Show FREER TRADE FOR FILIPINOS Senator Long Comes Back From Islands With Very Positive Posi-tive Convictions Declare That Discontent of Natives is I Simply the Result of Existing Conditions Con-ditions and Does Not Take Revolutionary Form I Washington In tho opinion of Senator Sen-ator Long of Kansas who made the trip to the far east with Secretary Taft and party tho greatest need of tho Filipinos Is freer trade with tho United States The senator talked with the president Thursday about needs of the Philippine Islands Ho told tho president that In his judgment tho Islands would bo In serious financial condition until a reduction of duties on their products entering the United States was mode Ueccntly said tho senator the Filipinos havo suffered from tho typhoons ty-phoons and drouth As a consequence their crops have either failed or been wiped out and they are becoming discontented dis-contented Their discontent does not take n revolutionary form but Is simply sim-ply tho result of existing conditions Senator lung discussed railroad rate legislation wlin the president briefly Ho expressed the belief that the matter would be disposed of early In the approaching session |