Show TO HELP FILIPINOS prescient ent urges a reduction of the tar iff in their behalf president roosevelt in conversation with his congressional callers friday dwelt upon with serious emphasis the tile necessity for the enactment of the pending philippine tariff legislation he said that in the last few days cable cablegrams grama had been received from governor taft sti strongly stion on gly urging that the philippine tariff bill be enacted and pointing out that failure on the part of the congress to provide tor for a lower tariff on philippine products would rould re suit certainly in hardships to the peo pie of the islands and probably to a recurrence of serious disturbances indeed governor taft Is of the ion that the recent outbreaks ansti gated by bands of la drones in the island of luzon are due largely to a feeling of discontent that Is growing throughout the philippines the con editions in the island are eald said to be bordering on distress and the dent in discussing the situation with members of congress appealed strong ly to them for the enactment of the legislation that in the opinion of the administration would remedy the present difficulty senator lodge and other republican senators are making an effort to secure the passage of the tariff bill but they have little hope of success |