The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-02
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Rawlins said:
1T is possible that the end of the war
with Spain, accomplished by the ratiti-
cation of the treaty, is to be the incep-
ton of new war with the inhabitants
of those islands. That we are to turn
our guns from the Spaniards upon them
although guilty of no crime except the
desire and inspiration to be free. Can
we retain Subig bay and sufficient ter
rltory around it or some other suitable
place as a military and naval base,
recognize the independence of the peo-
pie of the rest of the archipelago, let
them so in peace and give them the
assurance of our protection? What do
we want the Philippines for? Do we
want them to furnish homes for our
own people? No. Do we want them to
furnish an outlet for our surplus la
Dor? Do we want them to add whole
some element to our population, that
our sons may find wives and our daugh
ters husbands? The blighting curse of
the Almighty would rest upon such
miscegenation. Do we want them in
order to practice upon their inhabi-
tants the same arts of philanthropy
which applied to the aboriginal inhabi-
tants of this continent and have led to
their destruction? Humanity says no.
Do we want them in order to send
thither swarms of officeholders, carpet
baggers, to riot among them like Shiny
worms eating out their substance?
All, there's the rub. But for that. this
perplexing problem l doubt would to-
day be seriously confronting the Ameri-
can people. No. There is no conceiv-
able good which they can bring to us.
Their retention BODIES nothing but
evil
I'VE cannot afford to go even half
way down to the Asiatic level in order
to proportionately uplift their civiliza
ton. We have enacted laws that stand
like cherubim with flaming swords at
the gateway of the republic to drive
back the hordes of the dark and de-
generate of the East, lest they might
enter into, infect and degrade us. The
senator from Connecticut (Mr. Plat)
tWitted the senator from Massachusetts,
(Mr. Hoar) with seeing constitutional
obstacles. lions in the path leading to
the house beautiful. Would the SEN
ator from Connecticut have us like
Sampson of old destroy the lion at the
gate in order that we might enter in
to wed the daughter of the Philistine?
1t behooves US to take warning by that
example. lest we, by such benevolent
assimilation have our locks shorn and
the strength of our institutions taken
away
At the conclusion of Mr. Rawlins'
speech the Bacon resolution was laid
before the senate.
Mr.. Bacon expressed the hope that it
might be consistent with the will of
the senate to have a vote upon the
pending resolution. Mr. Quay hoped
that the senator from New Hampshire
(Mr. Chandler) would withdraw his
motion to refer the Bacon resolution
to the committee on foreign relations.
Mr.. Chandler said that it was his i'm
preston that a better method might
be to allow the resolution, with any
amendment that might be offered, to be
voted upon. He therefore withdraw
his motion to refer.
Mr.. Davis, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, said he had no OBJ
lection to taking vote now. Mr.. Sui
Ivan of MissiSsippi then offered his
own resolution as substitute for the
Bacon resolution. The Sullivan reso-
lutiCn follows: ~
That the ratification of the pending
treaty of peace with Spain shall in no
wise determine the policy to be pur-
sued by the United States in regard to
the Philippines, nor shall it commit this
government to a colonial policy; nor is
it intended to embarrass the establish
ment of a stable independent govern
ment by the people of those islands
whenever conditions make such a pro-
ceeding hopeful of success and desir-
able results"
AS the hour of . o'clock was ap
preaching it was evident that the vote
could not be taken before that hour
the time agreed upon for executive ses-
s1ons, Mr. Bacon asked unanimous con-
sent that the resolutions and any
amendments thereto. be voted upon i'm
mediately on the conclusion of the
morning business tomorrow.
Mr.. Carter said that while it was not
his purpose to endeavor to prevent a
vote upon the Bacon resolution or any
resolutions offered. he felt it would
be discourteous to the gentleman from
Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner) to take
vote on resolutions on which he had
announced it was his purpose to speak
in advance of his argument. Unless
some satisfactory arrangement was
made with Mr.. Spooner, he would feel
constrained to object. The chair con-
strued this as an objection, and the
effort to obtain a vote on the resolu-
tions failed.
At 2:05 p. m. the senate, on motion
of Mr.. Davis. went into executive ses-
sion, and at 5:25 p. M, adjourned.