Show TAFT WT A ATTACKS IT Bill lIVING NOM NOMI I TO THE Couples Denunciation of Democratic Dem Dern- Policy With Eulogy of McKinley WASHINGTON Jan 29 President vy Taft in hl his farewell speech to the Ohio Society of Washington to tonIght toni tonight to- to ni night ht vigorously attacked the bill now pending In Congress proposing ing autonomy autonomy au au- au and Ind independence in iii cl eight ht I years ears for tho the Philippines Js ls it Jt possible asked the tho President that the Democratic party part Is 15 going to reverse revel the policy that lint has vindicated itself b by ten years years' experience merely for the purpose of conforming to the cobwebbed d plans of or forgotten platforms platforms plat vIaL forms Will the they not before they take such an irretrievable step obtain r re reliable reliable re- re liable information as at tp tho conditions that obtain in the tho Islands This Issue has lies been rt relegated to the time limbo of free silver or the narrow doctrine of or states state's rights Those who continue to give out their rations Jucub-rations In iii the Philippines are now less than those who expect to attend the time next Inaugural ral la hall lall Speaker Clark who followed the President declined d. d to debate with him the thc Democratic policy of Independence for or th the Philippines I 1 am not to debate the going goms question ques ques- lion tion of oC Philippine Independence with President ent Taft TaCt said Mr 11 Clark I 1 have no inclination to make a Philippine Philippine Philippine Philip Philip- pine speech and Im I'm not going to either I wish wo we wore out of oC there in inas inas inas as good shape shap as wo we were wore when we got in But But- according to ta Democratic Democratic Demo Domo- cratic platform platform which I 1 dl t m make make make- k I I t I we vc are arc committed to a poll policy C I be believe be- be lieve e that when a man gets g-ets office on ona a platform he lie should hould live up religiously religious religious- I ly to tho time planks that arc are in that plat form President Taft raft began his address ss with an eulogy of ot President McKinley From pr pl pi alse lse he of McKinley he turned to the thc Philippines Philippine und and said in part After three administrations and ana more have passed and amid atc after r two successive successive suc suc- presidential campaigns with silence on the Philippines as the Is Issue Issue Is- Is sue suo the country Is asked to make mace a change chaug Ve We are a asked to meet a re recrudescence recrudescence recrudescence re- re of opposition to our Philippine Phil Phil- policy and the threat to turn lh fh nf I n In n 1 lh fh I verdict of t a decade j c c and i to i give up J all allour allour i our achievements aehle for tor a now new experiment ment which can only result in confusion sl stun sion n and humiliation and Involve u uIn us In international complications and bring us again with damaged prestige to an au abandonment of or that policy Those of ot who b by of oC I u us reason our Information and experience believe t I that a reversal re of that policy polley now will lead lean to national humiliation and embarrassment em em- should not riot keep our Jur months month clos closed lI because wo we have hac a right to appeal to those who are arc coming coniing Into power voer in the next administration tire the the executive and und the legislators to to Inform themselves w well 11 before they depart depart de de- part from a course which has been fraught with the utmost benefit benent to the people of ot the time Philippine islands The Tho Philippine Islands are aro not yet ct ready tom for or self government and no Influence could coul l be bt more detrimental upon their future than tho the enactment of or the measure now In n the House ot of Representatives providing for fur a change chang In their government o Senators Burton Durton and and amid Representative Cannon also alMo made ad nil all dresses Justice Day o of the tho supreme court was toastmaster and 1 Justices McKenna Lurton and Lamar were among the guests at at th the tho speakers sneakers table I |