Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-28
SENATOR HOAR'S
GREAT SPEECH,
(coNTINURD FROM THE FIRST PAsH.)

clared war; IL we had dealt with the
Philippine Islands as we promised Co
deal have dealt, and expect TO deal with
Cuba, the country would have escaped
thG loss of 600 brave soldiers, other
thousands OF wretched and shattered
lives, the sickness OF many more. the
expenditure Of hundreds of millions,
and what is far worse than all, the
trampling under foot of its cherished
ideals. There W >uld have been to-day
. noble republic in the East, sitting
doeile at our feet, receiving from Us
civiliE stion, laws, msnCers, aud giving
in turn everything tbs gratitude Of q
free people could give-love, opedi-
euee, trade. The Philippine youth
would throng our universities; our
Constitution, our Declaration, the
lives Of Washington and Lincoln, the
sayings OF Jefferson aud Franklin
would have been the TEXTBOOKS of
their schools. dow our orators and
poets would have delighted to contrast
America liberstiug aud raising up the
republic of Asis, with England subdu-
ing aHd trampl ng under foot the re-
pubic OF Africa. Nothing at home
could have wiehstood the great party
and the great President VINO had done
these things. We sho1ld have come
from the next election with q solid
North and have carried half the South.
You would at least have been spared
the spectacle Of great Repubi an
States rising in revolt against Republi.
policies.
do not expect TO accomplish any
thing for liberty in the Philippine L.
lands but through the Republican par.
ty. Upon it the fate OF these is
lands for years to come Ia TO
depend. II that party can rot be per-
suadec, the case in my Judgment for
the pr resent hopeless. That party will
be ir. power for the nexs twelve
er for at least four years thereafter.
II it were 9th er wiss, what We do with
in the next twelve months could not
be undone without the consent of q
Republican Senate. Our majority in
the Senate for ut least four years is as
sured and IL that we're doubtful there
are democrats enough com mitted to
this expansion policy 60 make it sure
IL she bulk of the Republican party de-
termine to continue it.
no HOPE FROM BRYAN.
Icannot look with any favor upon Mr..
Bryan as an alternative. can not be.
lieve that there is anything to hope for
from his election. Upon all other
QUESTIONS than imperialism he an.
nounees no single doctrine. principle.
or purpose which has in ie anything
either OF prosperity or safety 80 the
Republic. And / cannot forget that
when it was attempted TO defeat the
Paris trea Y, or st least 60 compel an
amendment which, il it had been done,
would have put the Philippine Islands
upon the same footing with Cubs,
would have prevented the war, and
would have preserved our national
doctrines of liberty and our ancient
policy, it was due to Mr. Began, more
than to any other man after the treaty
left the hands Of the President. that
that attempts was frustrated. Unless
he lis much misreuresented he used al
his power and Influence with those II
his friends who were ready TO listen to
his counsel TO secure the ratifi sation of
the treaty. That ratification involved
the continuance Of she war, which had
then proceeded no further than an un-
authorized outbreak of hostilities and
an assumption of sovereignty over an
unwilling people to be purchased by
the United States-the cause of a
years wsr and all the disasters and
melancholy history of the last twelve
moDths.
do not underrate the importance of
this issue. It is greater than parties, |
greater than administrations, greater |
than the happiness or prosperity of al
single generation. But in pleading lr
justice TO these dusky millions OF dis |
tsnt Asiatics, can not forges 10, 600, |
600 American citizens here at home. TO |
whom neither citizsnship nor manhood |
IL hereafter TO be worth having unless
10
Who cas- fail to read the signs OF the /
times The Senator from Alabama
fading himself hard beset, made his
bid for che favor of the Democrats of |
Alabama by prOclAiming in his speech
m ade in his place here, but meant for
his campaign at home, the unfitn of
the Negro foT self-gOvernment, and
the repeal of the Oonstitu
tional amendments. And Alabama
sven il she disnke his imp 9rl slism, will
take him on those terms. Three States
have adopted constitutions consrived
with mastery ingenuity To exclud.
Negroes from the right TO vote. 9th
BIS are getting ready to follow in their
footsteps.
7TLLMAN's ADMISSION OF MURDER,
The Senator from South Oarolina. in
/
Almost forgotten in our admiration for
he manly frankness of the avoWal.
laid, the otner day, in the Senate: IL
I've tOokithe government away. We
tuh ID ballot boxes We shot them
Ne are not asham5d of it. Toe Sana.
or from Wisconsin would have done
he 50 me thing. / see it in his eve
light now. He would have dons IL
With that syste n-force, tissue ballots
te.-we got tired ourselves. So we .
allied q constitutional convention, md
Ee elm mated, Gs said, all of che col.
red people whom we could under the
D1rteenEn and fl teenth amend mepts
J. want to call your attention TO the {
EN- arkable chang that has come over
le spirit OF the dr. IAN of the RepublI.
ADS to remind you gentleman from
ne 18th that your slogans Of the past
OF man and the father
God of God-have gone glimmsrine q
own the ages. The brotherhood of | n