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Show TTAH I.FHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. .v secretary of the treas-im- should mi late day. .... . in the it.- all tie siher offered ,lkt:s tor a-- ITiei UUif, iir...ri all the i!i.atiiig supply.ui r !ie,jeen io.ii is I."; Ilioie man a' at the outside. But the to put the j. .i.iy t" In- - insist, is simply , and take all that is as i! is around the pres-Whi- i !i. .n. :deiita!ly, is just ,. at which the govern-ainleer- e .,,i, u:. ' all silver held in t This - :.o .eiits an ounce. thinks such a stand would I,',., effort of reconi incillg the mat ill's coijt.iry was going to .f which ,!., s.iiiicuiiiig about silver, above up the price wa what put of that be711 ceiiis. while tlic collapse to be-..back it what dropped lief was Man Still and HEARD around the ,, of-t.- g I NATIONAL CAPITAL' 1 Hi- Carter Field ! pt.-w- : : , be-';,- - - I'- n iii. ." I rn-- i i . -- I !). tti" ill' cents. ' ii - a .'ency But tin- - real, starry eyed silver boys "1" ' himet-alisitn tlii1 are those who think in terms of .uor more if ounce, an li:ne. and r" vm. a. than - if yon figure gold devaluation the i" of tn.it the 111 to ratio. and What tln'V are ;,f;'ai'i one no A tilit will he made for bimetallism nominate will lt,.pil.i:..u, party mentioned for the ;1 ,i,!S session of congress. There is i,.nv prominently ,i,,!i!,r about that. But it is highly ,l.i. e, l.n vine radical figure such as Dakota. it tin' X'oMi uf gets very far. For do'ibf'ul P d I..T.. Nye will not have one silverites tin' been ;!, who has one ig. one such from the o lull h of li.e h. avii st contributors to I 'eiimas tliev did when they tiollWt cr.iiic aniia:.'ii funds for a genera-to it and Morgeiitnnu his was Nuthat for'a'd writer the l,oosee told ijoii. was it For law. s.h.er only the ;.t chief fear. the only way to avoid "If the Republicans nominate any becaiie it was straight-ou- t a printing press too not having fairly conservative candidate, down Its mea-ur- e .jammed money will "I said. he pre olijeciioiiabie." administration tin' I that accept !i,i..:ii will seri-eeii niv nartv regularity bill in the first place. contribute;, say, $1.hk to the campaign ed tin1 silver The considerable improvement in fund, r.ul down in my heart I will hope wins. Rut if the business has taken some of the steam the Republican Others who Republicans nominate a man like Nye, out of the inllatioiiists. in inllation have every ounce of force I can bring to believe implicitly come to believe that there is no use hear will he put behind the of Roosevelt, little as I agree with his fighting for it right now, because it is on the way anyhow ! policies." This particular iH'inocrat was enThey figure that the national debt thusiastically for the ,.oosevelt and will go nu mounting, further devaluaCanier ticket in l'.t:t2 after the contion of the dollar will be t lie only way vention. He particularly approved the out for the government after a few Democratic platform as adopted at jears, ami then Inllation will be here. Chicago. But economically he agrees So they think it Is easier to wait until with Davis and Al Smith, with (ilass the train comes along than to run toof Virginia and Tydings of .Maryland. ward it. Now the importance of all this is So the silverites do not know what not this man's views, nor the effect of to do, but they are mighty unhappy. his active support or contributions. Actually the Democrats will not have Utilities Watch Court any real trouble getting all the money If the United States Supreme court they want. The assured success of the should declare unconstitutional the Jackson day dinners, to be held all public holding company law utility demonover the country, is a sufficient forced through by President Roosevelt stration of this. And there are always at the last session of congress, there plenty of rich men eager to ingratiate is a very fair chance indeed that the themselves with the President of the new law, to take its place, might folUnited States or for that matter low the lines of the compromise sugwith a man who has a good chance of There is not gested by Wendell I,. Willkie, presibecoming President. dent of the Commonwealth and Southof only the possibility appointments in ern corporation. the diplomatic service, so glitteringly If the Supreme court upholds the attractive to many rich men's wives, hut the mere prestige of being invited present law, there is not the proverto an occasional White House dinner bial Chinaman's chance that congress is worth a lot to a great many rich win repeal tiie present statute, and substitute anything so mild. To put It families. another way, if congress were about Calvin understood this Coolidge well. On one occasion, on one of the to write the public utility hill, with the President unchanged in his attifamous week-entrips on the