Show BETTER SELL THEM During the course of the debate on the army bill Senator Hoar suggested an amendment looking to the conciliation con-ciliation of the Filipinos at the same time expressing the opinion that In time of pence there should be one soldier to each 1000 of population He did not therefore he said oppose the army bill on tin score of Increase but ho did oppose it because of the avowed policy of military control In the Philippines Philip-pines and in a burst of misguided benevolence he said It Is idle to t tell ua that these pcople are not t lit for sefgovernment the way to prepare them for liberty is to Jet them free And the text of his amendment Is aa follows Provided Thai no further military force shall bo used In tho Philippine Islands 1 except such as may be necessary to keep order in places there t now nctunlly under the peaceable control of tho Unlt States and to protect persons and property lo whom In tho judgment of tho President protection may be due from tho United States until the president shall have llrst proclaimed amnesty for all political of I fences committed against the United States In the Philippines and I f In his power shall have agreed upon an armis tice with persons now In hostility to the United States and shall have invited such number not less than tCJ1as ho shall think desirable of the leaders or representatives repre-sentatives of the persons now hostile to ho United States there to come to the Lnltcd States and state I their wishes and he condition character and wishes of the people of tho Philippine islands to the Executlvc and Congress and shaH have offered to secure to them safe conduct to come abide and return and shall have provided at the public charge for the expenses ex-penses of their transportation both ways and their stay In this country for a reasonable rea-sonable and sufilclenl time for such purposes pur-poses Suppose that to be all carrlel out hat ten fifty or one hundred Filipinos Fili-pinos bo brought to Washington that all the way along tho road It shall be told them as it will be that all they need to be free so that they can go back and loot their own countrymen I under the protection of the United States is I to Insist on absolute independence I inde-pendence then what would Mr Hoar want to do The truth Is Mr Hoar thinks he Is honest and he Is accordIng accord-Ing to the lights before him Tie thinks he is wise und humane arid there is where he makes a mistake He knows nothing of yie character of the Filipinos The officers of the army In the Philippines I the qlvll officers the commissioners In the Philippines I have tried and tried again to come tOI an understanding with the Filipinos and till the answer they get back from the few who arc doing the killing and raising the mischief has been that they will only cease on the ground of absolue independence and there Is not one of all the gifted men civil and military who have been In tho Philip pines that has not entered his protest against such a course that has not expressed his absolute conviction that that people are not yet fit to be free Senator Hoar could by 1 > taking a week off and sointr to Cuba and visiting for u day the constitutional convention now In session there understand that it would be wickedness to let a mongrel l breed like that have full swing In a country like the Philippines They have had no training in government Their idea of government is an abso lute despotism under whatever name they may please to call it a control I which would enable them to loot their fcl1ow countr men at will We do not believe that since the beginning of time there has been the same spirit developed In any country as Is now manifested by the Mugtrumps of the United Stiles toward the Filipinos It i would be Infinitely better to sell the Islands out and out to Great Britain or to Germany It IB I a clear case that consciously or unconsciously a vast number of men in the United States arc the real allies of the Filipinos Fili-pinos and the shortest way out would be to sell oul the whole affair Probably Prob-ably Japan would be the best country to tender ihCI Islands to because Japan would know how to deal with those cutthroats in a second and lei it le l understood that Japan had bought t hnf > islands nnfl tho nJln uho are lIIIIII keeping those islands in a ferment would grow still In a moment Our army went there with the best motives that ever an army entered a foreign country The measure of tyranny that was Intended for the Filipinos is exacty such as is upon every American Ameri-can citizen Every one was to have full protection in life in property In i his religious beliefs He was to be an 1 i absolutely free man except that over him as a sovereign power and a protection pro-tection there would be the Government Govern-ment of tho United States In that position po-sition those fiends who never had had a breath of liberty who had been vassals of ono of the cruelest of modern powers all their lives on that showing they commenced Icllllng our soldiers and on that history Senator Hoar from his exclusively provincial I New England virtuous standpoint plans for the liberty of those murderers and assails all that has been done to reduce those Islands Ito I-to order and to give to the people the I peace and tho liberty which they never 1 enjoyed In their lives President Me < KInlcy ought to send a communication communica-tion to Congress asking permission to negotiate a sale of tho title of the United States to tho Philippines with the highest bidder among he powers of the arth |