The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-19
HILL On TIE DOER WAR
DAVID H., EX-SENATOR AND EX-
GOVERNOR, DISCUSSES REPUB-
LICS AND IMPERIALISM
ST. PATRICK's DAY ADDRESS
Speaker Berates the Supineness of
McKinley's Administration in Per-
mitting the Extinction of the
Republics Without Protest.

NEW YORK, March 1S-The ffty-sec-
ond annual banquet Of the ST. Patrick's
society was held in Brooklyn tonight
President f. ]. Carlin, of this city, had
with him at the guests table, eX-Gov.
David B. Hill, Comptroller Bird S. Coler,
DR.. ]. A. Keen, and about a dozen
others. The toasts given and responded
TO were as follows:
THE Day We Celebrate" Rev. E. ].
McGoldrick.
THE United States former Gov. Hill.
Ireland Andrew McClain.
City of New York; Bird S. Coler.
"Our Sister Societies. ]. A. Keen.
Gov. Hill made the principal speech Of
the evening. He said in part:
Mr.. HILLS ADDRESS.
Every true American rejoices in the
fact that he lives in a republic A
whereby the people rule, not directly, as
IN democracy, but indirectly through
their chosen representatives under a
written constitution, wherein popular
are already clearly defined, constitutes
the best form of government ever de-
vised by man.
''rhe distinctions which exist between
our form of government and that of
monarchieS, limited or otherwise are
particularly emphasized in the recent adj
dress to parliament of Edward VII,
the new king Of Great Britain and
Ireland and emperor OF In5ia.
He assures parliament that my rela-
tlons with other powers continue to be
friendly, while he rejoices that the
capitals of the two South African repub-
lies are in my hands, and he tells par
lament that my troops will deal effec-
lively with the forces of the enemy
our ears in free America Here we
would tolerate no such assumption OF
superiority and power as those terms
imply: Loyalty here, means loyalty to
ourseives-to our cwn constituted but
not inherited authorities.
THE kings address deserves further
notice IN passing. He characterized the
resistance of the brave Dutch farmers,
heroically defending their liberties, as
'fruitless guerilla warfare, maintained by
the Boer partisans in the former terri
tories Of the two republics He further
asserts that their easy submission is
much to be desired in their own inter
est He then adds: Until it takes place
it will be impossible for me to establish
in those colonies institutions which will
secure equal rights to all the White iu-
habitants and protection and peace to
the native population.
DIFFERS WITH EDWARD VII.
These are most remarkable utter
ances in this progressive and enlightened
twentieth century. We submit that it
does not render the British cause any
as partisans instead of patriots, nor to
obtain the exact military situation by
seeking to regard their resistance as
fruitless guerrialla warfare
THE apathy of this great republic
in this emergency, while witnessing the
destruction of two struggling republics
in South Africa and the substitution of
a manarchical government in their place
is almost incomprehensible.
IF it be urged in defense of our ma
tienal letharey that the Monroe doctrine
presents no objection to the destruction
of republics elsewhere than upon tliiS
continent, it may well be answered that
neither did that doctrine contemplate an
attempt upon our part to extend our
jurisdiction into the Pacific seas
But whether it can be seriously estab-
lished that there rested upon this ma
tion the positive duty of interference in
the first instance to protect its two sis
ter republics from annihiliation at the
hands of manarchica1 government, it is
suggested that at least it was our ma
tlonal duty to insist that the alleged
grievances of Great Britain which formed
the pretext for it's warfare upon the two
weak republics should be submitted to
arbitration before hostilities were ac-
tually opened
THE country cannot have forgotten so
quickly the attitude which was assumed
by this government only a few years
since, when serious differences arose be-
tween Great Britain and Venezuela over
a disputed boundary line
1.-The essential principle established in
that international controversy was briefly
this: That strong and powerful mon
archy must submit its alleged differences
with a weak republic to arbitration, OF
else the United States will not permit
the monarchy on pretense of such differ
ences to crush the republic.
WE HAVE DONE NOTHING.
1T is a singular circumstance that,
aside from mere formal tender of the
friendly Offices of this government to
the respective belligerents Great Britain
promptly and rather tartly declined),
there has been no manifestation of cur
rational interest in the outcome of the
struggle: there has been no protest raised
against the cruel cons summation of the
wrongs; there has been permitted in con-
gress not even mild expression of svrn-
pathy for the struggling republics: and
they have been confronted, not only with
a cold neutrality, but with manifest
indifference to their fate, and there has