New-York tribune., 1902-05-08

lumbia; that it was done by accident or by
Hampton
Mr.. President it is better that we leave these
old things alone. There is nothing to be gained
by rehearsing them. We can revive, If 1t is the
embers of that struggle. or the almost dead
embers, because there is very little left but
ashes. ! know of no man in the South. except
here and there old unreconstructed rebel
you may term him. who bears any grudge. We
all one people Our deStinies are the same
All that the Southern people demand of you is
to maintain the integrity of our institutions and
to keep the flag untarnished by any star, pinned
TO it by bayonet, which is not an equal star.
GREED AT THE BOTTOM OF IT"
We abhor your scheme of subjugation in the
Philippines. We abhor your hypocrisy in deal
ing with II coiored race who alone must m
habit that archipelago, because nobody knows
better than you do that there is no opportunity
for any immigrant The conditions are inlrnlcal,
and that our tenure is only for the purpose Of
exploitation, the furnishing of a field for the
investment Of capital, the possible eXpan-
sion of commerce by selling to these people. the
use of Manila depot In the archipelago
We could have got that without spending one
dollar. We could have had all we wanted in
the way of commercial treaties with those peo-
pie. We could have had their gratitude and love
for all future ages. We could have warned on
trespassers and spread the Monroe Doctrine 10
the Pacific, far those Islands are con
cerned, by saying the words Hands off, These
people have fallen to wards in Chancery by
reason Cf the with Spain, and we propose
to treat the Filipnos the same we do the
Cubans." But inOrdnate greed of some, the de-
wealth. is at the bottom of this bill.
You had a tariff law here some time ago. urged
and stressed and pushed with might and main
through this chamber under the plea OF neces-
sity. when everybody knew there was no such
government bill which you are pushing here. 1t
is simply for the purpose Of obtaining what was
denied by the amendment which we passed in
the last hours of the last session forbidding the
sale of public lands or the use of timber or the
sale of mines.
The game here is simply TO open the islands
n pxDlOitatiOD of " on
ground floor. and have already mapped out their
mines or their forests or their other holdings,
which they Will speedily obtain through this in
strumentality as soon as you shall have passed
the bill And yet you stand here and you en-
deavor to bamboozle the American people into
the belief that your purposes are holy and pure,
and you sneer at in the South because we
say to you we have at home Filipinos, as my
friend, the Senator from Maryland, calls them
tyne Of men than your Fiipinos.
You have entered upon the downward road
which will lead this republic 10 degradation and
ruin. You have begun to educate people in
the use of the army in governing other people.
and you whine about the Southern people and
their hypocrisy in dealing with the negroes, and
taunt us with the demand that we shall take
care of our Filipinos before we interfere in your
game Of water torture and Of murder. and of
other deviltries in the Philippine Islands. We
are not going to do it.
FILINGS AT NEW -ENGLANDERs.
We inherited the negroes. The present genera
ton Of white people in the South had nothing TO
do with their presence there They did not have
much to do with the war in fact. Your fathers,
you New Englanders-and all Of you New
Englanders in one sense-impOrted these slaves
and sold them to us, and then your consciences
worried you until you freed them. You used 10
pray at nights over infamies and wrongs to
the poor black men. Let quit this devitTy,
Help us in the South to get rid OF the incubus OF
negro domination hanging over us like the sword
Of Damocles Let Colonize them. Let us do
anything you please that will get them away
and out from among They threaten
civilization. They teach US inhuman acts when
they themselves do inhuman acts Lynch law Will
last as long as water runs down hill II they con-
tinue TO rape our wives and daughters. and you
cannot help It, I protest, and | beg you 70 let
this question drop with rest TO the matter OF
because the odium is you. You have gone
out into the Pacific and bought these people
against their protest. We of the South have the
colored people among us because God Almighty
placed them there before we were born.