The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-01-15
BEvER|DGE SAYS We
MUST KEEP ISLANDS
Senator Sustains the Plans
and Policy of the
Administration.
SAYS WE CANNOT RECEDE
Hoosier Senator Asserts That the
United States Can Expand
Without Violating the
Constitution of the
Land.
By Jos: Oil.

by the Young senator from Indiana. Mr..
Beveridge. and 1t brought out lively
rejoinder from the patriarch OF the re-
publican side. Senator Hoar. of Massa-
chusetts 1t was really Senator Bever-
idge's day and Senator Hoar was driven
into it simply because some of the state
ments of his young colleague seemed TO
pierce his cuticle. Senator Beveridge hac
been announced for his maiden effort
IN the way of a senate speech and for
several reasons that announcement had
attracted more attention than is ordinari-
ly given similar announcements. The
attention of Washington had been at
tracted to the boy senator first by his
election. which the republican politicians
of Indiana had said was impossible; next
by his action in going out to the Philip
pines to study the conditions there him
self: then again by newspaper notices of
hardly complimentary nature which
had a tendency to miSrepreSent the young
man. and lastly, by his announcements
of set speech upon a live topic in the
first session OF his service as "a senator
His Argument Unlike His Speeches.
Almost of the oratory which has been
heard on this subject heretofore has come
from the men opposed to the administra-
ton policy. Those who favor the expan-
sion side have had little to say and none
of those who have talked have taken
the frank. open ground of the senator
from Indiana, who argued that this gov
eminent should not only refuse To hold
out any promises OF independence OF how
soever eGuivocal nature but that we
should declare 1t our purpose To hold
me IhinppIne archipelago as a perma-
neHt possession anG should give It's m
hitD4tantS Il colonial government.
Inc TACT That the senator nstu made the
Investigations Tor himself, that he DrOugnt
testimony from the foremost men vi me
lsianuS 10 bear out his contention that IL
would DC a good business proposition Tor
us 10 mold these Islands, that the peOp4e
are incapable OF Seu-SONernmenI, ana
that IGch Il government would De an III
jury To them rather than blessing, gave
peculiar value to his speech in the opinion
OF ms hearers. AT tunes he was quite
dramatic IN his utterdnceS, particularly
|. when he charged that the blood of Amer
lean soldiers must be upon those here
a. home who had been instrumental in
Keeping alive the inSurrecUon by their
opposition 10 the poicy OF the admins
tratiOn.
Senator Beveridge began by saying ne
had been asked by members of congress
To give his observations in the Philip
pines. Declaring that the archipelago
commands the Pacific and asserting the
value OF China's trade. he said:
have cruised more than 1000 miles
through the archipelago, every moment a
surprise at its loveliness and wealth. have
ridden hundreds OF miles on the islands, every
foot OF the way a revelation OF vegetable and
mineral riches. No land in America SURPRISES
in fertility the plains and valleys Of I.uzon.
Rice and coffee. sugar and cOcoanuts, hemp and
tobacco, and many products Of the temperate.
as well as the tr0pic zone. grow in various
sections of the archipelago I have seen hun
dreds Of bushels OF Indian corn lying In
road fringed with banana trees. The forests
or Ncsros. MIndanaO. MindOra. Raluan and
parts Of Luzon are invaluable and intact. The
wood OF the Philippines supply the fur
niture of the world for century 10 come. At
=. VasNE
forty miles Of Cebu's mountain chain are prac-
tically mountains of coal Pablo Malta. one Of
the most reliable men on the Islands. confirmed
the statement Some declare that the coal is
only Ignite, but ship captains. who have used
IT, told me that il is better steamer fuel than
the best coal Of Japan. have nugget Of
pure gold picked up in its present form on
the banks Of a Philippine creek l have gold
dust washed out by crude processes Of care
less natives from tho sands of a Philippine
stream. Both Indicate Breat deposits at the
source from which they come. In one Of the
islands great deposits of copper exist untouch-
ed. The mineral wealth of this empire of the
ocean viii one day surprise the world l
base this statement partly on personal ooser-
walton. but chiefly the testimony of foreign
merchants in the Philippines. who have prac-
ttcally investigated the subject and upon the
unanimous opinions Of natives and priests
And the mineral wealth is but small frac-
ton Of the agricultural wealth of these
islands
The senator deals with the cereals and
other products and the export and i'm
port trade of the island and says:
Manila. port OF call and exchange, will,
in the time of men now living. far surpass
Liverpool If we are willing To 20 TO
rather than let England have a few feet Of
frozen Alaska. which affords no market and
commands none, what should We not do rather
than let England. Germany, Russia or Japan
have all the Philippines? And no man on the
spot fail to that this would be their
fate If we retired.
The speaker then dealt with the eli
ion ufaI Oh Of
natives. He said;
The Filipino is the South Sea Malay. put
through a process Of 800 years Of supersti-
ton i'm religion dishonesty in dealing, disorder
in habits Of industry and cruelty. caprice and
corruption in government. II is barely possible
that 900 men in all the archipelago are
capable of elf-goyernment in the Anglo-Saxon
sense. My own belief Is that there are not
100 men among them who comprehend what
Anglo-Saxon self-goyernment means; and there
are over 100000 people 10 be governed.
know many clever and highly educated men
among them but there are only three com
handing intellects and CONGRATULATIONS.
Mabini and Aguiraldo. Arellano. the chief
Justice of supreme court, Is a profound
lawyer and a brave and incorruptble man.
Mabini is the highest type of subtlety and
most constructive mind that race has Yet pro-
duced Aguinaldo is n clever, popular leader
able. brave, resourceful. cunning, ambitious.
INSCRIPTIONS and masterful
Senator Beveridge here read to the SEN
ate extracts from a great number of in
terVieWS with natives and merchants in
each of the islands. After reading the
interviews Senator Beveridge continued
as follows:
Here, then, senators, is the situation. Two
years ago there was no land in all the world
which we could occupy for any purpose. Our
commerce daily turning toward the orient,
and geography and trade developments made
necessary our commercial empire over the Pa
cific And in that ocean we had CONNER
cial, naval military base. Today we have
one of the three great ocean possessions of
the globe, located at the most commanding
commercial naval and military points in the
eastern seas, within hail of India, shoulder
to shoulder with China, richer in its
sources than any equal body of land on the
entire globe, and peopled by a which
civilization demands shall be improved. Shall
we abandon it? That man little knows the
common people of the republic. little under
stands the instincts of our race. whe thinks
we will not hold 1t fast. and hold 1t forever,
administering just government by simplest
methods. We may trick up devices to shift
our burden and lessen our opportunity: they
will avail nothing but delay. We may
tangle conditions by applying academic arrange
ments of self-government to crude situation:
their failure will drive us to our duty in the
end.
Senator Beveridge declared that the