Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-04-06 | Page 12 | Local News

Representative Malcolm R Patterson of Tennessee is another of the Consti I tutionloving gentleman whose soul revolts re-volts at the idea of slavery existing among the Moros who acknowledge our sovereignty he really seems to think that the agreement entered into by Gen Bates and the Moro chieftains Is what established slavery in that region re-gion and In a recent speech he was very severe upon this outrageous violation I of the Constitution The fact that slavery sla-very is there an Immemorial practice that it Is certain to be gradually put aside under the influence of the United States authorities and that its peremptory per-emptory abolition would involve us In another bloody war he ignores His whole speech Is therefore mere buncombe bun-combe But how does it happen that the Constitution has to be so much more sacredly guarded In the Sulu archipelago ar-chipelago than In the Southern States of this Union Why should we engage In a war to enforce the abolition ll of slavery among the Moros while State after State in the South is openly repudiating re-pudiating the Constitutional guarantee pf suffrage to the black man and refusing re-fusing to be bound by the altehiative I of losing representation on that account ac-count I the Constitutional guarantees and requirements arc good for the Mbros why are they not good also for 4iic I people of the Southern States