Mayflowit would undoubtedly he a milder tude, which er, rarely extended more than the six miles down the Potomac river bill much milder than the present to Alexandria, he spoke to a guest one. But that is a very different thing from putting through a repeal just before retiring. "Thought you might want to write measure and modifying the enisting to some of your friends," he said, law. The answer to this somewhat parahanding his guest a handful of endoxical appearing situation Is found and velopes writing paper embossed in the difficulty of with the name "U. S. S. Mayliower" putting through any and the Presidential seal. That sort new legislation to which the President of reflected glory is worth a mint to is opposed. If the law were not on the books, the President would more people than one might hurriedly try and spur to get it there. lie whip suppose. would he then forced to take considThe really interesting thing about erably less than he got last year. this fear felt by some rich nnd conBut to hope, as some servative Democrats is that they are utility officials usually pretty well Informed. 'They do, that congress will substitute a keep their eyes on the situation, anil more "reasonable" measure at this their ears dose to the ground. And session shows abysmal ignorance of they nre accustomed to figuring out how the the wheels go 'round in Washington. It would require not only the situations with some accuracy. Which would seem to indicate that tremendous push necessary to get the underneath all the manenvormgs on measure through both house and senthe surface, in this fight for the Re- ate, hut the mustering, after the Preis something sent's certain veto, of a publican nomination, which most of us have been 'missing. majority in each house. Which is This writer cannot bring himself to just about unthinkable. believe that (1 era Id Nye or anyone like Notwithstanding which, the Willkie him has a chance for the Republican compromise Is very appealing to a great number of senators and reprenomination. But he thinks the present fear worth recording for the sim- sentatives. Their usual comment of ple reason that he has scoffed several course, is: "Why didn't the utilities times before at information from the come before congress with this sort of proposition long same sources, and has lived to ago, instead of preregret the sending. tending they dhln't need any regulate?" The answer to that, of course Is very human. Silverites Disappointed Nobody goes looking None of the groups and blocs In for rouble. N one 0,)(nlv needs to be curbed. Human house nnd senate feel so cheated as minds non t function that they return to Washington as the silway. When the blow finally ver advocates, particularly these M, and among them who were more interested when ,he utmtlos ,a8t yMr that a law was going In the Inflation aspect of the "cause" through thev than the expected benefits to the silver made their drive against the sentence, thinking that If the evil miners. could be delayed, the The answer to the last Is quite simlaw might be changed later. ple. In the first place, there nre practhey lost The Willkie tically no silver miners, as such. Praccompromise would end tically all the silver produced In the governmental competition United States is a of lead, '""ties, it wou,(I Rive the ,M; th; nd exchange zinc, copper or some other metal.' commission io Further, the Treasury department has supervise the issuance of holding been and stil Is paying a high price for newly mined silver. Right at the spiri nirn ,o moment It Is around 50 per cent more thnn the world price, which means ems for that the treasury is losing nearly 25 the final all uti,l(v companies ,'v cents an ounce on every ounce It word ns ,0 It could buy the white metal Just buys kept , tne swurmn!m3 thnt much cheaper on the world market. But the silver men In conr..K. cheated two ways. In the first place. Ih uiey are tremendously disappointed Nnie,. It at the net result of the silver " policy as worked out by president Roosevelt management nnd and Secretary of the Treasury Mor thus Sli2 genthnu. In the second place, thPV Ine operating compBnM nnrt mnln' feel that M urgent ban purposely "let tentirre of -athem down"-- , thnt he di, of .,mt to 'e parent companle, policy written into law, nnd that he has gotten around actually rarryln-.i ii.r. I;. it ,!.. 1 j i, ' Rated I? KncrayNVf, Man sti ra; No. 1. Mo;e an Ulf 4 national tore', Forest Service, v The Dumber i f ; as compared to r, en annual iieriod. These fires v. e Starts l burners, by i acquired by t: many of wh. i "! i brlievj f..i annual "burni;,. ' - . I8St woods and by !,ui'.bm reationists, an! made greater 01 natio.jj facilities this year than ? n-s- ... ..- 1 , "Forgotten Broths "For my brow.er who , ."ill - - 'Torest v The Philippines Look to the Future I- cannot remember" and ut.. abouts I have n..? been many years," Ijdy Chatw l In Hong-Kon- M,i China, has .sixth of her estate, vahM . 