Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-03 | Page 4 | Philippine Dreams

S pHILp INE E DREAMS D MS E 1 New Now York Yode World W It is an aa open secret at Washington that the Ie re result r sult of f f Urt d civil government nt experiment e ent in lit the tho Phil Philippines ii cn are so eo discouraging di that there d is serious ri ous talk tik of speedy D reversion to military rule Yet t in Secretary tu too s supplementary su mentry report on the Philippines we find finda a series of views of affairs there that are always bright often rosy and in the essentials positively dazzling l good feeling established confidence imminent active cooperation on the tho part of all the people f 70 per cent of the people joyously living I ing under mild civil sway 30 per cent only under military rule rulea and a thy they y because a few bandits arc aro re prowling sut fi 0 o nights the schools thronged with children everybody eager to learn earn English and come to the United States for education and to thank the American people in person for the le open door to freedom these t Se are glimpses of what glowed in Mr Roots imag as 88 he be reflected re on the reports from the tho islands in order to interpret them to congress and the Ameri Amen American American can people Even Eyen as to t slavery our efforts at abolition have not Snot been fruitless though he can find no fruit to exhibit But when the reading of Mr fr Roots loots optimism is jg finished t is i left in the mind a doubt a wonder a sense of a vagueness an evasive evas re and unreal glitter like unto his dreamy of the tho fairy like resources of the islands Meanwhile the tile expense continues and the public interest declines even from its low ebb of the past year And Aud all aU that t we get from there that anybody knows about or cares ares about is death lists and aud sick lists inva ya iva soldiers and civilians c and transport loads of 01 MI d e flins n