On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Here is part of the Wikipedia entry on Senator Hoar. I have looked at this
> entry before, and it seems to me that the note at the end of it has been
> changed. Unless my memory (or my reading at the time) is quite faulty, the
> words were addressed to President Roosevelt. Perhaps not. I don't know now.
>
> Anyone have better information.
>
> Carroil
>
>
> " You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives-the flower of
> our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands
> of the people you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration
> camps. Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing sheaves
> with them, in the shape of other thousands of sick and 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 in Christian
> churches, and of the burning of human dwellings, and of the horror of the
> water torture. Your practical statesmanship which disdains to take George
> Washington and Abraham Lincoln or the soldiers of the Revolution or of the
> Civil War as models, has looked in some cases to Spain for your example. I
> believe-nay, I know-that in general our officers and soldiers are humane.
> But in some cases they have carried on your warfare with a mixture of
> American ingenuity and Castilian cruelty.
>
> Your practical statesmanship 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 and irreconcilable
> enemies, possessed of a hatred which centuries can not eradicate.
>
> -Senator George F. Hoar, From a speech in the United States Senate in May,
> 1902, chastising the Philippine-American War and the three Army officers,
> who were court-martialed.
>
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