The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-31
MIR. spooner'sl Speech.

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MIR. spooner'sl Speech.
Mr.. Hoar thought such a compilation
ought to have the sanction of the com
mittee and he moved that the matter be
referred to that committee.
Mr.. Beveridge said that the widest
latitude had been afforded to the minority
in the publication of matter in the Record
an dhe thought 1t scarcely fair that OBJ
lection should be made to. his request.
AS Mr.. Hoar would, not withdraw bis
motion, Mr.. Beveridge withdrew, his re-
quest announcing that later he would read
the matter, If necessary, to get it IN the
Record. 4, -. .=--..... :.
In resuming his speech begun Thursday,
Mr. spooner said: tIt is question which
belongs to the American people. 1t is
problem of delicacy and of some danger
and a weapon of no man and no party.
The interest of all men in public and pri-
yate life is to get at the truth without
private opinion and party strife. nave
not been in favor of prominent dominion
over the Philippines, but I do not mean
by that 1 have been in favor of the United
States running away or abandoning
people who have come under our protec-
tion or surrendering them to tyranny
anarchy and chaos. ~ . -.
: He had been able to contemplate with
equarimity the admission of. the. Philip
pines as "a state, or states. This govern
nent should be confined to this continent
No question of Imperialism; he said, had
been raised in this problem except for
party purposes.
There never before has been an in
stance" he declared, where a portion of
the American people have sought inces-
sanity and, / think, unfairly, to put this
country in the wrong and to stain the
honor, Of the country with dishonor. They
had formed a narrow and squint- eyed view
|: of every question of fact. e..-j a.5.
eff we had left Spain in control Of the
Philippines, never, never would some por-
, tions OF our people have ceased to: de-
nounce us for having sailed away from
Manila like a batch of towards, leaving
the Filipinos to come again under the
tyranny of Spain or, still worse, to lapse
into anarchy, civil war, murder, loot and
violence. : = 81 - + .t.
'tIf congress had recognized the inde-
pendence of the Filipinos, instead of being
there as we are now, with title which
the supreme court Of the United States
says is complete, which the senate has
accepted as complete, which congress paid
for as complete, which the world recog-
nizes as complete, which gives US the
power to- do what is generous and noble
and right and uplifting to that people, we
would be there on the shifting sands oi
contract with a former tyrant. l think
that God saved us from that unuttera BILE
folIy.#sSIt would have been sworse-in-
f1nitely worse-than the proposition tc
recognize the republican, Cuba, ict
would have subjected us TO an order tc
leave Cuba any day. s. 49, -. & +,
Later Mr.. Hoar inquired If the ..inhab.
itants Of the Philippines we're not "a peo.
pie where there were millions Of men
acting together, who had raised an army
selected a general, turned Spain out o1
all territory except only the city of Ma
nilla and who had agreed upon a consti-
sutton, republican in form: - -
They would be a people, replied Mr.
Spooner, If that were true.
cit is true" said Mr.. Hoar.
81 deny it," insisted Mr.. Spooner. "l
deny that there is more than superficial
I, truth in it,
T. Senator ,spooner read. statute of tn,
colony Of Massachusetts, Of 1872 which Of
| tfered a reward of 100 pounds for scalps o,
male Indians above the. age Of H..
/ Mr.. Hoar said the people of Massachu-
! setts had bought the lands from the Ind
/. l.iaps. He said, it was a crude and bar
barous law and asked if Mr.. Spoone1
| justified it. .t.s-..G!.
=. Mr.. Spooner said he was not defending
the order. If Twas necessary. for the
Puritans to defend their homes, their
wives and their children from the Indians
he would approve It, ~ a,t
Mr.. Hoar' said the men who bore his
| name in Massachusetts, at that time die
not approve of that: law and: denounced it
as he (Hoar). did the order in the Philip
pines Of killing males over ten now.
Mr., spooner said he did not know what
the positions Of the men were at that
| time, but, he did know that in building uI
| the whole nation the men who went on
the frontier suffered great hardships and
the path of civilization was one of wal
and blood :rs..
Mr.. Hoar pressed Mr.. Spooner closely
as to whether he justified the Massachu-
setts> statute and referred to the fact that
Mr. spooner said he" did not justify the
! Philippine order.
81 did not justify the order said Mr.
I spooner, "butI do not intend to impeach
a whole army upon this one isolated
I case" (Applause)
Mr.. Hear said he had not impeached
the army 4
"But it has been done in this chamber :
/ said Mr.. Spooner. 81
| "It Is not the army that has been i'm
peached," responded Mr.. Hoar, 'tbut the
policy that has brought about the condi
| tion." s,.@
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