Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20


ART. Is The United States government Will
pay the following monthly salaries:
10 the Sultan. $3.50
70 DatO Raj ah Muda. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is
TO Dato Attik. ik.................. ...... 60
10 Dato Cable. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IS
10 DaLO JOakanan OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 70
TO Dato Amir Haissn Observation-Disclosures. go
To Habit Buter..... Observation-Disclosures. so
To Habib Mura. .......... ................ ~
Signed in triplicate, in English and Suiu, at
Jolo this 2Oth day of August, A. D. 1899 Q3th
Arakuil Akil 1870 The SULTAN SULU.
Dato RAJAH MUDA.
Dato ATTIK.
Dato CALBE.
Dato JOKANAIN.
Signed: J. c. BATES,
Brgadier General, U. S, "
The annual aggregate of these sal
aries is SO, 120. The Spanish agree
ment was for $4,000 a year. This
agreement was one we offered to the
Sultan, not one that we insisted upon.
It is our own proposition that we are
to maintain slavery in the Sulu
islands.
Further than that, Mr.. President,
an investigation would show that, al
though this agreement was made on
the 10th day of August, it was not
possible to secure from the state de-
partment a copy of the agreement un-
til after the election in Ohio. More
than that, the associated press en-
deavored to secure a copy of the
agreement, and as response to the
application of that great news pro-
mitigating organization, it's repre-.
sentative was handed a copy of the
agreement in Arabic-Sulu Arabic at
that; and they could not find anybody
in the United States who was able to
translate it. The state department
had copy in English, for the last
paragraph of the treaty says: "Signed
in triplicate, in English and Sulu, at
Jolo, this 10th day of August, 1895" I"
From this it would appear that the
state department does not hesitate to
withhold information or mislead and
deceive the public. I therefore expect
but little in the way of facts in answer
to our resolutions.
Iwonder if our state department has
two branches, as the English state
department has-one that is secret,
where secret matter is concealed for
ever from the public and never pub
lished in the Blue Book, and one
which is given to the people in order
to justify English robbery, English
plunder, and English annexation, in
which is fled the inform alton that
goes in the Blue Book to silence the
conscience Of the English people,
Have we adopted the same policy OF
concealment, the sathe policy of re.
fusal to let the public know what
exists?
I say this agreement, when the
associated press tried to get copy OF
it before the senate convened, was fur
nished in Arabic, and an Arabic used
in the Sulu islands. Therefore it was
not possible to have it translated in
the United States, and we only got
this copy which I have read after con-
gress convened and after the elections
last fall were over. This is on a par
and in line with the whole business OF
concealing from the American people
the facts in regard to our maiden for
eign venture. We are unable to pro.
cure the truth through General Otis.
Mr.. Collins, of the associated press,
says the censor told him he was to
send nothing, and they were going to
allow nothing to be sent that would
injure the administra alton or help Mr..
Bryan.
Here is an agreement by which we
are to maintain not only slavery bu,
polygamy in the Sulu islands. Here
is an agreement by which our flag is
made to float over two crimes; and
we further solemn]y agree that nc
nation in the world shall be permitted
to interfere: It is the chief part of the
business of the sultan of Sulu to- gel
into quarrels with the natives of the
interior in the Island of Mindanao
and then to declare that they are ID
revolt against his authority. Upor
this pretext he takes prisoners aul
sells them into slavery, the planters
OF Borneo being the purchasers. Tha
has been his business hereto fore when
ever he needed money. We now pro
pose to maintain that sort Of thin1
1 ,,n6or tho Hnr IF tho T1nitod Cto<oc
and we. stipulate, and the stipulatio,
is approved by the president, that n,
foreign nation shall be permitted t,
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