The age-herald., 1900-01-16

lie forum could be found than 'Ga4s speech
 There were in this country 7O0OO,0OO peo- ple, good, bad and indifferent They were mostly good, but scattered throughout every community there were the discon- tented and unhappy; people who had not been successful and who viewed with sus- picion and hatred all those whose lives had been crowned with success, who believed every good action looked for a lurking, sim iSter purpose.
 1t was fitting that such people should be represented here. And I know of no man so fitted to speak for them as the senator from South Dakota," said MT. Wolcott, turning his eyes upon MT. Peittigrew, who l. sat close to dlim and who steadily returned the gaze of his assailant. During all the years I nave known him. continued MT. Wolcott. "I never knew him to say a kind or friendly word about a single person in terested in the case"
 MT. Wlolcott said he did not share the suggestions that utterances here had any influence upon the insurgents. If Agui- naldo had his ear ito the ground he must know now utterly trifing is the captious cavil1ing that went on here. There was not stl. ulOLSSI uSluONIdt hHO diN iiol <tdiiil ehde if his party was dn power the first ilhing to be done would be to crush the insur- rection 'If our soldiers in Manila will take care of Aguinaldo and his sympathiz- CTS as they are doing" he said, our peo- pie at home will take care of Aguinaldo's s sympathizers in the senate and in the country" g
 Recalled Pettigrew's Statement
 MT. Wolcobt recalled MT. Pettigrew's s statement that If he Pettigrew) were a Filipino he would fight until he was gray against the aggressions of the United States. q have no doubt he would fight" remarked MT. Wolcott, sarcastically, Eff he were Tagalo. It is possible they might take him by adoption. I can picture him now, clad plainly an the genial, pleasant smile for which he is noted Caughter), blaz- tng away with nis blunderbuss against ev- cry one in sight. A suggestion that the senator and Aguinaldo inaugurate an ex- change might, for the purpose of experi- ment, meet with his attention.
 If the exchange should take place, Aguf- naldo brave, loyal and patriotic, stood here representing the state of South Da- kota, whose sons had bled and died In de- fense of the flag, he would not be found traducing the president of the United States, and slandering and maligning the soldiers at the front, charging them with being swindlers and desperadoes.
 He says MT. Pettigrew's remarks were petty remarks which contained the fntima- ton that there had been crooked and dis honorable conduct No step had been taken, MT. Wolcott asserted, that did not reflect honor upon the people of the United States He read from the presidents mes- sage the extract about the duty of the government after the dnsurrection was over to "spare no effort to build up the waste places" Ito open schools and churches" ito foster trade and industry" and concerning the words that it was ''their liberty, not our power, which we are seeking to enhance"
 "Tshat," said Mir. wolcott, lis the last public utterance of the president, whose treatment of the Fdlipinos is described by the senator for South Dakota as brutal and cruel
 Had to Take Them
 "We had taken the Philippines" he said, mot as a conquest, but one of the highest duties we owed the human race. We had entered into the war with Spain because we could not listen to the cries of distress that came from Cuba. When we inaugurated the war no one dreamed of the Philippines, but when it closed so quickly and so vic- toriousy we found five million people suf- fering from oppression and cruelty, Spain defeated and bankrupt and the Philippines floating derelcts. We had taken them because to have allowed them to drift help lessly into the power of another would have raised international complications. We would have been compelled to take them had they been as bleak and barren as the desert of Sahara"
 MT. Wolcott said we would be compelled to keep the islands indefinitely. He then directed his attention to the speech deliv- cred by MT. Beveridge last week, saying the senator from Indiana had told of mountain of gold, of coffee. of hemp, of corn, of the rich and tempting valley of
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