Speech of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts: In the Senate of the United States, January 9, 1900 The Senate having under consideration the joint resolution (S. R.53) defining the policy of the United States relative to the Philippine Islands, as follows: Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Philippine Islands are territory belonging to the United States: that it is the intention of the United States to retain them as such and to establish and maintain such governmental control throughout the archipelago as the situation may demand - Mr. Hoar said: Mr. President: I have listened, delighted, as have, I suppose, all the members of the Senate, to the eloquence of my honorable friend from Indiana [Mr. Beveridge]. I am glad to welcome to the public service his enthusiasm, his patriotism, his silver speech, and the earnestness and the courage with which he has devoted himself to a discharge of his duty to the Republic as he conceives it. Yet, Mr. President, as I heard his eloquent description of wealth and glory and commerce and trade, I listened in vain for those words which the American people have been wont to take upon their lips in every solemn crisis of their history. I heard much calculated to excite the imagination of the youth seeking wealth or the youth charmed by the dream of empire. But the words Right, Justice, Duty. Freedom were absent, my friend must permit me to say, from that eloquent speech. I could think as this brave young Republic of ours listened to what he had to say of but one occurrence: Then the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. And the devil said unto Him, "All these things will I give Thee if Thou wilt fall down and worship me." Then saith Jesus unto him, "Get thee behind me, Satan." Mr. President, the Senator himself and the evidence coming from our two commanders. General Otis and Admiral Dewey, and witnesses for whom they vouch, refute every one of the propositions of fact on which my honorable friend has built his glittering temple of glass. He describes the impotence and ineffectual attempt of Spain for three hundred years to reduce that people to subjection: tells us that she had failed. He counsels us to avoid the errors and the mistakes and the sins she has committed. If that be true, Mr. President, where did Spain get the right to sell the people of the Philippine Islands to us? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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