The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-16
FhOBLEM OF PHILIPPINES.
'continued from First page.)
f fiii h' cultivate good digestion, a hope
ieui' and a cheerful mind
No influence on EsiIinipos

should si11 cultivate a good dissstion. a hope
Ia iieait and a cheerful mind
y" influence on FiIipinos.
Mr. Woicott said he did not share the
i, 80 t4O'S Ihat utterances here had any
n-i4s NC upon the insurgents If Agui-
80 ilau ms ear to the ground he must
III, nov utterly triHing is the captious
va lilhs that went on here That was
not an honest Democrat who did not adj
f nl mat If his party We're in power the
~ Il 'hlHg to be done would be to crush
the resurrection.
II our so d.ers in Mania will take care
o. Asulnaldo and his sympathizers as thew
are cong SAID he, our people at home
IN %' ~. "a He care OF Agunaldo's sympathizers
IN me senate and IN the country
Ar Wolcot recalled Mr.. Pettigrew's
statement that if he (Pettigrew) were
flhpno, ne would fight until he was gray
States
have no doubt he would fight" re-
marked Mr. Wolcott sarcastically, eff he
were IasaL 1t is possible that they
might take him by adoption. l can pic
ture him now-clad principally in the gen
lai' pleasant smile for which he is noted
'LauShtar), blazing away with his blum
uerouss against every one in sight. A
secession that the senator and Aguinal-
40 lhaueurate an exchange might for the
purpose of experiment, not be without it's
dtfacton. If the exchange should take
place and if AguinaldO, brave. loyal and
patriotic, stood here repre- senting the state
81 south Dakota, Whose sons had bled and
died IN defense of the flag he would not
pe found traducing the President of the
CAlted states and sandering and maign-
ing the soldiers at the front. charging
'hem with being swindlers and defraud-
ers."
No DishOnOrabIe Step.
The resolutions TO which MIR Pettigrew
had been speaking, Mr.. Wolcott declared,
We're simply petty earnings which con-
tanned the suspicious int,mation chat there
mad been crooked and dishonorabie con-
quot. No step had been taken, Mr.. VOL
cot asserted, that did nos reflect honor
upon the people of the United States He
read from the Presidents message
closing quotation he made from which, was
that 1t was their liberty not our power
which We are seeking 10 enhance"
That" said Mr. WOlcott, "is the last
public utterance of the President whose
treatment of the Filpinos is described by
the senator from South Dakota as brutal
and cruel "
Mr.. Wolcott said we had taken the Phil
ippines, not as a conquest, but as one of
the highest duties we owed to the human
race.
When we inaugurated the war no one
dreamed of the Phil ppines, but when 1t
closed so quickly and so victoriou ly we
found that 100000 people suffering from
oppression and cruelty. Spain defeated and
bankrupt. and the Philippine Islands float
ing derelict. He had taken them because
to have allowed them to drift helplessly
into the power of another would have rails
ed international complications We would
II,I ta1y1 l..
they been as bleak and barren as the des-
ert of Sahara.
Mr.. Wolcott said we might be compelled
to keep the islands indefinitely. He dis
approved, however, of the alluring pic
lures of gold and commercial rewards in
the Beveridge resolution, which he stamp
ed as base and sOrdid.
This war" he said, IF we consider
first our duty 10 the people of the islands,
is the noblest ever fought. but if our idea
in retaining them is that they are rich,
the war will go down as miserable and
degraded a one as ever disgraced the his
tory of the middle ages"
1t was possible, lie said, that we were
chosen people, as Mr.. Beveridge had said,
whom God Almighty had made trustee
for the civilization of the world But If
so we would need to treble our fleet of
war vessels. we would have to join Eng
land and Germany in the partition OF
China. we must needs seize Madagascar
and Port Arthur.
MY own idea of the mission of Amer
lea " said the Senator, lis that it is the
last hope of the republics; that our broad,
large, fertile area will gradually fill up
by the admission of the foreigners and OPP
pressed of other lands, and that in days
of peace we will work out the noblest and
highest social problems. [ believe ii Is
idle to talk of our being Gods chosen peo-
pie
MIR. Pettigrew in Reply.
Mr.. Pettigrew replied briefly, saying his
relations in the Senate had been most