Juno 6, iooa
We are Informed by several esteemed republi
can exchanges that divers republican senators will
answer Mr. Hoar's speech. It is too bad that our
language may so easily be bungled. Of course our
esteemed republican exchanges mean that several
republican senators will reply to Mr. Hoar's
speech. They cannot answer it.
The Sioux City Journal charges that in Jan
uary, 1899, Senator Carmaek was responsible for
the editorial policy of the Nashville Amorican
and that the American declared that "Aguinaldo
must and will yield to the United States." The
Journal is as much mistaken in that statement as
it is in its political policies. Senator Carmaek
was not responsible for the editorial policy of tho
Nashville American in 1899. Senator Carmaek
sovored his connection with the Nashville Ameri
can in 1892, six years before the Spanish-American
war. A republican organ is always making mis
takes when it depends upon its memory, and it
does not dare investigate for the purpose of as
certaining the facts.
The bankers of Missouri and Kansas passed a
resolution denouncing the branch bank feature
of the Fowler bill as "unpatriotic, un-American,
unbusiness-like, and as tending to establish a
monopoly of the great and honored business of
banking in the hands of a few millionaires to the
exclusion of the men of the west, old and young,
who have labored so faithfully and well to make
our banking system what it is today the best in
the known world." The readers of The Com
moner will do well to call this resolution to tho
attention of private bankers, and oven to national
bankers in the small towns. The money question
will be found to be a very live one before tho
Fowler bill becomes a law.
Tainted
With
Oil.
Should Vote
as
He Talks.
Senator McLaurin of South Carolina will be
come a judge of the court of claims under the re
publican administration. It will
be remembered that senator
Tillman charged that Mr. Mc
Laurin had sold his democratic
birthright for a mess of repub
lican pottage. Mr. MoLaurin gave "the lie" to
Senator Tillman. Is it ;not now in order for Mr.
LlcLaurin to withdraw the epithet, apologize to
Senator Tillman, and admit that he is being re
warded for betraying his party and' state?
The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald gives Senator
Hoar something to think about when it says:
"Senator Hoar addressed the
Irish league meeting in Wash
ington the other night on tho
doctrine of human liberty. Tho
difference between Senator Hoar
and a member of the Irish league is that the lat
ter would vote as' he talked." It has occurred to
a great many people that it is about time' for
Senator Hoar to break away from the party with
whose dominant policy he insists he has no sym
pathy. vssN
Senator Beveridge is quite sure that the
United States will make a large amount of money
out of imperialism, and he Is,
therefore, indifferent to the
moral principles involved. His
speeches remind one cf tho
philosophy employed by a col
ored man whose advice is set forth in an Item
which recently appeared in the Atlanta Constitu
tion: "You, William!" exclaimed the old man,
"what you doin' on dat white man's fence? Ain't
you 'fraid you'll fall off?" Then, after a mo
inent's thought. , the oldunan resumed: "But,.ef
you does -falLouV you. might ez well fall on de side
whar de w&termillions is. You hear me, don't
you?" ,s
Senator Hoar delivered art eloquent speech in
the senate on May 21st in exposition to the ad
ministration's Philippine policy.
In the the- course of his speech,
Mr. Hoar? said, '.'If the stories
which come to me In private from
officers Of the .army and from
kindred and friends of the soldiers are to be
trusted, Spain would have the right tomorrow to
Looking
for the
Dollar.
A
' Terrific
' Arraignment.
The Commoner.
wrest the Philippine islands from our grasp on
grounds as good if not better than those which
justified us in making war upon them." Is not
this a terrible arraignment? And yet Is It not
strange that, In tho presence of these conditions,
Senator Hoar adheres to the party that Is re
sponsible for the policy against which ho con
tends? In his message to the Cuban congress Presi
dent Palma says: "The offlco of judge. in Cuba
should be permanent and to con
Life stitute this principle of immov
Term ability should be one of the first
Judiciary. duties of the congress." Presi
dent Palma undoubtedly means,
well. Ho thinks that a judge who holds his offlco
for life will not be influenced by "popular clamor,"
but the experience of the people of the United
States with a life term judiciary is not encour
aging to President Palma's view. While the lifo
term judges in tho United States give no heed to
"popular clamor," it is sometimes tho case that,
fixed securely in their offices, they do give heed
to mandates from the headquarters of influential
interests.
At tho unveiling of the Rochambeau monu
ment Mr. Itoosevelt said: "I am sure, my fellow
citizens, that you welcome tho
just chance which brings it about
at This that this embassy of tho French
Timo. people should come to our shores
at tho very time when wo, in our
turn, have done our part in starting on tho path
of independence a sister republic tho republic of
Cuba." And yet at the same time one cannot es
cape a feeling of regret that this "embassy of the
French people should come to our shores at tho
yery time" when we are exerting our efforts to
.prevent the people of the Philippine islands
from obtaining their independence when we are
doing our utmost to make it impossible for the
erection of a republic upon the ruins of a mon
arch's authority.
