The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-16

| better denlOIlSITdllOH Ol tic value Ol
the Senate as a public forum could he
| found than this speech. There We're
! in this country seventy millions of peo-
pie, good, bad and indifferent. In the
warm sunshine some saw only the
shadows; behind every good action they
looked for lurking sinister purpose.
There was but Il step from individual
to national hatred, hatred of the coun-
try, which nourished and protected
them. 1t was fitting that such people
should be represented here. And /
know of no man so titte dto speak for
them as the Senator from South Dako-
ta,"" said Mr.. Wolcott, turning his eyes
upon Mr.. Pettigrew who sat close to
him, and who steadily returned the gaze
of his assailant. During all the years
] have known him." continued Mr.. VOL
colt, Il never knew lam to say a kind
or friendly word about single person
ora single cause. 1t is not only valuable
that such persons as | have mentioned
should be represented here, that their
views should be aired and ventilated but
it is of great Importance that those
views may serve as Il warming to the
young men who are growing to man.
hood and upon whom eventually the re-
sponsibility of Government will fall.
They should see how important it is that
they should cultivate a good digestion.
a hopeful heart and a cheerful mind. ="
BELTTTLES ANTI-IMPERIALISA
Mr.. Wolcott said he did not share the
suggestions that utterances here had any
influence upon the insurgents. If Agui-
naldo had his ear to the ground he must
how IItt trif1 iSf ho IONS
cavilling that went ON here. There was
not an honest Democrat who did not
admit that il his party were i'll power
the first thing to be done would be to
crush the insurrection. IF our sol
diers i'll Manila will take care of Agui-
naldo and his sylnpathizers as they
are DOING said he ,'our people at
home will take care of Aguinaldo's
sympathizers in the Senate and in the
country"
Mr.. Wolcott recalled Mr.. Pettigrew's
statement thlt if he Pettigrew) were
a Filipino he would fight until he was
gray against the aggresSiveness of the
United States.
II have no doubt he would fight" re-
marked Mr.. Wolcott. sarcastically, ''if
he We're u Tagal. 1t is possible that
L
can picture him now-cIad principally
in the genial, pleasant smile for which
he is noted Gaughterl. blazing away
with his blunderbues against every one
III sight. 4 suggestion that the Senator
and Aguinaldo inaugurate an exchange
might. for the purpose of experiment.
not be without its attraction. If the
exchange should take place and if
\ ON II
stood here representing the State of
South Dakota, whose sons had bled and
died i'll defense of the flag, he would not
be found traducing the President of the
United States and sllndering and ina
ligning the soldiers at the front cllarg-
ing them with being swindlers and de-
frauders."
DEFENDS M'KINLEY.
The resolutions to which Mr.. Pettigrew
had been speaking, Mr.. WOlcott declar-
ed, were simply petty carpings which
contained the suspicious intimation that
there had been crooked and dishonorable
conduct. No step had been taken. Mr.
Wolcott asserted, that did not reflect
honor upon the people of the United
States. He read from the Presidents
message Il closing quotation he made
which was that it was their lib
erty not our power which we are seek
ing to enhance"
That" said Mr.. WYcott, rs The last
public utterance of the President whose
treatment of the Filipinos is described
by the Senator from South Dakota as
brutal an d'cruel.'"
TOOK PHILIPPINES AS A DUTY.
Mr.. Wolcott said we had taken the
fhllpplneS not as conquest but is
one of the highest duties we owed 10
the human race.
When we inaugurated the war no
one dreamed of the Philippines. but
when it closed so quickly and so vic
toriOuSly, we found there 5000, 600 people
suffering from oppression and cruelty
Spain defeated and bankrupt and the
Philippine Islands, floating derilect We
had taken them because to have allowed
them TO drift hopelessly into the power
Of another would have raised interna-
ticnal complications We would have
been compelled to take them had they
been as bleak and barren as the desert of
Sahara. Mr.. Wolcott said we might
be compelled to keep the islands indefi-
nitely.
He disapproved, however, of the alllr-
ing pictures of gold and commercial re-
wards in the Boveridge resolution.
which he stamped as base and sordid.
This war;" he said ''if we consider
first our duty to the people of i *
lands is the noblest ever fought, hut
if our idea in retaining them i that
they were rich the WAR will 90 down
as miserable and degraded one rs
ever disgraced the history of the mid
die ages.
AMERICAS MISSION.
1t was possible he said that we were Il
chosen people as Mr. Beveridge had
said. whom God Almighty had made
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 par
tition of China. we must needs seize
Madagascar and Port Arthur.
MY own idea of the mission of Am
erica" said the Senator, SIS that it is the
last hope of the Republicans; that our
broad large, fertile area will gradually
fill up by the admission of the foreigners
and oppressed OF other lands and that
III days of peace we will work out the
noblest and highest social problems. j