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Show PHILIPPINE "PURCHASE." Snnator Stewart says In regard to the Philippines: "It makes no difference whether (he United States had a rlht to buy thnso Islands, or whether Spain had a title to dlspoio of them." To follow out the s.tmn theory advanced ad-vanced by the senator. If a man g'lcala a borso and soils It to Senator Stewart, It makes no difference whrthor tho mini had a right to sell tho horse or not, or whether tho senator acquired nny title, he must go Into a light to keep the animal. Senator Slowart. niso says ancnt the Islands, "Wo cannot, can-not, sell thorn." Of cuurso not; nobody can soli what he doesn't hold or to which ho has no title. Tho qin-stion still Is, "In .ho Philippine puichane.' what did Spain soil nud what did tho United StnU'3 buy?" |