The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-11-05
SECRETARY Of STATE
JOHN HAY
Extract from Speech Made
by Noted Statesman at
New York City

John Hay, secretary OF sidte, ueiNeieu
his first speech in New York City on oc-
tober 2sth at Carnegie hall, which was
fled to the utmost capacity, and outside
the great building four times as many as
got inside battered away at the police
lines in a vain effort to get within sigat
of the secretary's face and within sound |
OF his voice.
When the secretary rose to speak the |
great audience rose with him and there |
we're cheers, apr lause and flag and hand.
kerchsef waving for nearly five minutes
IN greeting to the man who has made
American diplomacy felt in every capi. al
of the world We make the following
extracts from his speech:
PARKER AND HIS SPEECHES.
He then ripped to pieces the Democrat
platform in a few words, and alluded to
Judge Parker's letter and speeches. He
said:
would be very shirt of Nessus to HIM
If he were ever called to carry his words
into action. He has at last come to the
point where he is willing to say we must
abandon the Philippines In his sreecf
of acceptance he acknowledged our re-
spons ,bility for them and said he shoulc
give them lf-government. His friends
! in great distress of mind. cried out &c
him that that was the Republican doc
trine and that what he intended to say
was that we had no responsibility for
them and must give them independence
| Certainly that was what / meant said
the judge-and he wrote some hing like
II in his lie. ter of acceptance. But even
that WITS not enough. and ten days age
he revised his views again, and now de
the islands and for an immediate proc
lamation of our intention to do 50.
Among the reasons he gives fer this reck-
less and ill-considered utterance are some
which show an incredible carelessness OF
the facts He says they have cost us $670,-
100000. Others say that the annual ex-
pense of them to the taxpayers is $4,000
000 The truth, accessible TO him and tc
everybody is that they have cost far less
than one-third of what he says and the
annual disbursement on their account i:
about one-tenth of the amount charged.
Judge Parker says further that th'
Philippines have cost US 100000 lives
wherein he is wrong to the exten; o
about 1875 900. But these mere errors in hi
figures, gross as they are. 90 not compar
proposes to take a step which woul
cover us with indelible discredit, whic
! would be an abd.cation of our position 1
the Pacific. the surrender of our com
mercial prestige in the far east, bas
treachery and betrayal of the loyal an
intelligent Filipiros who have trusted u
+ and direct invitation to intestine wa
= and foreign invasion. And if he pretend
6 that we should re!inquish control of then
: that we should give up the task of civi
i izing them and still stand between thel
II and hostile or covetous world. no ma
h ter what they may do-the inhumanit
r OF such a proposition is only equa,ed b
n it's want of common sense. 1t Is blui
r der wellnigh Incredible for him to sa
f.t.. Dt :
we did Cuba, There is no analogy b
tween the two cases. We have new
owned Cuba: we have never claimed
own it. The Philippines are ours
er every sanction known to public law;
rs fortune of war. by treaty. by purchas
H. by occupation. by undistu bed and undi
az puted possession. To say that the cas-
are the same and require the same trea
ment simply shows in the man who sa
$ 1t a confusion of mind or delibera
NJ Misrepresentation. either of which pro
lis him to be--n the words oil ore of Jud
r. Parker's most ardent admirers-Got
to be president this year any oh
year.
"In this speech the Democratic cant
or date has given the measure of his know
edge of large affairs. has shown his la
=, OF any sense Of responsibility. and II
introduced another element of doubt al
v danger into the problems winch wou
" confront his administration II he we
elected.