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Born August 11. 1847 -Was a paramilitary fighter to overthrow republican coalition. -84th Governer of South Carolina -Led the South Carolina Farmers Alliance. -Senator of South Carolina
 * __SENATOR BENJAMIN RYAN TILLMAN__**
 * Occupation-**

Feared that the annexation of the Philappines would lead to an influx of non-white immigrants into the United States.
 * Position on Issue- Against**

I believe that the United states should not associate with the Philappines, because we have much more lo lose from this than to gain. For example if we allow ourselves to annex this third world nation filled with former slaves to the Spanish who have no qualifications to anything at our level and are a completely different race from us may cause pollution to our society. Whether it is trading with the Phillipinos or using their resources, this may set the precedent that they are welcome here (which I am definately agaisnt), or cause them to sneak into our country, and contaminating our population. For these reasons I believe that the United States should focus more on domestic affairs, to help this country, or try trading with civil established countries and not interact with lesser people of lesser nations, because why risk the chance of the United States to gain lesser population.

Because I believe in the pride of my nation, as a former Gorverner, and current Senator, we cannot have other nations citizens in ours. We are recovering from a end to slavery,we already are dealing with blacks with Jim Crowe Laws, and it would be more difficult if we have another minority group such as the Philippinos in America. It would be a "lose lose" situation as our society would not want the Phillippinos here, so the Phillipinos may be shunned by the public or worse. Also as a politician it may hurt our economy as well. Sure we may be getting resources from the Phillipines but if they get our country, they may take jobs that they are not qualified for and that may lead results of failure of businesses or even corruption.
 * Why am I interested?**

Mr. NELSON: //They have lived for three hundred years under Spanish tyranny and ... barbarism as serfs and slaves. They are as unfit for self-government, in the sense that we have it, as most any people on ... the earth .... It would be the highest cruelty to turn them adrift to-day upon the political sea between a double danger --the danger of destruction from anarchy and chaos within and the danger of being swallowed up by some of the great powers of Europe .....//
 * My Argument vs. Senator Nelsons (primary source):**

Mr. TILLMAN: //You speak of these people as having been slaves of the Spaniards for three hundred years, and that they are unfit to take any part in the government.// //Mr. NELSON: I mean ... that they were slaves in a similar sense, not in the same sense, as in the Southern States before the Civil war.//

Mr. TILLMAN: ... //I want to call the Senator's attention to the fact, however, that he and others who are now contending for a different policy in Hawaii and the Philippines gave the slaves of the South not only self-government, but they forced on the white men of the South, at the point of the bayonet, the rule and domination of those ex-slaves. Why the difference? Why the change? Do you acknowledge that you were wrong in 1868?//

Mr. NELSON:. . . //I do not think it is wholesome either for the Senator from South Carolina or for me to delve into the dreary past in these matters... I fear that the Senator is so possessed with questions that grew out of slavery ... that he can hardly see clear on this matter of the Philippine Islands ....//

Mr. TILLMAN: ... //If the Senator from Minnesota will permit me, to my mind, although it may be darkened by the surroundings, it is the one issue in this whole proposition. You are undertaking to annex and make a component part of this Government islands inhabited by ten millions of the colored race, one-half or more of whom are barbarians of the lowest type. It is to the injection into the body politic of the United States of that vitiated blood, that debased and ignorant people, that we object...//

Mr. NELSON: //Mr President, the fear of the Senator from South Carolina ... is to a large extent based upon the idea that if we annex the people of these territories they become voters, full citizens in every respect. That is not true. A person may become a citizen of the United States and (sic) entirely deprived of the right of suffrage. A minor is a citizen of the United States; a person non compos mentis is a citizens of the United States; a woman is a citizen of the United States ... The matter of suffrage is not a necessary incident of citizenship...//

Works Cited

"Benjamin Tillman." //Know Southern History :: Main//. Web. 12 Oct. 2011. [].

"TILLMAN, Benjamin Ryan - Biographical Information." Web. 12 Oct. 2011. [].

"Untitled Document." //A History Teacher's Bag of Tricks//. Web. 12 Oct. 2011. .