The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-05-31
No Such Brilliant Speech Has Been Heard
in the Senate Chamber for
Twenty-Five Years.
The Policy of the United States in Cuba
is the Reverse of That in
the Philippines.

According to MIR. Walter Wcllman,
the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Rccord-llcnld, the speech OF
chusetts. ON May ~ ~ against the Philip
inc bill is one of the greatest ever
l,ard in the American congress 1t is
an Grafton which will live in history
among the classics of the senate. After
speaking for more than two hours to
y rapt audience. Senator lloar closed
with an eloquent passage which
brought applause from many and tears
from Il few. Senators of both parties
and of all shades of opinion on the
Philippine question Joined In the dem
onStratinn of approval. Profoundly i'm
dressed were all who watched and
heard the whitc-hnired old man pour
out his wealth Of feeling, Of culture,
cr intellect and of soul. The rankest
impcrialist sat only to admire. Young
MIR. Bcvcridge was rs one in a dream,
Senator Lodge as in trance, Mr..
Slooncr hcroically taking notes like
one who realizes the desperate nature
Of the task before him in frnming an
swcr; Mr.. Carmack SO beside himself
with JOY that as the aged senator sat
down he could express his feelings in
no other way than by violently pound
ing his desk.
The question of questions which has
severed in n speech nor in the senate
in any way. nor in one year or one
cnmpaign--is whether or not this won
,|rrful old man from the state of Web
stcr ana Sumner is a poct-drcamcr of
days an1 things that have passed or
nn inspired prophet Of the Judgment
that is to come This answer must
some day bc given by tho American
People. and as n preparation therefor
they can do no better than read what
The senator from Massachusetts so
BEAUTIFULLY said to the silent. eager
senate.
When Senator Hoar addressed the
president pro tom. Of the senate lie
smoke in part as follows:
"Mr. Prcsidcnt:-Wc are not Mt war
with tho Filipino people. We made
peace with Spnin on the 18th day Of
February. 1900 Congress has never
declared war with the people Of the
Philippine Islands. The president has
never asserted nor usIped the power
TO do It, We are only doing on u large
scale exactly what we have done Mt
LONE within q few years past. where
the military forces Of the United States
Lave been called out to suppress riot
Or tumult or q lnwIcss assembly.
You have the same right to administer
the water torture or to hang men by
the thumbs. to cXtnrt confession, in one
case as in the other You have the
same right to do il in Cleveland or
Fittsb,lrg or at Colorado Springs as
YOU have to do 1t within the Philippine
Islands.
81 have the same right as an Amcri-
can citizen or an American senator to
discuss the conduct of any military
officer in the Philippine Islands that I
lave to discuss the conduct Of a mar
sIinl or constable or q captain in Pitts
burg or in Cleveland IL there were q
labor riot There. That duty l mean to
perform to the best of my ability,
frarlcssy. as becomes an American citi-
zen. and honestly, as becomes an Amer
Itan senator.
'1llcrc never was Il time when, IL
we had declared that we only were
in the Philippines to keep faith with
Spain. and that we only were there to
SEQ that no friend of ours should suffer
at the hands Of any enemy of ours, THAT
the war would not have ended in that
mcment.
"YOm are fighting for sovereignty.
You are fighting for the principle Of
eternal dominion over that people, and
that is the only question at issue in
this conflict. We said in the case Of
Cuba that she had right to be free
Hlld independent.
"If you had done to Cuba as you