Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-15

spoke on his amendment giving the
Filipinos freedom after fifteen years.
Asserting that there was no glory in
their conquest and that there is no
profit in holding them, Mr.. Newlands
declared in favor of a promise of inde-
rendence to the Philippines at a definite
time. He asserted that the holding of
the islands would eventually involve
this country in an international conflict
If not an instruction that would prove
as costly as the Boer war was to Great
Britain.
Mr.. stones amendment was lost "A
to 49, Mr.. Chamberlain voting with the
Republicans.
A motion by Mr. Buckley to refer the
finance committees Philippine resolu-
ton to the Philippines committee was
also defeated. 40 to p.
Mr.. Aldrich asked that the order gov
erning the sessions of the senate be
changed so that the senate should meet
at 10 o'clock in the morning and sit
continuously until p. m. There being
no objection, the order was made and
night sessions therefore will be discon-
tinued.
Speech by Newlands
Not because OF any wish to protect
American cane or beet sugar, but pc
cause, in his opinion, the proposed sub
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those islands to the United States in
dissolubly was the reason advanced by
Senator Newlands of Nevada in
speech in the senate today for his op-
position to the amendment admitting
free to our markets Philippine sugar
and tobacco.
He declared that If we complicate the
Philippine tariff system with ours the
1.-TWO countries will be so bound TO-
gether by this amendment that 1t VIII
be difficult to separate them"
"All illusions have vanished, he said
1.-THE prevailing feelings of the Ameri-
can people in regard to the Philippines
is regret we are there and longing 70
get out creditably."
"I'he purpose of permitting the Philip
pines to export 100000 tons of sugar
annually to the United States without
paying the duty imposed upon foreign
importations and amounting to about
S35 a ton, is to enable the Filipino pro-
Queer to receive in our market without
the payment of duty nearly double the
price which they can get anywhere else
in the world.
''This legislation means the diversion
of nearly $1O,000,000 annually from the
American treasury into the pockets of
Philippine producers without lowering
the price of sugar penny to the
American consumer"
He held that it would be much better
for us to give this benefaction directly
to the Filipino government, which could
expend it for worthy purposes, land
not to the Filipino planters, or, as will
ultimately prove to be the case, to the
sugar trust itself, which doubtless will
obtain a monopoly of the production or
sugar there, as it is now acquiring 1t
in Cuba"
How to Do 1t
II $40, 900 is to be given annually
by this government to the Philippines
1t should be done in a way, he declared,
that will absolutely secure the benefits
to the masses of the Filipino people,
and not to interests that will simply
exploit the Filipino people.
"But assuming" he continued, that
the $1O,000,000 of annual sugar subsidy
will go mainly to the Philippine labor
ers, shall we really do them service
by accustorning them to a price for
their sugar that is double what they
can get from the rest of the world?
"Will not the ending of the subsidy
and the reduction OF the favored prices
which they have received for their pro-
ducts plunge them into such condi-
ton of suffering and distress as they
have never yet realized? The right
way to- help the F'ilipinos is to train
them in self-sustaining methods. By a
system of direct aid, instead OF subsi-
died aid, the desired end of ultimate
withdrawal with honor will have been