The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-19

A 0CnEOCTdL WHO 0lQ uOl III lldl II ufS
party were in power the first thing to
be done would be to crush the insur-
rection- IF our soldiers in Manila VIII
take care OF Aguinaldo and his SYM
pathizers as they are doing" said he,
''our people at home will take care OF
A~guinaldo's sympathizers in the senat
and in the country"
Senator WHcott recalled Senator Pet
| tigrew'S statement that If he. CPetti-
grew were a Filipino he would fight
until he was gray against the agrees
sions of the United States.
Il nave no doubt he would fight" re-
marked Senator Wilcott, SarcasticalIy.
IF he were a Taga1. It is possible tina
they might take him by adoption. I
can picture him now-clad principally
In the genial, pleasant smile for which
ne IS noted Qaughter,) blazing away
with his blunderbuss against every one
in sight. A suggestion that the SEN
ator and Aguinaldo inaugurate an ex-
| change might, for the purpose OF ex-
pertinent, not be without it's attraction.
II the exchange Mould take place and
II Aguinaldo, brave, loyal and patriotic,
stood here representing the state Of
| South Dakota, whose sons had bled
n died in defense of the flag, he
would not be found ~traducting the pres
ident of the United States an SANDER
Ing and maligning the soldiers ait the
front, charging them with being swind-
lers and defrauders."
| The resolutions to which SENATE Pet
tigrew had been speaking, Senator VOL
coot declared, were simply petty carp
| ingS which contained the suspicious
intimation that there had been crooked
! n dishonorable conduct. No step
a been taken, Senator Wilcott. as
| serted hat did not reflect honor upon
the people of the United States. He
read from the presidents message a
closing quotation he made from which
was that it was their liberty not our
power which we are seeking to en-
| nance"
That" said Senator Wolcott, lis
the last public utterance of the presi-
dent whose treatment of the Filipinos
IS described by the senator from South
Dakota as brutal and cruel"
Senator Wolcott said we had taken
the Philippines, not as a conquest, but
as n of the highest duties we owed
to the human race. When we naugu-
rated the war no n dreamed of the
Philippines, but when it closed so
quickly and SO VIGOROUSLY we found
100000 people suffering from oppreS-
sion n cruelty, Spain defeated and
bankrupt, and the Philippine islands
a floating derelict. We had taken them
because to have allowed them to drift
AANO NiO pO"Cl VI dIIOIIitE
would have raised International compli-
cations. We woul have been COM
PEELED to take them had they been as
bleak and barren as the desert of Sa-
hara.
Senator Wolcott said we might be
compelled to keep the islands indef
nitely. He disapproved, however, of
the alluring pictures of gold and COM
mercial rewards in the Beveridge reSo-
luton. which he stamped as base and
sordid. This war" he said, IF we
consider first Our duty to the people of
the island, is the nObleSt ever fought;
but if our idea in retaining them is that
they are rich the wal will go down as
miserable n degraded a one as eve
disgraced history from the Middle
Ages.
1t was possible he said, that we were
a chosen people as Senator Beveridge
had said, whom God Almighty had
made a trustee for the civilization of
the world; but if so we would need to
treble our fleet of war vessels; we would
have to join England and Germany in
the partition of China; we must needs
seize Madagascar and Port Arthur.
My own idea of the mission of Amer
ica," said the senator, lis that it is
the last hope of the republics; that our
broad, large, fertile area will gradually
fill W by the admission of the foreign
ers and oppressed of other lands and
that in days of peace We will work out
the noblest and highest social problems.
/ believe it is idle to talk of our berg
Gods chosen people"
PETTIGREW'S REPLY.
Mr.. Pettigrew replied briefly saying
his relations in the senate had been
most pleasant and the senate could not
hide behind the large personality Of
Senator Wolcott. He did not hin the
attack upon himself was worthy of re-
ply and said that while he had not
spent much time in lauding Senator
Wolcott, he was ready to confess he
has a large voice" He marveled at
the division in the ranks of the impe-
~rialists. The senator from Indiana
(Beveridge) had said the motive of ex-
panSion was greed" the senator from
Colorado CWolcott) said it was phil
anthrophy." The latter was the motive
which actuated Spain in her conquest
of the Western World. Her pretext
was civilization and religious zeal.
Those were n motives of PiZarro
who ~butchered people right and left.
Proceeding, Senator Pettigrew point
ed out the names OF many illuStrious
men who had opposed the policy of
their home governments to a~ggreSSionS
abroad, notably Fox and Pitt, who had
denounced the course of King George
aSUl1AAS aIc ~ d SOIOLllCS, IL -
these champions of freedom" he said.
'"who dared to denounce the course of
their governments"
The financial bill was then consider
ed. Senator Rawlings, of Utah, ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
measure, which he intimated was one
of the objects of those who
favored Imperialism. He denounced
the bill as senctified by Wall
street and blessed by the British
financial promoters. Hhe declared
the efforts of the republican party
to bring about bimetallism had been
perfidious and treacherous and that
there was no example in history of
greater duplicity. Ba devoted his
chief attention to the house bill, for
which the senate measure is a subst-
itute, pointing out what he regarded
as its serious rejects. He said it was
astonishing that U eve of a finan-
cial crash, due to arrested money
supply, a proposition should be made
in congress that, in his opinion. would