The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-19

IlOu TeRdTulnB lne Gulllpplue luSuTTeC-
ton was laid before the senate, after
the conclusion of the routine business.
Mr.. Pettigrew declined Mr.. Hoar re-
quest to substitute for his resolution on
the same subject the one presented by
Mr.. Hoar.
Mr.. Berry (Ark.) had read the reso-
luton offered by Mr.. Bacon (Ga.) and
also Mr. Beveridge Qnd.).
Those who desired to discuss the
Philippine question, he said, were met
by the objection that they were aiding
those who were in arms against the
United States, and were responsible for
the loss of life among the soldiers. He
regarded this position as absolutely un-
warranted, and declared that no man
who was a man would be deferred from
speaking of charges that were absolutely
untounded by facts. Mr.. Berry be-
heved that TWO resolutions which he
had read from the desk fairly repre-.
sented the views of the two great par.
ties in this country. He was certain
that the resolution of Mr.. Beveridge re.
1ected the sentiment and feelings of
the administration, because 1t had been
favorably commented upon by the ad.
ministration speakers and newspapers
throughout the country. The resolu.
ton had been indorsed, he said, by the
administration leaders, yet it conferred
an authority and a power upon this
country as absolute as was possessed by
the czar of Russia.
Mr.. Berry referred to that part of Mr..
Beveridge's speech, in which the In
diana senator had asserted that God
had selected the American people as
His trustees, whose appointed work was
to extend to the Philippines and the
Fllipinos the civilization and liberty
with which the American people as His
chosen children were to enlighten the
world. Mr.. Berry did not admit that
the American people were the trustees
of the Lord III the Philippine matter.
He argued that the correct view of
the situation in the Philippines was
taken in the Bacon resolution. If that
resolution were adopted today he be
heved that another gun would be fired
in the Philippine revolution and at the
same time the United States would
gain all the commercial and material
advantages depicted by Mr.. Beveridge.
He placed the responsibility for the in.
surrection upon the president, declar
ing that If his proclamation had not
been issued not gun would have been
fired and not drop of our soldiers
blood would have been shed. He said
that, in his opinion, the president had
issued the proclamation unwillingly;
that he had been forced into the posi-
ton he now occupied by scheming poll
ticians. 1t was not too late to repair
the wrong done, and it could be re-
paired by the adoption Of the Bacon
resolutions.
Mr.. Pettigrew resumed his speech |
upon the general Philippine question, |
his text being his resolution of inquiry. |
He made a sharp attack on the treaty |
made by the Americans with the Sultan |
of Sulu, charging that Polygamy and |
slavery were not only indorsed, but |
maintained by the United States |
through the treaty with the Sultan. He |
declared tnaJ the Republican party was |
going out of power as the champion of |
slavery and a arepudiator of the Declara. |
ton of Independence. Egypt, said Mr.. |
Pettigrew. had been brought under
English "civilizipg sway" AS result |
oyer $500 minions of the English gov.
ernmspt were wringing taxes from the |
oppressed people In Egypt in the name !
OF the English yoke.
II we desired to make war on the |
Catholics, however, we could find them
nearer home. The Aryan race could no
more live in the tropics than could a
polar bear. He asked how we were to
get rich supporting big standing army |
in the Philippines in order that people |
who earn cents a day might trade |
with us? In China he had seen 3, 800 |
Cinnamon working in cotton mill for |
wages that averaged $3.50 a month in |
silver, and boarding themselves. Yet |
our workingmen were to be asked to |
compete with 100000 Of such workers |
in the Philippines to pay taxes to sup |
port an army Of occupation, to subsidize |
ships to carry trade, in order that tie |
trusts Of this country might exploit the |
labor of the Philippines. Mr.. Pettigrew |
said that il this program could be car.
ried out it would be first to Withdraw
our troops; second, to allow the Philip |
pines to set up an independent govern
ment, and third, he would say, "HandS
off; this is neutral territory"
"You would not do that without the
consent of the Flipinos2" inquired MIR.
Spooner.
II world not" replied the South Da-
kota senator. To hold the Filipinos
without their consent, he said, gave the
lie to every Fourth of July grafton ever
delivered in this country.
When Mr.. Pettigrew concluded Mr..
Wolcott (Colo.) arose to discuss the
resolution. Any general discussion of
our policy toward the Philippines seem
ed to him out of place at this time Our
first duty, he said, was to quell the in
surrection, and would not have replied
at all save for the remark and intem.
perate" utterances Of the senator from
6outh Dakota.
No better demonstration of the value
OF the senate as public forum could be
found than this speech. There were in
this country 20, 900, 900 people, good, bad
and indifferent. They were mostly of
good. but scattered through every com.
munity there were the discontented and
unhappy; people who had not been
successful and who viewed with sus.
picion and hatred all those whose lives
had been crowned with success, who be-
hind every good action looked for a
lurking sinister purpose. 1t was fittlng
that such people should be represented
here. sand know of no man 30 fit
ted to speak for them as the senator
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