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appear to increase rather than
to diminish as the session
draws toward Its close. In
the house they are 50 utterly
demoralizei that the leaders do not
dare to bring up any distinctively Re-
publican measure for consideration.
Since the Republican kickers ron 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 81
scnlded cat breads cold water." In the
senate they are more thoroughly de-
moralized, If possible than in the house,
being ut loggerheads on the Philippine
business, the Nicaragua canal PROPOSE
ton and Cuban reciprocity. Really
tie best thing they could do for their
party would be to adjourn ut once, for
every day they stay here they sink
deeper and deeper in the mire.
Enforced Harmony.
The most belligerent set of Repub-
lean tomcats in America are the Re-
pubhcans in Missouri. but they are
quiet just now because they can't help
themselves. For months they have
been chwing and caterwnuhng and
filling the air with each others fur uul-
til finally the president got tired Of 1t,
and he compelled them to form truce,
Informing them without any ciroumlo-
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 suddenness that was astOnish-
ing. Tho probabilities are that 1t Is a
hollow truce.
Senator Hoar's Speech.
Recently the Hon. George Frisbie
Hoar, senior senator from Massnchu-
sets, rock ribbed Republican,, the
friend and political pupil of Charles
Sumner and by many taken as the
most finished scholar in public life, de-
ltvered long and remarkable speech
on the Philippine question which is la
BILE to give the Republicans vast
deal Of trouble Criticisms on 1t range
all the way from declaring 1t to be the
greatest speech ever delivered In Wash
iugton to being the drivelings Of On 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 its literary or oratortcal
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 good
thing If every American citizen could
read every word of the speech. both
by reason of its subject matter and its
literary finish. AS to the origin of the
Philippine war or Instruction Senator
Hoar said:
II 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 clone in the
Philippines as you did in Cuba you would
today OF would soon be in those Islands
as you are in Cuba.
But you made q totally different dec
laration about the Philippine Islands.
You undertook In the treaty to acquire
sovereignty over them for yourself. which
that people denied. You decla1 ed. 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 1t 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 q
declaration OF war. So your generals re-
ported. and 80 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 1t 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
AgMnaldo covered the walls Of Manila
with proclamation stating what Presd-
dent Mckinley had done and saying that
II that were persisted in he and his people
would fight. ana General Macarthur testi-
fed that Aguinaldo represented the entire
people. So YOU deliberately made up the
Issue for 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, do
clarlng the right OF that people to hide
pendence and YOU passed the McEnery
resolution. which declared that you meant
10 dispose OF those Islands as should be
Tor The interest OF the United States.
That was the origin OF the war, II It be
war. That Is what tho war IS all about, II
1t be war: end x is Idle for my brilliant
and ingenious friend from Ohio to UNDER
take to divert this issue to contest on
our part to enable us to keep faith with
OUT friends among the Filip1nus 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. -Four chief witnesses. 50
far, have been soldiers and governors who
are committed to policies Of subjugatlon.
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
TAFT, II ! understood him. comedies that
nothing 80 far indicates that the existing
policy hap been good for the United
States It y only the benefit Of the peo-
pie VI the Philippine Islands in saving
them from anarchy or from foreign ma
tionR. n establishing schools for them,
Ehat v1ndtcatea whit you have done %
tar What you have done so far has been
ally at school in the whole Philippine do
minion. To get this result you have Ger
tafnly slain many times that number @
parents.