3 FEBRUARY

Anti-Imperialist Southern Senators Watson & Carmack

1902 - Sen. Edward W. Carmack of Tennessee attacks United States imperialist policies in the Philippines three years into the bloody and protracted Philippine American War (1899-1914); Carmack has held that if U.S. rule in the Philippine was not 10,000 better than carpet-bag white rule of the Negroes in the Southern states, then “may the Lord God have mercy upon the Philippine Islands”; a few senators from America's South have compared the American invasion of the Philippines with America's own struggle for independence against colonial Britain three decades earlier; another Southern senator, populist Tom Watson from Georgia, also castigated the U.S. imperialist policies, saying that '“Republics cannot go into the conquering business and remain republics. Militarism leads to military domination, military despotism.”


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http://watson-brown.org/the-foundation/heritage/thomas-e-watson
http://www.memphishistory.org/Politics/Newspapers/Editors/EdwardWCarmack/tabid/201/Default.aspx