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ten, as much as 1 should hate to see
the Constitution amended So that we
might have subjects. 1 would rather
change the Constitution, would rather
be relegated to the unwritten constitu-
ton of England to the common law
| itseli than to admit 100000 bar
barians- like that and share and share
ankle with me and my children and
my grandchildren in moulding the des-
TIMES of this great republic, the las,
hope of all the ages for popular free
dom and for the demonstration of the
tact that man can govern himself. GAP
plause.)
ONE OF TWO THINGS.
Nov my friends. one of two things
Will follow. Either commercial condi-
tons in the Philippines will remain
substantially as they are, or they will
be vastly improved under our flag. II,
they remain as they are, then if all the
Fllipinos who wear clothes were to put
into one gigantic order all the cotton
they want for year and send 1t with
In one week to the city OF New Or
leans, IT would not create n ripple upon
the cotton market Now, II, upon the
contrary, we teach them to wear
clothes. either in the schoolhouse or
upon the battlefield, and we produce a
condition of great Industrial progress
sion and Improvement, then we, may
possibly create valuable customer.
But he becomes a valuable customer
by first becoming an immense pro-
Queer Suppose these people progress
more marcvellously than Japan has pro-
crossed. Upon what lines must they
increase their purchasing power? To-
day the main exports OF the Philippine
islands consist of sugar tobacco and
hemp. Do the tobacco growers of Con-
necticut and Maryland want to produce
that sort of industrial amelioration I'm
the Philippines that will enable men
who are employed at 20 cents a day to
compete with the men in the Connect
cut valley and along the hills of Mary
land who are raising tobacco? Do the
sugar planters of Louisiana want to
get valuable customers for the manu-
featured goods of this country by en-
abling these people to pu. up improved
machinery for sugar manuf h,ture and
to enable them to sell five, ten. twenty,
fifty and hundred fold as much sugar
as they do now in competition with the
Louisiana man who raises cane sugar?
DO the rice growers OF Georgia and
South Carolina and Louisiana want to
nnAx-tlaa-t t saa.a=n -comnetitinn2
HIGHER AND NOBLER ISSUES.
MIR. Morris thought there We're higher
and nobler issues involved inethe ac-
QUESTION OF the Philippines than the
benefits of our trade, and argued that
the right to acquire territory had be-
come established by the decisions of
the courts.
Mr.. Neville, of Nebraska, in opposing
annexation. said he had promised his
constituents never to vote n dollar for
the support of the Sultan of Sulu. with
his wives and l46 slaves.
Mr.. Cochran, of Missouri said IL we
were to govern the Philippines under
the annexation it must be subject to all
the limitations of that instrument He
called attention to the fact that the
agreement made with the Sultan of
Sulu recognized slavery, and was,
therefore. in violation of the amend
ment to the constitution which provid-
ed that slavery should be forever pro-
hibited not only in the United States,
but in all territory over which 1t ex-
ercised Jurisdiction.
Mr.. Cochran said that many of the
slaves in the Sulu group We're Chris
tians. or the descendants of Christians.
captured by the piratcal AIoros.
SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE.
Mr.. William Alden Smith (AIlchigam.
the member of the Foreign Affairs
-Committee who offered an amendment
in committee for a Minister resident OF
the South African Republican and the
Orange Free State, said he knew it
would be useless to offer the amend
ment in the House. us single objection
would defeat it. He should. therefore.
urge separate bill. not TO embarrass
the Government. but because he be-
lieved n diplomatic officer of the Gov
eminent was needed in South Africa.
He said that inasmuch as his sympa-
thies went out to the Beers he wished
only for England renOwn, glory and
power, because he believed the glory
of England would rebound to the ben
eft OF Anglo Saxon civilization every.
where.
Now, when there was a popular de-
mand that the President should offer
to mediate in the struggle In South
Africa he thought we could properly
wait until the ripe Judgment OF the
President should decide that the time
had come to act. (Applause),
IF you want to follow the President"
asked Mr.. Richardson (Tennessee), do
you expect to follow him in his recom-
incubation Of free trade for Porto Rico,