Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-12
N. I. HAWLEY.
Retain the Philippines.

Brilliant speech BY Mr.. Bevsridge OF In
diana, who Spent Last summer In the
Philippines.
Mr.. Beveridge of Indiana, the youngest
member of the United States Senate, made
a brilliant debut Tuesday, when he spoke
for two hours on the Philippines. The
galleries were packed with spectators, and
at the close Mr.. Beverage was loudly APP
plauded, aD4 10 as congratulated by many
of the senators. He contended that our
largest trade henceforth must be with
Asia, and as the Pacific is our ocean,
China is our natural customer The Phil
ippines should therefore be retained.
"If it should be a mistake to abandon
it," he said, ''the blunder once made would
be irretrievable. If it proves a mistake to
hold it, the error can be corrected when we
will; every other progressive nation
stands ready to relieve us"
Concerning the resources and the i'm
mense size of the Philippines, the senator
said "But If they did not command
China, India, the Orient, the whole Pacific
for purposes Of offence, defence and trade,
the Philippines are so valuable in them
selves that we should hold them. | have
cruised more than 1000 miles through the
archipelago, every moment a surprise at
its loveliness and wealth. l have ridden
hundreds of miles on the islands, every
foot of the way a revelation of vegetable
and mineral richness. No land in Ameri-
ca surpasses in fertility the plains and val
leys in Luzon. Rice and coffee, sugar and
cocoanuts, hemp and tobacco, and many
products of the temperate, as well as the
tropic zone, grow in various sections of
the archipelago"
The following are some of the direct and
and terse statements made by Mr.. Bever-
| idge:
1.-THE wood of the Philippines can sup
ply the furniture of the world for a century
to come. The mineral wealth of this en-
pire of the ocean will one day surprise the
world. Luzon is larger and richer than
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, or
Ohio. Mindanao is larger and richer than
all New England. Manila, as a port OF
call or exchange, will, in time of men now
| living, far surpass Liverpool.
Had Aguinaldo not understood that in
America, even in the American Congress,
even here in the Senate, he and his cause
were supported, had he not known that il
was proclaimed on the stump, and in the
press of faction in the United States that
every shot his misguided followers fired in
to the breasts of American soldiers was
like the volley fired by Washington's men
against the sol Tiers of King George, hi:
instruction would have dissolved before
it entirely crystallized."
The Filipnos he found to be "a bar
barous race, modified by three centuries Of
contact with a decadent race" Not 8
thousand people in the island we're capa
BILE of self government in the Anglo SaxoI
sense. He declared that Aguinaldo was &
Malay Syla, not Filipino Washington.
Mr.. Beverage paid a high tribute Il
President Mckinley and insisted that hi'
policy was right; that it was endorsed by
an overwhelming majority of the Ameri
can people and further along he explained
THAT man little knows the common peo
pie of the republic little understands the
instincts of our race who thinks we viii
not hold it fast, and hold it forever, admin
istering 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 tan
gle conditions by applying academic ar
rangements of self government to a crude
situation; their failure will drive us to on
duty in the end"
Mr.. Beverage closed his long speed
with the assertion that Gods hand was il
this Philippine question, and cost what i
might, the war would not end until the en-
envy had been vanquished. Americans,
he added, "do not measure duty by fnan
cial standards"
Senator Hoar challenged Mr.. Bever
idge's statement that the Filipinos are in
capable of self government.