Show H t M M I M I M I M I 4 i I t t I 4 i t M M I M I I M H M I I M v t SENA SENATOR TOR MORGAN 4 4 1444 t 4 M M I 4 M f t I t M 4 t M I I 4 i 9 4 t M 4 4 I M M t 4 H The speech of Senator Senator Morgan of Alabama in inthe inthe inthe the Senate yesterday on the Philippine government bill serves to illustrate te the fact that perhaps the greatest living Democrat and certainly the ablest one practically is in accord with the administration in it its iti colonial policy Senator Morgan does not regard regard re re- re- re gard gai-d the the and the Moros Mot as tribes capable of self government and believes with most of his Republican colleagues that a paternal paternal pa pa- rule designed to benefit and elevate them in inthe inthe inthe the scale seale of humanity is the proper and best thing that could be he given them Senator Morgan is not a superficial person IOn the contrary he is a deep student and thinker thinker-c- one who goes to the bottom of things things' When he be declares his opinion that the Republican Senator Hoars Hoar's idol Aguinaldo is a fiend and a humbug he not only displays his good sense but voices the sentiment sentiment sen sen- of tenths nine-tenths of his countrymen It is due to th the rank and file o of the Democratic party to say sy that a large majority of them agree with General Morgan l rather than with anti anti expansionists like Tillman of South Carolina and Teller reller of f Colorado One of the chief reasons why Democracy Democracy Democracy racy is at t the low ebb it is in the country at present is that blundering le leaders ders' ders persistently have given it the label of t For that sort of thing the Americ American n people will not stand They care a great deal more for the flag flag- and national honor and I glory than they do for any party or partisan domestic domes domes- tic policy They are deaf to appeals from hysterical phil-Filipino phil Senators to give the head hunting head hunting savages savages sav say ages of Luzon Samar and Mindanao a constitution and representative government and their hats bats go up in the air when they hear President Roosevelt say sar Our flag has been planted in the Philippines and there it will stay put Democratic politicians are making the most fatal fa fatal fa- fa tal mistake possible in flying in the face of this popular sentiment but outside of General Morgan and a few other really great men of the party its leaders appear appeal to be devoid of ordinary common commonsense sense If their idea only was to secure their opponents opponents opponents in power in perpetuity we might think their course a shrewd shrew one In any any event that tha i is the tendency tendency ten ten- dency of their cour course e and conduct |