Show CINESE POLICY IN tN PHILIPPINE PHILIPPINES I N Q R 4 ss TO T ECilA JER E of commerce of o New Nev e York Y orIs On O the Ute Is I na General OceiL m ft Wilson made mad a few br th f and sod being considered ered in cOl doft Ohr matter in Wh we ve become deeply interested Itt In lD the tile course r e r af his pe p eh ch Gen Gut General General eral oral Wilson said saidI stock tn hi effort to acquire territory on the I 40 e not ft take t ke the test any ny of A It is 18 not apt We have never got any business out there n any n other ter ot principle tau n the plain simple principle on Oil which hleb you e do business with each euh other oter Fpm F Fn the tU announcements that have been made maAe from time une to t time lime by the state this thin is the theory theol on oil which the government ver m te Is I basing baning b ain its hin hine te policy polley It must m t be therefore a theory in which the Hanna B govern lovern takes some at cl at t least leant I so sui far as an China is concerned Now I oW if this theory holds hold good on the continent of Asia why wh does do it not hold good on the islands inde of oLa Asia ata If IL Hit it dc oo does s hold good on Oil 1 e glands land nd what the expensive w that is being benefi ts are art to accrue to this country from waged aged against again t the Philippine Phi iDe i Taking this theory as the tile correct one und and the th utterances of the thO Hanna government admit that thai It Is and looking t at nt the Philippine question without t any regard to right or wrong but from purely a business point of view vie the tile course cour e now being pursued looks very like Uke a foolish fo investment t This Thia government is In spending of o money and andi thousands i of lives Jives to force the PI to become colonists Sup i pose pone that in the tile ruin an of o tim tImit the attempt is 18 successful ful is the gain gainin in dollars and cents centa Absolutely nothing For if colonial rights rIght are nero not necessary sar in tIp lips to secure alt att the 4 rt 4 tases es that th can en h be got get from trade they are aN 8 try In 1 the Philippines Aside from thU thu the only o benefit t b derived from mm a Philippine colony is l the establishment of a coaling eta sta station tion and md base hII for military operations o in ease case of x war All AI this the toe b willing nu to concede looking at then from purely pure a busi business tu l lne t ts Is expending money an lives liven for which the ness ne point It of ef view vl w go it 1 t iiI lil i J get absolutely no retort r |