The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
CONDEMNED IN SENATE, TOO.
No Order Since Days of HerOd
Equaled That of Smith in Samar.
The Negro and the Filipino Com
pared.

Oh Snltn III SAm1E
The Negro and the Filipino COM
pared.
Washington, April 2s.-After a brief
discussion to-day the Senate agreed
to the House amendments to the oleo-
margarine bill as passed by the Sem
ate. The measure now goes to the
President for his signature. An effort
was made by Mr.. Teller of Colorado
to amend the measure so as to levy a
tax of 10 per cent. of the capital or
assets upon any butter trust that
might be formed, but it was defeated.
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When consideration of the Philip
pine government bill was resumed,
Mr.. Simmons of North Carolina ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
measure He referred to the treat
ment of Cuba by the United States,
and said he had no disposition to dis
cuss the motives of the Republican par
ty in pursuing one line of policy to-
ward Cuba and an opposite policy to-
ward the Philippines. Ee believed such
discussion would be Improbable In
his judgment there was no justification
in morals, in public policy or in the
condition Of the two peoples for the
differentiation in their treatment.
There was no reason why independence
should be granted to the Cubans and
denied to the Filipinos.
Senator Simmons said it was evil
IDENTIFY the purpose of the Republican
party to retain the Philippine Islands
permanently, but he did not believe the
subject had been settled finally by the
American people. Personally he had
no doubt that the islands ough: to be
turned over to their inhabitants, as
he felt that they were entirely capa-
BILE of establishing a proper govern.
ment, although they might not be ca
pable of establishing and maintaining
such a government as ours.
The Filipinos by heredity were not
fitted for our kind of government. The
| negro in this country had been af-
| forded ample opportunity to partlci-
| pate in our form of government, yet
those who are most familiar with the
| negros condition know to-day that he
| is little better prepared for the dis
charge of the duties of citizenship than
he was in the beginning. The negro
| suffered from a defect of heredity.
Senator Simmons discussed the stor-
les of the water cure" of the burning
of towns, and of reconcentration. There
was no doubt as to the truthfulness OF
| the charges against the American
| army of cruelty, inhumanity and bar
! barity In fack said he, it was now
organized cruelty and barbarity and
not merely isolated instances of tor.
ture. He referred to the order ISSUED
by Gen. Smith TO lnSaase the island OF
Samar "howling wilderness" and tc
slay all male inhabitants over ter
years of age.
An Order without "A Parallel.
mo order recorded in az history, -
! Senator Simmons declared, "paralleIed
that order except that of Herod, the
! king, when he commanded that all the
male children who were in Bethlehem
and in all the coasts thereof from two
years and under, should be slain in or
der that he might the more securely
compass the death of Him of whom II
was said, He came to be the King OF
the Jews, the Christ and Savior OF
mankind"
Il feel" Senator Simmons continued
like calling upon the great, brave AMI
humane man now in the White House
to probe these things to the bottom
and at least to make them odious.''
Danger to the South.
In discussing the agricultural situa-
| ton in the Philippines, Mr.. Simmons
confessed to a feeling of alarm for his
own section of the country over the
prospect of the admission to the Unit
| ed States of the products of the islands,
for with the cheap labor there those
products could be produced in the Phil
| ippines more cheaply than in this
| country.
In conclusion the senator protested
against the holding of the Philippine
Islands as a possession of the United
| States, declaring that if retained the
| islands could bring to this country
| only disaster and misfortune