The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-10

* the complete text of the re-
- markable speech delivered in
senate yesterday by the ju-
nior senator from Indiana, Mr. Bever-
idgc in which he recounts the digest
cd results of his observations in the
Philippines. his interviews with men
representing all shades Of native and
foreign opinion his conclusions as 20
the military and administrative prob
lens presented, his views OF the con-
stitutional bearings of expansion and,
more broadly the imperious reasons
which summon the United states To
have done with timiditv and to de-
clare to the world it's unaltcrable in.
tcntion To carry forward the task con-
fronting it until the Philippine archi-
pclago shall be perfectly Americanized
from circumference to center.
The speech should he read in its en-
tirety for both its matter and its man.
ner. 1t confirms the good judgment
of those high officials at Washington
who selected this young senator at the
beginning of his first term to be the
first spokesman of the administration
in the Philippine debates which may
now be expected to continue with
more or less regularity throughout the
presidential campaign The speech IS
great Grafton. offering splendid op-
portunities for dramatic effects in its
personal delivery: but. more than that,
At is thorough presentation of infor-
nation and argument. bearing the i'm
press of accuracy, sincerity and effec-
tive study. The citizen who reads /:
carefully will learn much that is en-
tircly new about Philippine conditions
and will afterward view wha. has bee
done by the administration in the light
of changed understanding.
Senator Beveridge flatly asserts tina;
lf-government among the Filipinos.
In other than the most rudimentary
municipal forms. is a practical impos-
sibility. the academic view of which,
so beautifully pictured by the New
England sentmentalists. must be dis
regarded utterly if success shall at
tend American efforts to administer
law and order throughout the archi-
ment resting on the principle of d
benevolent American despotism and
defends 1t as the only proposition
which will fit the necessities of the
Malay race. But foremost of all, he
places the necessity of a complete ani
relentless determination of every ves-
iige of armed rebellion, holding it TO
we showed Cancellation and forbea.-
ance when these We're altogether mis-
construed to signify weakness and
fear. Tie chief emphasis in his speech
Is thrown upon the fact that in this
Philippine problem We are called upon
to deal. not with Anglo Saxons or
Tcutons nor with any other branch of
the Caucasian race, but with the "hals
devil, half child" type of Orientals.
with respect to whom complete re-
versal of the policy customary as be-
tween intelligent Occidentals is abso-
lutcly Imperative.
The view which Senator Beyeridro
presents of the race problems in the
Philippines is more sombre and more
S'iious lHtH any YET OHefeQ. but as
an offset he throws unprecedented en-
thuisasm into his narration of the ply
sical beauties and resources of the
archipelago, alleging it to be, without
exception, the richest garden SPOT in
all the earth's territory. The climate,
too, he informs us. has been grossly
mallgned. In the hottest period there
ar" places. not far from Manila where
one can have frost and blankets at
night; and he tells of many Europeans
who have passed their lives in Luzon
without the slightest disadvantage to
health or strength. 1t is his opinion
that the actual Americanization OF ILL.,
.zon. just as Oklahoma ANA New Next
90 have been Americanized by the
colonization of American pioneers, is
very possible: and he says that any
bright and healthy American today
who has pluck and little money caa
realize in the Philippines high de-
gree of prosperity. .. ,..
But let him tell his own story. a..
300. . -
Hrcther Roberts is beginning to dis