The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-01-25
INQUIRIES ABOUT
THE PHILIPPINES.
AMERICA FOLLOWING THE Ex-
AMPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Fighting a Catholic Population and
Making Treaties With Mohamme
dans-Protecting Slavery and Poly
gamy Under the Stars and Stripes
Tho Trade that Does Not Follow
the Flag.
The following are extracts from the
speech of Hon. Richard f. Pettigrew
OF South Dakota, delivered in the
United States Senate on tho 18th ia.
stant:
The President OF the United States,
in his speech at Sioux Falls, S. Oak
In October last, said:
That from the hour the treaty WIS
atihed 1T became our territory ; there
was but one authority and but one SOW
ereignty that could be recognized any
where In those islands, and it became
our duty TO restore order, to preserve
peace, to protect life and property"
Yet be went to war with the Chris
tian people of that country, with those
who believed in the Catholic religion,
and made treaty with the Mohamme.
dana by which they ware TO set up and
main tain their own government almost
absolutely independent and free from
us. II he had granted TO the Chris ians
of the Philippines the same rights he
granted to the shareholders and poly
gamists OF tho Philippines there would
nave been no war whatever. And vet
We. as 3 great Christian nation, select
Tor elt.government the slaveholding
Mohammedans, occupying moro than
one-third OF the area of the entire
group, and proceed to establish what ?
Not Christianity, for they are already
Christians but we make the effort to
shoot Professionalism into the Catholic
population OF the rest Of the islands.
III our nag fl pats over that entire re-
glon, and II, as the President said, it IL
absolutely under the domain and con-
troll OF the constitution of the United
States, seems to me that he violated the
cons tttution when he made the treaty
with the Sultan of Sulu, and that he
ought to be impeached.
Mr.. President, 1t would be in accord
more with my ideas of American insti.
tutiCns II we bad gore to the Sultan OF
Sulu and said, You must abandon
poygamy and slavery, and II you do
not do it and recognize tine power and
auth ority OF the government OF tht
United States over the whole group Of
islands under your control we will
wage war upon you until you do it,
instead Of going TO the people who had
had been our alice, the Christian PEG
ple OF the northern islands, and saying
to them, Unless you surrender your
cons titution which you have adopted.
and which is framed after our constitu-
tion, unless you surrender your righ,
as q government Of u free people, We
will proceed to kill you until you do"
lnstead OF drawing trail CT blood over
those islands, where the population can
READ and write, where they have en-
braced the Same religion as Ours and
pray to the same God, it would have
been better had we attacked the So
called barbarous people OF the southern
islands.
might read several other extracts
from the Presidents speech all to the
same effect. He has hardly made q
speech without an allusion to the flag
until l am almost convinced that ht
receives his direction from the English
minister, for 1t is the same song always
That England sings whenever she pro.
poses to rob somebody. Whenever Ec-
gland concludes to go upon an expedi
ton and pluuder eome Of the weaker
nations OF the world, she makes her
first appeal TO patriotism, and then,
step by step, goes on until she has COM
mitte1 the wrong, has transgressed.
and then declares that the flag has
been fred on and that no Englis hman
must question the right or wrong O!
what they are doing until the enemy
is defeated and the country annexed.
We are pursuing the same course.
Our minister OF state was trained in
the English school, and he has come
home with their Ideas and notione and
ls going to try their way Of humbug
ging the people Of this country as the
people Of England have been humbug
ged. You can do 1t in England, but
you can not do 1t here. More than q
million OF the people of England do no,
vote. Most OF The population have been
degraded by being herded in manu-
featuring towns until very large per
cent. Of her population have no prop
erty, 40 capacity, and no opinions ex-
oept to toady to the aristocracy.
How appropriate, Mr.. President,
that the restoration Of slavery and the
new Interpretation OF the Declaration OF
Independence should come together.
1t seems to me, however, that it marks
the saddest chapter In the history OF
that great political organization, the
Republican party. 1t came into being
as protest ageinst slavery, as the
special champion Of the Declaration OF
ependence, and 1t goes out OF being
and out Of power as the champion OF
slavery and the repudiator OF the De-
claration OF Independence.
The President says that moral rea.
sons compel us to stay In the Philip
pines, and that we, under Gods direc
ton, owe duty to mankind, and more
OF similar cant. Hero js what John
Morley, tho English statesman, and
Writer and biographer of Gladstone,
says With regard to England's policy in
this same connection:
" First, (speaking Of England,) you
push on into territories whore YOU
have no business to be and where vou
had promised not to go secondly, your
Intrusion provokes resentment, and, In
! these wild countries, resentment means
resistance thirdly, you instantly cry
out that the people are rebellious and
tn at their act is rebellion (this In spite
OF your own assurance that you have nc
intention OF setting up a permanent sov
ereignty over them); fourthly you send
q force to stamp out the rebellion, AND
ffthly, having spread bloodsned, con