1 AAA AAA 1 j,vw,'jw 111 vl HUM. 'ht infla-m-hu- h ! - a.-- recent air view of Manila, capital of the Philippine islands. Shown the insets are President Manuel Quezon, making his inaugural address, and peasant girl, typical of the agricultural regions. A By WILLIAM C. UTLEY of the riilllpplnes President INDKI'KXDKNfK wht-the new Islands' constitution, prepared tinder the art, and turned It over to a committee of Islanders last spring. Although, the act, lustily welcomed by Filipinos as the achievement camof victory In their never-endinpaign for Independence, provides thnt all bonds between the United States and the tropical possessions In the south I'aclflc shall be severed once and for all on July 4, 1045, after the Islands nure had ten years of practice In governing themselves, the feeling Is growing that be.fore those ten years have passed the Philippine will be ready, even anxious, to amend the agreement Into something which will leave them more certain safely from dangers which are becoming more apparent day Tydtna-McDultl- e by day. Indeed, since the return of Vice President Oarner and the large dele gation of senators and congressmen who visited the Islands to attend the Manuel of President Inauguration Quezon, one question which has constantly presented Itself to them Is: Do the Filipinos actually want Inde pendence? And the answer seems to be: Yes and no. The desire of the "common tao" the picker of coconuts, the work Mf on the sugar plantations, the hi borer of the rice fields Is, as It hns been for deendes INDEPENDENCE ! "Independence" Is set In cnpltals and followed by an exclamation point he-cauRe to the Filipino of that level It Is a cry, a political slogan, taught to him for many years by the politicians of Manila. It Is a catchword that represents to him democracy, freedom In a vague sense that It Is something a little better than the poor lot he hns now. It never occurs to him thnt Independence Is possibly Hie thing thnt will prevent his enjoying "freedom" in the centuries to come. For grave dangers confront an Independent Philippine commonwealth thnt could enslly destroy the very liberty the common tao associates with Independence. They are both political and economic, both Internal and external. Fear Japanese Invasion. The most Imminent danger, as the average American sees It, Is the men-c- e of expanding Japanese Imperialism In the Far East, ready to grnb what It can In Its need for room for a welling population and for raw materials to feed Its growing and efllelent Industries. The Philippines are lO.CXiO miles from the capital of the United States, but only 300 miles from Asia. Most serious of the problems to the Filipino Is the economic collapse that threatens when free trade with the United States Is cut off. The Tydlngs-McDufflact provides that In the fifth r year of the period before complete Independence Is granted. Philippine export products will have to bear a S per cent duty, which will be gradu' ated each year until It becomes 1 In cent the tenth year. Since 8(1 per V; percent of Philippine exports now go lo the United States, the dwindling of 'the American market will begin to be felt In Ave years. There are plenty of reliable economists who hold that the economic breakdown will come htfore 1SV4.1, unless the act Is amended. Nor are these the only problems. Certain acts of the new government, most recently the curtailment by President Quezon of the powers of the epeaker of the assembly, have been pointed to by many as Indications of Imiwnding dictatorship., " The recent passage of a bill which would of all the money availprlnte able for appropriation to the build Ing and maintenance of an army of 19.IXX), with a noo.CHK) reserve, has been hailed In some quarters ns a step toward military fascism, especially since the reserve army will require ,'mllltary training of all e ten-yea- one-thir- y citizens. Further danger to the existing government Is seen coming from the fields far. beyond the cities. In the form of uprisings of the agrarian population, which has been reduced to a pitiable peonage, and which may find Itself unable to secure a living If the principal market for Philippine raw products Is destroyed. Most disastrous revolutions begin not In empty heads, but empty stomach.. First of t tie problems to be discussed officially in the United States will be the economic one, for President Itoose-voi- t Is expected to call a trade conference some time this year. Something may be done at that time to effect a revision of the tariff schedule which may be more favorable toward the Islands. As it Is, various estimates have It that the tlrst duty to be imposed only 5 per cent will wipe out from 37 to CI per cent of the of all Philippine exports which go to the United States. Take sugar, for