The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

suitable place as military and naval
base, recognize the independence of the
people of the rest of the archipelago,
let them go 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 labor? Do we want them
to add a wholesome element to our pop
ulation, that our sons may find wives
and our daughters husbands? The
blighting curse of the Almighty would
rest upon such miscegnation. Do we
want them in order to practice upon
their inhabitants the same arts of
philanthropy which. applied ito the alb
original Inhabitants of this continent,
have led TO their determination? HUI
manity says no. Do we want them in
order to send hither swarms of office
holders. carpetbaggers, to riot among
them like Shiny worms eating out their
substance? All, there's the rub. But
for this, this perplexirg problem, 1
doubt, would not today be seriously
confronting the American people. No.
There is no conceivable 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
10 proportionately uplift their civiliZa-
ton. We have enacted laws which
stand like Cherubim with his flaming
sword at the gatewayS of the republic
TO drive back the hOrdes of the dark
and degenerate races of the east, lest
they might enter into, infect and de-
grade US The senator from COnnecti-
cut (Nr PlatO twitted the senator
from Massachusetts (AIr. Hoar) with
seeing constitutional obstacles, lions in
the path leading to the house beautiful.
Would the senator 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, too,
by such benevolent assimilation have
our locks shorn and the strength of our
institutions taken away"
BACON'S RESOLUTION.
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 Chandler would
withdraw his motion to refer the Bacon
resolution TO the committee on foreign
relations.
Mr.. Chandler said that it was his inn
preston that the better method might
be to allow the resolution, with any
amendment that might be offered to be
voted upon. He, therefore, withdrew
his motion to refer.
Mr.. Davis, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, said he had no OBJ
lection to taking a vote now.
Mr. Sullivan (AIiss) then offered his
own resolution as a substitute for the
Bacon resolution. The Sullivan resolu-
ton 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 1t commit
this government to a colonial policy;
nor is it intended to embarrass the cs-
tablishment of a stable, independent
government by the people of those
islands whenever conditions make Such
a proceeding hopeful of success and de-
s!-2hle results
AS the hour of o'clock was ap-
preaching, and il was evident that the
vote could not be taken before that
hour, the time agreed upon for eXecu-
tive session, Mr.. Bacon asked unani-
nous consent that the resolutions and
any amendments thereto be voted upon
Immediately on the cOncluSlCSl OF the
morning business tomorrow.
Mr.. Carter said that while it was not
his purpose to endeavor to prevent
vote on the Bacon resolutions or any
resolutions offered, he felt it would be
discourteous to the gentleman from
Wisconsin (AIr. Spooner) to take Il vote
on resolutions on which he had an
nounced it his purpose to speak in ad-
vance of his argument. Unless some
satisfactory arrangement was made
with Mr.. SDooner, he would feel con-
strained to object
The chair construed this as an OBJ
lection, and the effort to obtain a vote
on the resolutions failed.
RESOLUTIONS FROM LINDSAY.
n. Lindsay (Ky) offered the follow
ing joint resolution:
THAT the acquisition by the United
States. through conquest, treaty or
otherwise Of territory not adjacent to
and geographically part of the conti- /
nent oS North America carries with it
no constitutional or moral obligations
to admit it as a territory, or any DOR |
tion thereof in the federal Union as a
state or states.
THAT it is against the policy, traGi- |
tiops and interest of the American peo- !
pie to admit states erected Out of such |
non-American territories or portions