Show WANT EXISTS INt IN t PHILIPPINES L I Serious Conditions Condition Confront Peo Pea People f pie on the Islands OFFICIAL REPORTS MADE 4 ow AIMED AT SILVER AND BIG JUG SYNDICATE Washington ton Jan JaB 4 The annual re report report report port of the Philippine commission lon and nd I n a separate report by b Governor Taft made public at the war department to toI I day da Rive give a review of or the results dur lur ing th years work of the commission and contain recommendations or leg action by congress deemed es en essential essential to the thern welfare of ot the islands Aft r reciting a history of the of or civil government nt through throughout out various provinces Governor Taft J na it ha net b eri definitely deter determined mined what Shall be done with respect t ts Mindanao where here he lie says aye hostility to the Americans does not extend be beyond beyond yond Lake Lanao More The gover governor governor governor nor is i 1 of the opinion that it may be pee possible to induce the sultan of Job Jolo 1 to part with some of the rights he claims cia I to the Jolo Job group and thus oh ob vl v 4 many man obstacles now encountered i The Moo Moras he says say do not understand popular po ular government and do not desire It ft preferring control by the dattos I Possibly Po far tar in the future he says control by b the dattos may cease For Forth Forthe Forthe th the present pre ent however It is necessary only to provide a strong but hut sympathetic sympathetic government for these followers of ot Mohammed G Taft tells of ot the conditions that have ive made the islands purchase about lf 11 worth of or food and of the effects war has had on agriculture almost almo t the only source of wealth in the thet islands t The greatest blow to agri agriculture agriculture agriculture culture he h says sa is the destruction de of about W per cent of water vater buffalo on which the cultivation of rice is almost wholly dependent Menace in ui Ladrones After speaking of or the ravages 18 of 8 cholera Governor Taft says The rhe bane of t Philippine civilization cl In the past pest was s and the pres present present ent eat conditions are most favorable for its lt growth and maintenance It is not certain whether in the depressed state of agriculture with the temptation to m that the constabulary con wilt will willbe be able without the assistance of the military to stamp it out Were v ere there prosperous conditions in inthe Inthe Inthe the country It It ft would not be a trouble troublesome troublesome troublesome some matter to deal with but when want w nt and famine are staring people in inthe inthe inthe the face the life Ute of the freebooter forms form to the desperate and the weak a avery avery avery very great Ireat attraction Natural dis discontent discontent discontent content with the government when nut suf suffering fering 18 is at hand band promoted as it is by bych ch cholera lera restrictions and the high price of rice and other commodities which have been greatly enhanced by the de depreciation depredation predation of silver might well have caused a new outbreak of the insurrection Insurrection Insurrection and in my judgment it speaks wonders for I the ease e e with which this country may be governed In normal times that we have had comparatively so so E o little disorder since the surrender of the Insurgent arms in April Since Shies the civil government was com established in the Philippine provinces throughout the archipelago in July of last year the governor says tit t American soldier has hlis not been on once to fire a gun the coun country c countr un try tr having been policed by the con eon a force of SWO or men Martial Law Not Unlikely It may be says Governor Taft Tart Tartt that t at as an the conditions grow worse for f r they the are likely tp t do so before they better it will be necessary in a like Cavite where sms inbred in the people to proclaim law Iwand anti and even to call on the military to suppress it but it is 11 I still hoped that this may Be avoided The depressed condition of agriculture a agriculture cul cult ture t re and the tendency ten to m in inthe Inthe the tic and aed in some of the Vl ay ayan an provinces does not apply to tho e pro provinces inces where hemp is the chief prod product prodUct I I They are wealthy and prosperous the th report says and while their food i costs them more than it used to they have hae money mont y enough with which to tomake tomake I make improvements School houses are toting being built roads are being construct constructed ed machinery agricultural and other kind kindi is being introduced and there is i every ery evidence of oC a forward move moveS PJ t C S Through the rice and abd proy pro lr hI eb s however hoever we must expect dis dia disturbances from time to time from la Ja and their assistants the Kati Katl punan societies Says Capital Seems Timid Governor Taft laft says sa the figures figU res show I that tha t for the year ended June 30 1002 1902 th imports exclusive of t I r s stores of all goods were 8 hl the exports export were about Oi lie lit says sas capital has seemed timid in inC C n ning ing to the Philippines but it has bas too in a small way in various branches n eH KO so that the aggregate Mg re te is very