The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-18

hnitely fewer readers than the morning
daily with It's Hariug headlines that tempt,
despite its rebellion, the public into wad-
ing through oceans OF verbosIty in search
OF ideas that frequently do not materlallse
But when men come to investigate crit
tically and safely the doings Of their SER
wants in the National legislature, the Con-
gressional Record, as dry as It often Is,
becomes most interesting reading. One
paragraph from the Record knocks to-
pieces the sopbistry OF tho brilliant In
dianian as eifectually as a iyddite shell
would n Spanish blockhouse. Here 1t Is:
MIR. President. the Senator himself and
the evidence coming from our two command
ers General Otis and Admiral Dewey. and
witnesses for whom they youch. refute every
one Of the propositions OF fact on which my
honorable friend has built his glttterins tenn
pie OF glass. He describes the impotent and
Intellectual attempt Of Spain for 300 years TO
reduce that people TO subiectton tells US
that she had failed. lie counsels us to avoid
the errors and the mistakes and the sins she
has committed " that be true. WI Presl-
dent where did spain get the right TO sell
the people Of the Philippine Islands 70 us?
They had risen against that erete and in-
potent and inefftcttal effort OF Spain. they
had driven her from the entire soil OF their
island. save single city they hernmed In
her troops In that single city OF Manila ny
a Gordon Of their troops stretching from
water to water and Spain surrendered TO us
only because her soldiers could not get out
OF reach Of tho American guns without being
compelled to surrender to the Ftlipinos-
In answer TO the charge from Senator
Beverage that all tho blood and treasure
expended in the Philippines was encour-
aged by utterances In America and
speeches in the United states senate. the
senator from Massachusetts answered:
The debate in the American senate on this
subject hegan--with a single exception OF a
brief and calm constitutional discussion by
the senator from Missouri tMy Nesu on the
9th Of January, 1892 Now let us see what
happened | have in my hand the report OF
Major General Otis. and without dciaininE
the senate at this hour IN the afternoon for
shall have occasion TO speak more Al
Length on this subject later all through that
report and through that whole summer are
found again and again communications TO the
government Of the Unifed StatkS that the
people OF tho Philippine Stands desire their
Independence that s onq thing. that they
arc . peonlc 10 the president calls them,
and thar IL the phrase that the Declaration
NJ lndcuendenco uses whom IL says people
have = right 10 est8biHh their government
In such form as they conceive to he neces-
psry for their safety snd happiness Then
Aguiuaido was brought over there to a people.
30 On of whom we're IN arms ~ an organized
army before he went, and he was placed at
me head nj that people Who we're desiring
independence and furnished With arms by
the government Of tho United states That
was the condition OF things until Manila
was surrounded tho Spanish army captured.
and the surrender ot Manila Was Effected
Senator Hoar states the facts and they
rsu MOI be destroyed, unless men foremost
IN Tho confidence and esteem OF the
United states shall eventually come TO say
that their original statements. officially
made, were false. This they can not az
ford TO do and win not do. They may re-
gret having made them, in view OF the ad-
ministration's duplcty and present peril
but that is as far as they can so without
expiring in a conhagratlon OF public in
dignation
The whole truth OF the evil designs
whence was hatched the Philippine war,
will eventually come out. II It shall
come forth from quarrel between two
republican senators, 1t will be all the
more acceptable to the country.