The age-herald., 1900-01-16
BERRY AND PETT|CREW SEVERELY
 ATTACK THE PHILIPPINE POLICY
Senator Wo1Cott in SCathing Words Answered UtteranCes Which He Termed Remarkable
 and Intef1perate."

trusteeship, MT. Berry believed, would ulti- maitely destroy the foundations of the gov- ernment. He argued that the correct view of the situation in the Philippines was ta- ken in the Bacon resolution. If that reso- hutton was adopted today he believed not another gun would be fired in the Philip pine revolution, and at the same time the United States would gain all the commer- cial and material advantages depicted by Mr. Beveridge
 He placed the responsibility for the in- suMrection upon lthe president declaring that df his proclamation had not been is- sued not a gun would have been fired and not a drop of our soldiers blood would have been shed. He said that, in his opin- ion, the president had issued the procla- motion unwillingly; that he had been forced into the position he now occupied by scherning politicians. It was not too late to repair the wrong done, and it could be repaired by the adoption of the Bacon resolution.
 When MT. Berry concluded MT. Pettigrew resumed his speech on the Philippine ques- tion.
 "Those who deny freedom to others" he said, "cannot long retain it for themselves. Such policy woNld be the destruction Of
 
 the republic"
 He entered into sharp attack on the treaty made by the Americans with the sultan of Suu, charging that polygamy and slavery were not only endorsed, but maintained by the United States through the treaty with the sultan.
 He declared that the republican party was going out of power as the champion f.-1o <sf+t tion of independence.
 Egypt, said MT. Pettigrew, had been brought under England's "civilizing sway" As a result, the mdnions of the English government were wringing taxes from the oppressed people in Egypt in the name of civilization. Ireland, Catholic Ireland, was also bowed down under the English yoke. If We desired to make war on Catholics, however, We could find them nearer home.
 Aside from all ilhese considerations, MT. Pettigrew argued that the Americans could not dominate the Philippines. Our people could no more live in the tropics than could a polar bear. Kiphng's poem, '"The White Mans Burden" he characterized as conn patible.
 Turning to the commercial side of the question, he asked how we were to get rich supporting a big standing army in the Philippines in order that people who earn cents a day might trade with us In China he had seen 3,500 Chlnamen working in a cotton mill for wages that averaged s5.5O a month in silver, and boarding taem- selves. Yet our workingmen were to be asked to compete with six million of such workers in the Philippines, to pay taxes to support an army of tion, to sub s.dize ships to carry trade, in order that the trusts of this country might exploit tine labor of the Philippines. To hold the Philippines without their consent, he said, gave the lie to every Fourth of July ora tion ever delivered in this country
 Senator Wolcott's Speech
 When MT. Pettigrew concluded there was a general stir in the senate as Mr. Vol colt of Colorado arose to discuss the reso- lution Any general discussion of our pol icy toward the Philippines seemed to him out of place at this time. Our first duty he said, was to quell the instruction. and he would not have replied at all save for rhe remarkable and incorporate" utter ances of the senator from South Dakota. No better demand of the senate as pub