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

N draws toward it's close. In
the house they are so utterly
demoralized that the leaders do not
dare to bring up any distinctively Re-
publican measure for consideration
Since the Republican kickers ran rough
shod over the Republican leaders on
the Cuban reciprocity matter the timid
conduct of the leaders has demonstrate
ed the truth of the old adage that "a
scalded cat breads cold water" In the
senate they are more thoroughly de-
moralized, if possible, than in the house.
being at loggerheads ON the Philippine
business, the Nicaragua canal PROPOSE
ton and Cuban reciprocity. Really
the best thing they could do for their
party would be to adjourn at once, for
every day they stay here they sink
deeper and deeper in the mire.
Enforced Harmony.
The most belligerent set of Repub-
lican tomcats in America are the Re
publicans in Missouri, but they are
quiet just now because they can't help
themselves. For months they have
been clawing and caterwauling and
filling the air with each others fur un-
til finally the president got tired of it,
and he compelled them to form truce,
informing them without any circumlo-
cution whatever that unless they did
make peace he would disregard both
factions and make the appointments to
suit himself. Now, if there is anything
which the average Missouri Republic
an loves above another it is pie, so
when it was announced that they were
about to lose their pie they made peace
with a suddenness that was astonish-
ing. The probabilities are that it is a
hollow truce.
Senator Hoar's Speech.
Recently the Hon. George Frisbie
Hoar, senior senator from Massachu-
setts, a rock ribbed Republican, the
friend and political pupil of Charles
Sumner and by many taken as the
most finished scholar in public life, de-
livered a long and remarkable speech
on the Philippine question which is liza
BILE to give the Republicans vast
deal of trouble. Criticisms on it range
all the way from declaring it to be the
greatest speech ever delivered in Wash
ington to being the drivelings of an old
man in his dotage. OF course much
depends on the point of view; but,
whatever may be the final judgment
of critics as to it's literary or oratorical
merit, it will be unquestionably as
much discussed as any speech delivered
in either branch of congress in the last
ten years. Whatever other virtues the
speech has, it certainly contains the
one of frankness. 1t would be a good
thing if every American citizen could
read every word of the speech, both
by reason of it's subject matter and its
literary finish. AS to the origin of the
Philippine war or insurrection Senator
Hoar said:
If you had done to Cuba as you have
done to the Philippine Islands, that had
exactly the same right you would be at
this moment in Cuba just where Spain
was when she excited the indignation of
the civilized world and we compelled her
to let go. And if you had done in the
Philippines as you did in Cuba you would
today or would soon be in those Islands
as you are in Cuba.
But you made a totally different dec
1aration about the Philippine Islands.
You undertook in the treaty to acquire
sovereignty over them for yourself, which
that people denied. You declared, not only
in the treaty but in many public utter
ances in this chamber and elsewhere, that
you had right to buy sovereignty with
money or to treat it as the spoils of war
or the booty of battle The moment you
made that declaration the Filipino people
gave you notice that they treated it as
declaration of war. So your generals re-
ported, and SO Aguinaldo expressly de-
clared. The president sent out an order
to take forcible possession by military
power of those islands. General Otis tried
to suppress it, but it leaked out at Iloilo
through General Miller. General Otis tried
to suppress it and substitute that they
should have all the rights of the most
favored provinces He stated that he did
that because he knew the proclamation
would bring on war. And the next day
Aguinaldo covered the walls of Manila
with proclamation stating what Presi-
dent Mckinley had done and saying that
If that were persisted in he and his people
would fight, and General Macarthur testi-
fed that Aguinaldo represented the entire
people. So you deliberately made up the
Issue for a fight for dominion on one side
and fight for liberty on the other.
Origin of the War.
Then when you had ratified the treaty
you voted down the resolution in the SEN
ate known as the Bacon resolution, de-
claring the right of that people to inde-
pendence, and you passed the McEnery
resolution, which declared that you meant
to dispose of those islands as should be
for the interest of the United States.
That was the origin of the war, if it be
war. That is what the war is all about, if
1t be war; and it is idle for my brilliant
and ingenious friend from Ohio to under
take to divert this issue to a contest on
our part to enable US to keep faith with
Dur friends among the Filipinos or to
restore order there or to carry out the
provisions of the treaty with Spain.
AS to the investigation now being
made by the senate he made the fol
lowing vigorous remarks:
This investigation, suppose, is yet upon
the threshold. Your chief witnesses, so
far, have been soldiers and governors who
are committed to policies of subjugation.
The investigation has been conducted by
a committee of that way of thinking.
Yet we have got already some pregnant
admissions and some remarkable facts
have already come to light Governor
nothing so far indicates that the existing
policy has been good for the United
States. 1t is only the benefit of the peo-
pie of the Philippine Islands in saving
hem from anarchy or from foreign ma
tons, in establishing schools for them
that vindicates what you have done so
FAR. What you have done so far has been
to get some few thousand children actu-
ally at school in the whole Philippine do
minion To get this result you have GER
tainly slain many times that number of
parents.
A Tribute to Teller.
In the course of his speech he paid
the following splendid tribute to Sen
ator Teller, which Teller would do
well to have placed on his tombstone:
ship in our dealing with Cuba? You had
precisely the same problem in the east and
in the west. You knew all about condi
tions in Cuba. There has been no lack
of counselors to whisper in the ear of the
president and senate and house the dis
honorable counsel that we should hold on
to Cuba, without regard to our pledges or
our principles, and that the resolution of
the senator from Colorado [Mr. Teller]
was great mistake. Eye shall not surely
die,'' said the serpent
Squat like toad, close at the ear of
Eve
do not know how other men may feel,
but I think that the statesmen who have
had something to do with bringing Cuba
into the family of nations, when they
who sit around me- when each comes TO
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