Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — HOAR ON THE PHILIPPINES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOAR ON THE PHILIPPINES.

Senator Makes Bitter Attack on Ad- - ministration's Policy In Islands. “You have wasted six hundred millions of treasure. You have sacrificed nearly 10,000 American lives—the flower of our

youth. You have ■ lain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit. “Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing their sheaves with them in the shape of other thousands of sick aud wounded and insane, to drag out miserable lives,

wrecked in body and mind. “You make the American flag in the eyes of a numerous people the emblem of sacrilege churches and of the burning of human dwellings and the horror of the water tortures. “I believe—nay, I know —that in general our officers are humane. But in ■ome cases they have carried -on your warfare with a mixture of American ingenuity arid Castilian cruelty." With these words, conveying only a suggestion of the speaker’s forcefulness, Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts Thursday afternoon, In what will doubtless be considered the greatest forensic speech of his life, denounced the Philippine war. For week* past the venerable Republican, who is in harmony with his party colleagues upon all important matters except the Philippine question, had been gathering material for this speech. “Your practical statesmanship,” he continued, “has succeeded in converting a -people who three years ago were ready to kiss the hem of the garment of the | American and to welcome him as a liberator, who thronged after your men when they landed on those islands with benediction and gratitude, into sullen enemies, possessed of a hatred which centuries cannot eradicate. The practical statesmanship of the Declaration of Independence and the golden rule would have cost nothing but a few kind words. They would have bought for you the undying gratitude of a great and free people* and the undying glory which belongs to the name of liberator.”

SENATOR HOAR.