The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-30
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Counmunicated).
W ASHINGTON.
May Goth, 1902.

There was a remarkable scene +
in the Senate on Thursday. An
old man. white with the SHOWS of
many winters and slightly bent.
stood among the Senators. like
Socrates teaching the men and
youths of Athens. He appealed
to them with an eloquence seldom
equalled to remain true to the
faith of their fathers. For a
quarter of a century this same old
man, George Frisbie Hoar, has
sat i'll the Senate chamber and no
one has had occasion to question
his Republication. but on Thurs
day he announced that his con
science would not permit him to
vote with his party on the Philip
pine question, for its opponents
had forgotten the faith of their
ancestors whose lessons fell upon
ears of men dazzled by military
glory and delirious with the lust
of conquest In concluding a
powerful arraignment of the Re
publican policy in the Philippines,
Mr.. Hoar appealed to his col
leagues in these words: "Let us,
at least, have this to say: we,
too, have kept the faith of the
fathers. we took Cuba by the
hand, we delivered her from age
long bondage. we welcomed her
to the family of nations, we set
mankind an example never before
beheld of moderation in victory,
we kept faith with the Philippine
people, we kept faith with our
own history and we kept our ma
tlonal honor unsullied. The flag
which we received without a rent
we handed down without STAIN"
Two Democratic speeches of
great moderation and replete with
unanSwerable arguments marked
last weeks debate Senator Ba-
con, who has not yet concluded
his remarks, exposed the weak
ness of the impending measure
with merciless logic. and Senator
Dubois, devoting himself largely
to the claim that the Philippines
would prove the open door to
China, warned his opponents
against arOuSiug the dragon now
50 peacefully sleeping He point.
ed out that greed for commercial
gain was likely to result in the
upbuildiug of a competition which
would eventually uuderSell Amer
lean manufactures iii the markets
of the world where no Chinese eX.
cluSlon law would protect the
American workman from the
yellow peril" He dwelt on the
fact that the Chinese are able
imitatorS aud that once they bad
been awakened by the efforts of
capitalists TO secure their trade
they would endanger the com
mercial prosperity of all white
nations with their half paid labor
Senator Beveridge, who attempt.
ed to answer Mr.. Dubois argu.
ment, presented an alluring array
of figures. bat in so doing lost all
sight of the trend of Mr.. Dubois
argument.
The sudden death of Lord
Pauncefote, which occurred on
Saturday morning. has caused
shock to official and social life in
Washington. He had been suf.
terlng from rheumatic CONT for
some time. but no one had autici
pated that his illness would ter
inmate fatally. Lord Pauncefote
was held in high regard in W ash
ington where his democratic man.
ner and his atfability had made
him general tavorite. His pop
ularity at the White House dur
ing the incumbency of President
Mckinley is we'll known, and it
will also be remembered that. in
conjunction with Secretary Olney,
he framed the general arbitration
treaty between this country and
Great Britain. 1t was through
his efforts that the Clayton Bull.
wer treaty was superseded by the |
Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the
mistakes of former American
administration were so remedied /
without friction between the two
nations and without the United |
States suffering humiliation. 1t
was the ambition of the late Am
bassador to negotiate a treaty
covering the delicate questions
of the Alaskan boundary and the
fur-seal fisheries which should be
agreeable to both parties and he
had frequently said that, that end |
accomplished, he would retire
from the diplomatic world with
the feeling that his career had
been productive of lasting good
and had been properly rounded
out. Lord Pauncefote will be
succeeded as dean of the diplo-
matte corps by Herr Won Holleban.
the German Ambassador.
As no official announcement of
he death of ord paunoafota !