Instance. Under the act, the Islands' sugar quota Is 1,045.000 short tons, and It enables the Industry to make a good profit. But sugar exporters are loud In their Insistence that with even a 5 per cent tax they cannot compete with Cuban siiRnr In the American market. Our Own Trade Suffers. The rule works both ways, too. The Philippines buy .'10 per cent of all textiles exported by the United States. If tariff walls prevent the export of Philippine goods to America. It is hardly to be expected thni the islands will protect our textile exports. All of the business will go to Japan. Japan has made terrific Inroads on our textile business; In 10.'2 we sold 81 per cent of the textiles Imported by the Islands ; In V.m, 74 per cent; In 1034, 43 per cent, and In late lD.Ti only 2.1 per cent. There Is no doubt thnt the Philippine government would set up tariff hnrriers against textiles and other goods Imported from foreign countries, if we were willing to make equivalent concessions. It must be remembered that we also sell the Islands dairy products, canned fish, wheat Hour and manufactured products In fact, the ruiuppines are our nun hest customer. Under the Tydings McDulTle act we stand to lose virtually all of that trade. Many of the Philippine raw materials which now come Into the United States duty free nre profitable to this country, for they must be processed here, and therefore keep many Industries going. Philippine sugar Is refined here; copra Is pressed into coconut oil; cigars are taxed and distributed ; hemp fiber Is made Into rope and twine and distributed. Source of War Needs. One of the most Important sources of war materials Is the Philippines. Copra furnishes coconut oil to make the glycerine th t goes Into high explosives, and the shell makes fine charcoal that Is necessary In gas masks. Hardwood and hemp are necessities In building and maintaining a navy. The Islands also have plenty of good Iron, chromlte and manganese. It Is Inevitable that In a war In the Pacific, Japan would seize the Islands In no time tf they were independent of the United States. . ' There are many able students of Philippine affairs who will have you believe that Japan is already tnfclng over the Islands, anyway, although In the peaceable ways of commerce nnd Industrial development Instead of military tactics. Be that as It may. there are still only about 2.",000 Japanese In the Islands, at the most, out of a total population of 13.0.M.220; there are 71.000 Chinese, 7.700 Americans and 8,4H Spaniards. .Japanese make np only .00151 per cent of the total population of the Philippines; yet In Hawaii, where there la fur less walling about them, Japanese outnumber any other nationality. Some (V per cent of the Japanese In the archipelago live In a colony of the province of Davno on the Island of Mindanao, where they dominate the growing of abaca, from which hemp Is produced. There superior efficiency four-fifth- Jones-Costlga- n s ,n a and Industry are rapidly taking advantage of the richest soil of the islands to assume the leadership of the hemp Industry, which the Philippines alone possess. The Japanese have improved roads in the hemp country, introduced methods, and Installed machinery to strip the hemp fiher from t he trunk of the abaca plant. They markethave Introduced ing direct to the shipper. Contrast this with the Filipino native who chops down a plant, carries home the trunk and strips off the fiher by hand a Job, dries it in the sun, shares It with his landlord and gets a poor price for what is left, and It Is easy to see why the Japanese colony controls 25 per cent of the total hemp production. Japs Control Retail Trades. The same superior business methods have enabled the Japanese to corner a share of the large and retail trade in the cities of the archipelago. One estimate, probably high, puts 40 per cent of all the retail business of tlte islands under Japanese control, with Americans nnd Filipinos holding 3Ti per cent and the Chinese 25 per cent or less. Inability to compete with Japanese industry is but one of the things that has made of the Filipino farmer a peon. Another Is the evil of the apportionment of land. Much of the land In the Islands consists of a few great units held by the Roman Catholic church, which refuses to sell It, and by a handful of wealthy Filipinos. For this reason, a large share of the s farmers are tenants, who have no opportunity to acquire their own land, and are often exploited by the land owners. Even the Filipino who does own the small strip of land he works Is often a sharecropper. He obtains seed loans nt the nlmost unbelievable interest rates of 10 to 20 per cent, compounded every month, nnd by the time he has repaid enough In crops to cover his debt he Is lucky to have enough to provide for himself and his family. Political campaigns have taught this peon to believe