c able Mable The governor points out that among other Ills uSa from frem which the country is I suffering is that of ot fluctuation In cur currency currency rency Touching the organization of j labor unions the governor says that 11 I properly directed the movement mays ma give to the laboring classes elas es a sense of I the dignity dl of labor and of or their heir inde He regards the objection I made by OAf Filipinos to the tion of ot Chinese Ch Inese into the islands to be t logical and justified and says An of ot the labor question which does not seem to have had hild Its proper weight with the merchants of ot Manila in their demand for the ad admission admission mission of or Chinese coolies Is the great obstacles which such a policy would I present to the opening by the United States of rr Ms lots markets to Philippine products ts j There ThOre is in Manila real re l estate and improvements assessable as for taxation amounting to whEe wh e there th re is able real property In the I I city to the amount of 0 of ot which is la public property and ind nd Is s church prop property exempt under the laws la WK Governor Governer Taft Tatt commends to the com corn mission the benefits that might accrue I from the establishment in the Ute islands of postal savings banks I I Report of the Commission The Philippines commission in its an sn annual nual nua report which is the third it has made says at the outset The insurrection as an organization to SUbvert the authority of the United States Staten in these islands Is entirely at atan atan atan an end and anti the whole of the Christian Filipino population with the exception of a few thousand people in the Moro country isolated iOl ted towns are enjoying civil nt nL I The report says s the Filipino laborers bore rs must be taught the independence and arid dignity of jabor labor under free govern gOern government ment mont and adds The organization of labor in Manila while brought about by a crackbrained agitator for political pur par purposes purposes poses only will It is hoped lead ead to an organization which will have much to do with inculcating this lesson The Filipino people of the better bett r class have read the passage of the Philippine act at with great satisfaction the report recites and further along it itys says ys The coming year under the trying t in circumstances which now pre pro prevail vail vall will show sho how much we may ma de depend depend depend pend upon the conservative and law i abiding a character of the controlling V elements of the Filipino people I The commission urges that it is the I duty of the United States to secure the Philippines as an stable a currency as States that used by the people of the United d II Takes a Crack at Silver The commission concludes with the following recommendations which are urged on the attention of congress First The establishment of a gold standard In the islands and of banking corporations empowered to issue cir circulating circulating circulating bank notes under proper safe safeguards safeguards safeguards guards Second The reduction of at least 75 7 per cent of the Dingley Dineley rates of duty upon goods imported into the United States from the Philippines Third An amendment o of the Phil Philippine Philippine act so that the additional limit upon lands which may be sold to or be beheld beheld beheld held by individuals or corporations from the public domain shall be In Increased increased increased creased to acres or in the alter alternative alternative alternative native so that the government shall be I given the power to lease for tor sixty years I upon competitive biddings from the public lands aggregating in any indi individual individual vidual or corporate lessee not more than acres It Says this legisla legislation legislation tion is necessary to the development of the islands and as af a the government is offering out of acres in the archipelago go there Is no danger V of concentration n of ownership in individuals or corporations Fourth That the Philippine act may be amended by repealing the lim Jim limitation limitation Ration which forbids an individual or V I corporation from holding an interest In inI I more than one mining claim Fifth That all bonds bonis issued by the Insular flent under the author j It lt of orth the Philippine act shall be free from state county and municipal tax taxation arron in the United States Sixth That ap aJl amendment be made I to the Chinese exclusion act giving the power to the government by law to ad admit admit admit mit a fixed and limited number of Chinn men into the Philippine islands who are certified to be skilled labor laborers laborers laborera ers era on the bond of the employer er that for tor every Chinese skilled laborer em played he will wm employ a Filipino ap apprentice apprentice apprentice prentice and that he will wm return the Chinese e skilled laborer thus introduced within five years after his admission to r the country and that he shall pay a ahead ahead ahead r head tax of not exceeding 50 for far each j I Chinaman man so so admitted to the insular government to meet the expenses of ot the enforcement of these regulations I The commission thinks unlimited ad admission admission mission of Chinese would be unwise e |