Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-16

for the civilization of the world: but If so
we would need to treble our Meet OF war
vessels we would have to join England and
Germany in the partition of China, we must
needs seize Madagascar and Port Arthur
My own idea of the mission of America,
said the senator, is that it is the last hope
of republics; that our broad, large, fertile
area will gradually fill up by the admission
of the foreigners and oppressed of other
lands, and that in days of peace we VIII
work out the noblest and highest social
problems. We will say to the rulers OF the
old world: You may hold your thrones as
long as the people will permit but this
continent shall forever be devoted to hb-
erty: YOU shall not step your foot upon it
That is our destiny. 1 believe it is idle to
talk of our being Gods chosen people.
Bound to Make Mistakes.
MI. Wolcott said he was startled by Mr..
Beveridge's statement that charity did not
begin at home, but was filtered in from the
outside With the municipal corruption that
all admitted existed it was ridiculous to
talk of appointing a lot of Indiana politi-
clans in the Philippines and letting the re-
f1ected glory of our republic shine across
the seas to make their administration pure
and holy. If that was so then the islands
would be worth millions, though they only
consisted of lava beds and the craters of
dead VOLCANOES. But, Mr.. Wolcott said, we
were bound to make many mistakes and
before we finished we might believe we had
taken over from Spain a home for incor-
rigibles.
But" concluded Mr. Wolcott "in the
closing year of the century, when the world
is growing more beneficent, when the rich
are growing richer and the poor richer too.
the time will come, if We do our duty, when
the sun which now shines SO brightly over
our own country will shed its refulgent
rays upon far distant seas"
MIR. PettiGrev Replies Briefly.
Nfy Dat
colt. The latter had stated, he said, that
he had never had kind word for his asso-
ciates in the Senate. Yet. Mr. Pettigrcw
said, his relations with his colleagues had
been most pleasant. The Senate could not
hide behind the large personality of the
senator from Colorado.
II have not spent much time" said Mr..
Pettigrew, lin lauding him. although I am
ready to confess he has large voice.
He said he did not think the senator's
attack upon himself was worthy of reply.
He did marvel, however, at the division in
the ranks of the imperialsts. The senator
from Indiana Beveridge) had said the mo-
tive of expansion was greed" the senator
from Colorado CWolcotD said it was "nhi-
lanthropy." The latter was the motive
which actuated Spain in her conquest of
the western world. Her pretext was civil
iZation and religious zeal Those were the
motives of Pizarro, who butchered people
right and left.
Proceeding, Mr.. Pettigrew pointed out the
names of many illustrious men who had op-
posed the policy of their home governments
to aggressions abroad, notably Fox and
Pitt, who had denounced the course of King
George against the American colonies
1T is these champions of freedom" said
he, who dared to denounce the course of
their governments
At the conclusion of Mr. Pettigrew's
statement an order made, at the re-
quest of Mr.. Lodge, that the resolutions
under consideration go over until today
without losing their place.
The Financial Dill.
Consideration of the financial bill was
then resumed Mr.. Rawlins addressed the
Senate in opposition to the measure, which
be intimated was one of the objects of those
who favored Imperialism. He denounced
the bill as sanctified by Wall street and
blessed by the British financial promoters.
He declared the efforts of the republican
party to bring about biretallism had been
perfidious and treacherous, and that there
was no example in history of greater du-
plicity. He devoted his chief attention to
the House bill, for which the Senate meas
ure is a substitute. pointing out what he
regarded as its serious defects. He said 1t
was astonishing that on the eve of a finan-
cial crash, due to an arrested money supply,
a proposition should be made in Congress