AT the conclusion of the speech tre-
mendous and unrestraincd applause swept
over the galleries, and it was notable that
Secretary of the Treasury Gage, who oc-
cupied seat in the senator's gallery, was
a participant in it.
Mr.. Hoar (Republican of Massachu-
getts) replied briefly to Mr.. Beveridge.
Although he did not enter fully into the
merits of the question under discussion.
he did not feel that some of the Indi-
ana senator's statements ought to so to
the country unchallenged. He declared
that not the American opposition to the
war, but the presidents proclamation to
the Filipinos, was responsible for the hos
tilities. He ridiculed Mr.. Beveridge's
statement that the Filipinos were in
capable of self government and quoted
General Otis reports to show that they
were.
He thought it would be necessary to re-
wise the constitution before those Filipi-
nos could be bought and sold. He did not
believe Mr.. Beveridge would advise the
American people to do this thing or to do
anything so base as to strike down the
infant Filipino republic
The Massachusetts senator made fire.
quent references to and quotations from
the reports of General Otis and Admiral
Dewey and other officers in the Philip,
pines. These showed that when Aguinal-
do arrived in Luzon from Hongkong the
insurgents had an army of 10000, in the
island of Luzon the Filipinos maintained
courts, schools, municipal governments
and churches and that peace and order
prevailed pretty generally. Spanish pris-
oners were kiadly treated. This" de-
clared Mr.. Hoar, lis the condition of
things which it is proposed to crush un-
der our heels. And that" he commented,
you call glory"
MI. hOaf declared that practically ev-
cry statement of fact in the speech was
Tefuted by government reports received
from Admiral Dewey, General Otis and
from other official sources. Where did
Spain get the right to sell her rights in
the Philippines? Mr. Hoar asked. Where
did the United States get the right to
buy and sell people like sheep? He was
certain that for all the wealth and COM
haerce and glory which he had eloquently
depicted the senator from Indiana would
not have great injustice done.