The New York Tribune refers to "the barbar
ous tariff demanded on foreign masterpieces of
art." The Tribune thinks that
The Representative Lowering of
Barbarous Massachusetts has done well in
Tariff." introducing a bill amending tho
Dingley act to place paints, oil,
water colors, statuary, culture, engravings, draw
ings and etchings on the free list. There are a
good many people who think that a "barbarous
tariff" is demanded with relation to the necessi
ties of life; and yet we do not recall that the
Tribune has ever made a protest in behalf of the
people. On tho contrary, we distinctly remember
that the Tribune has been among the first to
protest whenever any one has suggested that tho
free list be so arranged as to accommodate the
necessities of the people.
In an editorial "welcoming the 'distinguished
members of the Rochambeau mission, the New
York Herald says: "The de
Some scendants of Lafayette and Ro-
Sympathetlc chambeau can be no strangers
Thrllta. on the soil their great ancestors
helped to free, nor can the 'emi
nent representatives of the government and peo
ple of France fail to feel the sympathetic thrill
excited by their presence in the chief city of the
sister republic." There is similarity between the
relations of France and tho American colonies
and the relations of the United States and the
Philippines prior to the breaking out of hostili
ties. The Filipinos were our allies. History
amply justifies this statement. If France, after
having helped to free the American colonies, had
taken advantage of its position to subjugate tho
people of thos colonies, the position of Franca
would have been no different from the position of
tho United States with respect to the Philippines,
Is there any reason to believe, judging from
presont conditions, that tho time will evor corn
when our descendants will be greotcd by tho na
tives of tho Philippine islands as gratefully as
tho people of today greet tio descendants of La
fayette and Rochambeau? Is thcro any reason to
beliovo, judging from tho present conditions, that
tho time will ever come when a visit of Amorican
representatives to the Philippine islands will oc
casion a sympathetic thrill among tho people of
any of our "possessions?"
sc
Tho Savannah (Ga.) Nows says: "A few
years ago tho country was shocked whon It learned
that congress, with tho repub
a llcan party in power, had ap-
TrliHonalre proprlated $1,000,000,000 for var
Congress. ious purposes during one term.
Tho billion dollar congress be
came a reproach and a by-word. It begins to
look now, however, as if tho presont congress
would discount that record by appropriating $1,
000,000,000 during a single session. And yet no
body is bold enough to predict that tho high-water
mark of republican extravagance has been
reached." There are other things that distinguish
tho present republican congress. It will bo re
membered that Congressman Llttlofleld, a repub
lican member from the state of Maine, passed soma
very severe criticisms on tho republican congress.
NAA
The incidents at tho Ohio republican conven
tion indicate very clearly that there Is a strong
determination in certain quar-
Hanna tors that Mark Hanna shall be-
and como the republican candidate
Roosevelt. for president in 1904. Some of
' tho republican papers that ar
not friendiy to Mr? Hanna -lay groat- emphasis on
the fact that tho convention In its platform In
dorsed the administration of Mr. Roosevelt. Thero
is no significance whatever in this fact Tho con
vention did not dare to adjourn without indorsing
the national administration; but tho fact remains
that thero was a very strong sentiment for Mr.
Hanna's nomination in 1904; and every man who
gives intelligent observation to tho political situa
tion must understand that, judging from tho situa
tion of today, tho contest for tho republican nomi
nation -of 1904 will bo between Theodore Roose
velt and Mark Hanna; and it is not too much to
say that despite the prejudice and the predelic
tions of Senator Foraker, Ohio will take the lead
in the Hanna boom.
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In his message to the Cuban senate President
Palma stated: "Together with our own heroism
is the attitude of tho great peo-
Why not pie, impelled by their own lovo
the of liberty, to put themselves on
Filipinos? our side in our tenacious, fight
for the independence of the
country. Their motive, was sprung from a gen
erous sentiment, pure and disinterested in lt3
origin. Impelled by this sentiment, tho powerful
republic of the north recognizes through its il
lustrious president, tho republic of Cuba. The
promise formally made has been carried out In
this moment, when we feel our right as an inde
pendent nation, it is impossible to suppress our
gratitude to the United States. To recognize thfa
debt of gratitude to the great nation is an act
which exalts us and which makes us worthy
of the consideration and respect of the other na
tions of tho world.' Every time a tribute Is paid
by the Cubans to tho United States, because of the
attitude of this government toward tho new re
public, tho American people are reminded of their
humiliation with respect to tho Philippines. Would
it not be gratifying to the American people if the
Filipinos could pay us the trjlbute which the Cu
bans do at this time?