The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-01-24
INQUIRIES ABOUT
THE PHILIPPINES.
AMERICA FOLLOWING THE EX-
AMPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Making Treaties With Mohamm
dans-PrOtecting Slavery aud Pol
Ramy Under 'he Stars and Strip,
--The Trade that Does Not Folio
the Flag.
The following ar3 extracts from th
& speech Of Hon. Richard +. Pettigrcv
a of South Dakota, delivered in tn
/ United States Senate on the 18th il
= stant
The President Of the United Sat-.
In his speech at Sioux Falls, S. OAK
In October last, said
) That from tho hour the treaty wa
ratified 1t became our territory ther
> was but one authority and but one SOY
ereignty that could be recognized any
where In those islands, and it becam
our duty to restore order, to preserv,
peace, to protect life and property
Yet he went To war with the Chris
tlan people of that country, with those
who believed In the Catholic religion
and made treaty with the Mohamme
dans by which tney ware to set up auC
maintain their own government almos,
absolutely independent and free Iron
US. Ii he had granted to the Chris ians
VI the Philippines the same rights he
granted to tie shareholders and poly.
gamists OF the Philippines there would
have been no war whatever. And yet
Re, as u great Christian nation, select
| Tor sell government the slavehOldiug
Moham medans, occupying more 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.
IL our dag fl ,ats over that entire re-
gion, and II, rs the President said, 1t is
absolutely under the domain and con-
troll OF the constitution of the United
States, seems to me that be violated the
constitution when he made the treaty
with the Sultan OF Sulu, and that he
ought to be impeached
Mr. President, it would be In accord
more with my ideas of American inst-
tutions IL we had gCne to the Sultan OF
Sulu and said, You must abandon
polygamy and slavery, and II you do
not do it and recognize the power and
suthority OF the government OF the
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 allies, the Christian peo-
TO them, Unless you surrender your
constitution which you have adopted,
and which is framed SITTER our constitu-
tioD, unless you surrender your right
rs government Ofa free people, we
will proceed to kill you until you do"
Instead OF drawing u trail Of blood over
those Islands, where the population can
read and write, where they have en-
braced the same religion rs ours and
pray to the same God, 1T 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. Ho has hardly made a
speech without an allusion to the flag,
until | am almost convinced that he
receives his direction from the English
minister, for it is the same song always
that Eagland sings whenever she pro-
poses to rob somebody. Whenever En-
gland concludes to go upon an expedi-
ton and plunder some 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
mittel the wrong, has transgrcssed,
and then declares that the fag has
been fred on and that no Englishmar
must question the right or wrong Of
what they are Going 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 como
homo with their ideas aud notions and
Is going to try their way OF kumbug-
ging the people OF this country as the
people Of England have been humbug-
gcd. You can do 1t In England, but
you can not do 1t here. More than a
million OF the people OF Eaglsnd do not
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, 30 capacity, and no opinions ex-
cept 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
special champion of the Declaration OF
independence, and 1t goes out OF being
and out OF power as the champion OF
slavery and the repudiator OF the d.
claration OF Independence.
The President says that moral rea-
sons compel us to stay In tho Philip.
pines, and that we, under Gods direc-
tiOn, owe duty to mankind, and more
OF similar cant. Here is what John
Morley, the 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 where you
have no business to be and where you
| 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
that their act Ia rebellion this In spite
of your own assurance that you have no
intention OF setting up permanent SOW
ereignty over them); fourthly you send
q force to stamp out the rebellion, and
filthy, having spread bloOdshed, con-
fusion, and anarchy, you declare, with
hands uplifted to the heavens, that
moral reasons force you to stay, for II
you were to leave, this territory would
be left In condition which no civili5 sd
power could contemplate with equani-
nifty or cOmposure."
There Is not q thing there that does
not absolutely accord with the excuses
given by the imperialists why We
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