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BEvERlDGE TALKS
ON The PHILIPPINES
United States Has a Divine Com
mission to Establish Order
Where Chaos Reigos.
WILL BE EQUAL 10 THE TRUST
Strong and Simple Governmental
System Whit Is Needed in the
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philippines. Natives Inca
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Washington, Jan. 10-The feature in
the senate today was the speech oil
senator R~everidge, of Indiana, who al.
dressed the senate on his resolution
declaring the Philippines American
territory and that the United States
proposes to retain possession of them
nc was greeted by u brilliant audi
el1ce, every gallery being crowded, and
was given close attention throughout
senator Beveridge said, in part:
The times call for candor. The
philippines are Ours forever. territory
belonging to the United States as the
constitution calls them. And Just be.
yond the Philippines are China's Him
table markets. We will not retreat
from either, We will not repudiate
our duty in the archipelago. We will
not abandon our opportunity in the
orient. We will not oul
part in the mission of II race trus.
tee, under God, of the civilization OF
the world. And we will move forward
TO Our work. not bowling our regrets,
like slaves whipped to their burdens,
but With gratitude Tor a task worthy
OF our strength, altd Thanksgiving to
Almighty God that he has marked us
as his chosen people, henceforth to
lead in the regeneration of the world,
This island empire is the last land
left in all the oceans. If it should
prove a mistake to abandon it, the
blunder once made would be irretriev-
able. Ii it proves a mistake to hold
ii. the error can be corrected when we
will. Every other progressive nation
stands ready to relieve US.
Will BE No Mistake.
'But to hold it will be no mistake
Our largest trade henceforth must be
with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean
More and more Europe will manufac,
ture all it n~eeds-secure from its col.
onies the most it Where
shall we turn for consumers of oul
surplus? Geography the
question. China is our natural Gus
toner. She is nearer to us than tc
England. Germany or Russia, the
commercial powers of the present and
the future. They have moved nearer
to i by securing permanent bases
on her borders. The Philippines give
us a base at the door of all the east
Lines of navigation from our ports
to the orient and Australia; from the
lsthimian canal to Asia; from all
oriental points to Australia converge
and separate from the Philippines
They are a self-supporting, dividend
paying fleet, permanently anchored at
a spot selected by the strategy OF
providence, commanding the Pacific.
And the Pacific is the ocean of the
commerce of the future. Most future
wars will be conflicts for commerce.
The power that rules the Pacific
therefore is the power that rules the
world, and, with the Philippines, that
| power is and will forever be the Amer
lean republic.
TWO years ago there was no land
in all the world which. we could oc-
cupy fol-. any purpose. Our commerce
was daily turning toward the orient,
and geography and trade develop
ments made necessary our CONNER
cial empire over the Pacific. And in
that ocean we had no commercial,
naval or military base. Today we have
II of the three great ocean posses
sions of the globe, located at the most
commanding commercial, naval and
military points in the eastern seas,
within hail of India, shoulder 10
shoulder with China, richer in its own
resources than any equal body of land
on the entire globe. and peopled bvta
race which civilization demands shall
be improved. Shall we abandon it9
That man little knows the common
people of the republic, little under
stands the instincts of our race. who
thinks we will not hold it fast~and
hold it forever, administering Just
government by simplest methods. We
may trick up devices to shift our bur-
den and lessen our opportunities. They
will avail us nothing but delay. we
may tangle conditions by applying
academic arrangements of seIf-gov-
eminent to a crude situation; their
failure Will drive us to our duty in
the end
Defends General Otis.
After referring to the value of
China's trade, the resources and i'm
inense size OF the islands, the climate,
the character of the people, and TO
agninaldo, Senator Beveridge spoke
of the military situation. defending
General Otis. The campaign, he said.
a been as perfect as possible with
the force at hand.
I'VE have been delayed, first, by
failure to comprehend the immensitv
of our acquisition; and, second. by in
sufficient force; and, third, by our Of
forts for peace. a lasting peace can
be secured only by overwhelming
forces in ceaseless action until uni
yersal and absolutely final defeat is
inflicted on the enemy.
Our mistake has not been cruelty:
1t has been Kindness. 1t has been the
application to Spanish Malays of
methods appropriate to New England.
Every device of mercy, every method
OF cancellation has been employed by
the peace-loving president of the
american republic to the amazement
or nations experienced in oriental re-
volt. The friendly methods of peace
have been thoroughly tried, only to
make peace more difficult. There is
not now, and never was, any possible
course but ceaseless operations in the
i1eld and loyal support of the war at
nome. Had Aguinaldo not understood
TINT III America, even in the American
even here in the senate, he
and his cause We're supported: had he
not known that it was proclaimed on
the stump and in the press of a fac
ticn in the United States, that every
shot his misguided followers fred into
the breasts OF American soldiers was
like the volleys fired by Westinghouse
men against the soldiers of King
George, his insurrection would have
dissolved before it had entirely crys-
talized.'
The Filipinos, Senator. Beyeridge
said. are children utterly incapable Of
self-gosernment; the English or
Dutch systems of government were
impossible and u protectorate imprac-
ticable. He continued:
We must never forget that in deal
ing with the Filipinos we deal will,
children. And so our government must
ne simple and strong. Simple ind
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