The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-25
discussed the question of who was the real patriots.

discussed the question of who was the real patriots.
 "To charge men whose actions are prompted by the highest good to our country with being copperheads and trait ors," he said, lis as diabolical islander as was ever uttered. Impartial history will determine that true patriots are those who love their country too well to let 1t go wrong; too well to let 1t vio- late the principles of the Declaration or Independence; too well to let it ,repudiate government of the people, for the people and by the people; too well to permit IL to be wrecked on the rocks and shoals of colonial empire"
 MT. Williams tMiss.) made the closing speech in behalf of the policy favored by the. minority. He went very exhaus- lively into the entire subject, replying 10 the administrators orators.
 The Filipino people, he declared. were willing to learn and were willing to die for their liberties-two tests. which, ne said. entitled them to self-government No American he said, was ashamed or what had been done in Cuba. No Amer ican but was proud of the inauguration of the Cuban republic. Why. he asked would it not be wise to do for the Fill pinos what we had done for the Cuoans 1: He said the underlying and fundamental idea of the treaty made with span TOT the Philippines is that despot mas right to sell the independence and na- tionaIity of a people to a free republic.
 '"The time for the gentleman from Mississippi to have thought of that was when the treaty was up for ratihcatlon' interrupted MT. Landis
 ''The Sentleman did think of it then"
 AH '0nd the majority of the Democrats in this. country thought of it then. The mistake of one Democrat who was a leader then and is a great and honest man now, cannot be charged up for all time against a righteous sen tlment. But whether the Democratic party was right or wrong whether the Democratic party made a mistake or not, the question Is now and here, have you a right to buy from despot the nation ality and the independence of people? That Is the question:
 'In the Philippine Islands again in- terposed MT. Landis, we are doing eX- actly as we did when we annexed Flor ida; we are doing exactly as we did when we annexed Louisiana; we are do- ing exactly what we did when we took California. New Mexico and Arizona
 "We are not doing in the Philippines" continued Mir. Williams, what we did in Florida. We did not do in Louisiana nor in any old place ever annexed to this country what we are doing in the Phil ippine Islands. Every man knows that heretofore we have annexed unsettled areas peopled with a white race or else peopled with an Indian race so sparsely settled that they did not interfere with home making in the annexed territory by the sons and daughters of American peo- ple. Every man knows that tAas Is the first time that we ever undertook to an nex against their will. fighting wlth arms against it, a population denser than in the State of Mississippi today. Every man and nearly every woman and every boy, if General Smith Is to be believed, are fighting against us as against des- potism. The gentleman knows that the American flag never before went any where where 1t was not hailed as a har- binger of liberty and as protector of the helpless and defenseless people against savages and against foreign power"
 There was a demonstration when MT. Williams concluded. Many of the Re publicans joined with the Democrats in the applause and not few of them went to his seat to shake hands and congrat- ulate him.
 MT. Crumpacker Gnd) closed for his side After general defense of the sd- administration he presented careful a..