Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-06
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! Great Speech Of Senator Hoar ~


our principles and that the resolution O,
the senator from Colorado mir. Teller]
was O great mistake. "Ye shall not surely
die" said the serpent
Squat like q toad, close at the ear OF
Eve"
I do not know how other men may feel,
but think that the statesmen who have
had something to do with bringing Cuba
into the family OF nations. when they
look back on their career; that my friends
who sit around me. when each comes to
look back upon career of honorable and
brilliant public service, will count the
share they had in that as among the
brightest the greenest and the freshest
laurels In their crown.
I do not think could honestly repeat
oil the compliments which the senator
from Wisconsin Is in the habit Of paying
to the senator from Colorado The sena-
tor from Colorado has gone against my
grain very often. especially when he voted
for the Spanish treaty and when his vote
defeated the Bacon resolution: but doubt
whether any man who has sat In this
chamber since Charles Sumner died or
whether all who Sit here now put t0geth-
or have done q more important single
service to the country than he did in Sc
curing the passage Of the resolution which
pledged us to deal with Cuba according
to the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence.
lmperialists Played.
Senator Hn0r then drew picture OF
what has been accomplished by the
jingoes which must have filled them
with rage and disgust, but they We're
afraid to interrupt the venerable sen
said:
You also. my imperialistic friends, have
had your ideals and your sentimentalities.
One is that the flag shall never be hauled
down where 1t has once floated Another
is that you will not talk or reason with q
people with arms in their hands. Another
is that sovereignty over an unwilling peo-
pie may be bought with gold, and another
Is that sovereignty may be got by force
OF arms. al the booty OF battle or the
spoils Of victory.
What hos been the practical statesman
ship which comes from your ideals and
your 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 un-
counted thousands Of the people you de-
sire to benefit. You have established re-
concentration camps. Your generals are
their sheaves with them In the shape Of
other thousands CT sick and wounded and
insane to drag out miserable lives, wrecked
in body and mind. You make the Amer
lean flag in the eyes Of a numerous people
the emblem OF sncrilege in Christian
churches and Of the burning of human
dwellings, and OF the horror Of the water
torture. Your practical craftsmanship,
which disdains TO take George Washing
ton 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. believe-nay. know
! -taet In general our officers and soldiers
| are humane But in Eomc cases they have
carried on your warfare with mixture
of American ingenuity and Castilian cru
city.
Your practical craftsmanship has sue
ceeded In converting a people who three
years ago were ready to kiss the hem Of
the garment of the American and to well
come him as q nberator. who thronged
| after your men when they landed on those
islands with benediction and gratitude.
into sullen and irrecopcilable enemies, pos
| sessed OF a hatred which centuries cannot
| eradicate
| The practical craftsmanship OF the Dec
laration OF Independence and the Golden
| Rule would have cost nothing but few
kind words They would have bought for
| you the great title of liberator and bene-
\ factor, which your fathers won for your
country in the South American republics
and In Japan and which you have won in
L
| the undying gratitude of great and free
people and the undying glory which be-
longs to the name of liberator. That peo-
pie 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.
After drawing splendid picture of
the visit Of the Cuban schoolteachers
to Harvard Senator Hoar stirred the
hearts of his vast audience by deliver
ing the following remarkable passage:
A Terrible Picture.
] Contrast this scene with another It is
all you have to show, that you have
| brought back so far, from the Philippine
Islands. You have no grateful youth
coming to sit at your feet. You do not
dare TO bring here even q friendly Filipino
to tell you, with unfettered lips. what his
people think OF you or what they want of
you reed the other day In a Nebraska
paper terrible story of the passage
through Omaha of carload Of maniacs
from the Philippine Islands
The story. believe. has been read In the
| senate. ! teleSraphed to Omaha to the
editor OF paper of high reputation-I be-
Aeve a Jealous supporter of the policy OF
| mperials m--to learn II the story was au-
thentic. am told in reply. and am glad
| to know 1t, that the picture is sensational
| and exaggerated, but the substantial fact
is confirmed that that load OF young SOL
diers passed through that city lately, az
other like cargoes have passed through
| before, mantacs and broken in mental
| health as the result of service in the Phil
| tppine Islands.
It is no answer to tell me that such hoY-
rors exist everywhere: that there are 9TH
| er maniacs at st. Elizabeth and that ey-
cry state asylum Is full OF them Those
unhappy beings have been visited, without
any mana fault, by the mysterious PROV.
| tdence OF God. or u their affection comes
from any mans fault It is our duty to
| make It known and to hold the party
| guilty responsible. It is terrible picture
that have drawn. 1t Is a picture of men
suffering from the inevitable result which
every reasonable man must have antici-
pated Of the decisions made in this cham
] Der when we elected to make war for the
| principle OF despotism instead OF policy
of peace, in accordance with the princi-
| pies of the Declaration of Independence.
MIR. President, every one of these mani
acs, every one of the many like freighta
Of horror that come back to us from the
Philippine Islands, every dead soldier, ev-
an American boy, the delight of some
American home, fairer and nobler in his
| young promise, as We like to think than
any other the round world over. Ah Mr.
President, 1t was not $2O,O00,0O0 that we
paid as the price of sovereignty. 1t was
the souls Of these boys of ours that en-.
tered into the cost When you determined
by one vote to ratify the Spanish treaty;
when you determined by one vote to de:
feat the Bacon resolution; when you de.
clared. in the McEnery resolution, thai
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