The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-04-05
SENATOR TILLMAN
AND THE REPUBLICANS.
ACCUSES THEM OF HYPOCRISY.

oi'CJ ot ClS ANlllnlSlf fht1On--An lit
Republicans Had to Buy Some MeI
to Vote for the Paris Treaty o
pcace-Does lie Mean the Junio,
Senator?
Mr.. PERSISTENT, there is an old lega
maEim, believe, that man can not
take advantage Of his own wrong and
those who voted to bring into this coun
try and under It's jurisdiction and its
flag and its citizenship this cheap con
tract labor, this peon labor, this Malay
labOr, and other forms OF ColOred labor
were told what the results would be
that would follow the ratification OF
that treaty; and it was very hard tC
get the votes necessary 10 make that
treaty a law, and l'have heard you had
to buy some men to vote for it. The
question as to whether wrong Is
to be done to the American people,
as to whether wrong Is tJ be- done
to our citizenship, as to whether
u wrong Is TO be done to those suffering
people, who have themselves protested
by giving up their lives against being
suhjugated by the American army
that question Ia before tho American
people to-day; and it Is almost the Oh ly
question before them. They will de.
termine Ia November whether the flag
shall mean one thing in the Unite d
States and another thing in Puerto
Rico and still smother thing in the
Philippine Islands.
|, OF course, must bow to their be-
hests, and ii the Majority in the cleo
tion Of next November say that they
want to have "supJ2cts and citizens
under our flag that they want de-
pendencies = that they want colonies,
and have Congress turned loose un-
trammeled to leg!slate as it pleases, to
rob those people by sending them u
new army Of carpetbaggers, to be
protected by the bayonet, | can not
help it but, so help me God, SO long rs
| have got a voice | shall protest
against it.
But, Mr.. President, rs we have got
of on to the Philippines-l intended to
get there anyway-as | said the other
day, the Philippine fever is in the
blood OF the country. The question
here at stake is not whether we shah
have free trade with Puerto Rico, but
whether by giving Pncrto Rico free
trade we shall establish q precedent
which will require Us TO give free trade
to the Philippines. That is the issue !:
that is the ghost that stares you Re-
publicaus in the face and warns you to
beware OF the ides Of Novem Der. You
would willingly give Puerto Rico the
odpIS hhSoA VI SoN Si iiihShVi WHO SatuC
opportunities, that you gave Hawaii,
| presume; but you are afraiG Of the
const quences of that, and therefore
you are compelled to raise the cry that
you must protect American labor
against the pauper labor Of the Philip.
pines-the 2O-ceuts a-day man. You
would not let that pauper labor alone.
The same obligation TO extend your
civilization, if you choose, will apply
to any other place you may reach out
and steal or grab.
Here is Haiti or San Domingo at our
doors. Why not go down there if we
are under obligations to civilize and
educate and rob through our govern
ment every dependency or every other
island lying around loose? II we
choose to 60 TO Haiti, nobody in Eu-
rope will object or dare to say "no :"
and when we get ready to go from the
Philippines on to the Asiatlc mainland,
and take slice OF China in further.
ance OF our commerce, our benefit as a
people, and in u mOney.making way,
Eng land aud the rest OF hiurupn will be
glad to see the so called free Republic
of the United States tu1n its face back
ward, carried eway from the ideals o.
this country, reverse it's action for one
hundred and twenty. five years, and fall
in behind the despOtisms Of Europe in
the further enslavement Of mankind.
1t has been charged that it was tho
speech OF the senior Senator from
Massachusetts Mr.. Hoar which
brought on the rebellion OF the Filipi-
nos. 1t is said that speech was cabled
over there under tho ocean at cost Of
$4,000, and that on that speech being
read to the Filipinos they rose in re-
bellion and began to shoot our soldiers
tn death. ThAt nf tho nn1 n
OF the Republican press, the imperial
ist press, that wanted to try to ix the
fault somewhere and throw the blame
On some one.
We have had a new story within a
week. | am sorry that our young friend
from Indiana Mr.. Beyeridge] is not in
the chamber. The latest news Is that
his great speech in the Senate, in
which he outlined the policy to be fol-
tyranny or despOtism we were to set up
has been translated into Spanish and
has been spread broadcast among the
Filipiuos. That, no doubt, accounts for
the recent renewal Of h0stilities and
the livelness which the extinct rebel
lion is now exhibiting again. Instead
of the long promised peace coming,
the outlook Is that the war will last in
definitely, because those people have
1Ounu, at lASJ tnat oil our professions
Of fhumanitarianism and OF philanthropy
and Of our intention to raise them up
in the scale OF citizenship and give
them the blessings Of American liberty
are lies; that We propose to 20 there
in order to exploit them, to get them
SO as to furnish new field for a new
set OF thieves to 90 and rob and rob
and rob under the American flag.
Then comes along another thorn in
the aide OF our unhappy friends on the
other side OF the chamber. President
Schurman, one OF the Filipino commits.
sioners. who went out to the Philip.
pines and did not succeed In obtaining
any conditions Of peace or amity with
the rebels, warns you that If you are
going to treat Puerto Rico In this way
with o discriminating tarlM, and your
refusal to grant them any rights undel
the fag, that will only increase the de
termination OF the Filipinos to resist tt
the death. So you are very un
happy family, and | sympathize witt
you from the bottom OF my heart.
only hope you will come to repentance