The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-26
TILLMAN USING PITcHFoRK
His Apt and Caustic Reply to the
Senator From Michigan,

Senator From Michigan.
The Senate had under consideration
the Philippine tariff bill, and mum
Der OF Senators took part in the gen
eral debate on the subject.
a resolution offered by Mr.. Tillmal
was adopted, directing the civil service
commission to transmit to the Senate
a statement showing the apportionmen
of the employees in the various depart
ments of tho governments from tn,
several States and the District O.
Columbia, together with the percen
tages of employees in the departments
Mr.. Burrows dithat. Congress wa.
dealing with Philippine questions a,
they were found now and not as
they had been IN the past or might be
in the future.
I" We hold" said he, Z" the Philip.
pine islands by title that cannot be
challenged by any court in Christen-
dom. We have become responsible
for them to the nations of the world.
The pending bill simply provides rev.
enues sufficient to meet the needs OF
the government of the Philippines"
While the Michigan Senator was
reading the proclamation of President
Mckinley known as the benevolent
assimilation" PROCLAMATION, Mr.. Till
man interrupted TO inquire if he con-
tended that the President had author
ity to issue that proclamation.
No doubt of it," replied Mr.. Bur
rows. While the treaty had not been
ratified, he said, the President had
ample authority to issue such proc
lamation as a guide to the military
commanders in the Philippines.
In other Words" suggested Mr..
Tillman, although that proclamation
sedulously ignored the political status
of the Filipinos, it was expected that
The 100000 of people would accede
TO its provisions"
Mr.. Culberson interrupted TO say
that the proclamation was considered
so extreme that part of it was sup
pressed by General Otis.
Mr.. Burrows declined to be diverted
further from his argument by Mr.. Till
man as I" the questions of the Senator
from South Carolina evidently are not
intended to illuminate the subjec
Mr.. Burrows contended that while
the Filipinos desired Il good govern
mcnt they did OF, as a whole, desire
independence, because 1t was realized
by the best informed of them that an
independent government in the
archipelago was neither practic-
able nor desirable. The Filipinos, he
asserted, were not prepared either by
education or experience, for indenen-
dence, and could not maintain il If it
were granted to them.
Mr.. Tillman presented a number of
public documents, as he said, III refu-
tation of statements made by Mr.. Bur
rows. These papers generally bore
upon the treatment by the United
States of the inhabitants of newly
acquired countries and were intended
TO show that they have in the past been
received as citizens. He laid especial
stress upon the difference of the
circumstances connected with the ac-
QUESTION Of Louisiana and those con.
nected with the acquisition of the
Philippines. The former he charac-
terized as Democratic expanslon-and
the latter as Republican subjugalion.
Speaking of the Philippines, he's said
that our conduct in those islands had
| been 80 Infamous that it should cause
a blush OF shame to mantle the cheeks
of every American.
Quoting President McKinley's an
nouncement that we must pursue {
method of benevolent assimilation,
of the Filipinos, Mr.. Tillman said tha
the assimilation which had beer
practised could be contrasted to moth
ing so well as the parable of the lalnl
and the lion. II would be found, he
said, when they should get up that the
lamb would be inside the lion. III,
spoke of the effort of building VI
American schools in the Philippine
1" as mawkish sentimentallly," sayips
that the system could be of no avail il
view of the fact that the teachers sen
over know nothing of the language O
the Fillplnos and the Fllipinos nothln.
of the English language. "And vet,
he said, " this is the system advocate,
by the oleaglnous Senator from Michi
gan and presumably endorsed by hi
constituents, the people of Michigan.
Taking this to be the position of th
people of that State, he exclaimed
, /" May God have mercy on their pusi
luminous souls"
{ Replying to Mr.. Tillman, Mr.. Fo
aker said that the people of Louisian
had not been allowed TO elect Go,
ernor or the judiciary of that territor,
and that the government established
the Philippines is far more liable tina
the government established in Loui
lana by Jefferson and the Democrat
Congress of that day.
lnterrupting, Mr.. Tillman said Il
President appoints the governors of ,
territories, and admitting this, M
Foraker said that no more authority
requested now In the case of the Phli
pines. This statement led Mr.. Tillm
o say that Congress had granted
nth rity for such appointments.
"The Governor of the Ph,lippiu
is the Governor by appointments IS
Mr.. Foraker in reply. &C and be 10