Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-01-12
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founded the interests of the people OF
the United States with the political de-
sires and ambitions of their puny fres-
ident and regarded him and his success
as more important than rlSntlul
treatment of the Filipinos.'
Pettigrew said he wanted the infor
nation which he was seeking whether
the President regarded the publication
of it as compatible with the public in
terests or not.
IF an addition is to be made to the
resolution" he said, lit ought to be
made to read that the information
should be transmitted to the Senate if
not incompatible with the President $
interest as a candidate for reelection.
The fact is, this whole business Is
bound up in the Presidents desire
again to be a candidate of his party for
President"
Pettigrew then devoted some time to
a discussion of the censoring Of dis
patches from the Philippines. He de
cared that important and signl1cant
facts had been stricken from news dis
patches from Manila and from official
reports because it was regarded by the
powers that be as undesirable that
they should reach the American people.
LAS an instance of this work, ne
said, 1.-The Sulu treaty was mangled and
partly suppressed until after the cleo
ton in Ohio" He discussed at length
the proclamation issued by the Presl-
dent, declaring that it was in such
shape that Gen. Otis saw it should be
changed in order not to provoke nos
tilites on the part of the Filipinos
Subsequently. he said. it was altered
materially, and as altered, was pub
lished to the Philippine natives. AS
originally drawn it was to his mind, a
fiat declaration of war and when Agui-
naldo and his leaders came into pos
session of the original they SO regarded
it.
THE whole wretched business"
vehemently declared Pettigrew, was
one of concealment and duplicity, in
tended to deceive not only the people
of the United States. but also the
islanders themselves"
In substantiation of his charge that
the dispatches from the Philippines
We're censored in the interests OF tn"
administration, Pettigrew quoted from
a letter written by Mr.. Robert NJ. col
Inns Associated Press representative at
Manila. In this letter Mr.. Collins re-
lated the substance Of an interview
upon the subject of cenSorlng dlS-
patches which ne had had with Gen.
Otis PettigreW read the statements 81
Mr. Collins, in which he had said it
was the evident desire of the officials
to prevent certain information from
reaching the people Of tn United
States When he (Collins) had filed
dispatch containing information which
he thought was proper to send 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 t. send story
relating to the use of silver in tn
Philippines, the censor had told him
that his instructions We're to allow
nothing to pass him which would b
helpful to William Jenning Bryan in
the United States.
Pettigrew declared that the President,
himself, really began the war in the
Philippines and was responsible for 1t.
If" he said the administration had
had a spark of honor in dealing with
the FilipinOs, it would have told Gen.
Merritt to lay the whole truth OF the
intentions of the government before
Aguinaldo and his associates. Had
this been done Pettigrew believed that
half the trouble might have been avert
ed
That we had fired the first shot
which had precipitated hostilities, no
body denied. Aguinaldo had then tried
to secure a suspension of hostilitles,
but had been told by Gen. otis that
now the fighting had been begun II
must continue to the grim end.
IF" said PettigreW. Il We're Fill
pino, | would fight until | was gray
against the unholy aggression of the
United States. If this country Is
wrong. this country could take no
grander position before the nations OF
the world than to admit that 1t IS
wrong We have reached the turning
point We must decide whether W"
are to pursue a course of rapaclty ana
aggression on the British principle or
to pursue a course of justice ana rlght-
No nation long can pursue Such q
course as the imperialists have marked
out for us. a course of wrong ana
treachery to friends. and hop" to stand
we'll before the nations of the world.
Pettigrew was cut of by the expira-
ton of the morning hour
The currency bill was then taken up
and Stewart addressed the Senate,
opening with an attack on the Repub-
ncan party for bringing in measure
$50 utterly contradictory of the II
Louis PLATFORM
Referring to the reply of Secretary
Gage to the Senate no said: The sec
retary of the treasury is not 50 absD-
lutely ignorant of money science as mis-
contention that the value of gold never
changes would seem to indicate. In
his reply to the resolution Of the two
houses of Congress. respecting his tran
SECTIONS with certain New York banks
he gives reason for depoSiting the
money of the government in national
banks that it is necessary to % 50 TO
avoid contracting the circulation and
that to keep it in the treasury would
disturb the business of the country.
1t seems little strange that the SeCre-
tary can understand that locking up
money in the treasury vaults disturbs
business and at the same time think
il is necessary to use only the com
modify gold upon to which to stamp
money. although every foreign imam
cial trouble takes gold out of the