The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-26
vITUPERATioN FoRAReUMENr.
Chicago Chronicle.)

Senator Pettigrew states some fact
that CRATES on the sensitive ear of inn
perialism and Senator Wolcott proceeds
to blackguard Senator Pettigrew. The
senator from South Dakota calls atten-
tion to the Bates treaty with the sultan
of Jolo, which recognizes both polyga-
my and slavery, and the senator from
Colorado triumphantly responds that he
has never known the senator from
South Dakota to speak a kind or friend
ly word for any person or any cause.
Mr.. Pettigrew has the audacity to
quote Lincoln's words to the effect that
those who deny freedom to others can
not long retain it themselves, and Mr..
Wolcott responds with sarcastic al
lusion to Mr.. Pettigrew's genial
smile" Mr.. Pettigrew would like to
know how the country is going to get
rich supporting a big standing army in
the Philippines in order to build up
trade with people who earn cents
knock down argument that if Pettigrew
were fighting half-naked for liberty in
Luzon and If Aguinaldo were in the SEN
ate of the United States the latter would
not be found abusing the president and
our soldiers for hunting down and try
ing to kill the former.
oil i,oer
from the silver-tongued senator from
Colorado one is not a little surprised to
see him turning his guns against the
golden tongued senator from Indiana.
Yet that is the very thing we behold.
1.-THE argument of the senator from In
DIANA" says the Noble Wolcott, "is base
and sordid. This war, if we consider
first our duty to the people of the is
lands is one of the noblest ever fought,
but If our purpose in retaining them is
that they are rich the war will go down
as miserable and degraded a one as
ever disgraced the history of the middle
ages"
ed as "maudlin sentimentality" the ell
oquent declaration of the senator from
Indiana that 1--WE were a chosen people
whom God Almighty had made a trus-
tee for the civilization of the world"
He declared that if this We're true 1--WE
would need to treble our fleet of war
30 ;,; 4
and Germany in the partition of China,
we must needs seize Madagascar and
Port Arthur"
And as though this were not a suffi-
ciently far departure from the railings
against Mr.. Pettigrew and his facts,
Mr.. Wolcott went on to.say that he be-
lieved the first and chief duty of
American people was at home. He de-
clared that with our political corrup-
ton, the existence of which all admit
ted, it was ridiculous totalk Of appoint
ing lot of Indiana politicians to offices
in the Philippines and letting the re-
flected glory of our republic shine across
lilc otdS W ilthS lilGll
pure and holy.
Mr.. Wolcott may have been aware
that all this was far more severe as an
arraignment of the administration and
the whole imperial outfit than any of his
personal abuse of Mr.. Pettigrew for
stating facts which demonstrate beyond
doubt that the pretense of duty toward
the people of the Philippines is mere
canting hypocrisy-the shabbiest possi-
BILE disguise for that same sordid spirit
which the Colorado senator so strongly
characterizes. Col. DENLY, the real
head of McKinley's Philippine commits
sion, has disclosed the real spirit and
purpose Of our imperialists in even
palmer language than that used by Mr..
Beveridge. 1t is this spirit and this
purpose that Mr.. Pettigrew denounces.
If Mr.. Wolcott is sincere in denouncing
them also, he certainly can employ him
self better than in blackguarding Petit
grew.