The copper era., 1902-06-12
Bunker Hill INDICATED.

/. states IN many years mas made so deeT
an impression on the country as that
] OF Senator Hoar on our relations to
? the Philippine Islands and people.
Neither its eloquence nor its logic gave
it the great moving power that has
caused it to be more quoted and com
mented upon than any speech to
which the Senate has listened since
.he days of the giants and the passion
ate debates on the issues that grew out
OF the civil war. The secret OF its
I strength was its moral earnestness. 1t
scarcely touched the material side of
tho question; avoided statistical e.z-
hibits of our losses in lives or money;
scarcely noticed the commercial argu-
ments based on exports and imports
and the gateway to China" theory.
Its appeal was wholly to the moral
sense, the conscience. the historic
! ideals of the American people.
SO rich in rhetoric that it will take
rank with the few American political
addresses which, like Webster's reply
to Hayne, are destined 10 perpetual
recitation in our public schools, the
strength OF it was, nevertheless, in the
cIearnes5 OF its call TO the nation 10 be
true to its highest self. 1t parallels
GladstOne's famous call To England
when he was pleading for conciliatory
measures in ireland: "Be just and
fear not" To older Americans it re
calls the no less eloquent protest of
Mr.. Hoar's predecessor, Charles Sum
ner, against the project for annexing
the island of San Domingo by force and
fraud without the consent of her peo- |
pie.
Nothing could 90 straighter to the /
pith and marrow of the whole cOn1rO- F.
vcrsy than Mr.. HOar'5 summing up Of !
the two violently contrasting policies +
pursued in Cuba and the Philippines, (
in which he invites his party and the /
country to Look here, upon this pic /
ture and on this"
/. For the Philippine Islands you
have to repeal the Declaration Of In
dependence.
For Cuba you have to reafirm It and
give it new lustre.
,. For the Philippine Islands you
have TO convert the Monroe doctrine
into a doctrine of mere selfshness.
For Cuba you have acted on it and
vin,Iicat~l -
3. In Cuba:you have got the eternal
gratitude of Il free people.
In the Philippine Islands you have
got the hatred and sulen submission
Of Il subjugatcd people.
/. From Cuba you have brought
home nothing but glory.
From the Philippines you have
brought homo nothing of glory
). In Cuba no man thinks Of count
ing the cost. The few soldiers who
came home from Cuba wounded or sick
carry their wounds and their pale
faces As if they were medals of honor.
What soldier glories in a wound or
empty sleeve which he got in the
Philippines.
6. The conflict in the Philippines
has cost you 5000 900, 900, and thousands
Of American soldiers-the flower of our
youth-thc health and sanity OF thOus-
ands more, and hundred of thousands
Of Pilipinos slain.
In the splendid peroration with
which the Massachusetts Senator
closed this great Spcech-the mastor
effort of his career as IL will doubtless
be ranked he showed, by Il panoramic
review of American history from its
first to its latest chapter, how absolute
Iy irreconcilablc Is a persistence in our
present course in the Philippines with
all that, as nation, We have done and
stood for in the past.
Massachusetts still has a great sem
ltor. 1t cannot be said Of her to-day
Is Lowell once wrote:
God forgive her, she's a-kueelinG ,
with the rest.
She is not kneeling, but standing
erect. Bunker Hiss is vindicated
anew. Concord and Lexington have c
'ebuked the savagery of Samar.- G
New York Herald. q