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date of his party for president.
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Mr.. Pettigrew then devoted some time
to discussion of the correctness OF pub
lished dispatches from the Philippines.
| He declared that significant sentences had
been stricken from news dispatches and
| from official dispatches because it was
regarded by the powers that be mad
| visable that they should reach the Amer
| lean people.
"As an instance of this work" said he,
| "The Sulu treaty was mangled and kept
| from the press until after the election In
| Ohio
He discussed at length the proclamation
| issued by the president, declaring that 1t
| was in such shape that Gen. Otis recon-
| mended it should be changed, IN order
not to provoke hostilities on the part OF
the Fillpinos. Subsequently, he said, it
was altered materially, and, as altered,
! was published to the Philippine natives
! AS originally drawn 1t was, to his mind,
| declaration of war, and when Agulnaldo
| and his leaders came into possession OF
| it they so regarded 1t.
1.-The whole wretched business deciar-
ed Mr. Pettigrew, vehemently, was one
of deceit and deception, calculated not
! only to deceive the people of the Philip
| pines, but of the United States"
In support of his declaration that dis
| patches We're censored in the interest OF
J the administration, Mr.. Pettigrew quoted
| from a letter written by Mr.. Robert M.
| Collins, Associated Press correspondent
| at Manila. In this letter Mr.. Collins re-
| lated the substance Of an interview upon
the subject of censoring dispatches which
he had had with Gen. Otis. Mr.. Pettigrew
read the statement of Mr.. Collins, In
which he had said it was the evident
| desire of the officials to prevent certain
| informa ton from reaching the people or
| the United tates. When he (Collins) hal
| filed a dispa arch conta nlng information
which he thS USht was proper TO Sc I'd to
| the United States, he had been Informed
! by the censor that he had been instructed
to cut out anything that might hurt the
administration Subsequently, when he
had desired to send a story to the United
States relating to silver in the Philip
| pines. the censor had told him that his
! instructions were 10 let nothing pass that
| would be helpful to w. j. Bryan in the
| United States.
SARCASTIC COMMENT
At this point Mr. Pettigrew became
sarcastic, and declared that the presi-
| dent was resolved to succeed himself as
president even though essential inf0rma-
| ton was suppressed. Mr.. Pettigrew -de-
clared the president really began the
war in the Philippines, and was really
responsible for it.
If" he said, "the administration had
a spark OF honor in dealing with the
| Filipinos, 1t would have told Gen. Otis
to have laid the entire truth of the in
tentions of the government before Aguin-
aldo and his associates.
"If this had been DONE" said Mr.. Petit
grew, 'the whole trouble could have been
| averted That we had fired the first shot
| that commenced hostilities no one de-
| MED Even after fighting began he said,
IAN effort was made by Aguinaldo to
| secure a suspension of hostiities, but he
had been told by Gen. Otis that now the
fighting had been begun it must continue
] to the end
If" said Mr.. Pettigrew, Il We're
| Filipino, J would fight until was gray
against the unholy aggression of the
| United States. If this country is wrong,
this country could take no grander po-
| sitiCn before the nations of the world
than to admit that it is wrong. We have
reached a turning point. We must decide
! whether we are to pursue a course of
rapacity ana aggression, on the British
| principle, or to pursue a course Of justice
and right. No nation long can pursue
such course as the imperialists have
marked out for us-a course of wrong and
| treachery to friends-and more to stand
well before the nations of the world.'
Mr.. Pettlgrew was cut off by the ex-
piration of the morning hour.
CURRENCY MEASURE.
The currency bill was then taken up,
and Mr.. Stewart addressed the senate,
Opening with all attack upon the Repub-
lican party for bringing in a measure so
utterly contradictory of the st. Louis
I tNla fO,-1o1 10 horo r6n
eral discussion of the financial conditions
of the world, and attacked the adVoC ates
of the gold standard for denying that
either the supply or the demand for the
gold has any effect in estimating the
quantity of any particular commodity
which a given amount of gold will buy.
Referring to the reply Of Secretary Gage
to the senate, he said:
The secretary of the treasury is not
so absolutely ignorant of money science
as his contention that the value of gold
never changes would seem to indicate. In
his reply to the resolution of the two
houses of congress 1especting his tran sac
tions with certain New York banks, he
gives for a reason for depositing the
money of the government In national
banks that it Is necessary to do so to
avoid contracting the circulation, and to
keep it in the treasury would disturb the
y
can understand that locking up money in
the treasury vaults disturbs business, and
at the same time he thinks it is neces-
sary to use only the commodity gold
upon which to stamp money, although
every foreign financial trouble takes gold
out Of the country and deposits it in for
eign vaults.
I'm his lectures on gold the secretary
claims it possesses intrinsic value; while
administering the treasury he regards the
volume of money in circu alton as of par
amount Importance, and deposits the sur
plus of the treasury in banks to keep it
in use and prevent contraction. II is
passing strange that business men sh ipa
their transactions in view Of the possible
supply of money, but when they discuss
the money question they follow the ex-
ample of the secretary, and assert that
the quality of the material used as money
is the only question Of Importance, with
out regard to the volume i'll circulation
1t is not singular that people can see
the absurdity of the intrinsic value the
ory, while in every kind of business in
dustrial as we'll as speculative, they act
: on the quantitative theory of money. Ir
/ their business they have in view the sup
, ply Of money, but many of them in thei,
[ arguments follow the teachings Of the
Clevelands and the Harrsons, and main
tain that all they want is intrinsic values
in the money in circulation, no matter
whether that volume is large or small
TO BECOME AN ISSUE.
In conclusion Mr.. Stewart said:
1.-The passage of this bill, whatever may
/ have been the Intention of its authors
will bring this question squarely before
the American people. If this bill should
become law, there would be no dodgfng