Show v vV V SA FORGING AHEAD IN 1 MIGHTY STRIDES American can Newspaper Man Ma n Il Gives Account of Conditions in m Island Dep Dependencies sl RILE predictions are arc being w WHILE 1 made cf cr hard times soon oon to come In the United States the Philippine Phil Phil- Islands continue to forge foige ahead J with mighty strides Less than a doc- doc Americas Amer ado ago the islands glands were called leas lea's great white elephant The next decade will hail hall that fertile ferUle group as Americas America's great t tropical empire This confident prophecy was ivas made lat last night at al the Hotel Utah by Earl Hamilton Smith an American newspaper newspaper news news- I paper man matt who has Just returned to varied experience If this country after aCter a a. In China Japan and the Of eight years Philippines For the p past st three years ears Cable Cable- of oC the ho has been elt city editor ne news American the leading American newspaper of Manila capital city of or his position position the Philippines He resigned tion last month to become the papers paper's resident correspondent at Washington Washington rD D C C. and Is no now noc en cn route to his new flew post During Durin the l late te revolution In China Mr 11 Smith was war correspondent correspond correspond- Trent Trent- his in Peking Pekin and ent for p paper 6 sIn Profitable da day It was as an exceedingly Co for l' l tHe tile United States said Mi Mr lr Smith when at the direction of President became a Philippines McKinley the f possession of or the stars tars and stripes b by t virtue of the Treaty ot of Paris The achievements already alread wrought there ones of the future fu- fu and the still greater lure turc go o down In history to the eternal credit of C the Republican part party Good Goo Trade With Not Sot only have the Filipino people been planted firmly on the right t. t path lath toward self government but the they y f American people are selling them 25 5 roods goods every c JOO worth of American year ear These arc are the figures for tor the thet fiscal year which closed June 30 J last t and anci each succeeding year ear will record increase an with i ith i it it Philippine y prosperity and the tho tremendous growth of oC Am American trade there dates from the passage oft of ot th the Payne Pane bill In 1909 which Provided t t for free trade between the two rive countries coun coun- r tries This was Impossible prior to 1909 1 1 because f of nf of th the proviso In the p Treaty lt of t-p t Paris which stipulated equal equall for ten years rears In that i l lJ rights lights for tOl Spain of the Islands was wasaS wasa'S k f f year the total trade aS a'S This This' year ear It was as the mark marlc j 1 Next ext year rear f r will be reached The TIle bulk hulk of this increase IncreaSe In- In n- n States United crease has bone gono to the and will continue to do so Sugar ugar cane ma may mav In time b DC be thet the thc t 1 greatest r product of or tho the archipelago er little Is being ex ex- ex but at present very ported This year car 2000 tons were shipped to this country all by Y way of or Suez SUe to New ew York The Islands are limited by the Payne Pane bill to tons free entry into the United States Mates and It will viii be man many man many years before before be be- fore foro the thc limit is 18 reached One modern mill Is being constructed near Manila and a a. central is Js planned for Negros f b Island The great e exports ports of or the Phil Phil- are hemp copra and tobacco Timber pineapples cocoanut fiber and andall oil all products sugar and other tropical products have ha still to be developed Administration Nonpartisan Tho The administration of ot the Islands bv by bythe i ithe the Republican party lart has always been nonpartisan Two of th the governors general were and still are arc life long Democrats They Thc are Gen Luke Julec E E. Wright o of Tennessee now retired and Gen Cen James F. F Smith of California now an asso associate lato Justice on on the tho United States court of customs appeals in Washington D. D C C. C The entire government govern govern- ment from top to bottom is s on a classified classified class class- civil service basis Party politics poll poll- tics and rell religion lon have ha nothing to do with appointments or promotions Most of the officeholders in the the- Philippines arc are Filipinos including the time governors o of nearly all of f the tho inces Half Tali of the Judges are arc Filipinos I The rue Philippine government Is absolutes absolutely absolute- absolute s ly supporting self and not a dollar for tor civil n administration comes from the States Over Oer 60 Filipino children are attending the modern schools where industrial training has a prominent place Sanitation is excellent and health conditions in Manila l a city of oC compare favorable an any American city city |