The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03


Oklahoma from competing with that
grown in Kansas or other states of the
union or the minerals produced in New
Mexico and Arizona from competing
with the like products Of Colorado and
Utah. He maintained that if the in
habitants of the Philippine archipelago
may be denied the liberty of locomo-
ton, not as punishment for any
crime of which they may have been
duly convicted if they may be lawful
ly forbidden to come to America, then
we may deny them the right of passage
from one island to another, or from
visiting their neighbors' houses and
if we may do this we may throw them
into Spanish dungeons there to await
the incoming tide to end their trou
bles and place them beyond the reach
of American tyranny.
What do we want the Philippine
islands for?' continued Senator Raw
Inns. do we want them to furnish
homes for our own people? No. Do
we wan, them to furnish an outlet for
our surplus labor? Do we want them
to add a wholesome element to our
population, that our sons may find
wives and our daughters husbands?
The blighting curse of the Almighty
would rest upon such miscegenatiOn.
Do we want them in order to practice
upon their inhabitants tle same arts
of philanthropy which, applied to the
aboriginal inhabitants of this conti-
nent, have led to their determination? ?
Humanity says no. Do We want them
in order to send hither swarms of Of
iceholders-carpet baggers-to riot
among them like Shiny worms eating
out their substances? All. There's
fha rub But TOT CnIS, rnIS perpIex1ng
problem, 1 doubt, would today be seri-
ously confronting the American peo-
pie. No there is no conceivable good
which they can bring to us. Their
retention bodies nothing but evil.
1--WE cannot afford to go even half
way down to the Asiatic level in order
to proportionately uplift their civiliza-
tion. We have enacted laws which
stand like cherubim with 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 u.s.
Prior to Senator Rawlins' speech,
Senator Lindsey, of Kentucky, offered
the following 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 of North America carries with it
no constitutional or moral obligation
to admit said territory or any portion
there into the federal union as a
state or states.
That it is against the policy, tradi-
tions and interests of the American
people to admit states erected out of
sLch non-American territories or por-
tions thereof, into our union of Ameri-
can states, at any time or under any
conditions.
THAT the United States accept from
Spain the cession of the Philippine
islands with the hope that the people
of those islands may demonstrate
their capacity to establish and main
tain a stable government, capable of
enforcing law and order at home, and
of discharging the international obli-
cations resting on separate and inde-
pendent states, and with no expecta-
tion or desire of permanently holding
these islands as colonies, or subject
provinces, or of compelling their peo-
pie against their consent to submit to
the authority of the United States, af-
ter they shall demonstrate their capac-
ity for self government as herein de-
fined, the government of the United
States to be judge Of such capacity"
T &I,a
olution was left on the table subject
to call.
At 5:25 o'clock p. N. the senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The house entered upon the consid-
Grafton of the river and harbOr bill to-
day and made rapid progress. Fifty
! of the eighty-six pages Of the bill had
been completed when the house ad-
F., journed. The bill appropriates di-
rectly about SI2, 100000 and authorizes
contracts to the extent Of $18,000,0 600
additional.
The general debate was unusually
brief. Its feature was a speech in op-
position to the bill by Mr.. Hepburn, of
Iowa, VITO has fought every river and
harbor bill for the last six years. He
said he knew his opposition would
avail nothing as the votes for its pas
sage had been arranged for by the ap-
propriations in the bill. He attacked
particularly the Mississippi river i'm
provement, which was ably defended
by Mr. Catchings of Mississippi.
Mr.. Moon, democrat, of Tennessee,
made Plea for an appropriation for