The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-29
II HAS BUT ONE PARALLEL
Herod's Command to Kill the Male
Children of Judea.
LET US RELEASE THE PHILIPPINES
As Possession of the United States They Can
Bring US Only Misfortune and Disas-
ter. Their Cheap Labor
Threatens the South.
Threatens the South.
(By the Associated Press.)


Washington, April 2S.-After a brief
discussion today the Senate agreed to
the House amendments to the Oleomar-
galine Bill as passed by the Senate. The
measure now goes to the President for
Mr. Teller (Col.) to amend the measure
so as to levy a tax of ten per cent of
the capital or assets upon any butter
trust that might be formed, but it was
defeated, % to 2S.
He referred to the treatment of Cuba
by the United States, and said he had
his signature. An effort was made by
no disposition to discuss the motives of
the Republican party in pursuing one
line of policy toward Cuba, and an OPP
poste policy toward the Philippines.
He believed such discussion would be un-
profitable. 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 in his mind why
independence should be granted to the
Cubans and denied to the Filipinos.
He said it evidently was 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 ought to be turned over to their
inhabitants, as he felt that they were
entirely capable of establishing proper
government, although they might not be
capable of establishing and maintaining
such a government as ours.
The Filipinos by heredity, the thought,
were not fitted for our kind of govern
ment He said that the negroes in this
country had been afforded ample oppor-
tunity to participate in our form of
government. yet" said he, ''those who
are most familiar with the negroes con-
dition know today that he is little bet
ter prepared for the discharge of the
duties of citizenship than he was in the
beginning
The negro suffered, he said, from a
defect of heredity.
Mr.. Simmons discussed the stories of
the water cure" of the burning of
towns and of recommendation. He de-
clared that there was no doubt as to the
truthfulness of the charges against the
American army of cruelty, inhumanity
and barbarity. In fact, said he, it was
not merely isolated instances of torture
He referred to the order issued by GEN
eral Smith to make the Island of Samar
"howlng Wilderness" and to slay all
male inhabitants over ten years of age.
NO order recorded in all history" he
declared, "paralleled that order, except
that of Herod the King, when he COM
manded that all the male children who
were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts
thereof from two years and under
should be slain in order that he might
the more securely compass the death of
Him, of whom it was said He came to be
the king of the Jews, the Christ and
Savior of mankind"
81 feel" he continued, like calling
upon the great, brave and humane man
now in the White House to probe these
things to the bottom and at least, to
make them odious."
In discussing the agricultural situation
in the Philippine, Mr.. Simmons confessed
to a feeling of alarm for his own Sec
tion of the country over the prospect OF
the admission to the United States of
the products of the islands, for with the
cheap labor there those products could
be produced in the Philippines more
cheaply than in this country.
In conclusion, Mr. Simmons protested
against the holding of the Philippine
Islands as possession of the United
States, declaring that if realized the
islands could bring to this country only
disaster and misfortune.