that the answer to the Ills from which be suffers Is Independence, nnd his hot desires for his rights br.ve often provoked him to actual nets against the government in Manila. An example wns last May's uprising of ninny thousands of Snkdal peasants In the nrens where landlordism exerts Its tightest grip. They marched upon the capital city nnd formed a ring around It. nnd they were dispersed only after CO of them had been killed. Build Army for Defense. Undoubtedly one of the reasons for the large army the Quezon government is building Is the danger of further nrgrarinn uprisings. However, the chief reason Is the need for defense of the Islands against invasion. It is admitted that an army of 10.000, with 500.000 reserves, would not be sufficient to save the Islands from conquest by one of the major powers, but Quezon points out that It Is a big enough army to make such a conquest so expensive that It would not be worth the trouble. The army Is going to he so expensive that It might seriously emharrnss the government financially.. The annually required to support It (a figure which would be rock botthe total national tom) Is Income. Since the army Is to be created tinder the direction of C.on. Douglas MacArthnr. former chief of staff of the United States army. It may be r. expected to function efficiently, back-breakin- share-cropper- one-fourt- h how-eve- As It has been pointed out. there Is much ground for the contention that the Philippines actually do not want Independence because they don't know whnt Independence means. AVhen and If the Philippine people decide thnt they had Itetter not che tip the protecting wing of the United States for their dream of Indepemlr ence, the problem resolves Itsel" Into this: Do we want the Ishind-- i hack? Thnt will be determined perhaps not so much by our desire to retain nnr ninth largest customer nhrond as by our general Far Eastern policy. C WMUro Nowipuper Union. nldins SI SOLI nt hirirnacZ ng' accn; ;.;nbe ri . Jnst do what U out.. one very shrewd speculator, very close to most of the silver senators Us advised some 0f them that. In his rnte;n,n7;;;1r';m,,I,hp 'I c Uslnn sllnn,(, J jtor Walter, wbc He Nationa lm li an w - hs sow, MC the Beware Cough an ami whose work bureaus 0! and toed as colds from common That Hang On Tin matter rinw many medldrtf ches you have tried for your cough,you mt cold or bronchial irritation, get relief now with Creomulaiin a brewing be Serious trouble may a chanct you cannot afford to take CreonmHf with anything less than the sea., $ion, which goes right tonatura ft of the trouble to aid mem soothe and heal the inflamed branes as the germ-lade- n phm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies tm failed, dont be discouraged, druggist is authorized to guarantes creomuision ana w rei""u, wm money if you are not satisneaj results from the very first wttfe Pet Creomuision right now. imw J ,m Don't be Tormented ..iijG by llQNI' ,11 unbeliev l'Sesinol before co:s BABY of Body Waste Is Doubfy Important Eliminotion In the crucial months before baby rnrj it is vitally important that the body of waste matter. Your intestines mwf i""! without grip" Oi j Why Physicians Recommend J f Milnesia Wafers These candy-lik- waferii e magnesia in solid .'0I. muchpleasanter to take than hi'",; wafer is approximately equal to a j dose ofliquid milk of maRmsia. tne j corr tlieY thoroughly, then swallowed, v acidity in the mouth and throughout digestive system, and insure rrgui pure milk Milnesia Wafers come in bottles of 20 48, at 35c and 60c respectively, , convenient tins tor your namu 1 ing 12 at 20c Each wafer is appro!?"" 1 .1.1. j . r ii. f ... .1 itti pAli. I uw good drug stores sell and recommend j oian using wese oeiicio" laxative wafers tow ntJ-aci- d, gently 1 j Professional samples sent free to ref on professional letterhead. Sl Inc Tna . 4402 23rd St., long lilond City. 35e & 60 J31 S" w,nS of and Set Example To convert a man to your vie of the fM don't try to nine-tent- em.X: rse , hospitals do, laxative, and aid Nature to tcstdf ciocmuce regularity wimou strain ill effect. A liquid can always be takes gradually reduced doses. Ruhvi dosage is the real secret oj rditfjd constipation. Ask a doctor about this. Ask! druggist how very popular Dr. Cm well s syrup Pepsin has become. I gives the right kind of help, and rift amount of help. Taking a little J each time, gives the bowels a chanl to act of their own accord, until tt are moving regularly and thorocgil I without any help at all. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin coi tains senna and cascara both ntM laxatives that form no habit Theft tion is gentle, but sure. It will relied any sluggishness or bilious conditii cue to constipation witnout upset operathXnnfor -710s. irector; works I It always two-third- s Jy "re bottle 20c tin the tat Ui TA Otitinal Milk of " |