The Irish standard., 1902-05-31
SENATOR H0AR's GREAT SPEECH.

SENATOR HOAR'S GREAT SPEECH.
We publish day part of the great
speech on the Philippine quest Oh de.
livered by Se"ator Hoar of Mass.l-
chusetts on Thursday. May %, in the
United States senate. 1t is unques-
tionably the ablest address yet made
by any American statesman On the sub
the. gems of national eloquemce beside
those of Adams. Webster. Everett,
Clay, Seward. Philips. Sumner, Cal
houn. Randolph. Choa ami Corwin
His plea for the Filipinos swayed the
senate from floor to gallery and when
lle sat down after speaking for two
hours and half he was gree'el with
deafening applause from his colleagues
in both parties. Not a single Interrupt
ton from any quarter occurred during
the delivery of the aged senator's adj
dress. though he arraigncd the admin
istration's policy in the archipelago as
one of the most wicked and foolish
chapters in American history.
He made such an unansweiable az
gument in behalf of human liberty and
told so many unpleasant truths OF the
party to which he is attached that the
Republican orgaus of the country. with
one or two exceptions. failed to publish
it at any length. Some of the most
striking phrases in the speech We're
as follows:
"What you have done so far has been
to get some few til uslnds of children
actually at sclos1 in the whole Philip
pine dominion. To get this result you
certainly have slain many tines that
number of parents.
you cannot maintain Gespotism in
Asia and a republic in America.
''N[r. President. if you keep IN in the
path you are reading now you have
not only repealed the Decarati n Of L.
dependence. but you have left for the
Monroe Doctrine only tie principle of
brutal seltishness
"John Quincy Adams placed the
Monroe Doctrine solely on the doctrine
that just governments must rest Cd
the consent of the governed
"You are fighting for sovereignty,
for the principle of eternal dominion
over that people and that is the only
question in issue in this conflict.
Zone thing no senator has been
audacious enough to affirm. ana thut
is that if he We're Filipino as he is
an American he would not do exactly,
saving only acts of cruelty. as tbs
Filipino has done.
$50 YOU deliberately made up the
issue for fight for dominion OF ona
! side and a fight for liberty on the
other.
''rhc war. if you call it war, has
gone on for three years. 1t will go on
in some form for 200 years unless this
policy he abandoned.
4 eff this evidence he true and Spain
were strong enough, she would have the
right tomorrow to wrest the Philippine
Islands from our grasp on grounds as
good If not better than til Sc which
justified us when we made war on
her.
| In the course of his address, Senator
Hear paid his compliments to General
Funston and said that the bnse capture
Of Aguinaldo is stamped with indelible
infamy by Abraham LincOln's articles
OF war. to which Secretary Root ap-
ncaled in his vindicatiOn Of General
Smiths atrocities in Samar. He de-
clared that the loqracious jayhawker
violated the Hague int irrational agree
ment and that his conduct is abhorrent
to all civilized mankind. He said he
violated the law of hospitality as we'll
as the laws of war and was guilty of
an act of pcrfidy.
Senator lloar referred to the tor
lures inflicted on the Filipincs and
placed the responsibility where it be-
longs. 81 hope and believe" he said.
they were unknown to the war de-
partment. l know they We're unknown
to President Roosevelt. and I know
they We're unknown to President Nc
Kinley. But l cannot think that the
recent declaration of the secretary OF
war that the war on our mart has been
conducted with 'unexampled humanity
will he accepted by his countrymen."
The st. Paul Pioneer Press and the
Minneapolis Tribune. two Anglo Saxon
organs Of corporate greed, did not relish
the noble utterances of Senator Hoar.
The former referred to his speech as
! "a how'll and "a trade" while the
latter elegantly called it "a sickening
yawp." Nothing better could have