The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-10
COMPARED TO SATAN.
Senator Hoar's Reply to Sena-
tor BeYeridge's Speech.

Washington, Jan. 1O.-Mr Hoar, who
had been a careful listener to the
speech of Senator Beveridge yesterday,
as soon as he could make himself heard,
said that he had been delighted with
the eloquence of the senator from In
diana. "I am glad" said he, "to well
come to the public service his enthus-
iasm, his silver speech and the earnest
ness with which he is disposed to dis
charge his duty"
Yet, he said, he had listened in vain
for those words which the American
people have taken on their lips in solemn
crises. The words ''righ, justice, duty
and freedom" were absent from the
eloquent address. The beauty and
eIoquence of the speech had recalled
that incident in which Satan had taken
Christ up into an exceedingly high
mountain and shown him all the king
dOmS of the world and the glory there
of and promised that all should be his
if he would but fail down and worship
him; and He replied: Get thee behind
me, satan.
Mr.. Hoar declared that practically
every statement of fact in the speech
was refuted by government reports re-
ceived 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 commerce and glory which
| he had eloquently depicted, the senator
justice done.
Mr.. Hoar declared the Filipinos had
| the Spaniards hemmed in Manila and
| the latter were obliged to surrender.
He thought it would be necessary to
revise the constitution before those Fill
ipinos could be bought and sold. He
did not believe Mr.. Beveridge would ad-
wise the American people to do this
thing or to do anything so base as to
strike down the infant Filipino repub-
lie.
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, he asserted, that when
| Aguinaldo arrived in Luzon from Hong
Kong the insurgents had an army of
80 900; that in the island of Luzon, the
Filipinos maintained courts, schools.
municipal governments and churches
| and that peace and order prevailed
| pretty generally. Spanish prisoners
/ were kindly treated.
This declared Mr.. Hoar, 'is the
| condition of things which it is proposed
| to crush under our HEELS
| And that he commented, you call
] glory"
! Mr.. Hoar referred to Mr.. Beveridge's
| statement that the present condition of
warfare was due to utterances in this
country. This, he denied and pointed
| out that in December, 1898, the presi-
| dent had sent proclamation to Gen
! eral Otis for publication to the Fflipi-
nos.
| Gen. Otis returned the proclamation
! with the statement that after fun con-
| sideration of the terms sovereignty.
| right of cession,'' etc, he was convinced
| they were calculated to cause an i'm
| mediate outbreak of hOstilities.
Gen. Otis amended the proclamation
| by making the statement: Il am con-
| WINGED that it is the intention of the
| government of the United States to
! seek the establishment of the most lib
| eral government in the Philippines
This appeared in the proclamation
| published to the Filipinos, but a copy
| of the actual proclamation of the presi-
| dent fell into the hands of the Filipino
| leaders and precipitated hoStilities
Gen. Otis had promised, Mr.. Hoar
said, a government to the Filipinos in
which they would be able to exercise a
| full measure of their individual rights.
| Did he utter this promise to a people
| incapable of self government? To half
| savages and half Spaniards?" demand
| ed Mr.. Hoar He thought it bold to
| charge those men who had opposed this
| war from the beginning with the re-
| sponsibility of all the blood being shed.
| He declared there had not been a time
| when, if Gen. Otis had been able to give
| assurances of independence to the Fill
| pinos, the war would not have terlni-
| mated.
| After reading some passages from Of
| fetal reports, Mr.. .Hoar concluded, prom
| Using to discuss the question fully in the
! near future.