Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-05

tor from Colorado has gone against my
grain very often, especially when he voted
for the Spanish treaty and when his vote
defeated the Bacon resolution; but doubt
whether any man who has sat in this
chamber since Charles Sumner died or
whether all who sit here now put togeth-
er have done more important single
service to the country than he did in Sc
curing the passage of the resolution which
pledged us to deal with Cuba according
to the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence.
ImperiaIists FIayed.
Senator Hoar then drew picture of
what has been accomplished by the
jingoes which must have filled them
with rage and disgust, but they were
afraid to interrupt the venerable SEN
ator lest he should make it worse. He
said:
You also my imperialistic friends, have
had your ideals and your sentimentalities.
One is that the flag shall never be hauled
down where it has once f1oated. Another
is that you will not talk or reason with a
people with arms in their hands Another
is that sovereignty over an unwilling peo-
pie may be bought with gold, and another
is that sovereignty may be got by force
of arms as the booty of battle or the
spoils of victory.
What has been the practical statesman
ship which comes from your ideals and
your sentimentalities? You have wasted
six hundred millions of treasure. You
have sacrificed nearly 10000 American
lives, the flower of our youth. You have
devastated provinces. You have slain un-
counted thousands of the people you de-
sire to benefit. You have established re-
concentration camps. Your generals are
coming home from their harvest, bringing
their sheaves with them in the shape of
other thousands of sick and wounded and
insane to drag out miserable lives, wrecked
in body and mind. You make the Amer
lean flag in the eyes of a numerous people
the emblem of sacrilege in Christian
churches and of the burning of human
dwellings and of the horror of the water
torture. Your practical craftsmanship,
which disdains to take George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln or the soldiers
of the Revolution or of the civil war as
models, has looked in some cases to Spain
for your example. l believe-nay, l know
that in general our officers and soldiers
are humane. But in some cases they have
carried on your warfare with mixture
of American ingenuity and Castilian cru
city.
Your practical craftsmanship has sue
ceeded in converting people who three
years ago were ready to kiss the hem of
come him a liberator, who thronged
after your men when they landed ON those
Islands with benediction and gratitude
into sullen and irreconcilab BILE enemies, pos
sessed of a hatred which centuries cannot
eradicate
The practical craftsmanship of the Dec
laration of Independence and the Golden
Rule would have cost nothing but few
kind words They would have bought for
you the great title of lberator and bene-
factor, which your fathers won for your
country In the South American republics
and in Japan and which you have won in
Cuba. They would have bought for you
the undying gratitude of a great and free
people and the undying glory which be-
longs to the name of liberator That peo-
pie would have felt for you as Japan felt
for you when she declared last summer
that she owed everything to the United
States of America.
After drawing splendid picture of
the visit of the Cuban schoolteachers
to Harvard Senator Hoar stirred the
hearts of his vast audience by deliver
ing the following remarkable passage:
A Terrible Picture.
Contrast this scene with another. 1t is
all you have to show, that you have
brought back, SO far from the Philippine
Islands. You have no grateful youth
coming to sit at your feet. You do not
dare to bring here even friendly Filipino
to tell you, with unfettered lips, what his
people think of you or what they want of
you. 1 read the other day in Nebraska
paper terrible story of the passage
through Omaha of carload of maniacs
from the Philippine Islands.
The story, believe, has been read in the
senate. I telegraphed to Omaha to the
1rlnf of hitrI ion, T I<a-
iieve jealous supporter of the policy of
fmperialism-to learn if the story was au-
thentic. / am told in reply, and l am glad
to know 1t, that the picture is sensational
and exaggerated, but the substantial fact
Is confirmed that that load of young SOL
biers passed through that city lately as
Dther like cargoes have passed through
tefore. maniacs and broken in mental
health as the result of service in the Phil
ippine Islands.
1t is no answer to tell me that such hor-
ors exist everywhere; that there are 9TH
er maniacs at st. Elizabeth and that ev-
cry state asylum is full of them Those
unhappy beings have been visited, without
any mans fault, by the mysterious prov
idence of God, or if their affliction comes
from any mans fault it is our duty to
make it known and to hold the party
guilty responsible. 1t is terrible picture
that have drawn. 1t is a picture of men
suffering from the inevitable result which
every reasonable man must have antici-
pated of the decisions made in this cham
Der when we elected to make war for the
principle of despotism instead of a policy
of peace, in accordance with the lYinc1-
pies of the Declaration of Independence.
Mr.. President, every one of these mani
acs, every one of the many like freights
of horror that come back to us from the
Philippine Islands, every dead soldier ev-
cry wounded or wrecked soldier was once
an American boy, the delight of some
American home, fairer and nobler in his
young promise, as we like to think than
any other the round world over. Ah Mr..
President, 1t was not $40. 900 that we
paid as the price of sovereignty. 1t was
the souls of these boys of ours that en-
tered into the cost. When you determined
by one vote to ratify the Spanish treaty;
when you determined by one vote to de-
feat the Bacon resolution; when you de-
clared, in the McEnery resolution, that
we would dispose of that people as might
be for the interest of the United States;
when the senator from Wisconsin said we
would not talk to people who had arms
in their hands, although they begged that
there should be no war and that we would
at least hear them; when some of you
went about the country declaring that the
flag never should be hauled down where
it once fioated, you did not know, because
III your eAcilemeHt anu HdSLe your Hlel-
lectual vision was daZzled with empire,
you did not know that this was to come !;
but you might have known it. A little re-
Election and little reason would have
told you. I wonder if the Republican ed
itor who made that known was attacking
the American army. I wonder if those of
us who do not like that are the friends or
the enemies of the American soldier.
False Prophets.
The senator made the following skill
full thrust at jingo prophets, which was
very much relished by all who heard it
and will be relished by all who read
this letter:
I think my friends of the majority,
whatever else they may claim-and they
can rightly claim a great deal that is good
claim to be prophets. They used to
prophesy good deal two years ago. We
had great prophets and minor prophets.
All predicted peace ard submission and
flag followed by trade. with wealth flow
ing over this land from the far east and
the American people standing in the Phil
ippine Islands looking over with eager
gaze toward China. " here are now your
prophets which prophe sled unto you? I
fear that we must make the answer that
was made to the children of Israel, They
prophesied falsely, and the prophets have
become wind, and the word is not in
them"
As to the character of the war being
waged in the Philippines he uttered
the following classical passage:
A guerrilla warfare, carried on by a
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