Evening star., 1898-12-03
Senator Caffey Says We Do Not
Want the Philippines.
OPPOSES 4. POLICY OF EXPANSION
Only Solution to Race Difficulties
is Negro immigration.
n @ A II A G e A CA n A L

| cible language in opposition to policy of
| expansion. He said the country appeared
! to him to have gone mad attending to other
| peoples business, and if that policy should
| be continued, he thought, so much money
| would be spent abroad that there would
| be none to be used at home on extremely
| necessary improvements. In the Philip
| pines he could only see a burden, with no
| commensurate profit now or in the future
| Speaking of the problem In the
| SOUTH he sail the only solution he could
! see for the natural antagonism of the races
was their segregation, which, he said, was
| the nope of southern leaders of former
| days as we'll as of aboltionists.
| The North Carolina Difficulties.
Referring TO the recent race difficulties
in North Carolina, Mr.. Canery said:
| ut is in my opinion only an evidence of
! the acute antagonism of the races. / think
that evidence would be produced were the
negro living in the north. There is no
marked difference between the southern
ana northern people In regard to the negro,
though the southern man understands him
better than his northern brother, who has
TO be acclimated to tn gro. All white
men feel the same abou, he negro and
negroes feel the same about white men.
I think the negro has some admirable
traits or character that very frequently are
best of them in political matters are led by
the worst elements of our people. In these
questions of race they all go together"
will there be any general effort in Com
greSs to unseat southern representatives
| because of char rges growing out of the col
ored vote?" Mr.. Caffery asked
Il do not think there will be any such ef
tort. L think that would be attempt to
revive a feeling which, in my judgment. is
dead l think the north and south under
stand one another. and 1 think they under
stand this negro question. l do not think
tie north is any more worked up about re-
cent happenings than cases of horror ard
murder will always work up sympathetic
people.
THE people of the south are as greatly
stirred over these cases as are the people
of the north. and they dcptore them rs
greatly as do the people of the north. They
have the same feelings of horror and ce-
testatfon for these crimes that are felt in
the north. but they look upon them from
broader stanfpoint
solution of the Race Problem.
What solution is there for this race prob
lem in the soaith 90, the reporter asked.
Il see no solution. replied Mr. Caffery
unless there,,fs a voluntary emigration of
the negro race, unless circumstances make
1t necessary 40 have a compulsory migra-
tion. The faer islthe ~egro is getting very
numerous in the United States. In the
course of halt, a century there will be thirty
or forty milIQns <of them, and. this is
question we should settle before we Crap
pie with the Philippines"
TO what place can they migrate?"
DO not 'BnoW,' replied Mr.. Caffery,
but to some congenial spot in the tropics
AS we are acquiring vast territory, it would
be easy to acquire a piece of Africa to put
them in" - -'ra2 .s'f1.l- -
Liberia was never very popular with the
colored people" it was sugga sted.
well, that was not a very attractive
place, and there was no governmental aid
to make it so. But it was the plan of the
old southern leaders and the northern abo-
race. 1t Is a hard thing to remove people
who have become tied down to a place by
associations. but sentiment must give way
before the necessities of both races,
and l think the benefit of both races would
be secured by segregation
DO you think the colored race would
favor such a p1dn?"
Yes. l think they would If they were
given a government of their own under pro-
lection of white people, until they could
get started. l think they would like it."
Against Annexing Philippines.
Referring to the treaty being framed by
the peace commissioners In Paris, Mr.. Caf-
fiery said:
81 shall vote squarely against the PROPOSE
ton to annex the Philippines. The peace
commission had no business to provide for
tho annexation of the Philippines They
did not negotiate for those islands: they
simply demanded the Philippines at the
niuzzle of a gun. 1t is a travesty to call
that proceeding negotiation.
They presented an ultimatum and told the
Spaniards to accept it. That is not ne
gotiation. In the first place these islands
were forced out of Spain and in the second
place would make a bad bargain if
Spain were to give us two or three billions
of dollars to take those islands l don't
believe any amount of money would pay
for the damage the Philippines will event
ually work to the United States IL we in
corporate them as a part of our territory"
What are your specific objections TO an
nexation?' Mr.. Caffery was asked
In the first place it would involve dis
honor on our part. We would diShonor our
own declaration that we went to war for
humanity. Nobody can show how huma nifty
is involved in stealing the Philippines from
Spain. The expansionists are dumb on that
point.
In the second place. these islands would
be the most expensive gift that one nation
ever received from another They can
never be source of strength, while they
will always be an element of domestic
weakness and subject to foreign attack in
candidly believe that the taking of the
Philippines would be plunge into a policy
which, If not checked, will wreck the re-
public"
The Nicaragua Canal
Questioned as to his views on the proba-
bility of legislation for building the Mica
ragua canal. Mr.. Caffery said:
While am in favor of the canal project
I am very hostile to the Morgan bill. If
the government of the United states THINKS
enough of it's Pacific possessions to unite
them with the Atlantic coast bv watnr-
way uniting the tWG oceans, let the United
States constrnft thu canal without the in
tervention of bankrupt company and mn
der concessions WITCH are of doubtful va
lidity. :, Ni'
The United States ought to enter ,nto q
compact with Nicaragua and Costa Rica
for the right of way for the canal and
negotiate with England for such abroga tion
modification .4of the Clayton RuIwer
treaty as wilEmake3 1t flee from. interfer
ence with the construction of the canal NV
the United States. and then the government
should build ito II necessary and 1t will NOT
be necessary to buim it at all If the Pana
ma canal can be constructed for the amOunt
of money thai Gen. Abbott says viii com
plete It, II 81
.'The .UniteA States ought NOT ,,,unse |
into these foreign matters to the utter neg
lect Of our own affairs. The deependnp Of
the aharbors of New York, Phiiadeinbia
more Importance to us than the consfruc
ton of an interoceanic canal But wa an
pear to be attending now to nothing on
ea rth hut the affairs of the world