The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-07-25

against was inhnitesimal when COM
pared with that for comptroller; yet
one only affected the State for two
years and the other is probably for
all time.
Judging from all that can be
CLEANED, it would seem well to give
the matter careful Reconsideration, and
much can probably be gained by
watching theexperiments of Oregon
and seehow her people like the new
order of things. In the meantime
however our own people will continue
to make occasional departures from
the set rule and refer some of the more
important matters of legislation to
the people direct so that they can de-
! eide for themselves.
SENATOR HOAR ON IMPERIALISM.
The following extracts from the
speech of United States Senator
George +. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
make interesting reading even for the
imperialists who are members of the
same party to which he belongs.
The speech was delivered in the United
States Senate when it was consider
ing the bill for a civil government of
the Philippine Islands.
"You also, my iinperialistic friends,
have your ideas and your sentiment
alities. One is, that the flag shall
never be hauled down where it has
once hoated. Another is that you
will not talk or reason with a people
with arms in their hands. Another
is that sovereignty over an unwilling
people 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 practicalstates-
manship which comes from your
ideals and 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 uncount-
ed thousands of the people you have
desired to benefit. You have estab-
lished recommendation camps. Your
generals are coming home from their
harvest, bringing their sheaves with
them, in the shape ofother thousands
of sick and wounded and insane to
drag out miserable lives, wrecked i'll
body and mind. You make the Ameri-
can flag in the eyes of a numerous
people, the emblem of sacrilege in
Christian churches, and of the burn
ing of human dwellings and of the
horror of the water torture. Your
practical craftsmanship, which dis
dams to take George Washington
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. Ibelieve-
nay know-that in general, our
officers and soldiers are humane. But
in some cases they have carried on
your warfarewith mixture of Ameri-
can ingenuity and Castilian cruelty"
"Your practicalstatesmanship has
succeeded in converting people who
three years ago were ready to kiss
the hem of the garment of the Ameri-
can and welcome him as liberator:
who thronged after your men when
they landed on these islands with
benediction and gratitude, into sullen
and irreconcilable enemies possessed
by hatred which centuries cannot
eradicate.
"The practical craftsmanship of
the Declaration of Independence and
the Golden Rule would have cost
nothing but a few kind words. They
would have bought for you the great
title of liberator and benefactor,
which your fathers won for your
country in the South American Re-
publics and in Japan and which you
have won in Cuba. They would
have bought for you the undying
glory which belongs to the name of
liberator. The people 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.
"What have your ideals cost you
and what have they bought for you?"
1. For the Philippine Islands you
have had to repeal the Declaration
of Independence.
For Cuba you have had to reaftirm
it and give it new luster.
2. For the Philippine Islands you
have had to convert the Monroe
Doctrine into doctrine of mere self
ishness.
For Cuba you have acted on it and
indicated it.
3. In Cuba you have got the eter-
nal gratitude of a free people.
In the Philippine Islands you have
got the hatred and sullen submission
of a subjugated people.
f. From Cuba you have brought
home nothing but glory.
From the Philippines you have
brought home nothing of glory.
5. In Cuba no man thinks ofcount-
ing the cost. The few soldiers who
came home from Cuba wounded or
sick, carry about their wounds and